The COG Catholic

I think of what it be like for me 50,000 years from now. Even just 50 years from now. Will I care whether I stacked enough sats, or whether I was able to retire early, or whether I could convince friends to use Nostr and encrypted messengers? No. This life -- with all its sufferings and pleasures -- won't even be a drop in the bucket of eternity. Nothing about right now will matter in a million years except for one thing: whether I died in a state of grace with God. That is the one memory that will either bless me in Heaven or haunt me in Hell. Forever.

A non-denominational preacher, whose biggest disagreement with Catholics centers around our "legalistic" view of #salvation, tells me an interesting view of his own. He believes a true Christian is able to die in the act of adultery (committed freely, knowingly, and willfully) and still go to heaven -- so long as he has never "renounced Christ" or "lost hope." Which is more "legalistic" -- his view or the correct understanding of mortal sin?