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Hell. For years and years, I have asked myself over and over again how a God who is infinitely good, a God who is goodness, can allow beings to be constantly suffering. How is that possible? How good it follows that
Father Fortea explains the mystery of hell, emphasizing God's love, human free will, and hell as eternal separation from God, not divine torture.
Key Takeaways
- Hell is eternal separation from God, not a place of divine torture.
- God's love is infinite and He continually tries to save every soul.
- Suffering in hell is self-inflicted through rejection of God and sin.
- Free will is central to the soul's destiny, including the choice to reject God.
- Hell is a spiritual state reflecting the soul's own condition, not physical punishment.
What the video covers
- Hell is a mystery, but can be understood through the parable of the prodigal son, where God always welcomes with open arms.
- God does not cause suffering or torture souls; hell is the result of souls freely rejecting God and His love.
- Suffering in hell is spiritual, reflecting the soul's own state and distance from God, not physical torment.
- Sin causes internal suffering proportional to its seriousness; hell is the eternal continuation of this suffering.
- God continually makes the last attempt to save every soul, even at the moment of death.
- Damnation is not due to minor sins but a definitive rejection of God's perfect grace and love.
- Hell is characterized by exclusion from God's presence, described as outer darkness and separation.
- Each soul's suffering in hell is personalized, reflecting their unique sins and spiritual condition.
- God desires salvation for all and does not want anyone to be eternally damned.
- The video encourages collaboration with God's plan of salvation and reflection on the reality of hell.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Questioning God's Goodness
- 03:21Understanding Hell Beyond Divine Punishment
- 07:01The Spiritual Nature of Hell's Fire
- 10:23God's Last Effort to Save Souls
- 13:50The Seriousness of Damnation
- 16:45The Role of Free Will and Purgatory
- 20:04Points of No Return and Eternal Consequences
- 30:05Reflection on Hell's Reality and God's Mercy
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there are beings like that. How can God be happy knowing that His children are in the spiritual fires of hell? They are continually suffering, and after giving it many, many, many turns, years of thinking about it, reading the best
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theologians, meditating, and searching the Holy Scriptures, although this is still a mystery, I have come to some conclusions that I share with you because I believe they can help you understand this mystery. Hell must be understood from the parable of the
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prodigal son. The Father is always with open arms, always ready to welcome, always loving. The Father only loves.
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The Father wishes no harm to anyone. The Father does not want to make anyone suffer, nor does He make anyone suffer.
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God does not make anyone suffer. Now, we see even here on earth that there are parents who are full of kindness, from whom one could not ask for more kindness towards their children, and yet one of those children, or sometimes
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their only child, hates the Father. Sometimes the child leaves home. They usually return after a few years, but some do not. There are children who leave permanently and, no matter how many years go by, do not return. I have
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known cases like this. This is how hell should be understood. God does not make anyone suffer. You will not find a single verse in Scripture where it is said that God tortures those condemned to hell. It is said that there is
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suffering in hell, but God does not torture anyone. When souls die, if they have rejected God, if they definitely do not want to be with Him, God does not force them to be with Him, among other things, because it would be
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useless. It would be useless. So, these thoughts help us understand hell in another way, not as the God of justice who says, "You have broken the objective order, therefore now you must suffer. You have not obeyed me.
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Therefore now you will see my punishment and I will torture you." We do not find that in Scripture. The sufferings of hell are spoken of, which is logical, because even on earth we see that evil when it is very serious
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is torture. It is not that we have to wait for a future punishment to come.
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Evil, when it is very serious, terrible, frightening, is torture for the one who commits it. To the same extent that sin is frightening, to that same extent it produces frightening pain in the one who bears it. You will tell me, "But
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there are exceptions." There are none. We do not see souls. We do not see souls. We see smiles. We see yachts, palaces, but we do not see the soul. To the extent that a person becomes perverted, to the extent that a person
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destroys the good that is within him, to that same extent he suffers. The thing is that many times, not many, the vast majority of the times, sins are simply due to weakness and therefore do not require such a terrible punishment
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as some would like. There are sins that are simply due to weakness that do not require God to intervene and He does not intervene. But when things go beyond what is permissible, then when the perversion reaches a certain degree,
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those same sins become embers in the soul of the wicked and that happens on earth. Hell is the eternal extension of that situation. In fact, if you analyze the verses of the Bible, he is expelled to the outer darkness, he is expelled
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from the banquet, depart from me, I do not know you. The doors are closed when the wise virgins enter. These are terms of exclusion, of throwing out, of not being within the banquet, but they are not terms of torture coming from God.
