250. That the evils of the love of self and the world induce such ignorance concerning the things which belong to eternal life, is plainly evident from the case of those within the Church; for, although they are aware from revelation that there is a God, that there is a heaven and a hell, that there is eternal life, and that that life has to be acquired through the good of love and faith, they still lapse into a denial of these things, the educated as well as the uneducated. From this it is again evident how great the ignorance would be, were there no revelation.