Can Roman Catholics go to Hell?

Question

If they commit a sin and don't repent?

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

Yes, this is what the teaching of mortal sin is all about.

Sin is a deliberate thought, word, deed, or omission contrary to the eternal law of God.

A mortal sin is a grave infraction of the law of God that destroys the divine life in the soul of the sinner (sanctifying grace), constituting a turn away from God. For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must be present: grave matter, full knowledge of the evil of the act, and full consent of the will.

Most of the sins we commit are venial sins. Venial sin is a sin which does not destroy the divine life in the soul, as does mortal sin, though it diminishes and wounds it. Venial sin is the failure to observe necessary moderation, in lesser matters of the moral law, or in grave matters acting without full knowledge or complete consent.

However consistent unrepentant venial sins can slowly destroy your relationship with God and become mortal sin.

People die all the time with venial sins on their conscience and they will go to heaven.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

I Yahchanan 3:24—
And he who keeps His Laws dwells in Him, and He in him; and by this we know that He abides in us: By the Word of Yahweh which He has given us.

Revelation 22:12-16—
12 And behold, I come quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work will be.
13 I am the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
14 Blessed are those who keep His Laws, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15 For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and worshipers of gods (elohim) and everyone who professes to love, yet practices breaking the Law.

Answer 4

The only way a person Roman Catholic or not can go to hell is if they don't accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Jesus is the only way to heaven John 14:6: Jesus said, I am the way the truth and the life, no one comes onto the Father except through me.

Your sins alone can't send you to Hell. Its your not accepting Jesus that will cause you to go to Hell.

Answer 5

Hell as a place of burning, firey torment is a false religious teaching that is very popular for obvious reasons. According to Jeremiah 7:31 even the idea of it goes against what is in the heart of our loving God.

Answer 6

According to Roman Catholic theology, yes, hell exists and unrepentant sinners will go there. Here's what Pope John Paul II said on the subject:

"The images of hell that Sacred Scripture presents to us must be correctly interpreted. They show the complete frustration and emptiness of life without God. Rather than a place, hell indicates the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy. This is how the Catechism of the Catholic Church summarizes the truths of faith on this subject: “To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called ‘hell’”"

According to my personal theology, no, there is no hell, there is no God.

Answer 7

if the Roman Catholic is a practicing Catholic - thus accepted Jesus Christ and lived a life based upon the Bible and love then no, i don't believe so. we are taught to try to be in a state of grace at all times. however if one should die with a mortal sin and unable to confess verbally before death then this is where the purification process somes in. i believe we are all to stnd before God and be judged -having presented our life before us- good and bad. God will know our hearts and our sincerity -- HE will be the judge of that last unconfessed sin.

Answer 8

catholics,born again christians......can go to hell if not repentan especially if it is a mortal sin. the person may be given pardon if they are oblivious to a sin they commited as they were not aware of the sin tho confess it.

Answer 9

A Catholic has to live up to his or her Faith.

Faith alone will not save. Works with faith alone will not save, but only works based upon faith done in charity will save (1 Corinthians 13).

To go to heaven, one must have sanctifying grace in the soul, which is God's life in the soul.

One must have the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity.

If one does not at death, and is in mortal sin, then one goes to hell.


This applies not only to Catholics, but to Protestants, or anyone else of any other religion (or lack of).





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Answer 10

Anyone who doesn't accept Jesus as personal savior will go to Hell. But if a Catholic person HAS done that and did not get a chance to repent of a specific sin before dying, I don't believe s/he will go to Hell.

Answer 11

Nooooooooooo