Protestants Opinion Of Mormons Makes My Point Clearest

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So do Catholics believe that Mormons get into Heaven by the skin of their teeth much like Protestants feel that way about Catholics?

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Catholics don't know what the judgement of the individual soul will be upon death. It is possible for any human being, including a Mormon, to get into Heaven so long as they exhibit perfect contrition for their sins and invincible ignorance as to their choice of religion.

The point is, God will give every human being in their lifetime the necessary graces to get into Heaven. No one is prejudged. The question is whether the person will choose to cooperate with those graces or not.

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Just to be clear about Catholic teaching, though of course I agree with the above statement in reply to David, i.e. that all persons, including sincere non/un-believers get a certain minimal chance to be saved, such doesn't preclude the possibility that God does play favorites to some degree in giving some persons more chances/grace than others.

As an example, let's say that every person had to walk past a certain church once or more in their lifetimes, and that only an invitation to enter could lead to salvation. So you walk by and get the invitation and decline. But maybe you walk by every month and get the same invitation, that is, many chances. But someone else, for whatever reason, be it his reaction to earlier invitations, or nothing to do with same, only gets precisely one invitation, which having been declined, he doesn't receive again. So while it would still be true that everyone who lives gets at least one invitation, some may get many more chances if they initially decline. This would be similar to God hardening Pharoah's heart *after* refusing the pleadings of Moses to let His people go.