Where Does a Heretic Go After God's Judgment?

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A person who perseveres to the end in the guilt of heresy descends into Hell, since heresy is a mortal sin against faith.
 
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Where Does a Heretic Go After God’s Judgment?
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It totally depends on whether he/she died with grace, and what kind of heretic they were. In other words, was their heresy a mortal sin or a venial sin?

Not all heresies are equal
 
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If someone dies a Heretic, it is because they are in Mortal Sin.
 
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If someone dies a Heretic, it is because they are in Mortal Sin.
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No… there are two kinds of heretics.

Formal heretic & material heretic.

A formal heretic is in a state of mortal sin. However, a material heretic may not be, as they are typically born into heresy and do not know any better.
 
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If someone dies in material heresy, this person is not a Heretic.
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Semantics my friend. Someone who dies in material heresy is a heretic, but they are not a formal heretic. They are a “material heretic.”

When someone calls a person a “heretic” some only refer to “formal heretics” while others use the terms for both formal heretics and material heretics.

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So far today, we’ve had two other users join just today and start threads accusing Vatican II of teaching heresy. Both of those threads have been deleted and at least one of the users (maybe both, I’m not sure) have been banned.

Your thread starts by asking where a heretic goes after God’s judgment. Given the circumstances, I suspect you might be the same person or persons who started those other threads dealing with heresy.

Are you?

If you are not, I apologize for jumping to conclusions.
 
If someone dies knowingly denying an Infallibly Defined Dogma of the Catholic Church, is this person a Formal Heretic?
 
Folowing the strict definition of heresy, we can reasonably conclude that they go to Hell. It’s sad, and we certainly hope that God has mercy on them. We also can’t rule out the potential for them being invincibly ignorant (though the nature of heresy makes that unlikely).

It’s not nice to think about, but to pretend that everything works out fine for people who obstinately refuse God’s will is to ignore reality and Jesus’ warnings.

However, it is important to recognize that there’s a difference between being mistaken, and being a heretic.
 
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Morgan said:
If someone dies knowingly denying an Infallibly Defined Dogma of the Catholic Church, is this person a Formal Heretic?
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Objectively, yes. However, only God knows if the person truly receive the proper information and therefore was truly knowing, yet objecting.

Additionally, all formal heretics have one thing in common. They accept the authority of the Catholic Church, but they deny one of the Church’s teachings because they refuse to accept what the Bishops are saying.

A great modern day example are people who protest outside the Cathedral on Holy Thursday pushing for women priests. These people (unless not Catholic) are formal heretics.
 
I’d say it depends whether or not the heretic was sincere.

If he believed in his heart of hearts that he was doing what God wanted, then I imagine he’d just go to purgatory to have this error corrected. After all, sin is only moral when it’s intentional and for a sincere heretic going against God was never the intention.

On the other hand if a Heretic only defied God and the Church for earthly reasons (such as King Henry VIII, who broke from the Catholic Church for no other reasons than to divorce his wife and plunder the monasteries) then things would be very bad for him on judgement day.
 
But if during particular judgement, God tells them the truth, I don’t understand why they would persist in heresy?

Does anyone else think that during particular judgement, you might get a final chance to repent?
 
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