I believe it is impossible for anyone to go to hell because …
I believe it is impossible for anyone to go to hell because
God WOULD not do otherwise than cause human beings to love him AND
human beings WOULD not do otherwise than love God, ergo
the concept, hell, could only refer to what’s commonly called purgatory.
Purgatory should more properly be conceived as a state. The purgatorial state would necessarily be transitory. That’s to suggest that it will be much more so instantaneous & precipitous and not so much some open-ended eventuality. That’s because, even as a mere eventuality, it could at some point still become disproportionately punitive, even notwithstanding that it would not otherwise be everlasting.
In my view, the purgatorial state will be gifted as part & parcel of that same immediate divine presence, which will impart the beatific vision to us all.
My belief that God would not do otherwise than cause human beings to love him is based on the Anselmian principle: potuit, decuit, ergo fecit – twas possible & FITTING, ergo accomplished.
My belief that human beings WOULD not do otherwise than love God is based on realities like justification, impeccability & inancaritability, where, beyond mere assent & refusal, authentic freedom can be realized, even, in one’s absence of refusal, all as consistent with our natural inclinations (as defined per Scotus to include our affection for justice).
The above does entail that – without sufficient knowledge – human persons could not definitively reject God.
It also entails that – with sufficient knowledge – human persons WOULD not definitively reject God, although it’s metaphysically possible that they could (but would obviously lack any apparent reason to do so once gifted an immediate divine presence).
Of course, none of this, in the least, entails that human persons could not sin venially or seriously & gravely as well. Of course we can have sufficient knowledge & freedom to sin, horrendously so.
How this all squares with other universalist stances, I can’t really say.