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It speaks of a fire, yes, but wait a minute, souls do not have bodies.
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Therefore, that fire can only be spiritual. Since they have no body, that fire is spiritual, it is the fire of the suffering soul, the same fire that some souls already suffer on earth. I remember talking to a seminarian in
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the first year of seminary about the verse about the place of the worm that never dies. And we thought, could that worm be real, material? At that time, in our candor, in our innocence, reading a book by an ancient writer, we
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thought yes, okay, that is, a venerable and ancient author, but now I know that no, there are no material worms in souls. It is a symbol of suffering.
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Hell is the prolongation of the distance from God forever, being as one is. And here we see that the worse a person is, the worse he understands everything, lives worse, suffers more, is more full of tension, more full of
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aggression. Each sinner combines his sins in a specific, individual, personalized way. In some sinners, sadness prevails more. In other sinners, aggression prevails, in others, hatred, in others, rage, in others, resentment, revenge, in others, pride.
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Pride can truly be a very tormenting force; the greater the pride, the greater the torment. Souls that do not go to heaven will be punished by living an eternity according to what they are, according to the burden they themselves
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carry. But God does not send instruments of torture there. Furthermore, realize one thing. If a man were dying here and someone told me, "Father, he is dying." But he is very bad. He was a man who caused so much
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suffering. He was a terrorist, he was the head of a concentration camp, he was a mafioso. I would go and speak in his ear to try to bring him to God. I would make the last effort with all the
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strength of my soul to try to bring that soul to God. If I, who am evil, would do that, how much more would God not do. I also wondered in seminary, will He give us a final grace so that
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every human being may repent and go to Him? Now I am sure that He does. We are not certain, this is not a dogma of faith, but I am convinced that He, who is the Father, who loves much more than
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we do, does ask us to collaborate in this plan of salvation. Let us collaborate. Yes, but God does not give up as a Father, which is to make the last great attempt so that that soul may go to Him. If a soul were going to
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go to hell, what father would not do something to make it repent? What father would not do it? Well, I am convinced internally and personally that God will always, always make an attempt to save every man who is at
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enmity with Him. Even if we see him unconscious, even if death is instantaneous in a second, it does not matter. God can do whatever He wants a second before. So, to hell will go those souls who have resisted, not the
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preaching of a priest, the reasons of a good preacher, the pleas of a mother here on earth, no. To hell will go those who have resisted the last, immense, most powerful, perfect attempt of God to save each one of His children.
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Of course, if the soul, faced with such an overwhelming, impressive force like that, says, "No, God can't do more." Because if He could do more, God would do it. God doesn't want anyone, no one, no one, no one to be damned. If
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He has been willing to die on the cross like this person who in fact has not been sanctified by the blood of Christ.
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In fact, He has not been sanctified. Jesus died on the cross, but in fact the merits of that blood have not been applied in the salvation of this person. If Jesus was willing to die on the cross, how could He not be willing to
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do whatever it takes to save a soul? So, if we saw everything, we would say, "Now we understand." The one who is damned is not damned just because he saw some bad, lustful scenes on television or missed Mass on Sunday or
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ate meat on some Friday. No, no. Damnation is a much more serious thing, much more serious. And there is God who does not want an eternal soul to suffer eternally. Now, I repeat, if one says no at that moment, before the
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perfection of God who attracts, there is nothing else to do. The soul is totally decided. It is like when a preacher tries to speak to a soul and after trying for days or weeks says, "No, no, I will not.
