Does the hell exist? It means staying apart from Him-from our Creator and our end-forever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion of communion with God and with the blessed is what is designated by the word hell. To die in mortal sin, without repenting or accepting the merciful love of God is to choose this end forever. The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. The souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend to the underworld immediately after death and there suffer the pains of hell, "the eternal fire." The main penalty of hell consists in eternal separation from God in whom only man can have the life and happiness for which he has been created and to which he aspires. Jesus often speaks of gehenna and the fire that never goes out, reserved for those who, until the end of their life, refuse to believe and convert, and where one can lose both soul and body at the same time.

The affirmations of the Scripture and the teachings of the Church on the subject of hell are a call to the responsibility with which man should use his freedom in relation to his eternal destiny. They constitute at the same time a compelling call to conversion: "Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it; but how narrow the door and how narrow the road that leads to Life! and few are those who find it "

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