Put a gun to your head and pull the trigger = going to Hell
Free solo a mountain and lose your grip and die = going to Heaven or Hell?
Getting addicted to Fentanyl and dying = going to Heaven or Hell?
Put a gun to your head and pull the trigger = going to Hell
Free solo a mountain and lose your grip and die = going to Heaven or Hell?
Getting addicted to Fentanyl and dying = going to Heaven or Hell?
According to Pope Francis, only God knows
Protestants typically adhere to the doctrines sola fide ([salvation] by faith alone) and sola scriptura ([salvation] by scripture alone. This means:
Note that apologists and ministries will opine differently, suggesting that even the most pious Christian has to worry about Hellfire. Catholic apologists will suggest your works for the Church are not quite enough to earn salvation. Not only do they not know, but are motivated to instill doubt, so you might show up to the pews and feed the collections plate. Even churches are capitalist in our capitalist society.
All that said, your nervous system will rapidly cease to function once you die, as will your capacity to sense the outside world, to remember events of your past and to process information. If any of these come back in the afterlife, it’s through a different mechanism, and we have zero data on its capabilities. But we do see how the material versions fade slowly with conditions like Alzheimer’s or dementia, and there’s no sign that the being of any afterlife is connected in any way to the being that materially perished. So you may not be going anywhere.
But then, you won’t be disappointed.