If someone went to hell

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but then repented and turned to God, would God let them out of hell?

I believe he would.

What are other people’s thoughts
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uglygal said:
but then repented and turned to God, would God let them out of hell?

I believe he would.

What are other people’s thoughts
🙂
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No, Hell is forever. Personally, I don’t think a person would still have the gift of free will after judgement so repentance wouldn’t even be an option.
 
I believe when one dies there is judgement before God and the person has made the choice of loving God or not, once in hell it is final.😦
 
uglygal said:
but then repented and turned to God, would God let them out of hell?

I believe he would.

What are other people’s thoughts
🙂
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Souls in Hell only curse God more. They blame God for their suffering. How did they get to be there? They chose to be there. Chances are they were given many chances to change and reconcile. God often uses people and signs to get their attention. God is just honoring their free will. Souls in Hell do not think in terms of repentance. They are full of pride and we know what happened to Lucifer because of pride. Does God still love them? Perhaps. Are they doomed forever? That is up to God, but I would think so.
 
but lets say a soul did repent and turn to God … despite all odds, despite eternity, what if one did.

This is ultimately what I’m interested in … is God’s mercy greater than the point of no return
 
uglygal said:
but lets say a soul did repent and turn to God … despite all odds, despite eternity, what if one did.

This is ultimately what I’m interested in … is God’s mercy greater than the point of no return
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God can do anything, anytime, anyway, except sin. Yet, please don’t allow yourself to be put to the test. The fount of mercy from God as I understand it, is for those who still have free will. I would think that those who have chosen Hell have already used their free will.
 
Schultzz said:
God can do anything, anytime, anyway, except sin. Yet, please don’t allow yourself to be put to the test. The fount of mercy from God as I understand it, is for those who still have free will. I would think that those who have chosen Hell have already used their free will.
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And those in Hell are there because they have rejected God. God loves us and wants us to love Him back. In order for love to work, there must be free will. God will never force us to love him and he does not force us to be in Heaven with Him. If we reject him and choose not to be in Heaven, He will respect the decision and it is final.

God Bless,
Matt
 
uglygal said:
but lets say a soul did repent and turn to God … despite all odds, despite eternity, what if one did.

This is ultimately what I’m interested in … is God’s mercy greater than the point of no return
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Certainly God’s mercy is greater than our imaginings; but the question you pose is moot since we do have the doctrine of Christ’s Church on the finality in the soul’s the choice of Hell:

(From the Council of Constantinople’, 543 A.D.) : “If anyone holds that the punishment of demons and of impious men is temporary, and that it will have an end at some time, or that there will be complete restoration of demons and impious men, anathema sit.”

Please see, too, the Catechism, nbrs. 1034, 1035, 1036, 1037.

There is nothing of the souls of the damned that can correspond and respond to God’s Divine Love, and so God’s overwhelming love must necessarily be experienced as eternal fire and torment. Perhaps another way to express this is to consider Scripture’s words that “our God is a consuming fire” - in order to survive in and find joy and salvation in that fire one has to himself become one by God’s Grace with the fire of Divine Love - this the damned cannot do.
 
In my opinion, and thats all it is, for a person to have rejected God, which landed him in hell, he first would’ve had to have a revelation from God, that He indeed is real.

In other words, if I tell and atheist that God is real, He exist, but the atheist does not accept what I say, he has not in actuality, rejected God. He only has my words and who am I that he must accept what I say? However, if he hears my words and turns to God and God reveals himself in someway, to the point that the person now in fact knows God exists, but then rejects Him, then he has committed grave mortal sin.

Faith comes from God. Our responsibility, is to be open to faith.

Jim
 
If you have 90 minutes to spare, this video, To Hell and Back, is well worth your time. The video details the cases of several people who clinically died, experienced Hell, and were resucitated. In each case the person got one final chance to choose God or choose Hell. Each of them chose God.

It is a profoundly moving message not of hellfire and brimstone, but of the hope and mercy we have in Christ. But it is a strong warning of what awaits us if we reject Christ in that final chance to choose Him.

To the OP - those who refuse God have made their final choice, and are in Hell forever. A person is incapable of repenting at that point, much the same as people in Heaven are incapable of sin.
 
uglygal said:
but then repented and turned to God, would God let them out of hell?

I believe he would.

What are other people’s thoughts
🙂
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Hell is permanent. Worst one-way trip EVER. Eternal separation from God.
 
uglygal said:
but then repented and turned to God, would God let them out of hell?

I believe he would.

What are other people’s thoughts
🙂
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At the point a soul reaches hell, repentance is impossible. While I absolutely believe God’s mercy is wider and more amazing than I could ever imagine, the Bible has made it clear that we are only given so many chances to repent, and once a soul is in hell, that’s it. No more chances.
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Hell is permanent. Worst one-way trip EVER. Eternal separation from God.
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Yup.
 
but lets say a soul did repent and turn to God … despite all odds, despite eternity, what if one did.

**Heaven or hell is the ultimate choice people make for themselves. God merely ratifies it.

C. S. Lewis said (through Screwtape, I think), that at the last, there are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, thy will be done.”

As I have suggested before, dear soul, you need a refresher course on Christian doctrine.**
 
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