Self Sacrifice

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The Church teaches that we are supposed to love our self more than others and that we must care for our souls first and foremost, and that we must love the Lord God and thus all His decrees. God has decreed that those souls in hell suffer punishment there. It would be wrong to give up our precious soul for the damned who are perfectly deserving of hell – God would not put them there if they were undeserving of it and He does not want us there if we are undeserving of it. People in hell belong in hell, it would be wrong for someone to go against God and put oneself in hell so that those deserving of it could be freed from their just torments. God bless you.
 
May I rephrase the question? It seems, like it’s essence would be “would you sacrifice yourself to save someone who does not want or need the salvation, and who will eventually reject it.”
 
sallybutler said:
Jesus already did that.
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No. Not in a sense you probably mean (if you are responding to my message).

“Save everyone, even if against their desire” would mean abolishing Hell altogether. While this is close to the Universal Salvation doctrine, still held on the East by some (not all, or not even a majority), as far as I know, it is not what the Catholic Church teaches.
 
Agnessa said:
May I rephrase the question? It seems, like it’s essence would be “would you sacrifice yourself to save someone who does not want or need the salvation, and who will eventually reject it.”
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My answer still holds. Such a person is deserving of hell; if they reject their own salvation, they belong in hell. God is just and can not allow someone deserving of punishment in hell to go to heaven, nor can He allow a person deserving of heaven to suffer eternally in hell. God bless you.
 
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