Where Is Mother Teresa Now?

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â—� John 5:24 . . Amen, amen, I say to you: whoever hears my word, and believes in the one who sent me, has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life.

â—� Heb 11:6 . .Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for anyone who approaches God must believe that He exists

According to Teresa's private letters; written to spiritual counselors during her five decades in India, she was never really sure there's a God out there.

Teresa's deplorable spiritual condition is shocking, and very difficult to believe, but it's a matter of public record now in a book called:

Mother Teresa / Come Be My Light
The Private Writings of the "Saint of Calcutta"
Edited with commentary by Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C.
ISBN 978-0-385-52037-9

Father Kolodiejchuk is not one of Teresa's enemies. When the book was published, he was director of the Mother Teresa Center and a postulator for her sainthood.

In reality Teresa was an agnostic; which can be defined as a person who does not have a definite belief about whether God exists or not.

Well; according to John 5:24 and Heb 11:6, agnostics should prepare themselves for the worst when they cross over to the other side. I've no doubt Rome's theologians know this but went ahead and canonized her anyway.

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Where Is Mother Teresa Now?

She has just become an immortal part of Christian history and theology.

Saint Mother Teresa is right up there with Saint Mother Mary now.

Catholicism is the "Body of Christ", so when the Pope pronounces someone to be a saint you can rest assured that it was the divine inspired will of Yahweh.

All other forms of "Christianity" are clearly the work of Satan protesting against the Body of Christ. That's the only rational conclusion that can be had.

We can now pray to Mother Teresa to forgive us our sins.

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Lying in a grave dead. Rotting.

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â—� Heb 11:6 . .Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for anyone who approaches God must believe that He exists

The word "must" indicates an essential requirement.

The word "impossible" indicates something that simply cannot be done; viz: there's no way around it.

Seeing as how Teresa was never really convinced there's a God out there, then nothing she did during the whole fifty years abroad as a missionary pleased God; viz: as a spiritual journey, none of it counted.

Teresa complained of being abandoned by Christ and referred to him as "the absent one". She also complained that "the place of God in my soul is blank-- there is no God in me" and "I am told God loves me; and yet the reality of darkness & coldness & emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul."

That right there tells me Teresa was grossly insubordinate.

â—� John 14:18 . . I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

â—� John 14:23 . . Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.

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Seeing as how Teresa was never really convinced there's a God out there

Where do you justify your judgement of Mother Teresa on this point?

In her letters, Mother Teresa clearly asked God to forgive her:

"So many unanswered questions live within me afraid to uncover them–because of the blasphemy–If there be God –please forgive me–When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven–there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives & hurt my very soul.–I am told God loves me–and yet the reality of darkness & coldness & emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul. Did I make a mistake in surrendering blindly to the Call of the Sacred Heart?" - Mother Teresa.

Clearly she states, "If there be a God - please forgive me".

Do you think that a loving benevolent God would reject Mother Teresa for being honest with him?

What kind of a heartless hateful God are you proposing?

Clearly Mother Teresa was being as honest with God as any honest human can be.

Yet, for this you appear to be condemning her.

What right do you have to do God's condemning for him?

Don't you think you should leave that up to God?

Mother Teresa was afraid she might be committing blaspheme for merely questioning the existence of God with total honesty and openness to God in prayer.

But here you are trying to make a case with no fear of blaspheme at all, that you think you can predict God's behavior and condemn someone who he has clearly granted Saintly stature through Pope Francis and the Body of Christ.

Who are you to proclaim that God should condemn Mother Teresa?

I would think that telling God what he must do would be the most blasphemous act of all.

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Seeing as how Teresa was never really convinced there's a God out there, then nothing she did during the whole fifty years abroad as a missionary pleased God; viz: as a spiritual journey, none of it counted.

IF FAITH IS A GIFT FROM GOD and
IF all these things are necessary then it is possible for them all to be resolved at the moment of death as per the thief on the cross...

IF John the Baptiser could have the Holy Spirit in the womb where orthodoxy wrongly denies we can know any of these things or choose faith, then why cannot a person gain the grace of faith and the Holy Spirit at the moment of death since grace is not of works anyway?

What we can say is that her works were often good though not perfect and her confessed spiritual life was a sinner's life BUT that is no proof of the lack of redemption on the death bed when a person faces GOD alone.

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[font=Verdana]According to Jas 1:6-8, people who pray as if there may or may not be a God out there should not expect to be heard. Also:

â—� Heb 11:6 . . anyone who approaches God must believe that He exists

The word "must" indicates an essential requirement.

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â—� John 5:24 . . Amen, amen, I say to you: whoever hears my word, and believes in the one who sent me, has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, but has passed from death to life.

