[metmom]

Years of indoctrination, rites, rituals, and a sense of belonging to a group all come into conflict...and that would be too heartbreaking to face...easier to go with the statis quo.

Easier until it drags them down into hell cause their pride wouldn't let them admit that they've been wrong all those years.

I've become convinced that a great deal of the anguish in hell, the torment, is not so much physical pain as mental and spiritual. Being consumed with regret at all the missed chances when they were told the truth and had an opportunity to turn and believe.

Well, they can't say they weren't warned.

[caww]

Well...that’s why Pride is a sin that God warns us so about...it’s destructive.... and keeps us away from the truth He wants us to know, and the relationship He desires we have with Him.

Maybe a thread sometime about “Pride” and how it interfers with Gods best for us might be possible along the way, especially regarding the things we choose to ‘believe in’.

Same with what we Believe...for I have found what a person ‘Believes” in can be very different then what they “think”.

[Salvation]

**Easier until it drags them down into hell cause their pride wouldn't let them admit that they've been wrong all those years.**

Why do you say Catholics will be dragged down to hell?

Christ said, "Unless you eat my body and drink my blood, you will not enter the Kingdom of God."

He also said I am the truth -- not the custom! LOL!