I assume you're a Catholic. As far as I know, there's no basis for the theology of beatific vision in the Bible outside of the apocrypha which Protestants don't consider scripture, or writings from church fathers and popes.
That’s what Protestants believe even though the Bible itself, which was canonized by the Catholic Church, never says this. It would also make the following verse of the Bible a contradiction:
John : 21 : 25 - Now there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if each of these were written down, the world itself, I suppose, would not be able to contain the books that would be written.
Protestants don't say that everything that's ever true and has ever happened is in the Bible. Obviously. We know less than a percent about God since He's an infinite being. Obviously Jesus did tons of things we don't know about.
But what we do know is that only the Bible is authoritive. So what it says about hell, the afterlife, anything else that man cannot know aside from God's word is what we can go on, since any human philosophy coming from a church father or anyone else is mere speculation and is not much more useful than asking a Hindu or Bhuddist what they think about the afterlife.
The Catholic church went wrong pretty early into church history where they wanted to have power and laid the authority of the scripture aside and gave fallible man equal authority. Since that time, they have created so many wacky "theologies" and beliefs that it hardly resembles Christianity anymore.
I assume you're a Catholic. As far as I know, there's no basis for the theology of beatific vision in the Bible outside of the apocrypha which Protestants don't consider scripture, or writings from church fathers and popes.
So what you're saying is, if it's not in The Bible, then it isn't true?
That’s what Protestants believe even though the Bible itself, which was canonized by the Catholic Church, never says this. It would also make the following verse of the Bible a contradiction:
John : 21 : 25 - Now there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if each of these were written down, the world itself, I suppose, would not be able to contain the books that would be written.
Protestants don't say that everything that's ever true and has ever happened is in the Bible. Obviously. We know less than a percent about God since He's an infinite being. Obviously Jesus did tons of things we don't know about.
But what we do know is that only the Bible is authoritive. So what it says about hell, the afterlife, anything else that man cannot know aside from God's word is what we can go on, since any human philosophy coming from a church father or anyone else is mere speculation and is not much more useful than asking a Hindu or Bhuddist what they think about the afterlife.
The Catholic church went wrong pretty early into church history where they wanted to have power and laid the authority of the scripture aside and gave fallible man equal authority. Since that time, they have created so many wacky "theologies" and beliefs that it hardly resembles Christianity anymore.