To answer the title question: in a sense, everybody, because Hell is primarily the separation from the Eternal Good, and none of us deserve to be in its presence - not only because we have all sinned, but also because it is literally impossible for us to deserve it.
To the OP: the paasage you quoted has a lot of the common misconceptions in it. That the will to repent is a gift from God is an ambiguous phrase, for example. The ability to repent, the desire to repent, all of that is a gift from God (which can be rejected), as is the ability to exercise the will in such a way as to actually repent, but the actual act in which we repent, while an acceptance of and response to various gifts from God, is a choice that we make.
The “would I send someone to hell for missing Mass” is another common card. People go to hell because they reject God, and missing Mass can be a sign of and act of that rejection. Various levels of ignorance or what have you can mitigate the guilt and so turn what is a gravely wrong act into a venial sin, but whether or not that happens in a particular case does not affect the principle: If we choose ourself over God so much so that we think our own personal desires take precedence over God even to the point where we aren’t willing to give him ~1 hour in a week, that shows that we have not put Him first.
Then there’s the whole “torture them for eternity seems kind of extreme.” Well, yeah, except for a person in Hell, being in the presence of God would be worse. They get theirs, sure, but it’s also really the best that can be done. If a person chooses to hate all that is good, and taking into account goodness is the fundamental truth, existence itself, then the best that can be done for them is to separate them from it as much as is possible. They’re still not gonna have a good time, they will have nothing good whatsoever aside from their own existence, which they will hate because they hate what is good, but at least they won’t be surrounded by the Eternal Source of all that they have chosen to reject.
And so on.
Question for the proponents of hell:
Are you OK with the idea that someday your family and your friends will all be in hell?
Obviously not, but what happens and what I’m ok with are not the same thing.
Because, statistically, they’re more likely than not to end up there, according to the opinion of all the greatest Catholic saints in history.
One can hope they are wrong, but this hope does not give us the ability to say so with certainty, especially not to the extent of saying that there is no one there.
Let’s say God neglects to give your family and your friends the “grace of final perseverance.” The reason why is a “mystery.” But, nonetheless there they are, all of them: in hell forever. Some of them because they weren’t baptized, some of them for failing to believe the Marian dogmas, and some of them for various kinds of common and banal sins.
Nope. Not gonna happen. Everyone is given the graces they need to make it, some just choose not to act on them. The reason why is because they choose not to. That choice does not make sense, but because it originates in a free being, it does not have to. No one goes to Hell just because God decided not to give them what they need to go to heaven.
What is your intuition about this? I submit that you should rejoice! :extrahappy:
For, if it is happening, it is God’s will right? Whether antecedent or consequent (specious distinction though it is) God is willing hell for your friends and family in the “eternal now.” If God’s will is good by definition, then their damnation is good! Hooray! As you become more and more saintly, you should feel more and more joyous about the damnation of your family and friends, correct? If not, why not? Because it isn’t God’s will? Well, if it happens, and God is omnipotent, how can it not be his will?
How many of you feel like this?
Simplistic. It is God’s will that we have the choice. It is God’s will that our choices are real and affect us. It is not God’s will that people make the wrong choice, but our choices are
ours.
Let me put it to you like this: some people, through their own free choice, react to the options that God gives them in such a way that when they die and meet Him face to face, they are filled with revulsion and agony, for they know that what they see is perfection and that what they prefer is in every possible respect worse and evil, but they still freely choose to prefer their evil. In this way, the mere sight of Goodness itself is torture.
Would you rejoice more if they were held in that torture, to experience this thing that is really and truly good, yet which they refuse to accept and so suffer endless agonies over, or if they were able to flee to a relatively dark mode of existence, which is still agony because they have rejected all that is good, but is a lesser agony because they do not feel the full force of that which they hate at all times?
Do you
want those who reject God to be held eternally in His presence, experiencing at all times everything they hate to its fullest extent possible?
Wouldn’t you want front row seats to watch the endless torture of your family and friends? Wouldn’t the blessed in heaven rejoice and revel and the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the damned if it is all part of God’s good plan? If not, why not?
Think before you write!