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completely closed. Others you can still see a crack, a gap through which...But there are souls that you say, "No, there's nothing to do, it's closed." I just think that the souls who will be damned, I'm not saying they say "no" to
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God, but who are, who are that "no" to God, because the act of saying "no" to God seems like something specific, like they can regret it later, like they can think about it; yes, now it's like that , but maybe in a month. No, no, no.
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They will only be damned, in my humble and modest opinion, after years and years of thinking about this matter.
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And I don't think, really, I don't think there are many theologians on Earth who have thought about this matter more every year than I have.
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There will be others who have too, but I don't think there are many, you know?
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And in the end I have come to this conclusion. God is, if you'll allow me the incorrect expression, too good. And hell is too terrible. If someone is damned, God will truly be able to say, "I already I've done everything I can."
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Look, I'm not saying he deserves it. The question is not so much whether he deserves it or not. The question is that we are free. The question is that purgatory can last, if necessary, 400 years or 1000 years with much greater
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suffering than on Earth. There would be no problem, if it were not for the final judgment, that purgatory could not last 10,000 million years or 10,000 billion years. But when it is not definitive, absolute, perfect, without the slightest crack, one has already
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determined forever and time will only consolidate that decision, there is nothing to be done. We see that on earth. We will see that on earth.
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Perhaps my words may seem too benign to some, as if I am subverting the moral order, as if I am denying the serious morality of acts, of some acts. No, no, no, no. I believe that there are mortal
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sins. I believe that there are sins that prevent the beatific vision, but those Sins do not prevent repentance with the grace of God. It is true that there are sins that if I commit here and now, I will not be able to see God
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and I will die here and now. But that sin does not prevent grace from coming and repenting me. What makes one go to hell is something else. That is why Jesus said, "All sins will be forgiven men, except the sin against the Holy
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Spirit.""Those mysterious words are not just said. Jesus knew that there are many sins in the world, but all of them can be forgiven and before a God who, when they see the grace that comes to them at the moment of death, will
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repent. There is only one sin, one that cannot be forgiven. Only many sins prevent us from seeing God, but there is only one that will keep any human being until the end. And that sin is neither a blasphemy against God, nor
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such an abuse of grace, nor of course such a sin of lust. No, no, no. It is something else more mysterious. That is why Jesus does not explain it. That is why Jesus tells us," I show you this
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mystery, but I do not explain it to you because it is not the object of sin that condemns you. It is your soul. "It is not this or that. It is your soul that becomes condemnation. It is not
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that an external judgment comes and says, well, you are here, you are there , you are salvation, you are condemnation, right? How many times in the New Testament is the expression said, because whoever does this, whoever says this, is already condemned
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, whoever is already condemned, that's it. The final judgment, therefore, is the separation of the good sheep from the rebellious goats. The separation of what each one already is. It is not that there are men and it is externally
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decided where each one goes, but rather that each one is distinguished according to what each one is. And some are condemnation, some are denial of God, some are the opposite of God, who cannot mix with God. Logically, one
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does not reach this terrible state because of small things. It is not the small things. In order for someone to reach this point, one must have really done a lot of evil. It is impossible to be damned for all eternity because of
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small foolishness. Only the one who reaches the end of the path of transformation of the soul in evil will be damned. What happens, let's not forget, is that all those who were damned began with small things, uh, they all began with small, trivial sins
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, then mortal sins, then much worse mortal sins, then real iniquities, then they went beyond all measure to be able to resist God. They had to come to that . I insist, I will never tell someone who has committed a mortal sin, no,
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calm down, calm down, God is merciful. No, you have taken a step towards the abyss. If you knew what God is, you would repent. Because you would say," But what madness have you done? "But you have taken a step towards the abyss
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and then if I die, I will not see God. Right now you are not in a condition to go before God because you are seriously stained. They are not small stains like if I go to a dinner and I have small
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stains. No, no. You are in such a state that you would not dare to enter. And if you continue on this path, you will reach places you never imagined you would reach, because on this path, in the end, the line between good and evil
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becomes blurred, and you can no longer distinguish it, and you are already at full speed, heading towards the precipice, and the image of the precipice is perfect. You keep walking, walking, walking. Sometimes you are even going down, you see rocks like in
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the mountains, when there is a great precipice, many times there begin to be large piles of rocks that indicate that there is a precipice there, and in the end you fall and cannot get up at the end. The precipice is that you cannot
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go back. That is, that is the image of the abyss. You can abuse the grace of God all you want, because there comes a time when even if you wanted to, you will not be able to go back. That is
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something that we must think about regarding sin. I can abuse all I want now, but if I continue abusing, I may reach a point where I can no longer turn back. I will have to be taken out.
