I don't know what to say, we should love all the people and pray for them but I don't know what to say about salvation, I'll send you tomorrow more quotes and their sources.
But I want to add only one now, St Ignatie Briancianinov wrote a letter called \"About the unbeliever's (heretics) SALVATION\" maybe you can find it in English too, it's very good to read, though has like 3 pages, I have it in Romanian on an orthodox website, shortly is written something like: \"this letter was written as a response to a lady who didn't believed in the words \"a lot of people is called but only few are selected\" and that those selctede are indeed the orthodox, and he answered her \"What a pity spectacle seeing christians who don't know what christianism is about. Very rarely we can meet around nowadays christians, real christians. Question: \"Why should not islamic (mahomedans), pagans or herectics should not be SAVED? Around them we can meet lots of good people who don't hurt anyone, to loose all these people would be against Lord's mercy. And heretics are also christians. To consider ourselves only us who can hope at SALVATION and the others lost would be too much pride. St Ignatie Briancianinov answered \"You christians, you don't even know what SALVATION is all about but you're talking about SALVATION. Listen here the christian truth regarding SALVATION. We lost our SALVATION when Adam & Eve have sinned in Heaven (I'll shortly everything now because it's a long letter) .... All human mankind is a sinner mankind with a dead destiny. We are borning ourselves in sins. St Patriarch Jacov in the Old Testament was saying \"I'll go down crying to my son, in hell.\" And this he was saying about himself and about his son Josef, who was a virgin and a wonderful boy. In the Old Testament they were going to hell not only bad people but also all good people, and they all knew that those times. So only so much is what the kindness/goodness of man can do to the SALVATION of tthat man. This showed us that we, as humans, no matter how good we are, we are powerless in face of dark powers if we don't have The Holy Spirit inside us, to help us, which comes from our Father. So the price for Adam&Eve sins and for all our sins was payed by the our Saviour, He took all the sins of human kind onto Him and born us as new people, so the Son of God has let Himself being crucified by us to take us out from the devil's hands because of our sins. And took out from hell those who were cathed there. And He told us No one will get to our Father by not getting threw Me. So how can we say then that only goodness will save us, we saw what is the power of goodness in the life after death, it can do nothing if we are not bornt again threw Holy Spirit which comes from our Father. About heretics I'll tell you that SALVATION doesn't mean only to believe in the existance (devil's also believe) but to accomplish God's commandemnets. Have you seen our Patriarch Avraam from Old Testament what did? Our Lord put at test his belief in Him and ask him to kill his lovely child, and Avraam abide it but God appeared at the right moment, this is believing in God, abiding ALL! His Commandments, belief without deeds is nothing. Like this are doing heretics, they believe but they changed all the rules in their churches. Didn't you heard that times are near and faith will get cold in the world so few will keep the true faith, if you would see how many people from this world are going to hell after death and here and there are some other people who go to heaven. Have you seen any of these herectis how full of proudness they are, what big sins are doing in their homes, killings and heartings and other things and you see them being good, how can they be able to be good if only Holy Spirit gives us strentgh to be good, how can they keep good if they lost the Holy Spirit from their churches. Only earning the Holy Spirit gives us strength to be good in ourdays with so many evelness around.
It's long the letter, but in conclusion, it's pretty saying the same things I wrote first: only the mercy of God and His Grace knows who and in what percentage they will be saved.
I'll send you others Saints opinion too tomorrow.
I'll also send you a vision of a father regarding the judgings of our Lord, I mean we think that our Lord may have made an unfairness, and in the end we discover that our Lord knows everything, I'll send it tomorrow.
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