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Summary: BEWARE- This book could lead you into scrupulosity.
Review: BEWARE- If you are the type of person who constantly berates themselves and inflicts self-punishment, this book could lead you to become too scrupulous. A priest told me to put the book away and get into some lighter reading. We should all try to do our best to be good Christians, but we should be joyful and full of love. This book could lead you into despair. While the dogma of hell shouldn't be taken lightly, we also need to be careful not to start seeing sin where sin doesn't exist and remember God's mercy.
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Summary: Very good book
Review: Great book, it covers everything you would ever want to know about the seven deadly sins, demons, pain, suffering, and of course Hell. A must read for all Christians and non-Christians.
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Summary: Hell and How to avoid Hell
Review: I too could not put this book down. I found it very scary in the beginning but scary in a good way. It got me to go back to confession and make a good confession and to go to confession often. I thought it was very informative in explaining the sins that fall under the commandments. The book makes you realize that Hell is very real and not a place you want to be. It has increased my Catholic faith and woken me up from the luke warm place I was in in my life. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Hell and How to avoid Hell
Review: I too could not put this book down. I found it very scary in the beginning but scary in a good way. It got me to go back to confession and make a good confession and to go to confession often. I thought it was very informative in explaining the sins that fall under the commandments. The book makes you realize that Hell is very real and not a place you want to be. It has increased my Catholic faith and woken me up from the luke warm place I was in in my life. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: A Must Read...
Review: Just the title in today's world seems taboo!!! No matter you be Protestant, Catholic or any of the other faiths, this book will bind you to its pages! The written vision that this book gives, from 100's of years of oral and written history, is both frightening and compelling. Do know that it was compiles over about 100 yrs ago so political correctness is all but non-existent. As a Catholic I can appreciate the writings of Fr. Schouppe, for he not only shows God's justified wrath, he also shows His blind forgiveness! The greatest part of this book is that in the last half you are given INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO AVIOD HELL! May God bless all who read this...
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Summary: A Must Read...
Review: Just the title in today's world seems taboo!!! No matter you be Protestant, Catholic or any of the other faiths, this book will bind you to its pages! The written vision that this book gives, from 100's of years of oral and written history, is both frightening and compelling. Do know that it was compiles over about 100 yrs ago so political correctness is all but non-existent. As a Catholic I can appreciate the writings of Fr. Schouppe, for he not only shows God's justified wrath, he also shows His blind forgiveness! The greatest part of this book is that in the last half you are given INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO AVIOD HELL! May God bless all who read this...
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Summary: Could not put the book down
Review: My friend also in Denver and my friend in Seattle just finished this book this week. We all feel the same way, it's an excellent book. The author is a Catholic priest who refutes the arguments of atheists and other non believers. I am not a Catholic, however, this book centers not on persuading others to become Catholics, but on the problem of injustice. With all the injustice in the world it is pretty easy to see why there has to be a Hell.
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Summary: Could not put the book down
Review: My friend also in Denver and my friend in Seattle just finished this book this week. We all feel the same way, it's an excellent book. The author is a Catholic priest who refutes the arguments of atheists and other non believers. I am not a Catholic, however, this book centers not on persuading others to become Catholics, but on the problem of injustice. With all the injustice in the world it is pretty easy to see why there has to be a Hell.
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Summary: BEWARE- This book could lead you into scrupulosity.
Review: This book gives the most unbelievable account of hell that I have ever encountered. It really shook my faith and made me realize I was standing on shaky ground. I'm not gonna continue living my life by the '10 Suggestions' anymore, it's time to live by the '10 Commandments.'
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Summary: Not very balanced teaching or even scary
Review: This is my first review at Amazon, mostly because I feel I don't have anything all that important to say about a book, but based on the fact that it had a perfect rating (The main reason why I even bought this book) here goes:
I am a fairly conservative Roman Catholic who does not shy away from teachings on sin and hell and feel very strongly that they should be the subjects of more homilies. That said, I feel this book is a bad representation of Catholic doctrine on Hell and how to get saved. I was also expecting some genuine experiences of the saints and their visions of hell (there are some truly terrifying ones out there) but mostly what I got were some anecdotes about people who did not confess a mortal sin before they died and came back to warn the living by telling them they were in hell. I also got some telling of true life disasters involving fire and people being burned alive and then the author basically saying "It's gonna be a trillion times worse than that in HELL!" The book also comes across as legalistic in the addition "How to Avoid Hell" While Catholics do believe that Salvation is faith working through love, you would not really come away from this book with that knowledge, you would probably be more inclined to join the ranks with our fundamentalist friends who say that Catholicism is works salvation. This book did not have any real errors per se, it just did not tell the whole story and was very one sided. I give it two stars because it did have some genuinely good advice for starting the Christian life and staying away from sin. Which God knows we need in the Church these days. God Bless everyone
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