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And then someone will say," Sure, but God will surely take you out. God is so good. "We can abuse God all we want.
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But what we can never do is say later," I demand from you, I have the right, you have to...In this world, things are more complex than they seem. Like the sick person who abuses...let's put on alcohol and abuses and abuses and says,
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"Yes, yes, come on, I have to back off. " But he keeps abusing. No, no, I have to turn back. And in the end, one day, no, no, you already have this liver disease. Yes, but if now I am tired and
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I try very hard, no. There is no turning back. The same happens with the soul. The same happens to the person who thinks that God is obligated, that one has the right, is making himself unfit to receive grace. It is true that
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God can help, provide for, assist to the extent of our weakness, but on this path, each one must take whatever risks he wants. What God has told us is that there are points of no return. Take whatever risks you want, offend me as
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much as you want. Load yourselves with all the iniquity you want. I tell you that there are points of no return.
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Hell is something so terrible that we know it exists only because God has told us so many times in many passages.
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What mind could have thought that such a reality could exist? Imagine what it is like to leave this body, find that you do not find that You don't have a body, but you keep thinking. You don't feel anything with your senses, but you
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keep thinking. You're there and you know that it will be like this one day and another day, one year, century, millennium, millions of years, other souls are damned, demons are out there and you know that there is a God, that
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happiness exists, but that you're never going to go. It's terrible, terrible, frightening. That's why Jesus talks about fire. Fire. We all know the difference between discomfort or a little pain and spiritual fire. But Jesus talks about fire. Jesus talks
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about the gnashing of teeth. That's when you're angry. It doesn't mean that all the damned are gnashing their teeth at all times. No, Jesus didn't say that either. Nor did he say that all the damned at all times, every second, are
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in that situation of burning fire. Burning. No, let's look at a prison. Not all prisoners every day, every hour . They're angry, they're not more resigned, some are calmer, some are all saddened by being in prison. Some Yes,
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they are full of rage and aggression all the time, but they are the minority . The rest are simply bad, they are sad . The prison of hell is internal. They can't go anywhere, they can't escape because they are in hell, because that
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prison is eternal. If they were, they would be in purgatory. If they are in hell, it is because the prison is truly perpetual. And therefore they cannot leave themselves, nor can anyone take them out, because they are the prison.
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The problem is that their psychology, their being, their thinking is a prison . And there comes a time when God says to these beings, "Either I destroy it and make another, in which case it is no longer him, or at least I let him
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continue to exist." How could a damned person be taken out of hell by destroying him? This is the case of someone whose thinking cannot be changed. The only way is to destroy him , but he would no longer be himself. It
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is as if I were killed and my parents had another child, he would no longer be me. Then God says, "What is better, that this son of mine cease to exist or that he exist, even with moments of
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suffering? That he continue to think, feel, that he can talk to other beings, etc., suffering more or less according to the moments, and God says that he exists." I have come to this conclusion after years of meditating on the
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Scriptures, of asking God, hell exists because even for the damned it is better to exist. God is a father who, if he were to say, "No, it's better that he doesn't exist, it's better that they don't exist," it is better. He
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would not place the weight of existence on their shoulders, on their hearts. But even for them it is better to exist , although at many moments the suffering may be paroxysmal and although at each moment the weight of
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suffering is there like a pressure, but I do not believe, in my humble opinion, that in hell everyone is always in the maximum intensity of pain. Many times they are simply there peacefully, knowing that they are excluded, but
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talking, thinking. I have come to that conclusion. If men knew what the state of damnation truly is, they would understand why God allows it. I find it , I say this with humility, I may be wrong, eh? But right now I find it
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impossible to believe that God maintains, let's imagine that there were millions of people, millions of damned people suffering at the maximum intensity all the time. I believe that that is not hell, although I may be wrong, but I believe it is more:
