Who is in charge of hell?

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@joseie Why do you post questions on Catholic Answers Forum and not trust the true scholars on Catholic Answers? Again, I will repeat that Jesus said prepared, not created. I may not build the house, but I can prepare it for someone to visit. I did not create the food for a meal, but I can prepare the ingredients for a meal.
 
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The view that since all that God created was good and since hell is evidently not good, and so God did not create hell, has no force.This is because what God observed as all very good (in Gen1-31) is the things he created in the 6 days which does not mention about or include heaven and hell.Now come back to M25:41.The position is clear,I suppose.
 
again the word prepared - not created. Just saying - I don’t know the original language.
 
So you admit that God’ prepared’ hell but not agree that God created hell !😂😂
 
Dlee said:
God did not create hell; he only allowed for its possibility. Thus it cannot be said that hell is good.God did not create hell; he only allowed for its possibility. Thus it cannot be said that hell is good.
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as has already been said

Jesus said . therefore, who then prepared it for the devil (Satan) and his angels?
 
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brian_custer said:
from what i understand & correct me if i am wrong

“satan” is an english language moniker of the leader of the fallen angels; ie the ex-seraph lucifer
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon: Satan, “be remote, especially from the truth, and from the mercy of God”

From NABRE 1, Ch 21:1
1 A satan[a] rose up against Israel, and he incited David to take a census of Israel.

a. 21:1 A satan: in the parallel passage (2 Sm 24:1) David is led astray because of the Lord’s anger. The Chronicler’s modification reflects the changed theological outlook of postexilic Israel, when evil was no longer attributed directly to God. At an earlier period the Hebrew word satan (“adversary,” or, especially in a court of law, “accuser”) designated both human beings (1 Kgs 11:14) and a “son of God” who accused people before God (Jb 1:6–12; 2:1–7; Zec 3:1–2). In later Judaism (cf. Wis 2:24) and in the New Testament, satan, or the “devil” (from diablos, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word), designates an evil spirit who tempts people to do wrong.
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Any clue as to why satan tempts people to do wrong/sin ? Just for the sake of company in hell?
Without satan people can’t do sin on their own?
 
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You can be quite certain, that even there, God is in control.
 
I hope the OP will not take it amiss if I admit that I detect a slight tongue-in-cheek quality to his/her original post and follow-up remarks. I must say, however, that while I appreciate the humor, I find a concern with the minutiae of infernal management a dangerous topic with which to become entangled. As one of the other posters remarked, we really just need to avoid going to hell if at all possible. and as I see it, that is the extent of the interest we should take in the subject. Let’s live our lives in as constant a state of grace as we can manage, so that we don’t ever have to worry about winding up there.
 
ShowersofRoses said:
I do think there is fire since Jesus explicitly mentions this. Father Simon on Relevant Radio says that this fire is the fire of God’s love–the same fire that He uses in Purgatory to cleanse us. However, in Hell, it is torture because they have rejected God.
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John Cardinal Newman went further, and said that the light of God’s love that warms the saints in Heaven is the same fire that torments the damned in Hell. Incidentally, I also am a great fan of The Great Divorce. Apparently it was inspired by a concept in Medieval philosophy known as the Refrigerium, the idea that, once every millennium or so, the damned were allowed an excursion to Heaven, a sort of day-trip for them to look around and see if they wanted to stay there. I have recommended this book to many friends over the years, and most of them have enjoyed it very much. I would also recommend it to my friends here at CAF.
 
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Wesrock said:
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  1. The least sinful in hell will suffer as much as the worst in hell
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This is not Church teaching and is contradicted by the Council of Florence.
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If one considers that all the damned equally suffer eternal separation from the source of all light and love, then it certainly is true that the least sinful suffers as much as the most sinful, at least in that particular sense.
 
As I stated, this is their opinion. My answer would be that God created everything. Theologically, I don’t know if this is correct. I am open to learning and understanding which is why I more often refer to Catholic Answers rather than the forum.
 
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