Posted on 10/16/2024 9:51:11 AM PDT by Angelino97
It depends. If you mean, “What happens to those who die rejecting Christ?” the Church’s answer is uncompromising: They will go to hell.
But no one goes to hell by accident. If someone is simply ignorant of the name of Christ through no fault of his own, there is no sin in that. He has not rejected Christ. Moreover, we know Christ is not constrained by our knowledge. He can work in a heart even when that heart is only dimly aware of it.
Jesus speaks of this in the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats. The ones judged here are “the nations”—those outside the visible communion of the Church. How are they judged? By the way they responded to Christ when he came to them in disguise. “I was sick and you visited me; hungry, and you fed me; thirsty and you gave me something to drink.” How do the sheep and the goats respond? With surprise.
The point is, we may not know it, but Christ comes to us even when we don’t (or can’t) come to him. This is why the Church counsels us to hope and pray for the dead. We must not pretend we know what God is up to in the lives of others. We know where the Church is. We do not know where it is not.
There is a huge difference between knowing and understanding.
Not a Catholic, but do know and believe that salvation come through faith in Jesus Christ (Roman’s 10:9), and also have a heaviness about unbelievers who pass without us knowing their standing with the Lord having just lost a dear nephew. I want to reassure my sister and myself of the hope that we will see my nephew again in paradise, and I am praying that somehow providentially he did make that profession of faith. But how much more dear it would be to have that “blessed assurance”??!!
......What happens to those who die and do not believe?.......
As a Christian man who graduated from MIT and Harvard, I have many friends and mentors who died as atheists and other types of non-Christians. So I worry and pray about this issue a lot. I also pray for the living that they will come to Christ.
Lord have Mercy!
Ask God if and when you get to Heaven. In other words worry about your own sins, God Isn’t going to ask you about mine.
I don’t know. There is always this thought:
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“I also pray for the living that they will come to Christ.
Lord have Mercy!”
Amen!
He is not the Catholic Church. But why hate?
“ member somewhere in the amazon who’s never heard of Jesus goes to hell??”
This is your interpretation of pro catholic?
Leave me alone
“ I brought this in because I know good people who’ve died without believing, and I struggle with the doctrine that they’re eternally damned”
Did you read the article? Are you not seeing the answer?
This is lying and propaganda. Stop talking to me
The poster is trying to intimidate and threaten folks with eternal damnation.
Do I have a problem with that?
Yes I do.
AMEN!!!
God made salvation simple.
Man is the one who complicates it.
If someone’s house is on fire, and they are sleeping inside, would you yell to wake them? Or is that rude and judgmental? After all, perhaps they prefer to die in their sleep.
The house better be on fire—or else you are being a jerk for yelling “fire”.
It’s not just about Catholics
Southern Baptists like I think also think hell is for deniers and rejectors
Not New Guinea highland or Congo or Amazon basin know nothings
Nope.
The position is that if you die openly rejecting Christ, then you choose damnation
Purgatory as defined by the church is the final stage by which Christ saves us, it is the final washing away of sins by the grace of God through the blood of the lam9, just before we enter heaven
Anyone who claims Jesus will have a millennium long earthly reign is biblically illiterate. Jesus said clearly that His kingdom was not of the earth.
For us denying Christ is the ultimate sin pretty much
At your own peril
Even a serial bad boy like me wouldn’t break that one
Trust me
I’ve seen folks do it in their death bed
I tried to help feebly giving my logical reason for Christianity
What Hell is I can’t say but I’ve been told it’s a place devoid of God
Sounds dark and hopeless
You know what, stanne? You don't control the forum. You pulled this nonsense with me on another thread.
FR is an open forum and when you post comments on the public forum, people have every right to respond to them. If you don't like it, then you're free to stick to the caucus threads where no debate is allowed.
But this going around and telling everyone who says something you don't want to hear to *Stop talking to me*, is for the birds.
Grow up and get a life and if you can't handle different opinions like an adult, then why don't YOU avoid posting instead of trying to control what everyone else does.
‘ It’s not just about Catholics
Southern Baptists like I think also think hell is for deniers and rejectors’
Please read the article. Catholics do NOT think hell is for denieds
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