Why do people go to hell?

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I just wanted to clarify the Catholic teaching on this 🙂

people go to hell if they are rejecting either repentance for their sins, or God’s mercy?

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Have you ever met someone who actually hated God, told people (not in anger, quite calmly) that he hated God, and declared that given a choice between God and Hell, it would be heroic to choose Hell? I have. If he does not repent and change, then God will give him exactly what he wants. How respectful God is of our free will …
 
THe way I see it, there are two kinds of sinners.

There are those who do something, maybe planned, maybe spur of the moment, knowing it is a sin. And they enjoy it. But afterwards they feel bad, and realize the guilt for what they have done. Even if they feel no remorse. they understand that they have offended God, and they seek repentance

Then there are those who sin, willingly like above, and feel no remorse. Maybe they think, Oh, there’s ALWAYS tomorow. Or, It’s none of God’s bussiness who I have sex with. Maybe they don’t believe in God at all.

Who do you think God will show his mercy to? We’re all sinners. We ll enjoy doing things we know we ought not. But some of us realize our shortcomings. Others celebrate them.
 
When people go on sinning they reach a point when there is a “dulling of the conscience”. This occurs because of the habitual commission of a sin. Now when that sin is a grave one the sinner risks going to hell. Unfortunately when conscience has been dulled, the person may not see the need to repent. So even though God is so merciful and forgiving, if there is no remorse, repentance and sorrow for sin, then what is there to forgive?
 
St Catherine of Sienna, in an ecstacy recorede in her “dialogues” - whereby God revealed these mysteries to her spoke thus:
"Wherefore, know, that at the moment of death, they, having passed their life under the lordship of the Devil (not that they were forced to do so, for as I told you they cannot be forced, but they voluntarily put themselves into his hands), and, arriving at the extremity of their death under this perverse lordship, they await no other judgment than that of their own conscience, and desperately, despairingly, come to eternal damnation. Wherefore Hell, through their hate, surges up to them in the extremity of death, and before they get there, they take hold of it, by means of their lord the Devil.

"As the righteous, who have lived in charity and died in love, if they have lived perfectly in virtue, illuminated with the light of faith, with perfect hope in the Blood of the Lamb, when the extremity of death comes, see the good which I have prepared for them, and embrace it with the arms of love, holding fast with pressure of love to Me, the Supreme and Eternal Good. And so they taste eternal life before they have left the mortal body, that is, before the soul be separated from the body.

"Others who have passed their lives, and have arrived at the last extremity of death with an ordinary charity (not in that great perfection), embrace My mercy with the same light of faith and hope that had those perfect ones, but, in them, it is imperfect, for, because they were imperfect, they constrained My mercy, counting My mercy greater than their sins.

“The wicked sinners do the contrary, for, seeing, with desperation, their destination, they embrace it with hatred, as I told you. So that neither the one nor the other waits for judgment, but, in departing this life, they receive every one their place, as I have told you, and they taste it and possess it before they depart from the body, at the extremity of death – the damned with hatred and with despair, and the perfect ones with love and the light of faith and with the hope of the Blood. And the imperfect arrive at the place of Purgatory, with mercy and the same faith.”

(Bolding Mine)

Now - Please note that the above is by way of “Personal Revelation” which the Church does not require us to accept. However, I have never heard death and judgement explained any better.

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One of the problems that people make, is that they often reject the persona of God, not the nature of him.

For instance, the nature of God is that of ‘being’. He is the Great I AM. Christians today often forget this. Falling in love with God is a wonderful thing, yet we also must remember that the God of the Old Testament is also present in Christ. The supreme Justice of the Universe.

God is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He is peace, order, perfection, love, truth. These are all different ways of expressing the fundamental nature of God, that of being. The persona of God is manifested in the Holy Trinity, that of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The part of God that people often reject is the persona. Many of them simply don’t like the idea of God existing as a persona. And after talking with a number of them, I begin to see what the problem is. Many of them are raised in Christianity (Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox) and are taught that the Trinity is very similar to the way the Greeks perceived their Gods.

The problem is that they are not taught that God is not merely the persona, but he is also this fundamental nature of being: one, true, good, and beautiful. The problem is ****** education on the part of Christian parents. People reject the persona of the Trinity, and then go and seek that fundamental nature in other religions and belief systems. They’re still seeking after God, however they’ve completely rejected the idea of God existing as a persona, or at least it is a persona that they must discover by themselves.

The Catholic Church teaches that at the time a person dies, Christ appears to them. Not merely as the persona, but in fullness. The fundamental nature of truth and being. At that point a person has a choice of God or Hell. This sounds like a no-lose scenario, but in truth it’s not. So many people spend much of their time denying truth, trying to elude it, often times creating false realities thinking they are safe from it, that at the time they die, they can be so afraid, or angry, or sorrow, that they will choose Hell. In the Diary of St. Maria Faustina, she has a vision of Christ (which is Church approved) in which he reveals all I’ve just told you to her. He also tells her that for some people, Hell is a greater mercy than purgatory and Heaven. These are people who are simply so afraid of the idea of God existing, that they would be incapable of finding peace and happiness in Heaven, and so choose Hell.

Now, there’s also the problem of people who sin on Earth. There are people who just reject all that is good and holy in the world today. They commit the Immortal Sin, blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. It is the complete and total rejection of God, not just God in his persona, but God in his fundamental nature. They reject good, love, truth, peace, order, etc. It is the sin that Satan committed. Satan is condemned to Hell because he abhors God so much. He has no desire whatsoever to be anywhere near God. So, God honors his choice, and banishes him from his presence. Satan is fully capable of choosing to repent, and God is also ready to embrace him once more. But Satan is adamant in his decision.

Just a warning. Do not feel sorry for the Fallen Angels. They possess a knowledge, understanding, and power vastly superior to us. His reasons for despising God are so far beyond our ability to comprehend, that God is the only one capable of pitying Satan.

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Thank you for the replies everyone 🙂
Now, there’s also the problem of people who sin on Earth. There are people who just reject all that is good and holy in the world today. They commit the Immortal Sin, blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. It is the complete and total rejection of God, not just God in his persona, but God in his fundamental nature. They reject good, love, truth, peace, order, etc. It is the sin that Satan committed. Satan is condemned to Hell because he abhors God so much. He has no desire whatsoever to be anywhere near God. So, God honors his choice, and banishes him from his presence. Satan is fully capable of choosing to repent, and God is also ready to embrace him once more. But Satan is adamant in his decision.
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thank you for your post, - I’m just wondering, where is this idea from, particularly about what it means to blaspheme the Holy Spirit? because recently I’ve had a lot of fears that i’ve done this, because I get tempted with blasphemous thoughts, - but I definitely want to love God and in my will I want to love goodness and truth and everything you listed.

God bless 🙂
 
Except perhaps for avowed Satanists, the enemy generally doesn’t proclaim hatred of God as such, because that would betray his belief in God. Instead, he hates God’s church, reviles it, and blasphemes God’s name. It is the plan of redemption of man (the church) that Satan finds so repulsive. Therefore, it is the hatred of Christ’s church that lands people in hell.
 
Monica4316 said:
I just wanted to clarify the Catholic teaching on this 🙂

people go to hell if they are rejecting either repentance for their sins, or God’s mercy?

thanks 🙂
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That pretty sums it up for me, assuming that the person dies in a state of grace. The fate of the soul is sealed at the time of death.
 
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