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Comment author: CCC 22 March 2016 08:10:58AM 0 points [-]

I wasn't speaking about "did not". I was speaking about "will not", which is distinct from "can not" and is a form that can only be employed by a speaker with sufficient certainty about the future - unknown to me, but not to an omniscient being.

But we don't even need to look to God's forced familial cannibalism in Jeremiah. The bedrock of Christianity is the threat of eternal torment for a thought crime: not believing in Jesus.

According to official Catholic doctrine:

Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and of his Church, but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it, can be saved.

In other words, trying to do the right thing counts.

Comment author: lisper 30 March 2016 04:12:39PM 0 points [-]

trying to do the right thing counts

Jesus very plainly disagreed:

"Mark16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."