Whatever Became of Hell? (HAS THE UNQUENCHABLE FIRE BEEN QUENCHED )

NOR ^ | January 2008 | Hurd Baruch

[Zero Sum]

I’ve always ascribed to Hell to being something of the reprobate’s own making. That even if they were offerred a chance to leave, they would refuse, choosing pain and torment over giving up whatever evil they are attached to. The stuff I’ve read, however, seems to point that for souls in hell, they really WANT to get out, see all the bad stuff they’ve done, and would repent, except they could not.

When I read Dante's Inferno, one thing that stood out to me in his "vision" of hell was the complete lack of remorse on the part of the damned: One sinner is even described, despite his torments, as staring in perpetual defiance against God. The only exception I remember to this overall theme of lacking remorse was in the Woods of Suicides. Anyway, it's been awhile since I read it (high school), and I might have just been reading my own interpretations into it.

[jjm2111]

It may just be me, but Fr. von Cochem’s book on the 4 last things and St. Alphonsus’ book really has the lost sinner bewailing his fate. They hate God, but don’t like hell either.

That contrasts w/ C.S. Lewis in his “Great Divorce” where the reprobate lives in the prison he has created. I dunno. I’m just concentrating on going to the nice place. (W/ the grace of Christ, of course).