From the catholic truth how are protestants saved.?

Question

If the catholic church is the true church that Jesus founded. What happens to all the protestants, evangelicals etc etc.
Even the good meaning ones, who love God and "think" that they have the truth.

So if they are genuine what happens to them.

I know that Catholics dont dismiss them to hell and damnation the way that the Evangelicals do to everyone one the planet.

Given that there are a lot of protestants, even some doing good works how does the Church view these people.

Any ideas??

Answer 1

haven't paid much attention to the history of the catholic church, have you? for centuries, the catholic church's official position was that EVERYONE else was going straight to hell-or purgatory, or 'time-out' or whatever else they dreamed up and figuratively forged Christ's signature to...

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but stay tuned...the vatican has a history of changing its positions and then acting like it's always been that way...

Answer 2

Are Protestants Saved

Answer 3

By grace alone, the same mechanism that saves Catholics.

The difficulty we run into is this - Catholic teaching sees in Scripture certain requirements:
*Baptism
*Faith
*Eucharist
*Profession of faith
*Confession of mortal sins
etc.

If someone is told of these, believes in them but does not adhere to them, it's hard to make a case for salvation.

Now, if you have a person who is born and raised Protestant, who is told that Scripture does not mandate Baptism, sees the Eucharist as mere symbol that is not necessary, and is taught that Catholics are simply in error, it will be difficult to put that person in a place where they can see the truth in Catholic belief. We are responsible for the revelations we are given, and if our revelation is prevented by the work of the Enemy, then we must trust in God's mercy for that person.

I'll extend the analogy further: a person is born, raised, lives and dies entirely within a non-Christian culture. She is taught that the Bible is a wicked perversion of the truth, that Christ never died, that He was a prophet rather than divine, and so sees no reason to hold faith in Christ. Is that person still lost, when in reality the message never reached her in such a way that she could believe it? Again, we trust God's Mercy, which is a gift of grace.

So in short: if you know and reject Christ and His work, and His Church, you cannot be saved. If you do not know, or do not recognize Christ, then you are at God's Mercy (and there are worse places to be, such as outside of His Mercy).

This may not be official teaching, but it seems logical and cohesive to me. If you disagree, contact me through my avatar, and I will answer sincere questions.

Answer 4

As long as you believe Jesus is Lord and Savior the Catholic church knows that these people will go to heaven or purgatory HOWEVER they do believe that the other denominations of Christianity are missing the truth of the religion and may suffer consequences as a result Most of the time these people mean well and God sees that and I'm sure He loves these people in return.

Answer 5

As the Bible says, I am already saved (Rom. 8:24, Eph. 2:5–8),
but I’m also being saved (1 Cor. 1:8, 2 Cor. 2:15, Phil. 2:12),
and I have the hope that I will be saved (Rom. 5:9–10, 1 Cor. 3:12–15).

Like the apostle Paul I am working out my salvation in fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12), with hopeful confidence in the promises of Christ (Rom. 5:2, 2 Tim. 2:11–13)."

Catholic

Answer 6

Protestants belong to faith communities that are not in full communion with Catholicism, because they have rejected the sacraments (especially the Eucharist) and do not remain connected to the unbroken chain of apostolic succession.

But these communities are in partial communion with us, through their faith in Jesus and their reception of baptism.

As such, God can use these faith communities to effect His salvation -- something that the Vatican made very clear in its recent statement on salvation and primacy of the Church.

The Vatican did not say -- as was often reported, falsely, in the media -- that only Catholics can go to Heaven.

But it did reiterate the teaching that Catholics do have a certain advantage over others when it comes to going to Heaven.

Not that this means every Catholic will go to Heaven. It's not enough for us to be Catholics -- we have to be GOOD Catholics!

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Answer 7

I miss the good old days. When I was a kid in the 1960s (yes, I'm amazingly ancient) the Catholic church taught that ONLY Catholics go to heaven. Everybody else was toast no matter what they did or refrained from doing.....Those were simpler times.

Answer 8

i'm with revulayshun in this one, and likewise the certainty that there are various ,many Catholics who the two have not got any wisdom or little or no wisdom of Catholicism's teachings on the doctrine of salvation yet yet they're rapid to declare they think it. the comparable element for many, lots of people who declare they're protestants, who have not got any wisdom or little or no wisdom of the biblical teachings on the doctrine of salvation yet yet they declare they're saved. i think there are a lot of human beings whose claims of salvation are fake yet they do no longer comprehend that that's fake and that's the single element that each individual making that declare had extra appropriate be sure approximately earlier they take that final breath by using fact if a individual is incorrect approximately this there is not any 2nd probability to get it suitable.

Answer 9

The Catholic Church teaches:

Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements.

Christ's Spirit uses these Churches and ecclesial communities as means of salvation, whose power derives from the fullness of grace and truth that Christ has entrusted to the Catholic Church.

All these blessings come from Christ and lead to him.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, section 819: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.htm#819

With love in Christ.

Answer 10

This was my answer to another question about "A personal relationship to Christ." I think my answer to that question holds an answer to yours as well. Let me know what you think.
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"Heaven and Hell are two completely different ways of relating to God."

The more appropriate question is, "Do you accept what God is giving all of us, right now."

I think it's going to come as quite a shock when the Apocalypse finally happens. Apocalypse doesn't mean doomsday or the end of the world in a catastrophic fashion. That is a modern, popular connotation. The word originally (and still) means "Revelation."

When, in the fullness of time, God reveals Himself (if you want to say 'Herself - that's your choice) to Creation in the fullness of His Glory, there will no longer be any opportunity for denying the Truth (God Himself). Those who have accepted and embraced Him here and now will know the joy and sublime ecstacy of that choice after time is no longer important.

Those who have rejected God, will see the whole unadulterated reality of what they have rejected, except it will be too late to do anything about it.

No matter the choice we make here, the consequence will be the same. Those who embrace God will know eternal joy in His presence. Those who reject God and push Him away in favor of their own ego, will spend eternity in God's presence with no place else to go. How will you get away from God who is Eternal and Everywhere?

God, Himself, will be the source of Heaven (a relationship) or He will be the source of eternal torment (the other, opposite relationship). In either case, we exercise our FREE WILL beginning Here and Now.

FREE WILL, however, cannot negate the TRUTH.

It is within our power to accept or reject the TRUTH. We cannot re-write the truth or reframe it in a way more pleasing to our personal desires.

For Catholics that TRUTH, is that Jesus is actually and really present in the Eucharist. Our acceptance or rejection of that TRUTH does not change it.

The choice is yours...

Answer 11

A Catholic would say that the Protestants are brothers and sisters in their faith, but they are missing the fullness of the faith. They participate in part of the truth, but not the whole truth.
For instance, they are missing out in many of the sacraments. One of the fundamental differences between Catholics and Protestants is their approach to Communion and the Eucharist. Lutherans and Episcopalians have Communion during their services, but the host to them is symbolic of Christ and not Christ himself. Whereas the Catholics hold that a priest, having experienced the sacrament of ordination, converts a simple wafer of bread in the body, blood, soul and divinity of Christ.
To the Catholic, the Protestant is not so much wrong as merely incomplete.
To the Catholic, Catholic practices are the surest route to heaven. However, God in his Mercy can allow whom He chooses into his kingdom.
My recommendation to you is to study up on the Catholic faith--even as you, in your current wisdom, might prefer your current Protestant status, assuming you are a Protestant, that is.
Good luck on your journey. My prayers are with you.