The Words of the Fredrickson Family

Punishment in the Kingdom of Heaven

Jim Fredrickson
February 19, 1999

Who, in the Kingdom of Heaven, will be applying for the job of executioner? God? True Father? Sorry. I don't believe it. The person who volunteers for that job is at least as suspect as those he/she is to flog.

I know DP places more emphasis on personal responsibility than traditional Christian theologies. But for the life of me I can not understand how those worshipping Jesus have a rock solid understanding of the unconditional and unchanging nature of the parental love of God, while Unificationists often have a view of a God which is much more capricious and schizophrenic by comparison.

Christians have long been going to Paradise, which by it's name sounds quite nice, but is presumably less pleasant than heaven. Anyone think St Paul and St Peter sit around flogging and burning new arrivals? How about Joan of Arc who was burned herself? Fat chance.

Meanwhile, Unificationists have a much more articulate description of the nature of the unchangeable parental heart of God, are comforted by knowing that their Blessing removed the connection to the angel which those in Paradise have suffered under. Yet, there persists a schizophrenic idea that we might be flogged in Heaven, or burned, if we make a mistake. I just don't understand. If it is true, I'd rather go to Paradise, thank you very much. The saints there seem much more God-like than the saints in heaven.

I guess I have reached a point where my conscience is speaking too loudly to hear these distractions any more. I know I may be wrong. I've been wrong before. But I don't care if True Father himself said it. I don't believe there will be floggings nor burnings at the stake, in heaven for ANY misconduct, unless it is self-imposed.

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