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Do most souls go to hell?

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Robert Sungenis answers that no one is in a position to say, because who is saved is God's alone to judge. He rejects the universal salvation associated with von Balthasar and Rahner, holding that some go to hell and some to heaven without any number being knowable, and that the fate of unbaptised infants is not Church dogma.

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Neither you nor I are in a position to make that conclusion; that is God's alone, especially when it comes to who is saved. I am not implying we follow Hans Urs von Balthasar or Karl Rahner or the other liberals who believe in universal salvation; no, we preach that you will go to hell if you do not do what the gospel says. Obviously some people go to hell and some go to heaven, and the word some allows us to say that without claiming a number, because nobody can tell you the amount. Whether aborted infants or unbaptized infants go to heaven or hell is not even Church dogma; we have theological ideas, but it is all in God's hands. So I do not like those questions; leave salvation in God's hands and do not go any further.

Answered by Dr. Robert Sungenis

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