Who is saved: Catholic priests in the religion Chist himself founded or pastors who started their own church?

Answer 1

Not enough data here to determine who is saved, but Catholic priests have a sizable advantage in getting into a right relationship with God because they receive the whole gospel, rather than a few snippets bent into an ideology.

For example, Catholic priests put their faith in Jesus' words in John 6:51:

"I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

Even if a pastor of a rival organization wanted to eat the living bread that is the flesh of Jesus Christ, he has no power or authority to work this everyday miracle. But more likely, he doesn't take Jesus seriously, despite Jesus' repeated and emphatic words:

53 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever."

Pastors who start rival organizations to Jesus' Church, even if done in good intentions, are working against the unity that Jesus asked of Christians. Here is Jesus' prayer in John 17:

"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me."

I wouldn't want to be working against the prayer of Jesus in a rival organization to his Church. I might hear at the Final Judgment, "I never knew you."

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 2

Why not all?

Although the Catholic Church beleives she is the is "the highest exemplar" of the mystery that is the Church of Christ, she does not claim that non-Catholic Churches are not truly Christian.

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 3

Bob you are able to desire to learn actual history no longer what the catholic church tells you the place do you examine that Jesus started or set up a catholic church? i do no longer see that throughout any Gospel account. The catholic church got here to being through fact of Rome no longer Jesus, could desire to get those info incredible.

Answer 4

You won't like this answer, probably, but both have the potential to either be saved or unsaved.

Because just because someone is a priest or pastor does not mean they are saved.

And just because a man of God is not a priest does not mean that he will not be saved.

Read scripture yourself, and you will see what it says about who is "saved."

Ok - I am braced for all the thumbs down from Catholics who will get mad at this answer.

Answer 5

It's up to Jesus but if everything is line with the Catholic teachings in the Catechism then it is the priest.

Answer 6

BRACE YOURSELVES: HERE COMES MY FAVORITE ANSWER:

Jesus promised, "I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). This means that his Church will never be destroyed and will never fall away from him. His Church will survive until his return.

Among the Christian churches, only the Catholic Church has existed since the time of Jesus. Every other Christian church is an offshoot of the Catholic Church. The Eastern Orthodox churches broke away from unity with the pope in 1054. The Protestant churches were established during the Reformation, which began in 1517. (Most of today’s Protestant churches are actually offshoots of the original Protestant offshoots.) Only the Catholic Church existed in the tenth century, in the fifth century, and in the first century, faithfully teaching the doctrines given by Christ to the apostles, omitting nothing. The line of popes can be traced back, in unbroken succession, to Peter himself. This is unequaled by any institution in history: Even the oldest government is new compared to the papacy.

The Catholic Church has existed for nearly 2,000 years, despite constant opposition from the world. This is testimony to the Church’s divine origin: Any merely human organization would have collapsed long ago. The Catholic Church is today the most vigorous church in the world (and the largest, with 1.3 billion members: one sixth of the human race), and that is testimony not to the cleverness of the Church’s leaders, but to the protection of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus’ Church is called catholic ("universal" in Greek) because it is his gift to all people. He told his apostles to go throughout the world and make disciples of "all nations" (Matt. 28:19–20). For 2,000 years the Catholic Church has carried out this mission, preaching the good news that Christ died for all men and that he wants all of us to be members of his universal family (Gal. 3:28). Nowadays the Catholic Church is found in every country of the world and is still sending out missionaries to "make disciples of all nations" (Matt. 28:19). The Church Jesus established was known by its most common title, "the Catholic Church," at least as early as the year 107, when Ignatius of Antioch used that title to describe the one Church Jesus founded. The title apparently was old in Ignatius’s time, which means it went all the way back to the time of the apostles.

http://www.catholic.com/library/Pillar.asp

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Answer 7

I wonder how arrogant any one could possibly be by trying to suggest they have a direct line & more bibilcal knowledge than lets say CJ.
It's ludicrous question.
The last call is not ours to make.

Answer 8

We, catholics, believe that people from different religions have the same chance to go to heaven, since God is just and since Jesus died for all mankind.

Answer 9

Romans 10:13- FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED.
Jesus Christ founded the first church which wasn't the Catholic church. The Baptists which used to been the Anabaptists did not come from the Reformation. Catholics came way after the Baptists were created. Christianity follows the same doctrines Jesus taught during the time of the Apostles. Catholics believe that you can work your way to heaven, we in our own righteousness cannot even get a glimpse of what
Heaven is like. Romans 3:10- "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one."
Romans 3:23- "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"
Either you are a Catholic, a Baptist, a Pentecostal, the Lord says that WHOSOEVER meaning ANYONE shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. You may be a Catholic and followed their doctrines thinking you can work to heaven but what surprise you will get when the Lord burns the works you have done with HIS FLAMING EYES and you end up with nothing to give HIM because you have not THE CROWNS to throw at the FEET OF KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. Who will you follow? The doctrines of man, or the doctrines of the Lord Jesus Christ?


GET RIGHT OR GET LEFT!

Answer 10

Some priests are saved and some are not. Some pastors are saved and some are not. I know I am about to catch it for this but I imagine some popes are in Hell. I know at least one was declared a heretic after his death so surely he went to Hell. I mean heretics don't go to Heaven do they?

Also Jesus did not found a religion. He founded a church. That church is not Catholicism. That church is composed of all believers.