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If there is no need to be catholuc to gain salvation?
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Why should catholic share the gospel if salvation is possible for non-catholic even without gospel?
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goout
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Because…God is good?
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VeryBlessed
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Because it is the most certain, straightest, clearest way to heaven, the surest way not to get lost. “I have come that you might have life, life in all its fullness.” And we have the companionship of God as we journey towards heaven, rather than struggling along on our own. Even if there was no heaven I’d still live as a Christian. But instead I get Him in this life and more of him in the next.
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One cannot be saved without knowledge of the Gospel:
Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC)
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The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith recently released an explanation of this very point. The subsection entitled “V. Salvation in the Church, Body of Christ” is especially on point, but the whole thing is on this topic of why salvation is not individualized.
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/c...c_con_cfaith_doc_20180222_placuit-deo_en.html
Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC)
Following an upright conscience and seeking the truth puts one on the path to salvation, but we must meet them on that path so that their desire may be fulfilled:161 Believing in Jesus Christ and in the One who sent him for our salvation is necessary for obtaining that salvation.42 "Since “without faith it is impossible to please [God]” and to attain to the fellowship of his sons, therefore without faith no one has ever attained justification, nor will anyone obtain eternal life ‘But he who endures to the end.’"43
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The following is also true:850 The origin and purpose of mission. The Lord’s missionary mandate is ultimately grounded in the eternal love of the Most Holy Trinity: "The Church on earth is by her nature missionary since, according to the plan of the Father, she has as her origin the mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit."341 The ultimate purpose of mission is none other than to make men share in the communion between the Father and the Son in their Spirit of love.342
851 Missionary motivation. It is from God’s love for all men that the Church in every age receives both the obligation and the vigor of her missionary dynamism, "for the love of Christ urges us on."343 Indeed, God “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth”;344 that is, God wills the salvation of everyone through the knowledge of the truth. Salvation is found in the truth. Those who obey the prompting of the Spirit of truth are already on the way of salvation. But the Church, to whom this truth has been entrusted, must go out to meet their desire, so as to bring them the truth. Because she believes in God’s universal plan of salvation, the Church must be missionary.
Yes, God could just enlighten individuals directly and maybe He does in extreme circumstances, but because God is a communion of love, He has ordered salvation to be achieved in a communion of persons joined to Him in faith.848 "Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men."338
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith recently released an explanation of this very point. The subsection entitled “V. Salvation in the Church, Body of Christ” is especially on point, but the whole thing is on this topic of why salvation is not individualized.
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/c...c_con_cfaith_doc_20180222_placuit-deo_en.html
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