If your beliefs are genuine and cause no harm then I think you’d be OK.I was just sitting here thinking and the question came to my head that is if we Catholics were wrong on something would there be anything that would be important enough that we would go to hell over believing? I’m not talking about things that all Christians agree on but more the things that Catholics specifically believe. I hope I phrased the question in an understandable way.
This is an impoverished way of looking at the faith imo.I was just sitting here thinking and the question came to my head that is if we Catholics were wrong on something would there be anything that would be important enough that we would go to hell over believing? I’m not talking about things that all Christians agree on but more the things that Catholics specifically believe. I hope I phrased the question in an understandable way.
Well if we were wrong that Jesus is Messiah (we’re not), then we would go to hell since I’m definitely not abiding by the 614 rules in the Old Testament nor do I have access to the blood atonement system Moses used that is required to forgive sins
How would anyone know that? Again, if we believe what the Church teaches, why do you think we would be able to tell you the “wrong things” that would send us to hell? The question makes no sense.
Then again, we’re also not Jewish, so we’re not bound to the rules of the Old Covenant.
I think the issue you’re running into is you’re proposing a hypothetical where what you believe now is wrong, but what are you comparing it to? “If Catholicism is wrong and Judaism is correct” is a lot different than “If Catholicism is wrong and Buddhism is correct”.
No. If transubstantiation were wrong, we’d still be worshipping Jesus. We’d be doing it under a mistaken belief, namely the belief that He was present in the bread. But our worship would still be directed to Jesus.
Christ established the Catholic Church and entrusted it with the Deposit of Faith and gave it authority to teach in matters of faith and morals. Everything the Church teaches has the full authority of God behind it. The Church cannot be in error in matters of faith and morals so there is no what if.I was just sitting here thinking and the question came to my head that is if we Catholics were wrong on something would there be anything that would be important enough that we would go to hell over believing? I’m not talking about things that all Christians agree on but more the things that Catholics specifically believe. I hope I phrased the question in an understandable way.
Transubstantiation is not “wrong”. It is actually wrong of you to suggest that it might be wrong or that it could be idolatry.
It’s a “What if” question on the level of “What if God were really the devil?”
Nothing, because to even think about the hypothetical we would have to reject the teachings of the Church as being possibly wrong. In other words, willfully entertain doubts.