What sends someone to hell?

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Hell sounds like a horrible place. How does someone end up there? Is it unrepented mortal sin? Is it choosing a life contrary to God’s will? Is it being mean, rude, and Terrible to your neighbors?

How do people end up there?

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We send ourselves there-essentially by choosing cold selfish pride over self-giving humble love. By persistently preferring ourselves to God-as it’s said that Adam did with his first sin. By failing to love God and neighbor. The Catechism quotes St John of the Cross as saying,
"At the evening of life we shall be judged on our love".
 
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Untimate unrepentance. Happens two ways: I don’t believe I need forgiveness or I don’t believe God can/will forgive me. Presumption and despair.
 
Catholic doctrine teaches that mortal sin without the Sacrament of Confession will send someone to hell.
 
it is God in His righteousness who sends unrepentant sinners into Hell. It should be noted that a single mortal sin not repented is enough for God to send us to Hell.
 
Unrepentant mortal sin at the time of death will send a soul directly to hell.
 
Dragging your husband to a ballet would definitely qualify. Fortunately, my wife knows better.
 
Joe1 said:
Hell sounds like a horrible place. How does someone end up there? Is it unrepented mortal sin? Is it choosing a life contrary to God’s will? Is it being mean, rude, and Terrible to your neighbors?

How do people end up there?

(I hope no one is there)
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The biggest sin that people did in Hell was rejecting Jesus.
 
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Is it unrepented mortal sin
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This is the one that does it. Key word being “unrepented”; if you are repentant than you can be saved from perdition - even if you repent on your deathbed.
 
Is it possible to forget about a mortal sin we may have committed in the past? I once asked a priest this question, and he said as long as we have the full intention of confessing all of the sins we have committed.
 
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Is it possible to forget about a mortal sin we may have committed in the past? I once asked a priest this question, and he said as long as we have the full intention of confessing all of the sins we have committed.
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When we go to Confession, all our sins are forgiven, even the ones we have forgotten. If we should remember some that we didn’t mention, then we should mention them the next time we confess–not because they are have not been forgiven, but as an act of humbly expressing our sorrow for having committed them.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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