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So do you feel that everyone who believes in God, even if they are in a different denomination is "saved".

Not eveyone who professes a "Belief" in Christ will be saved, but not everyone in every non-Catholic Church will be damned either. You will be judged on how well you abide by God's will.

If not how do YOU know. Ok I know none of us can Know for sure who is and who isn't because we don't know their heart. But when you look at the different denomination's doctrines which would you say leads to salvation, and which doesn't. What do you consider to be heresy?

Heresy is any teaching which deviates from the Catholic teaching. Those which are dangerous to folks are those which can create in people a false sense of security. These lead to complacency and can lead people to damnation. Other heresies cause people to believe in warped versions of God which can disturb the mind. I like to believe that God will have mercy on most folks, who are merely trying their best to understand what it is God expects of us. Folks who are stubborn in dismissing the True teaching of the Catholic Church, who like to misrepresent and mock it are in serious danger of having God likewise mock them.

You will be judged on how well you abide by God's will.

Explain how this statement in not working one's way to heaven.

So if some people from non-catholic religions are going to heaven you believe there is more then one way to heaven. Explain John 14:6 Jesus says I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me. Sounds like one way to me.

Becky

I like to believe that God will have mercy on most folks, who are merely trying their best to understand what it is God expects of us.

Judas probably did too. As well as Ananias and Saphari(sp), Ceasar, David and Bathsheba, Peter and the cock ad infinitum.