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children of God who continue their story autonomously, without God, but that, in most moments, they are simply like someone on an island with others: chatting, talking, passing the time, thinking, conversing. Although at times their sadness becomes tremendous. I am
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aware that, when I said that I was going to talk about hell, some might think: "Oh, well, he is going to tell us about the tortures, he is going to talk to us about what they are like and
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how the lustful suffer in this way and how the envious suffer in this way and how murderers suffer in that way and how the demons hit them with whips and how underneath there is another one". I am aware that when I said, "I am going
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to talk about hell", some might have thought of a cartography of suffering, a spatial thing, like in the Divine Comedy, but it is not something more spiritual, more mysterious, more subtle and less intense normally. This is my opinion and I also believe that it fits
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well with an infinitely good God, with a God who is a father, with a God who is a father, even though they do not recognize it, even to his damned children, who alleviates their suffering. If God were to leave them
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completely in their hands, they would still make life more impossible among themselves and cause each other more suffering. But God alleviates suffering even in hell. God who does not send suffering does not leave them completely to their fate. It is true
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that he leaves them to their fate, but not completely, because if he did, they could reach much worse extremes of suffering among themselves, making each other suffer. In my humble opinion, even when a child in hell is sinking
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into the paroxysm of pain, God usually stops it to a certain extent by sending relief. Unfortunately, he is in hell because he no longer accepts God, so he cannot get him out. But allow me to imagine him without him realizing it,
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because if he did, it would make him even angrier, but it helps him. It's like that father who sends aid, whether in money or through a neighbor, but without my son knowing. He's proud, he's this, he's that. And you'll say, "
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But how come they don't regret it? They're crazy." Yes, yes, but this is happening here on earth, isn't it? This isn't imagination. This is already happening on earth. Even here on earth we could say, "But you're crazy. How
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can you not recognize what your father is doing for you? No, it's not that you're blind and on top of that you hate him. I remember a husband who was left by his wife, who lived for his wife 100%. And when his wife, after
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more than 20 years of marriage, whom her husband had idolized, I remember him telling me once, José Antonio, I don't believe in the church, I don't believe in religion. My religion is my wife and my children." Well, after he
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had been faithful, his wife left him and he made every effort to keep this woman from leaving him. He paid her— he was a man with a lot of money, a lot of money. He paid for the best
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vacations you can imagine, the most expensive ones. He gave her the best gifts during those months that she was still at home. He didn't hold it against her. And at one point he told me that she went crazy with rage, "Stop
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loving me. Stop loving me." Don't you see that I'm going to hate you more? " It makes sense. The only way that woman could tear herself away from her husband, with whom she formed a unit and who loved her with all his heart,
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was to hate him. And if she had done more, she would have received more rage . Tremendous, tremendous. How many have been damned in hell? Nobody knows.
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Nobody knows. It would be completely useless to give a number. It could be only 100. Or it could be 500 million, it could be 10,000 or, of course, if 0.1%of humanity were damned, that would be many millions, nobody knows. But
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even if only 5,000 people were damned, it would be a tragedy. The great tragedy of the universe in all its history would be those 500 people. It would be the great tragedy. Mind you, it would not be a mistake in God's plan
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. God knew that if he created humanity, those 500 people would exist. He already knew that before the world appeared. But whether it could be 5 million or 50 is something we do not know. In any case, In other words,
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notice, in society everyone is good, everyone obeys a visible, objective order that is there, the guards, the law, the trials, and yet there are prisoners, and there are a good number of them, a good percentage in all the
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countries of the world. This should make us think that perhaps there are more of them than we think, because even in the visible, men transgress the order. We do not know. Let me continue this parable of society. Even in those
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countries where there is life imprisonment, there are not a small number of men who commit acts that they know carry life imprisonment. Notice, following this parable, it is an interesting comparison and we are not talking about faith, but about what is
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seen. If you do this, this is the punishment and I freely accept it. Who knows? We do not know. Only God knows.
