Who is to condemn him?

What becomes, in the spirit world, of an individual who feels that, for one reason or another, he cannot believe in the existence of God?

There are scores of good folk who, when disaster of some kind has descended upon them, are unable to believe that God would permit such terrible things to happen because God must be a God of good. 

They argue, therefore, that there is no God. 

No one, they say, in effect, could exist up there, knowing that there is so much appalling misery down here.

One only needs to point to the ghastly travail through which the earth has passed for copious examples of personal tragedies. 

Whether their disbelief in the Father becomes gradually softened, as it were, and they eventually think differently, it makes no difference to that person individually if, when he arrives here in the spirit-world, he still has that disbelief upon him. 

Who is to condemn him? 

There is no one. 

The Father Himself will not do so. 

 

He condemns no one, nor does He allow anyone else to perform that office.

That is a statement that I have made to you before but it cannot be reiterated too often.

—Spirit Robert Hugh Benson