Persons in remote areas ... get the Truth
God says so ... *Dozens* of times ... in Scripture.
Whoever believes ... the people in the jungle do not get the
truth ...are rejectingthe Bible on this subject
Thirty-four Scriptures listed ... Forty-two additional citations
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Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Ecclesiasticus 24:44 >
"For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as the morning light."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Psalm 18:5 >
"Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Proverbs 22:20
"Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways, in thoughts and knowledge."
Catholic writing of Saint John 1:9
"That was the True Light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Job 33:29
"Behold, all these things God worketh three times within every one."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Isaias 41:9
"In whom I have taken thee from the ends of the earth, and from the remote parts thereof have called thee."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Ecclesiasticus 24:46 >
"I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, and will leave it to them that seek wisdom, and will not cease to instruct their offspring even to the holy age."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Jeremias 23:24
"Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? Do not I fill Heaven and earth, saith the Lord ?"
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Proverbs 22:20
"Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways, in thoughts and knowledge."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Psalm 18:4
"There are no speeches nor languages, where their voices are not heard."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Wisdom 1:7
"For the Spirit of the Lord hath filled the whole world: and that, which containeth all things, hath knowledge of the voice."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Psalms 64:6
"Wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our Saviour, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of 1 Paralipomenon 17:20
"O Lord there is none like thee: and there is no other God beside thee, of all whom we have heard of with our ears."
Catholic writing of Romans 10:18
"Yes, verily, their sound hath gone forth into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the whole world."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Psalm 97:3
"He hath remembered His mercy His truth toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God."
Catholic writing in Acts of the Apostles 1:8
"You shall be witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and even to the uttermost part of the earth."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Isaias 52:10
"The Lord hath prepared His holy arm in the sight of all the Gentiles: and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God."
Catholic writing of Saint Matthew 28:18
"And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in Heaven and in earth."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Isaias 45:22
"Be converted to me, and you shall be saved, all ye ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Isaias 40:21
"Do you not know? Hath it not been heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning?"
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Isaias 43:6
"I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Isaias 59:1
"Behold the hand of the Lord is not shortened that it cannot save."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Jeremias 16:19
"O Lord, my might, and my strength, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the ends of the earth."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Micheas 5:4
"And he shall stand, and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the height of the name of the Lord his God: and they shall be converted, for now shall he be magnified even to the ends of the earth."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Isaias (Isaiah) 44:23
"Give praise, O ye heavens, for the Lord hath shewn mercy: shout with joy, ye ends of the earth: ye mountains, resound with praise, thou, O forest, and every tree therein."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Deuteronomy 28:10
"And all the people of the earth shall see that the name of the Lord is invocated upon thee, and they shall fear thee."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Ecclesiasticus 15:19
"For the wisdom of God is great, and He is strong in power, seeing all men without ceasing."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Deuteronomy 32:2
"Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass."
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Can the Catholic God ... reach the very
same people He created ?
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Jeremias 1:5
"Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Isaias 49:1
"The Lord hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother He hath been mindful of my name."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Job 31:15
"Did not He that made me in the womb make him also: and did not one and the same form me in the womb?"
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Job 33:4
"The Spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Job 10:11
"Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh: Thou hast put me together with bones and sinews."
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing of Job 10:12
"Thou hast granted me life and mercy, and Thy visitation hath preserved my spirit."
The above Catholic writings of the Bible defend and support the infallible and unchangeable Catholic Sources of Dogma ... on the related
subject ... “ignorance” causes the loss of your soul
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Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Session 8, 22 Nov 1439
-- Ex-Cathedra Dogma
"Whoever wills to be saved, before all things it is necessary that he holds the Catholic faith. Unless a person keeps this faith whole and undefiled, without doubt he shall perish eternally."
Vatican Council of 1870, Pope Pius IX, Session 2, Profession of Faith
-- Ex-Cathedra Dogma
"This true Catholic Faith, outside of which none can be saved, which I now freely profess and truly hold, is what I shall steadfastly maintain and confess, by the help of God, in all its completeness and purity until my dying breath, and I shall do my best to ensure that all others do the same. This is what I, the same Pius, promise, vow and swear."
