HELL…

Hell is the opposite of Heaven. That is the opposite of salvation. The opposite of deification. But what exactly is it? Widespread naive ideas
“Religion has really convinced people that there is an invisible man up there behind the cloud who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And that invisible man has a special list of ten things he doesn’t want you to do. If you do one of those ten things, the invisible has a special place, full of fire and smoke and torture and flour, where it will send you to live and suffer and burn and suffocate and scream and cry forever. But he loves you! … ”(G. Carling, comedian)
“Nothing, absolutely nothing in history, even in the whole of history, is far from equal to the atrocity in inventing such abomination as hell.” (Mark Twain)

<What would YOU say about HELL?
– Is there HELL?
– What does HELL look like, and what is it about?
– Is the existence of HELL just, and is it compatible with the idea of ​​a “just God”?
– Is the existence of HELL necessary? Or wouldn’t HELL have to be? >

How do Catholics see it?
Catechism of the Catholic Church 1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love Him. But we cannot love God if we sin hard against him, against our neighbor, or against ourselves: “He who does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates their brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life in him ”(1 Johannes 3: 14-15). Our Lord warns us that we will be separated from him if we do not help the poor and little ones who are his brothers in the serious needs. (CCC 1861) To die in mortal sin, if we have not repented it and if we have not attained God’s merciful love, means to remain forever separated from God because of our free choice.

AND THIS STATE OF DEFINITIVE EXCLUSION OF SELF (KKC 393) FROM THE COMMUNITY WITH GOD AND THE BLESSED IS DESIGNED WITH THE WORD “HELL” (CCC 633)
1034 Jesus often speaks of “hell” (“Gehenna”), of “unquenchable fire,” which is determined by those who refuse to believe and convert until the end of their lives, and where both soul and body may perish. In solemn words, Jesus announces that he “shall send his angels, and shall gather out of his kingdom,” those who commit iniquity, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire “(Mathew 13: 41-42) and that he will condemn:” Come from me, cursed, eternal fire ”(Mt 25:41).
1035 The Church’s teaching confirms that there is hell (393) and that it is eternal. The souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend immediately after death to hell, where they suffer the torments of hell, “eternal fire.” THE MAIN PENALTY OF HELL IS IN ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD, OR ONLY IN HUMANS CAN HAVE THE LIFE AND BLITHENESS FOR WHICH HAS BEEN CREATED AND DESIRED.
1036 The sayings of the Scriptures and the Church’s teaching on hell is for man a challenge to responsibility (1734) with which he is to exercise his freedom about his eternal destiny. At the same time, they are an urgent call to conversion: (1428) “Enter through a narrow gate, for the wide gate and the spacious way lead to damnation, and there are many who enter through it. How narrow is the gate and the narrow way that leads to life, and few who find it! ”(Mathew 7: 13-14). “But since we know neither the day nor the hour, we must, as the Lord warns, keep vigilant that, at the end of our only earthly life, we deserve to go to the wedding with him and be counted among the blessed, and not be commanded as evil and lazy servant to leave. Into the eternal fire, out into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. “
TO SUMMARY:
Hell is a CONDITION; it’s not a place. It is the way of human existence. Hell means not to be deified and not to live with God. No matter what another person gains or achieves in life, if he does not live with God and is not like God, it is HELL… – just like living with God and being like God means being in Heaven, no matter what it cost a man and what he had to undergo and sacrifice for it…
And it is called HELL (that is, a place of suffering) because, in man’s very essence, the desire to be like God and live a perfect relationship of unity and love is possible only in God. Therefore, if a man were to gain everything in the world but would not achieve this one, the result would still be a state of eternal, unfulfilled, and unfulfillable dissatisfaction without God…
The Bible figuratively compared this state of suffering, eternal thirst, eternal dissatisfaction to fire, flames, and death, …