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"Why would Christ die for that? Pagan idol worshippers "follow their conscience." What poppycock. "

You should not be so smug. What if you had been born a Hindu? What if all your ancestors for centuries were Hindu and you loved them and respected them. What if the ties that bound you to them and to your land and culture were intertwined with Hinduism? Are you so smug as to think that just hearing the gospel once or twice could overcome all that conditioning?

Please see my post #12 and meditate on the words I have capitalized and bolded. "Invincible Ignorance" means something, and you have just given a good example of such. "May" also means something, it is not an assurance. God will ultimately be the judge of everyone's culpability (i.e. guilt) of how they responded to His Gospel. Those with a cultural conditioning or bias against Christ or against the Catholic Church may be excused.

Dave I am so confused. I could swear you and all the catholics have been saying over and over on the Neverending Story that this claim of no salvation outside the catholic church was something the church did NOT teach. So whats the truth, does the RCC teach that or not? Yes or no?

Becky