Of Course not God does not care which Christian Church one attends.
Religions are all man made and God has nothing to do with any of them. He is just up there watching us with amusement.
All religions are man-made except one.
No one can come to the Father accept through Jesus. Jesus came to earth in redemption for our sins (original sin), to open the gates of heaven for sinners. Being that we are all sinners this means no one can go to the Father accept through Jesus. This doesn’t mean that one must practice Christianity to get to heaven, only that we cannot get to heaven on our own accord. A holy person is a holy person regardless of religious denomination.
If they try to get to Heaven by some means other than through Jesus, they will fail to do so. This means that, at the very least, one must practice some form of Christianity.
i wish that were true but i think it contradicts a lot of other things christ said – as well as the plain meaning of John 14:6.
I think He does care, which is why Jesus presented Peter with the task of building His Church upon him. If He didn’t care about the details, He would have told all of His Disciples the same thing–I build my Church on every one of you. While we are** all **part of the Church…the ‘Church’ is human, and not really about brick and mortar, it is about a methodology of worship. If we are all to interpret Scripture whichever way we choose, and start our own ‘types’ of worship, thus thousands of denominations emerging daily it seems, then He wouldn’t have given Peter the awesome task of holding the keys to the Kingdom–thus as Catholics, we believe he is our first pope.
If you find yourself in heaven you will be a member of Christ’s universal church.
There cannot be, since otherwise we are saying that people could get to Heaven without knowing what Heaven is, or how to get there. They will have converted to the Catholic Church at some point along the way -perhaps not in this life, and not in a way that can be known to us, but no one will get to Heaven without first finding out what it is, and how to get there - and for this, they will have needed to become Catholics.
You don’t need to be Catholic to know how to ‘get to’ heaven. I don’t believe that the Catholic Church teaches that in order to be saved, one must be Catholic. If a person in his/her dying hours praises God, and accepts Jesus, and is truly repentant for all of his/her wrong doings on earth…God’s mercy could easily allow that person to have eternal life. I think that there are so many variables, that none of us as mere mortals could even fathom–because in our limitations…we cannot fathom the kind of mercy that God has. We just can’t. So, we put these limits…well, if someone is not this or that…or breaks this rule or that…no, I don’t think that we can ever fully grasp the awesome capacity of God’s abundant mercy.
Yes we can. If you are in heaven you will be a practicing Catholic. Even better you will be an expert, a professional!
it’s hard but it’s also hard to see how the opposite could be true. if all religions lead to god then there must be a god above christianity’s god – something which is not what the catholic church teaches.
It is illogical to conclude anything else other than one, holy, Catholic and Apostolic. It defies reason. I fail to understand how so many have bought into this idea.
we cannot say with absolute certainty that ONLY Catholics will be in heaven…no, we really can’t. I think it’s rather dangerous to start looking at our Christian brothers and sisters who may be living Christ filled lives, and telling them they will not see heaven, unless they convert to Catholicism. There are many levels of heaven…maybe Catholics will have the penthouse, but…