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But this is not nonsense. Because Jesus has warned us many times and very seriously about hell, many times and very seriously. Therefore, when I preach about hell and meditate and I reflect on hell, I reflect on the words
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of Jesus, I reflect on the gospel. Jesus also explained things to them privately afterwards, to the apostles.
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Although I also tell you, those poor fishermen were not up for much theology , because sometimes very simple comparisons were obvious to them, and they were intrigued. Master, are there few who are saved? Jesus 'insistence on speaking of hell. Jesus' insistence on
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speaking of hell is one of the things he always talks about most, heaven and hell, but very, very often, it is one of the central elements of Jesus ' message. That is why we have to reflect on it. We are not betraying that God of
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love by taking the words of that God of love seriously, but we cannot understand hell in an external, judgmental way. We cannot understand hell as a God who says," Oh, yes, you have disobeyed me. Well, now you are
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screwed and I am going to make you suffer. "" No, no, that's certainly not the way to say, I've transgressed this.
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Automatically like a machine where you put in a coin and something comes out, it comes to me. This is something deeper. And what is truly tremendous, even once in hell, is descending the scale. What will the existence of the
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great monsters of humanity and of the world of angels who rebelled, the demons, be like? What will the existence of the great monsters of humanity and of the world of angels who rebelled, the demons, be like moment after moment, century after century,
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who caused so much suffering, who completely erased the image of God from themselves? Any trace of darkness, evil , desire to cause suffering, who if they could kill God, would kill Him. As the Bible says of Satan, the murderer
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from the beginning, that's what they call him, as it should be. They are so evil that in the Apocalypse they have to be thrown out. They cannot be welcomed into the society of the saints , because they would only do evil, they
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would only do harm. They have to be taken out and they will be thrown into the lake of fire by the centuries of centuries. That is one of the final things that are said in the Bible. A message of salvation and of damnation.
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Both things simultaneously like two lines that run parallel, like two rivers that run parallel. We cannot say that the end ends with a message of salvation, it ends with a message of salvation and of damnation because both are eternal and both will exist and in
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fact already exist. Right now, if we were to say that the message is only of salvation, we would deny the reality of being, of the being that is willed by God, of that being that that other infinite being maintains. There are
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beings whose existence is suffering. Not only suffering, as I have said before, but it is an existence inserted in suffering, an existence not only lacking in salvation, but positively condemned, finally separated so that they do not continue to do harm.
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Tremendous. What would the life of a Judas Iscariot be like knowing that he could be enjoying Jesus? That there is no solution. What would life be like?
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The thoughts, the affections of someone who knows that he only has his existence, that he is condemned. to be alone with themselves, surrounded by other condemned people with whom they can talk and interact, but like the one in the image of the island on which
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they are locked. Being confined, being confined in their own limitation is something that if a mountain is great, an abyss is no less great. In fact, an abyss can be as deep or deeper than a mountain on earth. You know that. You
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know that. There are abysses that are incredible in their depth and in their darkness and in their death below. The abysmal depths are dead lands. There are small areas where there is some life, but they are lands of an
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impressive death, stillness, darkness. What will those peaks be like? How terrible it is that already now there are walking through our cities, human beings, our brothers and sisters, who already have that peak and that if they are not freed it will get deeper until
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it becomes irreversible. This is real. There are human beings with that peak. There are human beings right now as I am speaking, who if they do not accept the limited opportunities that God is going to give them, they will never get
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out again. They are reaching that point of no return. It is tremendous for God to know that he has to wait. Now is not the time. He has to give him a little more time and give him another
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opportunity, but if he rejects it, he goes down a step further, he becomes more hardened. We must not insist, let us give him more time to see certain things, he may insist again. But he knows that I am not exaggerating that
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perhaps after five very special graces that will go to the depths of his heart , after the fifth it is the last train and there will be no other train. That there is no other train, that he does
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not know that this train is the one that is feeling regret and the impulse to say: "Get on, get on, it will help you, you will be able to get out of here; that if he rejects it and hardens
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himself even more, that if he goes down even more, there is no turning back." I know that some will think, well, he is exaggerating. God is so good to Judas Iscariot, Jesus did everything he could , everything. And there came a time,
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Judas did not know it, but Jesus did say, "I have five more attempts, I have four more attempts, I have three more." And there was a moment when God in all his infinite wisdom said, "This is the last attempt. Let him not reject it."
