Protestant heroes for Christ be Saints?

[TC3033]

Dear friend, another example, what would you hope of a person who knew Catholic teaching and doctrine, rejected it and instructed others to reject it too and believe in Protestantism,

You’re starting to move the goalposts now.

Would his holiness and goodness erase what he preached and accused?

That is for Him to decide.

 

[Inbonum]

You don’t know how many people are in Heaven who weren’t Catholics or Christians, I believe there are many, many of them.
You are refering only to negative assumptions. Do you know how many of them never heard for Christ but cooperated with God’s moral law written in their hearts?
And Church’s teaching about salvation outside Church is this:
Gaudium et spes, 22

All this holds true not only for Christians, but for all men of good will in whose hearts grace works in an unseen way.(31) For, since Christ died for all men,(32) and since the ultimate vocation of man is in fact one, and divine, we ought to believe that the Holy Spirit in a manner known only to God offers to every man the possibility of being associated with this paschal mystery.

Also Lumen Gentium, 16:

Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their consciences—those too may achieve eternal salvation

And CCC

1260"Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery."63 Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and of his Church, but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it, can be saved. It may be supposed that such persons would have desired Baptism explicitly if they had known its necessity.

I suggest you to accept it and not to close options in your heart for saint and faithful people who lived before Christ, who lived and live outside Church, then and now, never met or met Christianity, many of them who are unknown to us and who never heard of God we know. But God gives opportunities to salvation to every human, if not that would be contrary to Gods love and mercy for humanity and Jesus’s death for all humans.
You should not pull things out of context.

Looking through your posts in recent time I honestly think that you have problems with your past of being in Protestantism which reflects on your present thinking. I suggest you to first deal that with yourself.

 

[CroatCatholic]

I am not a strict literalist. I hope strongly that unbaptized infants and those ignorant will be saved.

 

[PetraG]

Very interesting response. A very calculated response! Let me respond to you this way.
I believe there are times when church affiliation is irrelevant. It is the strength of our faith that defines us.

I like that! Good post!

I’m confused. The two posts seemed to be saying the same thing to me?

The canon of Catholic saints–that is, the authoritative list of those declared saints by the Church–is not meant to be exhaustive. The Church isn’t making any kind of a declaration when it refrains from adding someone to the list. It isn’t for the Church to decide who is in Heaven and who is not! It is for the Church to point out those persons whose lives have been found worthy of imitation by a Roman Catholic and whose intercession is appropriately requested in the public liturgies of the Roman Catholic faithful. That’s all.

 

[CroatCatholic]

My last message because the thread will close and I have to go to sleep:

I hope strongly that unbaptized infants and those who are ignorant of the Gospel, Church and Christ will be saved, and everyone will be judged by God, and is left at God’s mercy and hands. God judges, God decides.
I just don’t have high hopes for people who knew about the Church and Her claims, and refused to enter it and “brushed off” her claims and teachings and held onto teachings and doctrines contrary to the Church’s teaching. I will study this topic more, and I hope to learn more. But I just want to say how are we to be Christ’s if we wilfully and intentionally with knowledge reject His Body and His Shepherds and dogmas?

Peace!

 

[Inbonum]

@CroatCatholic You are actually rejecting dogma in it’s fullness while hoping only for some to be saved.
Many on this thread accept dogma fully and don’t share your opinion. You will be judged by way you judge.
Read documents of Church in Truth not in dry zealousness.

 

[CroatCatholic]

Thank you all for your replies. Please, pray for me. I will study this topic more.

Peace!