If Mother Teresa misses heaven because of her lack of faith, who will make it? Did her good deeds save her?

Question

Based upon her writings, and comparing them with scripture, and the testimony of other believers, it is doubtful she ever found Peace with God through Salvation in Jesus Christ.

Answer 1

Mother Teresa had faith . . . but she didn't have BLIND faith. That's a good thing. She persevered despite nagging doubts.

Faith and logic are antithetical. If religious adherents would admit that they believe for PERSONAL, rather than logical, reasons, THEN they would be honest about their "faith". But claiming faith on a logical, rational, basis is dishonest -- faith is a personal position . . . not a logical conclusion or rational choice.

Faith and doubt always go hand in hand. Faith without doubt is BLIND faith. It takes a closed mind to sublimate doubt to the point of blind faith. Normal people leaven their faith with a little common sense. Doubt always nibbles at the edges of faith. After all, without doubt, faith would have no context, no purpose, no meaning, no point. Would it?

Because there is no evidence for anything supernatural (including God), NOBODY can claim ANY knowledge of it. Anybody who does is lying or delusional. It takes suspension of disbelief to believe in the supernatural: one must convince oneself that the impossible is possible. This is the opposite of curiosity. You have one life, one quest . . . and you choose to surrender it to something you can’t know anything about.

When people talk about faith, they're usually talking about the supernatural: God, angels, miracles, etc. There is, of course, lots of doubt involved because the supernatural is entirely outside the human (natural) realm. It's not so much that God, or angels can't exist . . . the real point is that NOBODY has access to the supernatural and thus NOBODY knows ANYTHING about it. Anybody who claims to have faith in something he knows absolutely nothing about is actually confessing to placing his imagination before, and above, his intellect.

Imagination has its place . . . but not where life decisions are involved. Placing imagination above intellect is surrendering your quest for meaning. You are surrendering the meaning of your life to your religion . . . to your version of God.

And that's fine. Just be honest about it. You gave up and made a leap of faith. Your faith is a personal position . . . not a valid logical conclusion.

Answer 2

What did she say or write that made you doubt if she was a believer ?
I know she perhaps didn't make explicit attempts to convert people, but she may have just been being deferential to catholic doctrine on that point. The last Pope may have taught in recent years that religions like Islam etc are actually, even if flawed, routes to grace. If she trusted Christ, and was maintaining her faith, she is safe I hope; she may have picked up some erroneous ideas and acted on them.

As for the exorcisms, there is a lot of occult activity in India. For instance, the great protestant teacher Derek Prince (I think, it may another such teacher), who recently died, said he was afflicted with depression for years. Then at some time, following a word of knowlegde or something, he had a spirit of depression removed - it had been oppressing him, without his realising it for years. He picked it up in India growing up.

Answer 3

mom Teresa replaced into no longer shocked via her "dark nighttime of the soul". As a Franciscan, have faith me, she understood. Her Fathers (like St. John of the circulate) and mothers (like St. Teresa of Avila) wrote lots approximately those cases. It occurs to each and all of the great souls alongside the Illuminative and Unative approaches.

Answer 4

Mother teresa was saved by grace and i would love it if all those who called themselves Christians would give even a small amount of the evidence of grace of faith ,hope and love working in their lives that mother teresa did.

Answer 5

Saint John of the Cross had a "dark night of the soul." St Theresa of Avila also writes of her similar ordeal.
Mysticism can be an "unhappy" ground, loosing ones self doesn't mean you are "lost" .. "Taking up your cross daily" is as it says not a guarantee to personal comfort .. we are of MIND and the perseverance is the key. To doubt is but a temptation. Mother Theresa did not turn to evil designs.

Answer 6

I read where she had doubt about faith and that she was probably clinically depressed. But who wouldn't be with all the horrendous things she saw and dealt with in her lifetime. It would be enough for anyone to lose just a bit of their inner peace. She's in God's hands now. And God understands.....

Answer 7

Yes, makes one question non-profit European Catholicism, doesn't it, since Mother Teresa felt that way.

Mother Teresa had two different exorcisms (at her request) in the last five years of her life which raises lots and lots of questions.

Answer 8

Well we are saved by grace not by works. I dont really know if she lacked faith in Jesus or not.
I wouldnt want to set in judgement of her salvation, or finding peace.

Answer 9

Peter writes that judgment BEGINS with "God's household." Then he comments about those OUTSIDE God's household.

1Peter 4:17 For the time has come for judgment, and it MUST BEGIN WITH GOD’S HOUSEHOLD. And if judgment BEGINS WITH US, what TERRIBLE FATE awaits those who have never obeyed God’s Good News?

Jesus tells us that faith alone is not sufficient, but something else in needed...

Matthew 7:21 “NOT EVERYONE who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven. ONLY THOSE WHO DO WHAT MY FATHER IN HEAVEN WANTS WILL ENTER.
22 “Many will say to me on that day, ‘LORD! LORD! Didn’t we PROPHESY in your name? Didn’t we DRIVE OUT DEMONS in your name? Didn’t we do MANY MIRACLES in your name?’ 23 THEN I WILL TELL THEM CLEARLY, ‘I NEVER KNEW YOU. GET AWAY FROM ME, YOU WHO DO EVIL!’

Answer 10

Having doubts about one's faith does not necessarily negate salvation. Our salvation is held by God, not us.
That said, our good works, no matter how many, can't save us.