What do you think? As for the last question, a non-denom minister informed me that the only Jews in all of history who made it into heaven were eleven of the apostles. Does that sound correct?
Quiz: When a non-denominational minister tells you one thing and the Church teaches another thing, whom do you believe?
I recommend never listening to a non-Denom for any teaching whatsoever, whether interpretation of Scripture or extra-Scriptural. There’s no reason to listen to one, except to see what distortions are being taught, so you can be prepared to counter with the Catholic Truth. God gave us the Catholic Church as the pillar and ground of truth. Why get info at a man-made church guaranteed to have error, even if mixed in with sprinkles of some facts and little truth here and there, instead of the infallible teaching institution Jesus built and supports! For me, I’m staying with Christ and His Church.
Hey, my friend, he is not my minister and we were on opposite sides of the arguement in a group discussion. I know for a fact that at the end more than 80 percent of the group, non-Catholics included did not accept his viewpoint. I didn’t think to ask him if Jesus, being a Jew, was saved only because he knew himself. How’s that for convolution?
Knowing the minister, I wouldn’t be so certain of that…
If ya’ll live somewhere where everybody you talk with in a group is Catholic consider yourself quite blest. Even up north here, only about a third of us are Catholic and even then one can be quite taken aback about what a fellow Catholic says. As John Paul II said, we need to start evangelization in our own pews.
I’m relieved to hear you weren’t holding his opinion up as something worthy of consideration.
)Why would God need to be saved? That doesn’t seem like a reasonable question to me at all.
New Israel? The same Israel always existed. Its just that now the remnant of Israel is under Grace, NOT Law. The covenant is new, the hearts are new, we are reborn into Gods family. God has preserved the same remnant of Israel, and wonderfully, God has allowed Gentiles to be adopted into his family through Jesus Christ, making the Jew and Gentile equals, one new man in Jesus Christ.
No, no one can.
No.
I*** hope so. Scripture says that those who confess Christ will be saved and no-one comes to the Father, but through Christ. On the other hand, scripture also tells us (Jesus told us) in John that the Jews would not have been guilty of sin had he not come to them and performed the mircles or if they were blind - but now that they see and deny him, they are in sin. I’d like to think this means that we all have a choice to choose God and Christ, but if God blinds some to the truth (supernaturally - which Romans tells us is God’s plan re: the majority of Jews) or some have not heard the gospel, then salvation is possible. I believe the Catechism teaches this concept as well - perhaps this is part of the great mystery Paul refers to.