The wicked are condemned to hell for eternity.

The eternity of torment is a terrible but salvific dogma. Many of the elect owe heaven to their belief in hell. This truth must be urged and not followed by the feigned charity of those who pass over the issue without a word, accusing of inhumanity those who preach it. Inhuman are those who see their brethren rushing into the abyss and do not cry out to them. Stop. For you stand on the edge of the eternal abyss. Four two reasons for the eternal duration of the torments of hell are found in St. Thomas Aqun. and help us understand the psychology of the damned. When man commits a mortal sin , he knowingly and willingly renounces God because he prefers sin to God. When a person has freely chosen his final destination, he has no possibility of coming again to what he was destined for. , just as he cannot come to the truth who has erred in fundamental principles. But the sinner does not regard this inability of his to lift himself up and aim at God as a misfortune.

On the contrary, he has the promise of seeing his true welfare in it. We should be mistaken if we thought that the sinner is sorry for his sins. Even in hell he is not sorry. That he has sinned. He’s only sorry that he has to suffer. We would be mistaken if we thought that the remorse that comes after sin comes from the nature of man. They are caused by the grace of God. When God has been cast out of the soul, He seeks to return to it. If the sinner did not have remorse, he could not be induced by himself to regard his sin as evil, and so could not repent of it. Here on earth, every sinner can change, every sinner has the opportunity to repent of his sins. But this opportunity lasts only during earthly life. When the sinner comes to the other world, he no longer encounters grace, but only righteousness. Why does the sinner remain in his clenched impenitence after his death. Man has a free will. God has given man to choose his destination. To choose God or to reject Him. After death, man can no longer change his choice. God respects man’s free will. The only way God could correct such a will is if he were to forcibly and against its will destroy its connection with evil. He could remake it again.

But if God did that, man would no longer be the person he was before. One might say. It is no longer I, Judas, Nero, Satan who now love God. I,who was Judas, Nero, Satan. To tell the truth the present me is a complete stranger. The conversion of man here on earth does not involve such a destruction of personality. Here on earth the soul is subject to the influence of different moods.What one liked yesterday , begins to appear in different colours today. One sees today what one did not see yesterday. The grace of God can bring about , without violence , that man will willingly give up his choice. Here on earth even the greatest sinner can repent of his sins but in the next world this is no longer possible. Here the naive presumption of St. Aryan parish priest is untenable. If confession booths were built at the gates of hell,the damned would flock to them to obtain deliverance and forgiveness. If such a possibility existed, we could accuse God of cruelty. The reality is that the damned do not want to repent of their sins.