all know that there are different religions, which often contradict each other and are mutually exclusive. addition, many religions do not support the salvation of those outside it.
This is for instance in the Catholic Church. Already
Cipriano said: " can not have God as Father who does not have the Church as mother ."
Thomas Aquinas tried to soften this requirement with its baptism of desire in his Summa Theologiae , and Pius IX reaffirmed the doctrine of "no salvation outside the Church" in Quadam Singulari addition to the supremacy of faith over reason. Pius XII
doubt remains in your Mystici Corporis Christi 1943, although it gets crappy the infidels. Similarly
manifest John Paul II and Vatican II .
The current Pope is already mentioned , While still a cardinal, for exclusive rights to ICAR on salvation, parándole foot ecumenical relativism.
Suppose there are ten (say a number) religions with a significant number of members and that claims to be the only way of salvation for men.
It is obvious how bad it would be one of these religions were in possession of the truth.
If one of the ten religions were true, it means that all the faithful of the nine other religions would burn in hell forever, along with atheists, Buddhists and other people who practice religions not included in these ten majority and exclusive. That's a huge amount of people.
lucky course for the religion that is a lucky hit, but we would be condemned to eternal fire, at least 80% of humanity (even the Muslims and Catholics over 20% of world population).
course, if the ten religions were all false, and salvation could be achieved only through another religion is not covered there (perhaps not even known in this world) things would be even worse and we would all go to spend quite hot.
The best case would be non-religious people were right (which are about 13%) and no nobody would go to hell (yes, okay, no one would be saved, nothing is perfect).
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