Vatican Council of 1870, Pope Pius IX, Session 3, Chapter 3 On Faith, Paragraphs 8-9 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma
"Wherefore, by Divine and Catholic Faith all those things are to be believed which are contained in the word of God as found in scripture and tradition, and which are proposed by the Church as matters to be believed as Divinely revealed (...) Since, then, without Faith it is impossible to please God and reach the fellowship of his sons and daughters, it follows that no one can ever achieve justification without it, neither can anyone attain eternal life unless he or she perseveres in it to the end."
Council of Trent, Pope Pius IV, Iniunctum nobis, 13 Nov 1565
-- Ex-Cathedra Dogma
"This true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved ... I now profess and hold"
Vatican Council of 1870, Pope Pius IX, Session 3, Chapter 3, Paragraph 1
-- Ex-Cathedra Dogma
"Since human beings are totally dependent on God as their Creator and Lord, and created reason is completely subject to uncreated truth, we are obliged to yield to God the Revealer full submission of intellect and will by faith."
Council of Trent, Session 6, Canons on Justification, Canon 12, 1547 A.D.
-- Ex-Cathedra Dogma
"If any one saith, that justifying faith is nothing else but confidence in the Divine mercy which remits sins for Christ's sake; or, that this confidence alone is that whereby we are justified; let him be anathema."
Vatican Council of 1870, Session 3, Chapter 4, Paragraphs 13, 14
-- Ex-Cathedra Dogma
"For the doctrine of the faith which God has revealed ... as a Divine deposit committed to the spouse of Christ to be faithfully protected and infallibly promulgated ... that meaning of the Sacred Dogmas is ever to be maintained ..."
Council of Florence, Session 11, 4 February 1442-- Ex-Cathedra Dogma
"The Holy Roman Church ... condemns, reproves, anathematizes and declares to be outside the body of Christ, which is the Church, whoever holds opposing or contrary views."
Second Council of Constantinople, 553 A.D.-- Ex-Cathdra Dogma
"The heretic, even though he has not been condemned formally by any individual, in reality brings anathema on himself, having cut himself off from the way of truth by his heresy."
Second Council of Constantinople, 553 A.D.-- Ex-Cathedra Dogma
"What reply can such people make to the Apostle when he writes: As for someone who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned."
Vatican I, 1870, Session 2, Profession of Faith, Article 14 -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma
"Likewise all other things which have been transmitted, defined and declared by the sacred canons and the ecumenical councils, especially the sacred Trent, I accept unhesitatingly and profess; in the same way whatever is to the contrary, and whatever heresies have been condemned, rejected and anathematized by the Church, I too condemn, reject and anathematize."
Council of Ephesus, 431 A.D. -- Ex-Cathedra Dogma
"All heretics corrupt the true expressions of the Holy Spirit with their own evil minds and they draw down on their own heads an inextinguishable flame."
Additional ... writings of the Catholic Ordinary Magisterium
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Pope Pius X, Acerbo Nimis, 15 April 1905, Paragraphs 2, 26
"And so Our Predecessor, Benedict XIV, had just cause to write: 'We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.' (...) These truths, indeed, far surpass the naturalunderstanding of the people, yet must be known by all - the uneducated and the cultured - in order that they may arrive at eternal happiness."
Pope Pius IX, Qui Pluribus, Paragraph 19, 9 Nov 1846
"You must also care for and defend the Catholic faith with episcopal strength and see that the flock entrusted to you stands to the end firm and unmoved in the faith. For unless one preserves the faith entire and uninjured, he will without doubt perish forever."
Pope Benedict XIV, Cum Religiosi (On Catechesis), Paragraph 4, 26 June 1754
"See to it that every minister performs carefully the measures laid down by the holy Council of Trent and by the statutes of your synods: that on fixed days school-masters and mistresses should teach Christian doctrine; that confessors should perform this part of their duty whenever anyone stands at their tribunal who does not know what he must by necessity of means know to be saved."
