This jives with what my own church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) believes about hell and heaven. We believe that acceptance into heaven is less about if we did enough good things in life and more about if we are willing/able to live in the presence of God. If we don't desire that, then he won't force it on us.
We see being "damned to hell" more in the sense of how a river can be literally dammed up and the flow can be stopped. Our progression ceases, we can't move towards something better, because we have rejected the power that lets us do so. Like how the pretzel simply can't fix itself because it has lost so thouroughly the pattern it needs to follow.
This jives with what my own church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) believes about hell and heaven. We believe that acceptance into heaven is less about if we did enough good things in life and more about if we are willing/able to live in the presence of God. If we don't desire that, then he won't force it on us.
We see being "damned to hell" more in the sense of how a river can be literally dammed up and the flow can be stopped. Our progression ceases, we can't move towards something better, because we have rejected the power that lets us do so. Like how the pretzel simply can't fix itself because it has lost so thouroughly the pattern it needs to follow.