Unbelievers Are Condemned?

[ThisOne]

Thanks, ProdglArchitect. Your response is very helpful. My friend says that we don’t know that everything has to have a cause. She’ll concede that it may look that way but then says that we don’t know because our senses are limited.

I think faith cannot happen without a person having a personal experience of the reality of God, and my friend doesn’t think that’s possible for her because she was so damaged by her parents and doesn’t know what it feels like to be loved. It’s quite sad. She’s a good person. But she has no experience of God’s love for her.

There was a time she was in her words “practicing the teachings of Christ” and going to Mass, but she stopped the former though she continues the latter. She’s clearly attracted, but she uses Mass as an opportunity to try to “feel” her feelings, which she says she cannot do. Her psychological complaint for 30 years has been that she cannot feel her feelings.

She even came back to the Church shortly after she met me in the early 1980s, when I was a newly converted Catholic (from agnosticism).

Please pray for her.

 

[ProdglArchitect]

Thanks, ProdglArchitect. Your response is very helpful. My friend says that we don’t know that everything has to have a cause. She’ll concede that it may look that way but then says that we don’t know because our senses are limited.

I think faith cannot happen without a person having a personal experience of the reality of God, and my friend doesn’t think that’s possible for her because she was so damaged by her parents and doesn’t know what it feels like to be loved. It’s quite sad. She’s a good person. But she has no experience of God’s love for her.

There was a time she was in her words “practicing the teachings of Christ” and going to Mass, but she stopped the former though she continues the latter. She’s clearly attracted, but she uses Mass as an opportunity to try to “feel” her feelings, which she says she cannot do. Her psychological complaint for 30 years has been that she cannot feel her feelings.

She even came back to the Church shortly after she met me in the early 1980s, when I was a newly converted Catholic (from agnosticism).

Please pray for her.

Will do. I’m sorry that she has suffered like that.

 

[ThisOne]

Thank you. I still think somehow that there’s some argument I could make, of course, when in fact probably nothing would work.

 

[ProdglArchitect]

Thank you. I still think somehow that there’s some argument I could make, of course, when in fact probably nothing would work.

There are plenty of arguments you could make, but people have to be open to them for them to work.

I think the best argument you could make to prove God’s love for her is to show her Him on the cross. There is no greater proof for God’s love than what He suffered to save us.

You might also ask if she’s tried developing a relationship with Mary. Many times when people have trouble relating to God, they can relate to her better.