THIS IS A GOOD
QUESTION
....AND
IT DESERVES A
GOOD
ANSWER.
THIS IS A
QUESTION THAT
OFTEN CROSSES OUR MIND WHEN WE THINK OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED.
IF YOU
SEARCH ALL THE
RELIGIONS ON EARTH, YOU WILL FIND THAT THERE ARE ONLY 5
POSSIBILITIES WHEN YOU
DIE...
1.
YOU GO TO PURGATORY
2.
YOU GET REINCARNATED
3.
YOU’RE ANNIHILATED FOREVER
4.
YOU GO TO HEAVEN
5.
YOU GO TO HELL
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IN
THIS PAPER WE’LL EXAMINE WHAT MOTHER TERESA HAD TO SAY ABOUT GETTING TO
HEAVEN
AND WE’LL
COMPARE
THIS TO WHAT THE
KING
JAMES BIBLE HAS TO SAY.
AFTER
READING THIS PAPER
YOU’LL
BE IN NO DOUBT AS TO WHERE MOTHER TERESA IS
SPENDING
ETERNITY.
1. MOTHER
TERESA BELIEVED
IN MANY WAYS TO
HEAVEN
She considered
that
there were many ways to heaven - Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and other
religions
were acceptable ways to her.
THE BIBLE
SAYS:
“Jesus saith
unto him, I
am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, BUT
BY ME.” (John 14:6)
“He that
believeth on
him is not condemned: but HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT IS CONDEMNED
ALREADY,
because he HATH NOT BELIEVED IN THE NAME OF THE ONLY
BEGOTTEN SON OF
GOD.” (John 3:18)
“He that
believeth on
the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall
not see
life; but the WRATH OF GOD ABIDETH ON HIM.” (John 3:36)
“That all men
should
honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. HE THAT
HONOURETH NOT THE
SON HONOURETH NOT THE FATHER which hath sent him.” (John 5:23) “WHOSOEVER DENlETH
THE SON, THE
SAME HATH NOT THE FATHER: but he that acknowledgeth the Son
hath the
Father also.” (1 John 2:23)
“He that hath
the Son
hath life; and HE THAT HATH NOT THE SON OF GOD HATH NOT LIFE.”
(1John5:12)
COMMENT:
HOW
CLEAR IS CLEAR? On this
evidence, is
the dear Mother in Heaven or Hell?
2. MOTHER
TERESA
BELIEVED THAT WE MUST WORK TO GET TO HEAVEN
She believed
that the
chief means of salvation is through the sacraments ministered by the
Roman
Catholic church i.e. the mass, baptism, confession and last rites.
THE BIBLE SAYS:
“For by grace
are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.
NOT OF WORKS
LEST ANY
MAN SHOULD BOAST.” (Ephesians 2:8-9) “And if by grace, then is it no
more of
works: otherwise
grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more
grace:
otherwise work is no more work.” (Romans 11:6)
“BUT TO HIM
THAT
WORKETH NOT, but
believeth on him
that justifeth the ungodly, HIS FAITH IS COUNTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
(Romans 4:5)
COMMENT:
HOW CLEAR IS
CLEAR? On this evidence, is the dear Mother in Heaven or
Hell?
3. MOTHER
TERESA
BELIEVED THAT NO-ONE CAN KNOW WHERE THEY’LL GO AFTER THEY
DIE.
This is why
prayers are
offered and masses performed for the dead.
Cardinal Krol,
former spiritual
leader for Philadelphia’s one million Catholics, said that his major
worries
were “My salvation and getting to heaven.” The Vatican’s highest
theological
authority, Cardinal Ratzinger, (when this Brochure was first
written, now the pope) expresses the same
concern for his salvation. New York’s Cardinal O’Connor says “Church
teaching
is that I don’t know, at any given moment, what my eternal future will
be. I
can hope, pray, do my very best - but I still don’t know. Pope John II
doesn’t
know that he will go to heaven, nor does Mother Teresa of Calcutta...”.
The latter
expressed her
tenuous hope at the 1993 Presidential Prayer breakfast: “One of the
most
demanding things for me is traveling everywhere - and with publicity. I
have
said to Jesus that if I don’t go to heaven for anything else, I will be
going
to heaven for all the traveling and the publicity, because it has
purified me
and sacrificed me and made me really ready to go to heaven.”
WHAT THE
BIBLE SAYS:
“These things
have I
written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye
may KNOW
(present absolute certainty) that ye HAVE (present
possession)
eternal life.” (1John 5:13)
“He that
believeth on the
Son HATH (past tense) everlasting life: and he that
believeth not
the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:36)
“My sheep hear
my voice,
and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life;
and
they shall NEVER perish.” (John 10:27-28).
COMMENT:
Anyone who
places his
hope for salvation in anything (such as ability to remain faithful to
Christ,
good works, sacraments, prayers, rituals or baptism) in addition to
Christ’s
sacrifice of Himself for our sins upon the cross, has not believed
Jesus Christ
and his promise. He/she has rejected God’s Word and has denied the
gospel.
HOW CLEAR IS
CLEAR? On this evidence, is the dear Mother in Heaven or Hell?
4. MOTHER
TERESA BELIEVED THAT PERSONAL SUFFERING HELPED TO ACHIEVE ONE’S
SALVATION
Her patients
were not given proper medication and
that the beds, furnishings and general conditions more closely
resembled extermination
camps rather than hospitals and clinics. They weren’t given painkillers
beyond
aspirin for the sort of pain that went with terminal cancer. Many
Catholic nuns
and priests wear hair undergarments and put stones in their shoes, whip
themselves and try to merit heaven by suffering. Poverty and suffering
are not
simply endured but are sought after and even created.
Mother
Teresa’s bank accounts had tens of millions
of dollars so that she could afford all the food, heat, furnishings and
medical
attention ever needed. Hereby Mother Teresa hoped to help all her
patients to
heaven through the suffering she imposed on them.
WHAT THE
BIBLE SAYS:
“For whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved.”(Romans 10: 13).
Comment: NOT
whosoever shall call upon the name of
suffering, the church, the priest, good works or baptism shall be
saved! When
Mother Teresa had heart trouble and old age complications, she checked
into the
finest and costliest clinics in the West.
HOW
CLEAR IS CLEAR? On this
evidence, is the dear Mother in Heaven or Hell?
5. MOTHER TERESA
BELIEVED THAT BAPTISM COULD SAVE HER PATIENTS
Her assistants
would put damp cloths on the fevered
brows and say the magic formula that allegedly erased original sin and
gave
entrance into heaven.
WHAT THE
BIBLE SAYS:
“For by grace
are ye saved through faith;
and that not
of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
NOT OF WORKS, LEST ANY
MAN SHOULD
BOAST.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)
HOW CLEAR IS
CLEAR? On this evidence,
is the dear Mother in Heaven or Hell?
CONCLUSION
Unfortunately
Mother Teresa believed in salvation
by faith PLUS works . She now
joins every
Pope and hundreds of millions of Roman Catholics in hell. If she didn’t
repent
of believing in her own works, God has no choice but to send her to hell.
The Bible
clearly points out that being saved
(going to heaven) is the result of trusting alone (having faith alone) in
the
finished work of Jesus Christ alone. When Jesus died on the cross, He
took His
own blood and wrote across everybody’s sins (past, present and future
sins) -
PAID IN FULL! CANCELLED! AND THAT’S WHY WE CAN CALL UPON HIM ALONE TO
SAVE US.
Harley Hitchcock
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