Posted on 08/20/2016 7:45:03 AM PDT by Salvation
Msgr. Charles Pope Catholic, August 28, 2016
Question: How will God judge non-Catholics at the time of their death? — William Bandle, Manchester, Missouri
Answer: Scripture says, “God does not see as a mortal ... The Lord looks into the heart” (1 Sam 16:7). Thus, God, who knows our hearts, will judge us based on what is there. Not all have had the same opportunity to come to know the Lord, his Church and the help of the sacraments. God is just; he knows this and will judge accordingly.
Jesus says, “That servant who knew his master’s will but did not make preparations or act in accord with his will shall be beaten severely and the servant who was ignorant of his master’s will but acted in a way deserving of a severe beating, shall be beaten only lightly” (Lk 12:47-48).
In terms of non-Catholics who lacked some knowledge or sacraments of the Church, God will look into their hearts and judge them based on what they reasonably could have known and their actions based on that.
Therefore, to say that God looks into the heart does not mean that he merely looks to a person’s feelings or disposition. Rather, as Scripture says, we will be judged by our deeds (see Rom 2:6-11). Did our actions correspond to what we knew was expected of us or not?
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Thus, the degree of a person’s knowledge of God’s will and his obedience to that knowledge in deeds will be key on the Day of Judgment. This does not mean all non-Catholics and other nonbelievers simply get a pass. Their ignorance of full Catholic teaching must be what is called “invincible ignorance,” meaning a lack of knowledge that they could not reasonably overcome. Thus, if one is lazy or makes excuses when seeking the truth, God will take it into account.
Since the Lord alone sees into our heart, he alone will be our just judge.
You’d be better off wearing a brown recluse spider - it can only kill the body.
If you wear and believe in the brown scapular, you aren’t going to purgatory, nor heaven. That leaves killing the soul.
All will fail to get you to heaven and you will continue along your way to Hell.
Christ alone, through faith alone in His completed sacrifice, will bring you to heaven.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 20For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.
John, as moved by the Hoky Spirit, has written this and other passages to give us the assurance of our salvation. We need not live in fear.
I just witnessed again that the Lord indeed has a sense of humor.
I think we could detect this one recycled!
Show me where I made a personal attack.....
Yup; willing to live out the recommendations of...
Neither should you fellowship with the Servants of darkness,
because they have no fruit in them, but you should rebuke them.
Ephesians 5:11
Aramaic Bible in Plain English.
Now lets not continue with any personal attacks or I shall have to turn the other cheek.
HMMMmmm...
The first person to use the word *vampire* was ..... YOU!
You read into R20’s post and filled in the blank with your own word.
And instead of laughing ti off, you got your feathers all ruffled and are now off on a tangent.
Now who’s the thin skinned one?
THIS!
Therefore, if anyone says that it is not by the institution of Christ the lord himself (that is to say, by divine law) that blessed Peter should have perpetual successors in the primacy over the whole Church; or that the Roman Pontiff is not the successor of blessed Peter in this primacy: let him be anathema.
--Vatican 1, Ses. 4, Cp. 1
Oh?
You have proof that he's is NOT incapacitated now?
Isn't that funny...Just like the people who will vote for Hillary because she is a female, and vote for Obama because he is black...
Catholics will defend their religion because it is,,, their religion...Even after you prove them wrong time, and time, and time again...
The sad thing is they will continue on even tho they know they are wrong...
That was then and this is now.
so... let’s see in one post you infer that I am a servant of the Devil and then claim that you will turn the other cheek should I return the insult.
Sheesh
I think you are starting to “Make it Personal” you should stop before the mods put you on a time out.
Your funniest yet!
So now you are claiming that I have ruffled feathers. I take great pride in my feathers and your continued personal attacks are getting tiresome. Why don’t you stick to the topic of the discussion?
I notice the sun is now out and you're here...but are not casting a shadow on this forum. And that's kind of scary.
No one was "called" anything.
Perhaps you should ask Jim and the mods to purge FR of all Catholics.
Perhaps you should ask Jim and the mods to purge FR of all NON-Catholics so the Catholic Delicate Sensitivities will not be harmed.
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