Mother Teresa is an agnostic. Is she in "hell"?

Question

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/23/eveningnews/main3199062.shtml

Denying the holy spirit is an unforgivable sin (look up blasphemy challenge on youtube). If Mother Teresa doubted God, is she in hell despite doing so much good?

Yes I'm an atheist. But this is a genuine question so there's no need to turn it on me ... but if you really want to know Dr H Lecter, about 50. I work in a hospital ;-).

I also know about Mother Teresa's underhand tactics. Not very saintly to say the least.

And, about the doubt and "dark night of the soul", 40 years of doubt is a very long time. She was agnostic until her deathbed!

About the apostles, thanks for highlighting yet another contradiction. Mark 3:29 says something very different.

Answer 1

'So much good' ! Have you any idea of the crimes - against both laws and human decency, this deranged and sadistic cow is guilty of?

It's a sad comment on the state of the world when a slimeball like her could receive a Nobel and sainthood, and be lionised all over the world for causing such suffering and stealing millions.

I only wish her last hours could have been spent in the same conditions as the poor wretches she dragged off the street to die without treatment or even basic compassion. Makes me wish there really was a Hell after all.

CD

Answer 2

Mother Teresa was not an agnostic. There is a long tradition of holy people and saints experiencing what is called the "dark night of the soul." I actually find it pretty comforting that even the holiest people out there go through the same doubts, if not worse, as everyone else.

Answer 3

Mother Teresa had her "Dark Night of the Soul"...which, if you knew anything about the writings of the great Fathers (and Mothers) of the Interior Spiritual Life...you would know that all great Illuminatives and Contemplatives go through this...

For me - all it does is prove to me that this saintly woman is much more deserving of Beatification than even I could have believed.

Sanctae Teresa, ora pro nobis.

No...I don't have time to explain to you the Purgative, Illuminative and Unitive Ways....look them up...you might actually learn something

Answer 4

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is not just questioning your faith and your beliefs. I think anyone who tries to really live their faith goes through something like this -- the saints and mystics speak of the "dark night of the soul". I think that the important thing is that she tried -- and even while questioning God, she still obeyed Him as well as she could. It sounds to me like she went through hell already, feeling lost and distant from God. Only God knows where she is, but I think she is with Him -- and all her questions have been answered with love.

Answer 5

I don't know. I'm a Christian, and thus, the classic explanation according to my faith would say "yes". But I believe that God's mercy extends far beyond what might be anticipated. I'm hoping to the answer is "no".

Answer 6

Mother Teresa was like any other human who is a Christian, she carried doubt at moments in her life. The fact that she did write to her advisors or friends, brothers, how ever we name them, shows that she was seeking out God. She had better reason than most to carry doubts, yet she still made the CHOICE to preach the word of God. Loving God is agape love, look it up, there are three types of love. Agape is the unconditional CHOICE to love regardless of anything else. She loved God even in doubt. She saw so much more than most people that sunk her heart at the realization of how cruel this world is. God loves her and I personally believe she is with the father despite her momentary doubts. She didn't commit blasphemy. She loved God.

She wrote to the Rev. van der Peet - Jesus has a very special love for you," she assured Van der Peet. "[But] as for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak ... I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have [a] free hand."

She was having difficulty with her worthiness to be loved, not commiting blasphmey.

NO ONE is worthy of the forgiveness shown to us by Jesus, that is why his GRACE (receiving forgiveness we do not deserve) is so key and important.

Look at the Disciples, they doubted, they were still loved and Jesus raised them up from their momentary doubts.

As Paul says in 2 Corithians 12
7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Answer 7

I don't believe in hell, so I don't think she is there, but honestly, she did not really do all that much good. Basically gave people a place to die in squalor and gave most of the money to build more convents.

Her "hospice" facilities were quite primative, & she seemed to relish the pain of her "patients".

Answer 8

Every Christian goes through valleys in their walk with God. Look at the Apostle Peter, he denied Christ three times! Do you think he's in hell? I don't think so!

Answer 9

who am i to judge?that is between God and mother Teresa.

Answer 10

No, she's not. As you say, she did a lot of good. Helping others is what it's all about.

Harming others or not helping them when you can do it, are the ONLY sins.
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