Are protestants able to go to Heaven?

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Yes. We Protestants can go to Heaven.
We can remain protestants, and stiiiiilll get into Heaven.
 
It’s possible if through no fault of their own they are not Catholic, and if they truly believe they are serving God’s will. However, this is no guarantee. None of us truly know who is going to heaven or who is not. Either way, all we know is that it’s possible, but it’s better for them to be Catholic because then they get the entirety of the truth, not just a part of it.
 
Why limit to Protestants? It is also possible for Jews, Muslims, and other nonChristians to be saved. . .

IOW, what is the point of the question? Nobody ever said that ‘only Catholics are saved’. . .

Another poster summed it up pretty clearly. . .Catholics have the fullness of truth. Protestants have part of the truth.

Now, if I have a fully stocked pantry, I’m more likely to be able to cook a well-balanced, tasty and nutritious meal for my family.

If I have only a partly stocked pantry, I could still wind up with a well balanced, tasty and nutritious meal. . .but it would be harder work for me.

Of course, if I were a really good cook, I could take that partly stocked pantry and easily make a good meal. . .

and if I were a terrible cook, even a fully stocked pantry might not be enough for me to cook something edible.

But all things being equal. . .

If one assumes two people with average ability. . .

The person with the well stocked pantry is going to have an easier time producing a well balanced, tasty and nutritious meal than the person with the partially stocked pantry.
 
Tantum_ergo said:
Why limit to Protestants? It is also possible for Jews, Muslims, and other nonChristians to be saved. . .

IOW, what is the point of the question? Nobody ever said that ‘only Catholics are saved’. . .

Another poster summed it up pretty clearly. . .Catholics have the fullness of truth. Protestants have part of the truth.

Now, if I have a fully stocked pantry, I’m more likely to be able to cook a well-balanced, tasty and nutritious meal for my family.

If I have only a partly stocked pantry, I could still wind up with a well balanced, tasty and nutritious meal. . .but it would be harder work for me.

Of course, if I were a really good cook, I could take that partly stocked pantry and easily make a good meal. . .

and if I were a terrible cook, even a fully stocked pantry might not be enough for me to cook something edible.

But all things being equal. . .

If one assumes two people with average ability. . .

The person with the well stocked pantry is going to have an easier time producing a well balanced, tasty and nutritious meal than the person with the partially stocked pantry.
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i wanted to know if protestants can be save without joining the catholic church.
 
dje101 said:
i wanted to know if protestants can be save without joining the catholic church.
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CCC
PART ONE
THE PROFESSION OF FAITH
SECTION TWO
THE PROFESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

CHAPTER THREE
I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

ARTICLE 9
“I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH”

III. THE CHURCH IS CATHOLIC
…“Outside the Church there is no salvation”

846 How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?335 Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:

Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.336

847 **This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church: **

Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.337

848 "Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men."338

“There is millions of people hate the Church for what they think she teaches, but not a hundred people who hate her for what they know she teaches.”
 
LDNCatholic said:
Yep. Once you get there you’ll have a change of heart though. 😛
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God is not boxed in by “religion”, so I think once in heaven, there will be only LOVE, not “religion” and titles and labels. On Earth, we have labels and titles, but God is bigger than that.
Don’t alienate people.😉
 
Catholic90 said:
God is not boxed in by “religion”, so I think once in heaven, there will be only LOVE, not “religion” and titles and labels. On Earth, we have labels and titles, but God is bigger than that.
Don’t alienate people.😉
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Saying God isn’t boxed in by religion (or at least theology) is like saying the universe isn’t boxed in by physics. True but… misleading if taken the wrong way. Whether or not we call ourselves Catholic after death is somewhat irrelevant, but if Catholic teachings are true we will know it. If Calvinism is correct, the same applies. As a Catholic, I bet you can guess which outcome I predict.

According to Catholic teaching, as I understand it (correct me if I’m wrong), only members of the Church can go to heaven, but the boundaries of the Church may (or may not, but probably will) be wider than the visible boundaries of the Earthly institution.

In short, we tend to think that God set up a Church by which He leads people to salvation and an institutionalized that part of it on Earth in the Catholic Church, but we tend to think (with no real proof that it will occur in any particular case) that He may draw people into the Church in “extra-ordinary ways,” that is ways outwardly different than those He set up as the normal methods used by the institution He founded.
 
Syri said:
WOW, I don’t think you could have sounded more pompous, superior or holier-than-though if you TRIED
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I dont believe he was too far off the mark. There is only One Church, and there will always be One Church. Do I believe protestants go to heaven? You bet! but when they get there, they will be fully members of the One Church Christ Paid for in blood. Peace :signofcross:
 
so, if i believe that there is a CHANCE that the church was founded on peter and that the church COULD be the one true church but i have trouble accepting some of the teachings, does that mean that i will go to hell?
 
Catholic90 said:
***God is not boxed in by “religion”, ***so I think once in heaven, there will be only LOVE, not “religion” and titles and labels. On Earth, we have labels and titles, but God is bigger than that.
Don’t alienate people.😉
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Well said. question is why are we boxing God to a religion here on earth?
God is the same yesterday today and forever.
God wants to see us all involved in a relationship with Him, not a religion’

Who is going to heaven?

anyone who embraces this the following …“Father’s Love Letter”
(taken right out of the bible)

and answers the question at the end with a yes

youtube.com/watch?v=BKmdIdQg3Ks
 
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