Where Is Mother Teresa Now?

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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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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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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.