For the past two days I have been helping a friend with grade 12 summer school english.I was introduced to the play "Doctor Faustus." I haven't read the whole thing but the gist of it goes like this: A smart scholar is bored with learning and sells his soul to the devil to obtain all knowledge, power and pleasure. Ironically in the past he was a top theology student able to argue flawlessly for the Christian faith.
Doctor Faustus is well written and truly parallels our society.
Many times we sell our souls for instant gratification. We are cheated into believing that it will bring us happiness. ex. credit card loan and as a result we accumulate debt
Faustus believed that eternal damnation was no more than physical suffering.
However it is more than that, it is separation from God. It is hard to grasp this concept but one situation presented in the story was able to accurately portray a glimpse of this scenario.
Faustus having just made his contract with the devil demands a wife.
The devil slyly talks him out of it and instead offers to bring him the finest prostitutes to live with him. Marriage is a construct of God therefore the devil has no power in that area.
God is good
God is love
Satan takes the good things God created for us and twists them around this we call sin. Why does sin feel good? because it is a twisted version of God's intended plan.
It is designed to feel good at first but in the end we suffer.
There is no good in hell
No pleasure
Some believe that they will be with their friends
but God is love so there is also no friendship.
No marriage.
everything that you enjoy, you like, you treasure is not there.
Are we really afraid of death? Or maybe its loneliness we fear most....
Death would not be a big deal if we could see the people we love after we die.
that is Hell absolute LONELINESS
the absence of good
includes the physical the mental the emotional.
Do not be ignorant of hell like Faustus .
