It wouldn't matter he wasn't saved. He never heard The Gospel until he started going to church with us. As these threads so clearly illustrate and so many EO & RC posters argue your churches preach a different gospel. Your church always adds a "but", "and", or "maybe" on the end of The Gospel.
My wife experienced the same thing as her Father. She started going to church with me and heard The Gospel. She then believed, was saved and became a Born Again Christian. Prior to her conversion she thought of herself as a good person, a RC, but had no idea whether she was going to heaven or not. Today she would tell you she knows she was condemned until she heard The Gospel and believed.
It wouldn’t matter he wasn’t saved. He never heard The Gospel until he started going to church with us. As these threads so clearly illustrate and so many EO & RC posters argue your churches preach a different gospel. Your church always adds a “but”, “and”, or “maybe” on the end of The Gospel.
My wife experienced the same thing as her Father. She started going to church with me and heard The Gospel. She then believed, was saved and became a Born Again Christian. Prior to her conversion she thought of herself as a good person, a RC, but had no idea whether she was going to heaven or not. Today she would tell you she knows she was condemned until she heard The Gospel and believed.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
THX.
Protestant doctrine would assert that if he believed Jesus was his Savior, then he was already saved with or without your Gospel.
First of all,it's not your decision to say who IS and who IS NOT saved, and I DOUBT your FIL never heard the Gospel either .It sounds to me that you were pushing your beliefs on an old man who had a stroke and your anti Catholic/Orthodox agenda here on FR seems plausible that you are capable of doing this.
Secondly, God does not condemn people to life without Him in Hell because they didn't hear the Bible being read to them. According to this "logic", EVERY Old Testament figure is in hell. Every person in the Western Hemisphere up until 1500 is in hell. Every person in lower Africa and Asia is in hell until missionaries went there, in some cases, into the 1800's.