Nope...in post #133 Houghton M. says, and I quote, "The Catholic teaching is that those who KNOWINGLY reject the Catholic faith are damned."
The Bible (God's word) specifically states that the way to Heaven is: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me." (John 14:6)- not by belonging to a specific church.
The Bible (God’s word) specifically states that the way to Heaven is: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” (John 14:6)
Yep. That’s what it says.
“not by belonging to a specific church”
Nope, the Bible doesn’t do that “not” part. It says that Jesus’s Body is the Church and that one can’t drive a wedge between Jesus and His Bride. You can’t get to heaven outside the Church.
The issue is what’s The Church, how is she bounded, how does Christ work in people outside visible boundaries.
Any Baptist or Catholic or Mormon or Lutheran or agnostic who ends up in heaven will have gotten there through with and in Christ’s Body, even if they didn’t know that’s what they were doing.
When you truly open yourself to Truth, you open yourself to Christ. And Christ is inseparable from his Body and Bride, the Church.
And the Bible says so.