You can go to hell

Hell is a doctrine revealed by Jesus. Neither the doctrine of Heaven nor Hell is as clear in the Old Testament as in the New Testament. Through Jesus' teaching and through His death and resurrection, the inchoate materials in the Old Testament became clear.

Someone noted that there are two kinds of people in the world: Those who say to God, "Your will be done," and those who say, "My will be done." God says to each one of us, "What do you want? Be it done unto you according to your will." If we want Heaven, on Heaven's terms, God will grant us Heaven; if we want to be left alone, God will leave us alone.

No one is in Heaven against their will.

No one is in Hell against their will.

A state of being

CCC #1033

We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him. But we cannot love God if we sin gravely against him, against our neighbor or against ourselves: "He who does not love remains in death. Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him."612 Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren.613 To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "hell."

Links

• Monsignor Charles Pope, "Does God Love the Souls in Hell? Then Why Do They Suffer?"
• Jesus' Descent into Hell.
• Avery Dulles, "The Population of Hell."