Can baptized Catholics go to hell?

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If they stop going to church, stop praying, etc… but still believe in God?
Or will their purgatory just be more intense?
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God in order to BE GOD must be fair and Just:

ANYONE: who dies with unforgiven’ unremitted Mortal sins {1 John 5:16-17; John 20:19-23} is self condemened to hell

Those Baptized Catholics and Christians(} who die without Mortal sins; but have venial sins and or the Temporal Punishment that ALL sins {even Confessed & forgiven sins} because this is directly imposed by God; who alone tracks repayment of same{*} will end up in purgatory even if its existence in rejected; until that Soul is made “perfect”; as ONLY perfect Souls can attain the Beatific Vision. GOD is Perfect so must all Souls be to attain heaven.

{**} Only GOD knows if He will accept Protestant demanded ways of sin forgiveness {substitory-salvation} where God is claimed to “do it ALL.”; JUST believe. … There is certainly NO guarantee that He will or will not.

JOEL 2:13; Mk 1:15; Mk 6:12; Mt. 4:17; Lk. 5:32 GOD WILL expect more than words.

Those Baptized Catholics and Protestants who die with NO stain of sin or the debt of TP; being perfect ascend immediately into heaven.

{} Protestant unbelief in Purgatory will not effect GOD’s Necessary fair-Justice
(*} Indulgences; works of Mercy & Charity can reduce this DEBT; but only GOD is the accountant who knows to what degree HE will accept one’s actions and Indulgences which are highly and precisely conditional.
 
Not to nitpick, but why is the word “unrepentant” italicized here? How could a repentant person be in a state of mortal sin?

I just hear the words “unrepentant mortal sin” so much that I finally feel impelled to ask . . .
 
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A truly repentant person would try to remove it through sacramental confession or an act of perfect contrition with the intention to confess as soon as possible.
 
QwertyGirl said:
There is so much more that goes into sinning than the act itself. It is all about intent. It is why no one (including myself) should be answering these kinds of questions here.

So if someone tells a lie (even intentionally) and immediately gets hit by a bus, who are we to say they don’t go to heaven.
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We can answer the questions here, inasmuch as they’re hypothetical questions and they help us gain clarity in understanding the teachings of the Church.

The real determining factor here, I think, is in the gravity of the sin. Everyone’s talking about “full knowledge” and “deliberate consent”, but we seem to be forgetting the first criterion for a mortal sin: it has to be grave matter. Answer that question, and you have the answer to the “they’re not going to heaven?!?” question… 😉
 
One can commit a mortal sin (in this case, lying) and then look back on it later and completely regret it and ask for forgiveness.
 
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Maximilian75 said:
knows lying is a mortal sin
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OsculeturMeOsculo said:
full knolwedge
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There is always a lot of talk on this issue about full knowledge. You must fully know something is a sin. I find this a very interesting stipulation from a God who seems to reward the opposite of full knowledge, faith. The whole idea of Christianity is built around faith in Christ. Now clearly if God wanted us to have full knowledge of him, he could just make himself known. This would remove faith from the equation. Now I’m not talking about god making the sun dance or an image of Mary show up somewhere or people write in a book that they talked to God. I mean fully come out and introduce himself to every loving person. So if you can’t fully know God, how can you fully know his will? Then how can you sin with full knowledge and end up in hell?
 
Because He set out the parameters of mortal sin in the 10 commandments, thus allowing us to follow His will in that way.
 
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God allows us free will. We know the results of our actions. We can choose God, or choose against him.
 
“ Fear God - who has the power to cast body AND soul into Hell.
Yes. Fear Him. “ - Jesus

I’d love to know - exactly - how many times - in the Bible -
that it’s written “ Fear God “
It’s gotta be, at least, 100 times.

The pride of the world - is a huge mistake. Huge.
They - just - don’t - fear - God,
 
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Baptized Catholics, no doubt, make up a fair percentage of the population of souls in Hell. To think Baptism is all it takes for salvation is a sure sign of incomplete or misunderstood catechesis.
 
Or more precisely, there is something they love way more than God.
And they chose that.
 
So glad I don’t believe in hell. What a way to through life. Just sayin.
 
Why does everybody get hit by a car or a bus in these scenarios?
 
Not all lies are mortal.

Lying under oath=mortal.

Telling somebody they don’t look fat in that outfit when they actually kinda do=not mortal.
 
QwertyGirl said:
So glad I don’t believe in hell. What a way to through life. Just sayin.
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I hear you. But hell does not have to be feared. Hell is the abode of death, and Christ defeated death. But, because of the divine gift of free will, we have to decide whether to complete the theological journey of both dying and rising with Christ.
 
Lying under oath eh? What about lying to the Germans, under oath, who were asking people if they were hiding Jews in their house? Still a sin deserving of hell fire because?
 
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