The Symphony of Scripture blog has a post on Mother Teresa that asks, “Was she a lost soul?” Read the whole article by clicking here (PDF).
Here’s two quotes from Mother Teresa that I found to be very telling:
“There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God.”
“There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I’ve always said we should help a Hinu become a better Hinud, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic.”
Christ Alone Wyoming 
how tragic a life maybe lived for nothing. Our Lord only knows. Hold on to His gospel for it is the power of God for salvation. Let use put our trust in none but Jesus. For there is no other way. i admitt a great admiration for her work. only God knows where she is today, pray for catholics eveery where a reformtion inside of the church. thank you for reading this. pray with me
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I read, shortly after he died, that even John Paul II wondered if he was saved. How sad that so many millions of people think that they can do enough “good things” and score enough brownie points with God that when they stand before Him, He’ll look at some Divine scorecard and say, “Yep, you’ve got enough gold stars! Come on in!”
When in all actuality, we can truly know that we are His (1st John 5:13). Because we are saved through faith alone in Christ alone (Ephesians 2:8-9).
What can wash a way my sins?
Nothin’ but the blood of Jesus!
What can make me whole again?
Nothin’ but the blood of Jesus!
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Actually fourpointer – Eph 2: 8-9 is that we are saved by grace through faith, not of ourselves. It’s a gift of God not works so that no one can boast. The Word alone doesn’t appear in the original texts. It’s a common mistake
It’s also a common mistake that v 10 is often neglected when the previous 2 are mentioned – that we are God’s masterpiece created in Christ to do the good works which God prepared in advance for us to do.
it’s certainly not all works but the works are the evidence of the faith
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“There are so many religions, and each one has its different ways (plural) of following God.”
– Mother Teresa
Compare for yourself:
“Stand ye in the ways (plural form, many wyas to choose), and see, and ask for the old paths (again, plural), where is the good way (singular, only one is good) and walk therein.” (walk in the only single way that is good)
– Jeremiah
“I am the Way…(singular). No on comes to the Father except through Me (again, a singular noun).”
– Jesus
“…contend earnestly for the faith (singular form)…” But then you ask, “Which faith should we contend for, since there are many faiths, many religions, many ways? Jude anwsers, “the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.”
– Jude
…to name a few…
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“…we should help a Hinu become a better Hinud, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic becme a better Catholic.”
– Mother Teresa
I am young in the faith, so please forgive me if what I say is foolish. But after reading this theological principle, I have a question: “Should we then help Buddhists become better Buddhists? Should we also help ordained homosexuals to be better at their practices? Should we then go help the Russians and Chinese to be better Communists?”
Let me ask a biblically-focused question: “When, where, or how do we see Jesus in the Word of God helping the Pharisees and Sadducees become better Pharisees and better Sadducees?”
“Jesus didn’t come to make bad men good; no, He came to make dead men live.”
– anonymous
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Greetings,
St. Paul and Peter taught us the roots of salvation through faith alone and in Christ alone; nowhere did he include dead-works. . Whereas the Book of James teaches us the fruits after initial salvation and the result of salvation; James reminds us once we are saved and the witness of the fruits, (James 3:17-18), “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness (already saved) is sown in peace of them that make peace. This will be evident in a Christian’s life. Jesus also taught the parable of the fig tree and the thistle tree and the fruit in which they bare. He includes those in which will say, “`Lord, Lord, we told others about you and used your name to cast out demons and to do many other great miracles.’ But I will reply, `You have never been mine. Go away, for your deeds are evil.” Did these believe that they were saved or not saved? Yes, the must have and look what their dead-works did for them?
Please allow me to give an example; if a young adult completes high school after twelve years, what makes them a graduate? The fact in which this person submitted to the authority, which sets the rules, which he/she complies with the school’s standards to meet the goals set forth? Or perhaps the fact after they completed the goals and walked across the stage, then they receive a diploma to prove their worthiness to be called a graduate? If for some strange reason perhaps due to illness, a person meets the goal set forth, but couldn’t walk across the stage, will they still graduate? If person loses their diploma are they still a graduate? When the man died on the cross next to Lord Jesus, to me he graduated and met the highest standards. Did he walk the stage and declare who and what he was (sort of like Baptism)? Did he receive the diploma so he could display his fruits? No, he went to paradise…………….
Jesus is Lord
Jeff
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Deanna,
True indeed, it is our faith that produces our works, and not the other way around. I did not mean to imply that the word “alone” was in the text of Eph. 2 (Nor was it in Romans 3:28) but the concept of sola fides is all throughout the NT.
To give an illustration similar to Meatloaf’s–Suppose a student gets all A’s through high school. Assuming no foul play, this gives evidence that this student is smart. Now, the question is–is the attaining of straight A’s what makes him smart? Or is it because he is smart that he gets straight A’s? In other words, which causes which? Obviously he is smart, and that is what causes him to get straight A’s. It is not the attaining of the straight A’s that causes him to be smart.
Likewise, it is by faith that we are saved–it’s not that we do a bunch of good works to become saved, we do a bunch of good works because that’s what we were saved to do (Ephesians 1:4, 2:10; James 2). Like the straight-A student, it is not the doing of good works that makes us saved–it is because we are saved that brings about the doing of good works.
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If I may suggest my five-part post on Faith vs Works, it may help those who are still struggling with the issue.
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