Is hell really real

Answer 1

no, it's not. heven and hell is not real

Catholic AnswerHell is about as real as it can get. Every single human being on the earth was created as an eternal being to love God. Because God wants us to love Him, freely, He has given all of us free will in order for us to choice our good, and to love Him. However, when our first parents fell, sin entered the world, and since that time we have all been born with a defective nature, which confuses us into choosing evil as a good. For those who truly love God, He has given us grace to overcome this and to live with Him in eternal happiness. For those who choose the immediate pleasure in front of them, thus rejecting God, there is exactly what they want: eternal separation from Him, which is known as Hell.

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980.

Hell. The place and state of eternal punishment of the fallen angels and human beings who die deliberately estranged from the love of God. There is a twofold punishment in hell: the pain of loss, which consists in the deprivation of the vision of God, and the pain of sense, which consists in the suffering caused by outside material things. The punishment of hell is eternal, as declared by Christ in His prediction of the last day (Matthew 25:46), and as defined by the Fourth Lateran Council, stating that the wicked will "receive a perpetual punishment with the devil" (Denzinger 801). The existence of hell is consistent with divine justice, since God respects human freedom and those who are lost actually condemn themselves by their resistance to the grace of God.

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994Hell

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. (1 Jn 3:14-15) 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. (Cf. Mt25:31-46) 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."