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Yesterday my cousin and I were discussing religious issues and she said how does a person get sent to Hell and asked me if her homosexual father (in a relationship) is going to Hell.

I tried my best to explain moral and verinal sin to her and said she should still love and respect her father.
 
Yesterday my cousin and I were discussing religious issues and she said how does a person get sent to Hell and asked me if her homosexual father (in a relationship) is going to Hell.

I tried my best to explain moral and verinal sin to her and said she should still love and respect her father.
Good enough.

I’d have added that while certain activities are sins, only God can determine who goes to Hell. Only HE can weigh the thoughts and motivations of s human being.

ICXC NIKA.
 
Did you talk about repentance and confession? Our Lord’s mercy is such a blessing!
May God bless us all!
 
Did you talk about repentance and confession? Our Lord’s mercy is such a blessing!
May God bless us all!
Yes!

I mentioned confession when she asked if she lying was sinful, I told her all sins are forgivable if you are truly sorry.
 
Good enough.

I’d have added that while certain activities are sins, only God can determine who goes to Hell. Only HE can weigh the thoughts and motivations of s human being.

ICXC NIKA.
This! 👍
 
As someone above said, only God knows who goes to hell and who doesn’t. This is why I don’t even begin to presume someone is going to hell. I believe that God is merciful and good and only He knows a person’s true heart at the time of death.
 
As someone above said, only God knows who goes to hell and who doesn’t. This is why I don’t even begin to presume someone is going to hell. I believe that God is merciful and good and only He knows a person’s true heart at the time of death.
I agree with this completely. However, it is important to realize that hell exists and that the presumption of mercy is not safe ground to stand on.

God knows the human heart to well for us to make excuses for our behavior.
 
Yesterday my cousin and I were discussing religious issues and she said how does a person get sent to Hell and asked me if her homosexual father (in a relationship) is going to Hell.

I tried my best to explain moral and verinal sin to her and said she should still love and respect her father.
This is very simple to answer. God sends no one to Hell. People send themselves there by their actions and choices here on earth. If her father knows what he is doing is wrong, chooses to do it anyway, then it is a good bet he will send himself there. We never PRESUME to know where people are going as we hope they will repent, but we can never be supportive of their actions or thier immoral choices.

It is very important to understand that God’s justice is perfect. He setup the rules we are to live by, but it is up to use to decide if we follow those rules or not. If we do not, then we send ourselves to Hell.
 
I tried my best to explain moral and verinal sin to her and said she should still love and respect her father.
The bolded part is absolutely correct and perhaps you might want to consider building off of it. God’s Laws are aimed to our benefit; it is because He loves us that He has set down certain rules for our well-being and happiness. These laws, when trespassed, work to our own hurt and even ruin - sometimes individually, sometimes collectively and often there is even a generational delay before the full force of the consequences are felt. God is Father in the supreme sense; He desires us to spend all eternity in absolute bliss; nonetheless, He has given man free-will and a choice: we can choose Him and His holy Will and everlasting happiness, or we can choose our own will; hence we pray, “Thy Will be done, Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in Heaven.” Sodomy, being totally contrary to our human nature, harms our nature: the Apostle tells us that it has very serious consequences in and of itself, because it is a perversion of nature. Your friend undoubtedly has a perfectly natural love for her father, and perhaps you should argue that it is out of love first for God and secondly for our neighbours that Roman Catholics insist on keeping God’s laws, which He Himself has given us for our well-being. We all have our crosses to carry in this life, and by those crosses we are made worthy of God and life everlasting. In learning to deny ourselves we also progress in love [charity] and virtue.

I hope this helps.
 
Good enough.

I’d have added that while certain activities are sins, only God can determine who goes to Hell. Only HE can weigh the thoughts and motivations of s human being.

ICXC NIKA.
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