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Did God Create Hell?

Question:

Does the Church teach that hell was created by God to be the fate of the damned?

Answer:

To be clear, God didn’t create hell. The devil and his angelic associates created hell. They were created good by God, but by rebelling against their creator they became evil and thus definitively chose self-exclusion from God, which is hell (CCC 391-95). Similarly, mere human beings who definitively exclude themselves from God also choose hell (CCC 1033-37).

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