LOL, that's a good one.
My daughter is engaged to a Catholic. He was talking about Lent and said "I can't eat meat on Fridays during lent...I don't know if I'll go to hell if I do or what". I asked further and he said "That's the thing about Catholics, you never know if you're going to hell or not".
I'd say that is true and quite a sad testimony.
"That's the thing about Catholics, you never know if you're going to hell or not".
Two things to say here that you should consider...
1. don't be presumptuous. If we KNEW, what would be the point of hope that Paul and the rest speak of?
2. Paul, being a good catholic, thought the same thing:
1 Cor 9:24-27
Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air; but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
If Paul was a once-saved/always-saved Christian, he had a funny way of describing his possible disqualification from the imperishable reward.
Regards
"That's the thing about Catholics, you never know if you're going to hell or not".
Two things to say here that you should consider...
1. don't be presumptuous. If we KNEW, what would be the point of hope that Paul and the rest speak of?
2. Paul, being a good catholic, thought the same thing:
1 Cor 9:24-27
Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
Well, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air; but I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
If Paul was a once-saved/always-saved Christian, he had a funny way of describing his possible disqualification from the imperishable reward.
Regards