And you know this how? I think @Delusioned is spot on saying that this is claimed not via evidence but as a way to try and set aside doubts why someone would be punished infinitely.Those people can change their hearts. The heart of a person is fixed upon death, and those who reject God will always reject God.
Do you know how the Church came to that conclusion?That’s (according to my knowledge) what the Church teaches.
I’ll ask again, how did the Church come to this conclusion? We know of people who have rejected the idea that God is real and then later believed it to be true. Why can this not occur after death?Judgement happens right after you die, and those that die in a state of rejecting God and His love will thus do such in judgment. That’s what the Church teaches, through Magisterium.
Going to hell separates you from God’s grace because those in hell do not want it. Without God’s grace, we cannot turn to Him because the brokenness of our sins grows and absorbs us until our broken and sinful human nature is all we are, devoid of any good.Judgement happens right after you die, and those that die in a state of rejecting God and His love will thus do such in judgment. That’s what the Church teaches, through Magisterium.
Hell is like a deep pit. Sure, one could climb out, but those in the pit refused any rope for climbing when they put themselves there.
Not a single person who committed a sin condemning them to Hell would ever want God’s grace? Not a one?Going to hell separates you from God’s grace because those in hell do not want it.
And the Church knows this how? Even if true (which it’s not), a good person gives other people all the opportunities needed to make up for their errors. You’re saying that God only displays this goodness for a limited period of time, even though God is infinite and it would not cause God to expend any effort or energy to allow a post-Hell contrition.Without God’s grace, we cannot turn to Him because the brokenness of our sins grows and absorbs us until our broken and sinful human nature is all we are, devoid of any good.
In order for an analogy to work it has to make a lick of sense. Sure sometimes people will put themselves into a pit, but at least some of them will later want to get out of that pit. But in your analogy not a single person would ever have a regret, even though there isn’t a person alive who is devoid of regrets or only understood the consequences of their actions only after encountering those consequences.Hell is like a deep pit. Sure, one could climb out, but those in the pit refused any rope for climbing when they put themselves there.
Nope. God’s grace and love are what they’re trying to get away from.Going to hell separates you from God’s grace because those in hell do not want it.
God gives us a whole lifetime to turn to Him, and a literally unlimited pool of grace and opportunities to repent and come back. Without that grace, our souls are starved. Without grace to resist the desires of the flesh, the flesh always wins and leaves the person without ability to fight their bodily wants.Without God’s grace, we cannot turn to Him because the brokenness of our sins grows and absorbs us until our broken and sinful human nature is all we are, devoid of any good.
Again, they’re deprived of anything that would make them regret their decision to abandon God. They have no grace with which they could order themselves towards God.In order for an analogy to work it has to make a lick of sense. Sure sometimes people will put themselves into a pit, but at least some of them will later want to get out of that pit. But in your analogy not a single person would ever have a regret, even though there isn’t a person alive who is devoid of regrets or only understood the consequences of their actions only after encountering those consequences.
It certainly isn’t Catholic.Common sense reveals that’s just not true in my opinion.
God created us in His own image and likeness. This means that we have free will. He empowers us with the choice to avoid having Him in our lives, both in this life, and the next.I stopped believing after reading about hell.