What happens to truly evil people when die?

I share your views and hopes Helen. A sad day for you.?

I do believe in God, & I’ve been thinking about what I learnt about death and God’s judgement growing up catholic. My mum still prays for deceased relatives who were/are supposedly in “Purgatory”, the place you go when not deserving of hell (eternal punishment), but aren’t entitled to the “eternal joy of living with God”. After a time in Purgatory repenting, souls can potentially move “up” into heaven. The prayers of the faithful still on earth can speed this up - hence mum's daily prayers.
Personally I think the idea of purgatory is to give hope to believers who might otherwise worry about eternal damnation if they feel undeserving of heaven.
IMO if there’s a hell child murderers are dragged there straight away with absolutely no hope of redemption.

I’ve been to church this morning funnily enough - it’s my daughter’s 15th anniversary. Undoubtedly (I’m biased) when she faced God’s judgement she went straight to heaven, and one day (after repenting my many faults) I hope to join her there! That hope certainly helped my sanity in the early days.

The OP should listen to her mum and hopefully find peace moving forward.

All my own opinion - please be kind!!!

I believe your Mum was absolutely right. Your brother in law will stand before God and that is all you need to know. The rest is up to God who is, as you say, loving and forgiving. I hope you can find peace over this and leave it in his hands.

It's a shame but she really believes it. And she's an intelligent woman!

Goodness. How to make someone having a horrible life feel even worse about themselves and their situation. What a horrible thing to say to anyone!

Grannyrebel, the clairvoyant who told your friend she was a nazi doctor in a previous life is the truly evil one. What wicked nonsense.

My friend has expert medical knowledge above and beyond the average person with no medical training whatsoever. She has had a horrible life and was told by a clairvoyant on the other side of the world in an online chat that this is because she was a Nazi doctor during the war who took part in experiments on people in the death camps. She really believes it and that bad people such as your BIL Santana will live another life where they suffer to atone for their sins in a past life. Not sure I believe it myself as a Christian, but find it quite interesting.

I’m a Humanist. I don’t believe there is a God. It would be a comfort to believe in the after life sometimes. But sadly I just don’t. I believe we are all here ‘for a season’. Then we die. And that’s it ... but we live on in others we leave behind should they love or like us and perhaps think of us with fondness now and again.

Therefore I don’t believe either in a ‘day of reckoning’ or anything. The bad people do just get away with it. We live and then fall, like leaves from a tree to nourish the soil for future generations. This is all we have. That’s why I try to be the nicest, kindest person I can be while I have breath in my body.

It does tend to focus the mind, believing this is all there is! No second chances. It is what it is. Life sadly isn’t fair. Never was, never will be.

Focus on the fact that he’s gone and life will be better without him.

Sorry Mr Johnson

What's so bad about them?

They get reincarnated as politicians.
my brother -in-law, a truly evil man
Uncle Bob, who went to Hell

And some people think these comments are funny.
I don't.

In my world there will be no God or Devil waiting to drag me off to wherever.

Nobody really knows what happens when we die.

But as far as I'm concerned there is no hell beneath us, no heaven above. As John Lennon used to say.

Me neither.

Chestnut

Blondiescot if you believe in God as a 'force of goodness' then you also have to believe in the devil as 'a force of evil' and it is he who causes all the misery in the world. These are the two opposing sides. People choose to do evil, God doesn't make them do evil. He lets them choose whether they want to do good or evil.

So it's ok for 'God' to let poor innocent children like Arthur to suffer, because he lets people choose whether they want to do good or evil then? That's the part I cannot get my head round.

I also believe that some people are truly evil.
Some kind of malfunction in their brain means that they are simply unable to feel empathy.
Not their fault, if that is the case, but very, very dangerous.

I believe that unless they truly repent on earth and willingly accept their punishment they will face a heavenly judge who knows everything that is in their hearts and minds and who will deliver a God given sentence. We do not know what that will be but it will be just and fair.
I do not believe God will forgive those who do not repent. The thieves crucified either side of Christ were there that none need despair but none should presume.

It would be nice to think there is some kind of karma for people, but I'm very sceptical, much as I long to think that the balance is redressed somewhere along the line.

Victims of evil have no choice, those responsible have taken that from them which is what makes them so evil.

How about the victims of evil?
Where is their choice?

Blondiescot if you believe in God as a 'force of goodness' then you also have to believe in the devil as 'a force of evil' and it is he who causes all the misery in the world. These are the two opposing sides. People choose to do evil, God doesn't make them do evil. He lets them choose whether they want to do good or evil.

Germanshepherdsmum

I believe God forgives.

So why does 'God' allow such evil to take place in the first place? No-one - whatever sky fairy they happen to believe in - has ever been able to give me a satisfactory answer to that question.

Anniebach

God knows not only if we truly repent but also what caused us to be the person we are.

Well that is a fascinating subject. What is the story behind Little Arthur's parents to make them like that? Is it a 'bad gene' or has their childhood been so awful it has turned them into monsters? I've known of two horrible people in my life, one a sociopath and the other a malevolent narcissist (that is the type). I just have no idea why they are like that or why they get pleasure out of hurting other people, but they do. Ian Brady was one, he kept the location of that little boy's body secret just for the power. They have no empathy for other people's suffering which is why they enjoy hurting people.

I haven’t been exactly, the best daughter, the best wife or the best mother. But I am making up for it, by trying to be the best grandmother.

I’m with annie.