(December 1, 2014 at 1:53 pm)Chad32 Wrote: There's also the idea that people who haven't previously heard about Jesus automatically get the chance to be in heaven when they die, so why would any christian want to be a missionary? I know there are groups of people who believe that babies don't automatically get into heaven, because otherwise we wouldn't have people baptising infants and toddlers.
I don't know what the Catholic stance on all of this is nowadays, but when I was a child I seem to remember unbaptised babies going to purgatory.
But the Catholics keep changing their doctrine more often than their altar boys. And I wouldn't know anything about evagelicals and their view of the matter at hand. Probably 40.000 different opinions.