Belief in justification by faith alone and belief in Once Saved always saved makes a Catholic a heretic provided that Catholic knows the Catholic faith.
If that person persists in heresy unrepentant up to death then yes that person would go to Hell!
I wish Hell on no one and only God can judge whether a Catholic knows the Catholic faith well enough to be culpable for departing from it and only God can know if that Catholic would be truly unrepentant for such beliefs all the way up to the time of their deaths.
If those things were judged by God to be the case then the unrepentant knowledgeable Catholic heretic would go to Hell!
The reason the person would go to hell is that they would MORTALLY sin by refusing to believe the teaching of the Catholic Church.
Yes Mortal and venial sin does exist.
Dying in a state of mortal sin = Hell and it doesn’t matter whether you WANT to believe that or not or whether you LIKET to believe that or not–it is a FACT!!!
You don’t get to believe whatever you WANT to believe after having knowledge of the TRUTH of the Catholic faith!
Now some people who are Catholics may not have full knowledge of all the doctrines of the Catholic faith–God doesn’t send anyone to Hell for what they do not know.
The reason your salvation could be like a yo-yo is that yes most humans do mortally sin–that is WHY Jesus gave the disciples the power to “FORGIVE and RETAIN sins” when He blowed on them in the upper room AFTER He had paid the price on the cross and had risen from the dead.
there would be no need for the disciples to have the POWER that Jesus has–to FORGIVE and RETAIN sins if Jesus didn’t know that we would NEED Confession!
Is it Harder than once saved always saved? Of Course! Is it as Hard as Jesus paying for all the BILLIONS of sins for all times on the Cross! Of course not!
Tp tell the truth if a disciple of the Lord’s is not willing to do something as EASY as going to Confession after the PRICE that Jesus paid for him on the Cross–
then that disciple isn’t WORTH the price that Jesus paid on the cross and as a matter of JUSTICE belongs in Hell!
Jesus only asks us to confess MORTAL ins to a priest–not venial ones.
St. Paul told us to “work out our salvation with fear and trembling”.
OBEY the bible and God who wrote it and just do it!
Don’t go for the easy way of Protestant heretics 1500 years after the fact doing whatever they want to do and wind up burning in Hell!
“As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” John 20:21-23 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
One “retains” what was in one’s possession as you cannot “retain” that which you did not possess prior to “retaining” it. If Peter “retains a sin”, the sin that was retained was Peter’s sin. If Peter forgave those who persecuted him, they would be forgiven (by Peter). If Peter did not forgive, then sin remains in Peter because he did not forgive. The passage did not say that Christians must confess their sins to Peter in order to receive God’s forgiveness.
One could say, “The Johnny forgave Sally for stealing his toy. Sally was forgiven.” Johnny forgave Sally’s sin against Johnny. It’s just that simple.
The same Holy Spirit that Peter received, I also received. He came into me on the darkest of nights. After a series of tragedies, I could not continue on my own. I had come to the edge. I said “Lord, I cannot carry the burden. You must carry it.” In that moment, I had put my faith in Him and He filled me. I felt like I was floating. A light appeared in the room. I gazed at it for minutes or hours, I do not know. What I did know was that… while I had not intended to become a Christian, that is what I had become. For three days I was “in the spirit”.
I am His. I belong to Him. He is in me and I in Him. We are one… for more than forty years.
