Hell is a state of dying in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's love. It means being separated from God forever by our own free choice. So hell is a choice and not God's choice. It is our choice. If we want to be separated from God and therefore, from everyone else because I behave in a way that only I matter, then I willingly choose hell. So it is not God condemning but the person condemning himself/ herself to hell. For God predestines no one to go to hell according to Church teaching. God wants to save everyone.

The purification of purgatory is understood negatively. On the other hand, scripture has a positive understanding of the same in 1 Corinthians 3:10-15. God Himself comes with his fire to remove all that is negative within us so that we can be in His presence forever. Purgatory is evidence of the depth of God's love for us.

One of the most common New Testament depictions of heaven is a feast (Matt. 8:11, Luke 13:29, 14:15-24), in particular a wedding feast (Matt. 22:1-14, 25:1-14, Rev. 19:7-9). These images are meant to convey a sense of wonder at what God has in store, but we must be careful of how literally we take them. Paul warns us that "no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Cor. 2:9, cf. CCC 1027).

The fundamental essence of heaven is union with God. Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness" (CCC 1024). It also states that "heaven is the blessed community of all who are perfectly incorporated into Christ" (CCC 1026). Traditionally theology has explained the chief blessing or "beatitude" of heaven as "the beatific vision" - an insight into the wonder of God's inner, invisible essence. Since humans are made for having a conscious relationship with God, the beatific vision corresponds to the greatest human happiness possible. Our relationships with each other will also be much stronger and deeper than here on earth.