Author Topic: Serious questions (Read 7480 times)

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #10 on:** June 23, 2009, 04:54:59 AM »

CM,

It is IMPOSSIBLE for you to know about the eternal state of ANYONE - sans private revelation from God.

GO - Take a VERY LONG hike in the most beautiful country in your area. Breathe DEEPLY, ENJOY the beauty God has placed all around us.

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #11 on:** June 23, 2009, 04:57:11 AM »

While you are out, I will see if I can induce your neighbor to throw a brick through your computer monitor and drive his car back and forth over the computer itself several times. :cheers:

clare · « **Reply #12 on:** June 23, 2009, 05:14:41 AM »

Catholic Martyr,

Try approaching a trad priest and asking if he would be willing to offer Mass for your granddad who you believe died outside the Church.

I doubt any priest would say that there's no point, because he's in Hell.

Prodinoscopus · « **Reply #13 on:** June 23, 2009, 08:28:21 AM »

Quote from: Catholic Martyr

Also, I didn't realize you were a lady.

I'm not.

Prodinoscopus · « **Reply #14 on:** June 23, 2009, 08:51:30 AM »

CM, I'll bet that even Bishop Sanborn will disagree with you on this one.

Apart from a direct revelation from God, none of us -- not one -- knows with moral certainty that any particular person is in hell.

All that we know with moral certainty -- the certainty of Faith -- is that hell is real and unrepentant sinners go there.

I wonder if Fr. Feeney himself actually believed that he could say with moral certainty that this or that person was in hell.

I've been thinking about this question in the context of the media coverage of "Neda", the young Iranian woman whose death by gunshot to the heart was captured on video. Was "Neda" a Catholic? Was she in a state of grace when she died? How can we know? What about those people filmed there with "Neda" in her dying moments, looking directly into her eyes, how can they know?