Pope Benedict XIV, Cum Religiosi (On Catechesis), Paragraph 1, 26 June 1754
It was very often found that these people were ignorant of the mysteries of the Faith, even of those matters which must be known by necessity of means; consequently, they were ineligible to partake of the Sacraments.
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, died 1274 A.D.
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, died 1274 A.D.
"So, the Savior goes on with His appointed task, although many perish. For, their destruction is not His aim, but is the consequence of their own ignorance."
Pope Pius IX, Nostis et Nobiscum, Paragraph 10, 8 Dec 1849
"In particular, ensure that the faithful are deeply and thoroughly convinced of the truth of the doctrine that the Catholic faith is necessary for attaining salvation."
Pope Pelagius I, died 561 A.D.
"So that they may burn without end, the Lord by a very just judgment will give over to the punishment of eternal and inextinguishable fire the wicked who either did not know the way of the Lord or, knowing it, left it."
Saint Augustine, Epistle to Sixtus, JUR vol.III: 1454
"Those who keep their eyes shut cannot see. God made you without your knowledge, but He does not justify you without your willing it. Refusal to hear the truth leads to sin, and that sin itself is punishment for the preceding sin. Every sinner is inexcusable whether he knows it or not. For ignorance itself, in those who do not want to know, is without doubt a sin; and, in those unable to know, is the penalty of sin. In neither case, then, is there a just excuse, but in both cases there is a just condemnation."
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, died 1274 A.D.
"Since the sanctification of man is in the power of God who sanctifies, it is not in the competency of man to choose the things by which he is to be sanctified, but this must be determined by Divine institution."
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church, died 1274 A.D.
"It follows that ignorance has the nature of mortal sin on account of either a preceding negligence, or the consequent result; and, for this reason, ignorance is reckoned one of the general causes of sin. All sin proceeds from ignorance."
Pope Pius IX, Ineffabilis Deus, 8 December 1854
"Hence, if anyone shall dare - which God forbid! - to think otherwise than as has been defined by us, let him know and understand that he is condemned by his own judgment; that he has suffered shipwreck in the faith; that he has separated from the unity of the Church ..."
Pope St. Leo the Great, 440-461 A.D., "Magno Munere," Epistle 82 to Emperor Marcian
"The faith shall never vary in any age, for one is the faith which justifies the Just of all ages."
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, Paragraph 9, 29 June 1896
"The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium."
St. Vincent of Lerins, Commonitoria, died c. 445 A.D.
"Every possible care must be taken to hold fast to that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, and by everyone. (...) It is therefore an indispensable obligation ... to preserve it, to die for it and, on the other hand, to detest the profane novelties of profane men, to dread them, to harass them, and to attack them."
Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, Paragraph 9, 29 June 1896
"But he who dissents even in one point from divinely revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith, since he thereby refuses to honor God as the supreme truth and ... motive of faith."
Blessed Isaias
"Continue in that doctrine which you have learned in HolyChurch, neither adding nor subtracting from it."
Pope Pius IX, Quanto Conficiamur Moerore, On Promotion of False Doctrines, Paragraph 13, 10 Aug 1863
"Admonish and exhort them to be strong in our sacred faith, without which it is impossible to please God. Urge them to persevere firmly established in our Divine religion, which alone is true and eternal and prepares for salvation."
Saint Teresa of Avila, died 1582 A.D.
"No one is lost without knowing it, and no one is deceived without wanting to be."
Catholic Dogma, Section V, God the Sanctifier, Dogma No. 14
"The human will remains free under the influence of efficacious grace, which is not irresistible."
Catholic Dogma, Section V, God the Sanctifier, Dogma No. 17
"The sinner can and must prepare himself by the help of actual grace for the reception of the grace by which he is justified."
Related .. Scriptures on the infusion of Actual Grace
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Catholic writing in Acts of the Apostles 9:4, 6
"And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me? (...) And he trembling and astonished, said: Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?"
Catholic Faith (pre-fulfillment) writing in Psalm 93:12
"Blessed is the man whom Thou shalt instruct, O Lord: and shalt teach him out of Thy law."
Catholic writing in Saint Luke 1:35
"And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God."