Who then can be saved?

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We are told that those who commit a mortal sin are cut off from God and Heaven untill they repent and go to confession. If audultry, sex outside of marriage, and masterbation are all mortal sins committed by many who are not Catholic will all of those mostly good people go to Hell? That does not seem to me like what a just God would do.
 
We are told that those who commit a mortal sin are cut off from God and Heaven untill they repent and go to confession. If audultry, sex outside of marriage, and masterbation are all mortal sins committed by many who are not Catholic will all of those mostly good people go to Hell? That does not seem to me like what a just God would do.
Why is it not just? They have committed serious sins, so they must be punished. Seems to me like letting them go for nothing would be the real unjust option. 🤷
 
Yes but an eternity of punishment after a life of mostly good seems overly harsh
 
Non-Catholics may be saved:
Pope Clement I in early Church history in about 95 A.D. to the Church in Corinth: “Those who repented for their sins, appeased God in praying and received salvation, even though they were aliens to God.” Catholic Apologetics Today, 1986, Fr William G Most, p 145].

God has given mankind the natural moral law to follow, using their consciences.
 
Yes but an eternity of punishment after a life of mostly good seems overly harsh
Why do you seem that all these people will go to Hell?

Sure the matter is grave, but I would think that many of these people do not know that it’s a mortal sin to, say, masturbate and thus do not have sufficient knowledge. Or, with regards to masturbation again, they could be addicted and not have full consent of will.

You’re making some big assumptions in this post. 🤷
 
If you have to know something is a mortal sin when you commit it for it to count wouldn’t not knowing be better?
(sorry slightly unrelated)
 
If you have to know something is a mortal sin when you commit it for it to count wouldn’t not knowing be better?
(sorry slightly unrelated)
Yes. This is why eating from the tree of knowledge was a bad thing. 🙂
 
If you have to know something is a mortal sin when you commit it for it to count wouldn’t not knowing be better?
(sorry slightly unrelated)
There are two men in a village. Neither know God or what is a mortal sin. One man leaves to seek to know God so he can live in his ways. The other says, “I will stay here, I am happy as I am.”

Are both the same in your eyes?
 
If you have to know something is a mortal sin when you commit it for it to count wouldn’t not knowing be better?
(sorry slightly unrelated)
Also, do you not believe that the more you know God and the more holy your life becomes, the more you experience the joy of his kingdom on earth?
 
We are told that those who commit a mortal sin are cut off from God and Heaven untill they repent and go to confession. If audultry, sex outside of marriage, and masterbation are all mortal sins committed by many who are not Catholic will all of those mostly good people go to Hell? That does not seem to me like what a just God would do.
what in your opinion would a just God do? what is your definition of justice? the actual definition is rendering God his due, namely obedience and worship. Sin of course is the obstinant deliberate refusal to do this. Recall that mortal sin requires full knowledge as well as grave matter and full free will consent. There are many whose education is so faulty that they do not understand these sins as grave matter or offenses so their guilt would be mitigated or altogether lacking.
 
Yes but an eternity of punishment after a life of mostly good seems overly harsh
Then you might as well complain about pretty much every legal system to ever exist. A person can live a “mostly good” life (however you define that), but if they murder somebody they will be put in prison. Even if they are someone who has done an enormous amount of good, for that murder they will still be put in prison. An easy way to imagine this, is to think if Mother Teresa (let’s pretend she’s still alive) killed someone, for whatever reason. Yes, a strange thought, but bear with me. Wouldn’t a just government be obliged to put her in jail, instead of letting her off the hook? The same goes with punishment for sin. If God did not dispense justice the way he does, he would not be a good God.
 
If you have to know something is a mortal sin when you commit it for it to count wouldn’t not knowing be better?
(sorry slightly unrelated)
Ah, but to live the fullest life possible you should try and learn about God. Which also entails learning about things that offend God.
 
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