Is Heaven impossible or improbable?

[Vico]

… God is responsible for man’s salvation …

Yes, the universal salvific will of God. And each person that willed to reject grace finally, was responsible for individual damnation.

 

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Latin:

… God is responsible for man’s salvation …

Yes, the universal salvific will of God. And each person that willed to reject grace finally, was responsible for individual damnation.

Vico, if we don’t know the Catholic Soteriological Facts we are in darkness and we can see only the smokescreens.
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OUR CALL TO HEAVEN IS 100 % GOD’S DECISION AND COMING TOTALLY FROM GOD’S INITIATIVE/ DESIGN/ PLAN.

Phil.2:13; For it is God who works in you BOTH to WILL and to ACT in order to fulfil his good purpose.

2022 The divine initiative in the work of grace PRECEDES , PREPARES, and ELICITS the FREE response of man.

COUNCIL OF TRENT Session 6 Chapter 8
. . . None of those things which precede justification - whether faith or works - merit the grace itself of justification.

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The grace of God’s Justification (CCCS 1990-1991)
Justification is God’s free gift which detaches man from enslavement to sin and reconciles him to God.

Justification is also our acceptance of God’s righteousness. In this gift, faith, hope, charity, and OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S WILL are given to us.
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The Grace of God’s Call (CCCS 1996-1998)
Justification comes from grace ( God’s free and undeserved help ) and is given to us to respond to his call.

This call to eternal life is supernatural, coming TOTALLY from God’s decision and surpassing ALL power of human intellect and will. End quote.
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John 15:16; You did not chose Me, but I chose you.

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Do you believe Vico, without God chosen us (without we deserve it), draws us to Christ, effect/ cause us to go to Christ and predestined us to heaven from all eternity, we can never be in heaven?

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Before you answer the question Vico, please keep in mind; God effects everything, the willing and the achievement.

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THE FIRST CAUSE OF OUR CHOICE OF OUR DESTINIES IS GOD.

John 6:44; No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them.

While St. Thomas says that man turns to God by his own free will, he explains that free-will can only be turn to God, when God turns it.

God effects everything, the willing and the achievement. … (Thomas Aquinas, S. Th.II/II 4, 4 ad 3).
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Thank you for your answer in advance.
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God bless

 

[TK421]

Jesus said for us to be perfect like our Father in Heaven.

Well it’s impossible to be perfect.

Jesus said about the narrow gate, well that will be for the odd person so that won’t happen either.

So why suffer on Earth when you will probably suffer for eternity anyway?

You never benefit from suffering so what is the point in that?

You are being tempted by the devil.

 

[Vico]

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Do you believe Vico, without God chosen us (without we deserve it), draws us to Christ, effect/ cause us to go to Christ and predestined us to heaven from all eternity, we can never be in heaven?
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I assert the dogmas of faith:

• Internal supernatural grace is absolutely necessary for the beginning of faith and salvation.
• God, by His eternal resolve of Will, has predetermined certain men to eternal blessedness.
• God, by an eternal resolve of His Will, predestines certain men, on account of their foreseen sins, to eternal rejection.
• The human will remains free under the influence of efficacious grace, which is not irresistible.

 

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God, by His eternal resolve of Will, has predetermined certain men to eternal blessedness.

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Predestination of the elect.

Prævisa merita
Asserts that God, by an absolute decree and without regard to any future supernatural merits, predestined from all eternity certain men to the glory of heaven, and then, in consequence of this decree, decided to give them all the graces necessary for its accomplishment.

God, by an eternal resolve of His Will, predestines certain men, on account of their foreseen sins, to eternal rejection.

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Predestination of the elect.

The COUNTERPART of the predestination of the good is the decree the Divine reprobation.

Merely implies the absolute will not to grant the bliss of heaven, though not positively predestined to hell, yet they are absolutely predestined not to go to heaven (cf. above, I, B).
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Calvinistic reprobation means the absolute will to condemn to hell.
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For the absolute predestination of the blessed is at the same time the ABSOLUTE will of God NOT TO ELECT a priori the rest of mankind (Suarez), or which comes to the same, to EXCLUDE them from heaven (Gonet), in other words, NOT to save them.

Moreover, in order to realize infallibly his decree, God is compelled to frustrate the eternal welfare of all excluded a priori from heaven, and to TAKE CARE that they die in their sins.

Predestination | Catholic Answers Encyclopedia

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The flaw in the decree the Divine reprobation is; as we are all sinners, with the same principle, God could reprobated and could condemned to hall the entire human race, which makes God’s Divine reprobation absolute arbitrary.
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Another flaw is; God permits sin for one reason only, to convert our sins into greater good (314, 324) what is to make us saints.
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311 For almighty God. . ., because he is supremely good, would never allow any evil whatsoever to exist in his works if he were not so all-powerful and good as to cause good to emerge from evil itself.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Divine Providence.

This, the beneficent purpose of an all-seeing Providence, is wholly gratuitous, entirely unmerited (Romans 3:24; 9:11-2).

It extends to every individual, adapting itself to the needs of each (St. John Chrysostom, Hom. xxviii in Matt, n, 354).

That end is that all creatures should manifest the glory of God, and in particular that man should glorify Him, recognizing in nature the work of His hand, serving Him in obedience and love, and thereby attaining to the full development of his nature and to eternal happiness in God.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12510a.htm
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I’m whole heartedly and with ABSOLUTE FAITH believe the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Divine Providence.

The human will remains free under the influence of efficacious grace, which is not irresistible.

Please see the answer in my above Posts. No. 41 and 43.

God bless

 

[MiserereMei]

Unfortunately, the vast majority of people on this forum seem to have this obsession with how hard it is to get into heaven and how few people go there and how we’re all teetering on the brink of damnation every minute, and how even if we make mighty efforts, the best we’ll accomplish is sitting in Purgatory till the end of the world if we’re very lucky and even in that case we should be thrilled with that outcome.

In contrast, it was in a Roman Catholic parish, a St Mary’s, that I heard this in a sermon, sometime during the month my brother was baptized (I was his sponsor): “Jesus says in our Gospel lesson today that the road is narrow that leads to heaven and few find it. But we know that God wants all people to be saved. God is our Father. For a father, if even one child goes astray, that is one too many, and too few remain. We must look at this with the perspective of a parent.”

 

[Muzzlehatch]

If that was the anvil presented, I would hand the kids a fishing pole and tell them there is more wisdom to be found beside a creek under the trees on God’s green Earth. Salvation cannot come through terror.

 

[Vico]

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If a person chooses to cooperate with the sufficient grace given through the universal salvific will then there is an increase in grace, called then efficacious grace.