I believe we are of different denominations. I am a Protestant, and I know some Catholics believe we are condemned to hell, and our Protestant pastors teach the same about the Catholics. I know the Catholics are incorrect :) , and I hope and pray the Protestants are as well, otherwise an awful lot of my friends and close family will be in hell. There are too many Catholics who are doing God's will, standing up for life, and peace, etc.; who am I to judge His servants? He did say those who are not against us are for us, and blesed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God. Somehow I can't see Him throwing His sons and daughters in hell because they didn't dot their i's and cross their t's. [I'm not a theologian, so anyone reading this, don't base your eternity on what I just said. Seek Him out for yourself.] The point I am trying to make is that He wants us all to be one in thought and deed with Him, with nothing coming between Him and us. He doesn't need assistance from any quarter. Jesus is the only mediator, and Jesus IS God. HE came to bring us all back to God the Father. As the new covenant says, I will write my laws in their hearts and minds, and they will no more say know the lord, know the lord; for they shall ALL know me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. I see that shakeout happening now. I see Him butting heads together all around the world. I wish people would get His message soon, so all the killing can stop. When we all put Him above everything else, and love each other as ourselves, He will pour out His blessings on each and every one us. Until then, He will continue to let us get bruised.
Peace be with you.
lord = Lord
I believe in the Catholic religion, because it was the first religion that Jesus Himself started.
But no, no, no, I do not believe that other religions are condemned to hell & my priest doesn't either. I don't know where that comes from. I'm not a theologian, but there is Baptism of desire, & I think if anyone sincerely is worshipping God, that would be Baptism of desire.
Many of us here are asking each other to ask God to help Terri, so what's wrong if we ask a saint to ask God to help Terri?
God bless!
God is just and my common sense tells me that he would not punish those with a sincere heart, and as I said before, my priest agrees with me.
God is here among us who are praying and working to save Terri's life.
I remember we were taught in gradeschool that those who don't believe in Christ, would go to LIMBO. And that there was something called Baptism by Desire, which meant that God would be able to read someone's heart and mind and decipher if a person who had NO knowledge of Christ (NOT had the knoweledge but didn't believe in Christ), had opportunity to learn about him, they would have chosen to believe in him and thus those souls too would enter heaven.
It never made sense to me, even then. Most people I knew at that time were the same religion as their parents. If my parents had been Jewish for instance, I would have been Jewish. And to me it seemed very unfair of God not to allow me into heaven because my parents were Jewish. My opinion about that has never changed. Other religious instructors I had, and those that raised me, taught us to respect other faiths, and I do. The Blessed Mother at Medjugory said the same thing.
I think good people, who believe in God, even if they don't practice a particular faith, will all one day go to heaven.