Why Did God Create Hell?

Why did God create Hell? Do you ever wonder why? Well here's a quote from Catholic.com explaining just that.

"Why did God create Hell?

Certainly God could annihilate individuals should he have chosen to do so. But he gave humans immortal souls that survive the separation of body and soul, which is what death is.

Hell was not created by God. Hell was created when angels freely chose to eternally separate themselves from God. Because angels and human beings were given free will, God allowed for the possibility of hell, but he did not directly create it.

Hell is the eternal separation of creatures from their Creator. The angels who fell did this by one irrevocable choice. Humans' choice for heaven or hell is settled irrevocably at their deaths. The punishments of hell are entirely self-inflicted, so we cannot say that hell is an "external motivation" created by God to inspire humans to be good. At most, God may allow human fear of hell to work as such an "external motivator."

Some Christians, such as Seventh-day Adventists, think that it is unmerciful for a loving God to torture fallen humans for all eternity and so they imagine it more in keeping with God's loving nature for him to annihilate unrepentant evildoers. They are right that a loving God does not eternally torture people, but they are wrong in their understanding of the nature of hell."

-Catholic.com

There's your answer.

Good thing im not catholic.

Man created hell so he could get simple folk to do what they were told..

I must be in a bad mood today, my mouth wont close...

Im out of here, bye Allie, have fun converting all and sunder
xxoxox

Might be in a bad mood but your right.

Speaking from a religious view (as an atheist)

I think hell was created by God, so people would become christians.

Hell is actually a term derived from Norse mythology I believe. In the Bible I believe it is called the lake of fire. There really is no major description of hell in the bible anyhow, and the modern idea of hell is based largely on "Dante's Inferno." So technically, hell was created by man. The only thing it really refers to in the Bible is death as opposed to everlasting life and eternal suffering.

Please pretend there is a comma between "life" and "and" in the last sentence of my last post. Thank you.

Alot of religions use a place known to many as "hell", but with different names..

I don't believe for one minute that man created Hell for "simple folk".

What's it got to do with Catholicism? All Christians, I think believe in hell

She cites her info from "catholic.com".

yeah i know that all christians believe in hell.

We do.

Fair enough

God didn't create hell. Hell was around way before God. Christianity simply copied other cultures and religions by using the concept of hell.

Where did you find that?