Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of St.

Joseph and this is Pines with Aquinas.

In this episode we're going to talk about whether atheists can be saved.

Sometimes you hear people say things like, well, they can't be held responsible or they're

certainly not culpable or their ignorance is invincible and it seems like all you have

to do to make it into heaven is not know enough, which is crazy.

So let's get after it.

All right, so as is our custom in these videos, we want to receive the principles and

then rehearse the arguments.

So that way we can think well about the issues ourselves and when you're talking about

faith discourse or theology, those principles are just what God reveals.

So Christian revelation because we believe that God speaks and that He makes us capable

of receiving that revelation.

So revelation seems to admit the possibility of damnation.

You can consult the sacred scriptures, the church's tradition and both speak to this

possibility.

The scriptures often in parables like divas and Lazarus one makes his way to the bosom

of Abraham, the other to a place of terrible suffering and there's an untroversable chasm

between them.

Or you can think about, yeah, like the mention of Gehenna, it's better that you pluck your

eye out and cast it from you or cut off your hand and cast it from you and that you make

your way towards heaven maimed as it were or dismembered rather than be cast bodily into

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