No If's And But's -salvation Comes Only Through Jesus Christ (

[Nihil Obstat]

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But are people who say grace before every meal, pray the rosary regularly, go to mass on Sundays to confess all manner of evil that they committed through the week without true heart felt remorse and intending to continue without conscience next week never doing one good thing still to be considered within the church? What is the church? The heart of Christ or a building where people make hollow sounds? (hopefully not sounding judgmental, I'm sure most people are not like that. just an example) The Pharisees did lip service in their temples!!
[i]"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he [b]who does[/b] the will of my Father who is in heaven.[/i]
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Indeed, and as Ware (and Augustine) pointed out:

Does it therefore follow that anyone who is not visibly within the Church is necessarily damned? Of course not; [b]still less does it follow that everyone who is visibly within the Church is necessarily saved.[/b]

Edited October 8, 2012 by Nihil Obstat