Q162 But if God is love, how can there be a hell?

God does not damn men. Man himself is the one who refuses God’s merciful love and voluntarily deprives himself of (eternal) life by excluding himself from communion with God. [1036-1037]

God yearns fro communion even with the worst sinner; he wants everyone to convert and be saved. Yet God created man to be free and respects his decisions. Even God cannot comple love. As a lover he is “powerless” when someone chooses hell instead of heaven.

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