"Making sense of hell." An article in a Catholic publication

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see Making sense of hell - BC Catholic - Multimedia Catholic News

“But St. John Paul II’s words are clearer about not attributing eternal damnation to God’s initiative because in his merciful love he only desires the salvation of the beings he created. In reality, it is the creature who closes himself to God’s love.”

 

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Haven’t read the article but this has been a popular topic for discussion in the past, for example -

Making Hell make sense Philosophy

The Catholic Faith maintains the possibility of an eternal hell. (However, on some parts of CAF, it has been debated whether or not Catholicism truly requires belief in an eternal hell. But put that aside, for now.) To me, in order for a doctrine or understanding of hell to be coherent, it has to show that someone knowingly and freely chooses hell, such that the individual is getting what he wants. I don’t think anyone will object to the “knowingly” and “freely” part. Someone might object to t…

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An Eternal Hell Doesn't Make Sense Philosophy

Warning: this post won’t help you with your faith. But I’m not here to convince you of my ideas (so I won’t be back to debate any answers, though I might post to thank people for good answers). What I want to do is express my line of thought and see how you would answer it. What good would it do for God to send a bad person to hell? Does this punishment teach them not to be bad in the future? The problem is that they’re stuck in hell forever, so teaching them a lesson is useless - they’ll never…

May it bear good fruit for all. God bless.