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====Catholicism==== [[File:Ignatius of Antiochie, poss. by Johann Apakass (17th c., Pushkin museum).jpg|thumb|The first use of the term "Catholic Church" (literally meaning "universal church") was by the [[church father]] Saint [[Ignatius of Antioch]] in his ''[[Letter to the Smyrnaeans]]'' (circa 100 AD).<ref>John Meyendorff, ''Catholicity and the Church'', St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 1997, {{ISBN|0-88141-006-3}}, p. 7</ref>]] The [[Catholic church]] believes that God judges everyone based only on their moral acts,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a9.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - The ninth commandment|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> that no one should be subject to human misery,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a7.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church 2448}}</ref> that everyone is equal in dignity yet distinct in individuality before God,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c2a3.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - Social justice|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> that no one should be discriminated against because of their sin or [[concupiscence]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - The sixth commandment|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> and that apart from coercion<ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p4.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - The Creator|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> God exhausts every means to save mankind from evil: original holiness being intended for everyone,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p7.htm#405|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - The Fall|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> the irrevocable Old Testament covenants,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s1c2a3.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - Sacred Scripture|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s1c2a1.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - The Revelation of God|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> each religion being a share in the truth,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P29.HTM#-14A|title=CCC - PART 1 SECTION 2 CHAPTER 3 ARTICLE 9 PARAGRAPH 3|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> elements of sanctification in non-Catholic Christian communities,<ref name="auto"/> the good people of every religion and nation,<ref name="auto5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p123a9p1.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - The Church in God's Plan|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> everyone being called to baptism and confession,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a1.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - The sacrament of Baptism|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref><ref name="auto4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c2a4.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - The sacrament of penance and reconciliation|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> and Purgatory, suffrages, and indulgences for the dead.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p123a12.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - I believe in life everlasting|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref><ref name="auto4"/> The church believes that everyone is predestined to Heaven,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p6.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - Man|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> that no one is predestined to Hell,<ref name="auto1"/> that everyone is redeemed by Christ's Passion,<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p122a4p2.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - Jesus Died Crucified|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> that no one is excluded from the church except by sin,<ref name="auto4"/> and that everyone can either love God by loving others unto going to Heaven or reject God by sin unto going to Hell.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P2O.HTM|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c1a8.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - Sin|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> The church believes that God's predestination takes everything into account,<ref name="auto3"/> and that his providence brings out of evil a greater good,<ref name="auto2"/> as evidenced, the church believes, by the Passion of Christ being all at once predestined by God,<ref name="auto3"/> foretold in Scripture,<ref name="auto3"/> necessitated by [[original sin]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s2c1p7.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - The Fall|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> authored by everyone who sins,<ref name="auto3"/> caused by Christ's executioners,<ref name="auto3"/> and freely planned and undergone by Christ.<ref name="auto3"/> The church believes that everyone who goes to Heaven joins the church,<ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p123a9p5.htm|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - The Communion of Saints|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> and that from the beginning God intended Israel to be the beginning of the church,<ref name="auto5"/> wherein God would unite all persons to each other and to God.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p123a9p1.htm#775|title=Catechism of the Catholic Church - The Church in God's Plan|website=www.vatican.va}}</ref> The church believes that Heaven and Hell are eternal.<ref name="auto1"/>
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