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That he should not reject it. After that there was nothing more to be done.
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Judas, what you have to do, do it quickly, do it soon. There was nothing more to be done. Judas, what you have to do, do it soon. Repentance no longer calls him. Repentance no longer calls him. The words of the gospel seem to
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imply that it was the last attempt at the last supper, in that love that was taken to the extreme. Because the gospel says, after taking the piece that God gave him, that Jesus gave him, Satan entered into him. Then some might
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think, but perhaps Judas was saved. Well, the words of the gospel give the impression, and I have measured my words, eh, they give the impression that not. None of you will be lost, except the son of perdition, Jesus said
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. Woe to him who betrays the Son of Man , for it would be better for him if he had not been born. The words of Jesus in the gospel give the impression that he was condemned. That is what mystics,
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doctors of the church, fathers of the church have thought. etc. The church has not said that anyone was damned, but neither has it condemned anyone when in the sermons, from the beginning of the church it was assumed, of course
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, that he was damned. Not even of him, we can affirm with categorical precision that he was damned, but it is an example of how he was not in the hands of a good preacher or a saint. He
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was at the side of Jesus, who knew what he had to do and he hardened himself.
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And in the end he tells him, "Whatever you have to do, do it quickly." Tremendous, tremendous the mystery of people who have lost the last grace.
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This is one of the things that many theologians have also reflected on in past centuries. The last grace. The last grace. The only question they had doubts about is, "Will it be given at the last moment? Or can it be given
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sooner." I have said before that I believe that the last grace is given in the last moment of life, even if it is only for a second. Yes, but with exceptions. I consider, and it is a theological opinion, that there are
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souls that have already determined themselves in such a perfect way during life. Notice what I'm going to tell you , okay? God gives them such a tremendous grace of repentance and they reject it here on earth. That perhaps
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God could say, "This son of mine still has two days left, but he is already condemned." Just a theological proposition, but it seems reasonable to me that this last attempt by God, in some cases, does not necessarily have
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to be linked to the very last moment of life, that at some point, in some people, He can say: "No, I have already made the last attempt now and, well, he has two days left to live, one day to
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live, a few hours, but I have already done everything I had to do." I base my statement on the words of some mystics, of course on much older theologians from centuries past, but also consider, uh, the case of Judas Iscariot.
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Whatever you have to do, do it quickly. That word is tremendous. He is no longer moved by repentance, He no longer takes hold of him and says, " Judas, repent." No, as if to say, " You've already made your decision. My
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words may seem very harsh, but the words regarding Judas in the rest of the New Testament are not exactly better than mine. Uh, they'll say that Judas was left in his place, that of the demons, in the air, hanging in the
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air. Holy Scripture, in placing before us the mystery of damnation, is truly terrible because God wants to expose this mystery before our eyes. And some may think, oh, but let me end with a few words of mercy, of salvation, no.
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Today I only had to explain hell. I'm not going to sugarcoat the fires of hell with a few little words saying," Well, now all this can be fixed with this magic wand? "It's not that it can't be fixed. It's that it can't be
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fixed. It's that we can only contemplate hell and that's already a cause for meditation. There is no happy ending for hell. We don't have to think , we're talking about hell, but let's immediately say something that puts a
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damper on this matter. Let us not meditate on hell in all its cruelty, the cruelty of the beings who have rebelled. But it is not wrong for us to meditate on this without thinking about it. It is not wrong for us not to
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divert our gaze to other things, for us to think about it in all its forcefulness. And we end by praying a Hail Mary to the Virgin, who is our hope, so that we may never go to the place of which she spoke. Hail Mary,
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full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus . Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. See you soon.
Topics:HellGod's loveFree willSpiritual sufferingProdigal son parableEternal separationSalvationFather ForteaChristian theologyAfterlife
