Not necessarily.Most Mormons are very sincere in their beliefs and are oblivious to the reality that they are deceived.
Only God can send someone to hell. God looks at the heart.
How can we really know? Christ says that it is only through Him that men can be saved. Catholics believe salvation comes only through the Catholic Church (which is His body and is the Church Christ Himself founded), but to many these days, that seems only to mean that every person in Heaven is a Catholic, not that every Catholic goes to Heaven, or that only Catholics in life go to Heaven.
Not if the person is invincibly ignorant of the truth. You posted that they know their beliefs are a fraud. That’s not the case or they wouldn’t cling to their beliefs. No one who sincerely believes something believes it a fraud. Only deceivers know they are deceiving if they are doing it deliberately.
Well…see…consider this: Do those devout Mormons believe Joseph Smith to be a false prophet and Mormonism false?
We know the Mornons state they believe other than us, we are in agreement here. Do Mormons claim Catholic’s are going to hell? :confused.Mortal sin, the sin that condems, requires full knowledge and consent. A sincere member of the LDS or other Mormon sect does not necessarily know their church is false, thus may may lack the “full knowledge”. As a result, there is hope for their salvation in spite of their false beliefs.
Most people live and believe what they have been taught by their elders is true. Why should they explore outside their beliefs if they are happy where they are and believe all they’ve told? Catholics are not in the business of proselytizing people away from their beliefs. We are expected to share what we know in love and pray. The rest is up to the Holy Spirit and the other person’s ability to hear the truth.
Certainly ever since the descendants of Noah broke into various family groups and separated from one another. This separation is what caused the words God had spoken to Adam and Noah to become fragmented and confused, but most containing germs of the truth in them, hence the commonality in myths and legends.
I agree that God is not eager to send anyone to hell. But he did not set up various religions around the world. People distorted the message they had heard when mankind was still one people. God chose not to interact and correct such errors until he chose Abram to make of him a nation dedicated to the true God. Men have the capacity to create all sorts of ideas based solely on what was known to the first descendants of Noah. Since Christ has died to redeem all mankind, though, all may be saved through him, even if they have never heard of him. This is cited in the Catechism.
No, it’s we who often make no sense.
