God's blessings but in mortal sin

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If one is in mortal sin and perhaps has been for years and is perhaps condemned to hell, why would God continue to bless their lives on earth.
 
If, if, if, if

If you starting to put all the “ifs” in line they would go round the earth 20 times.

I can invent one:
“If I am not in mortal sin during 99 years and was a very holy man and gave everything to the poor and went to mass and communion every day and prayed the rosary daily, and in the last second I commit a mortal sin, shall I deserve to go to hell?”

Life is so hard without the “ifs”, let’s not make it harder…

Cheers, 👍
 
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If one is in mortal sin and perhaps has been for years and is perhaps condemned to hell, why would God continue to bless their lives on earth.
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If the reprobate lived long and happy lives on earth but suffered in hell for all eternity, while the elect lived very difficult lives on earth but enjoyed heaven forever, who would say there was any injustice in that? As it happens some great sinners do suffer on earth, and some very holy people live happy temporal lives. Other times it is the reverse. Who is to say why it sometimes happens one way and sometimes the other? It is up to the sovereign will of God, which we would do well not to speculate on if we do not wish to err. For a good man, wealth or adversity are both good things, leading him to God. For an evil man, wealth or adversity are both bad things, leading him farther from God. So poverty and suffering could be a blessing, or wealth and pleasure a curse, or they could be the opposite, depending on what you do with them.

That’s more or less St. Augustine’s approach to the question, anyway.
 
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