Seeing as how Teresa seriously doubted the existence of God, then she failed to "believe in the one who sent me". That being the case, then according to Christ's testimony-- as an expert witness in all matters pertaining to Christianity --Teresa does not have eternal life, and she will be condemned at the great white throne event depicted at Rev 20:11-15 where her works as a missionary will not be used as evidence on her behalf, but actually as evidence in the prosecution's case against her. Why? Because her works were not done in faith.

Ironically, a demon's level of faith is actually superior to Teresa's. At least they believe in the existence of God.

â—� Jas 2:19-20 . . You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe-- and tremble!

I simply cannot approve a missionary whose iffy belief in the existence of God doesn't even measure up to the quality of a demon's belief.

â—� Matt 7:22-23 . . Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Master, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them: I never knew you. Depart from me, you that work iniquity.

Christ's statement doesn't target Atheists, nor Hindus, nor Buddhists, nor Muslims. No, it targets people professing to have prophesied in "thy name" and to have exorcised demons in "thy name" and to have done many wonderful works in "thy name". In other words: the Lord's statement targets Christians-- and not just your average rank and file pew warmers either, rather, it targets the cream of the crop; the celebrities of the Christian world; renowned for their accomplishments, their piety, their perseverance, their love, their influence, and their dedication.

For example: Christians who pray up a storm, publish books, pioneer churches, seminaries and Christian schools, chair Sunday school classes, pound pulpits, sing in the choir, champion civil rights, travel the world, speak to crowds, win accolades, initiate charities, achieve sainthood, and operate hostels, orphanages and food kitchens in impoverished cities.

It is to many of those kinds of Christian superstars that the Lord will say "I never knew you." Why? Because though they were busy as bees, ants, and termites in Christian service capacities; they were in it for themselves rather than in it for Christ. In other words: they were ambitious instead of obedient.

How do I know that Teresa was disobedient? That's easy. When people are compliant with Christ's wishes, he keeps them company.

â—� John 14:18 . . I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

â—� John 14:23 . . Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.

Did Jesus and his Father make their dwelling with Teresa and express their love for her in ways she could understand and appreciate? No; that poor woman endured virtually five decades yearning for even the slightest glimmer of their presence.

Had Teresa's spiritual counselors been on the ball they would have immediately suggested that maybe it wasn't God's will for her to be in India and that's why He and Christ were avoiding her. In other words: their absence was a "dew on the fleece" that Teresa had parted company with them somewhere back down the line at a critical point in her spiritual journey.

â—� 1John 1:3 . .What we have seen and heard we proclaim now to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; for our fellowship is with the Father and with His son, Jesus Christ.

What does that tell you? Well; it tells me that Teresa was either untrained in the apostle's proclamations, or figured she could get by without them because her fellowship with the Father and with His son Jesus Christ wasn't even marginal; it was zero.

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Towards the end of her life, Teresa began to worry that if there be God, he might not like her, and might actually be quite inclined to condemn her. What's wrong with that picture? Well; I'll tell you what's wrong.

According to the Holy Bible-- which Roman Catholicism holds in very high regard --God has a supernatural way of assuring His own that He does in fact exist and that they are not abandoned.

†. John 14:16-18 . . I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever-- the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for He lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

†. Rom 8:16 . .The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

The Greek word for "bears witness" means to corroborate; which Webster's defines as: to support with evidence.

It's possible to short circuit the corroboration process.

†. 1Ths 5:19 . . Do not quench the Spirit.

How does one quench the Spirit? Well . . the better question is: How did the most dedicated Catholic nun the twentieth century ever produced manage to quench Him? If the most pious role model in the modern Catholic world could quench God's Spirit for virtually five decades, then where does that leave John Q and Jane Doe pew warmer?

†. 2Cor 13:5 . . Examine yourselves to see whether you are living in faith. Test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you? --unless, of course, you fail the test.

Obviously, if Jesus Christ is in you, then it's safe to feel confident that he hasn't abandoned you. But Teresa couldn't detect even the slightest glimmer of the Lord's presence, and complained that "the place of God in my soul is blank-- there is no God in me".

From her statement, which I assume was truthful, I can only conclude one thing as to Teresa's eternal status.

†. Rom 8:9 . . But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

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Why would anyone want to spread hatred and condemnation toward another person in the name of Christ by digging up scriptures to support hateful opinions?

Who benefits from this?

Also, how horrible would a God be if a person could not be honest with the God?

Jesus preached that we would be able to recognize false prophets and preachers by the stench of their rotten fruit.

He was probably right about that, even if he wasn't an actual demigod.