If swearing is a sin (which from what I've read, it is a sin) and you swear before you die and don't have a chance to ask for forgiveness

Do you think God would still send you to hell for it? Even if you swore due to the injury or situation that caused you to die and therefore didn't get a chance to ask for forgiveness. Wouldn't that suck? Live a good life and try and follow what the bible tells you, and than you experience something horrific, yell "Oh Shit" right before you die. Then when you get to the pearly gates God tells you, well since you said that right before you died you can not get in and now you will burn for all eternity.

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Persephonee · 26-30, F

No.

Can't speak for everyone else, but in Catholic teaching something that is potentially mortally sinful (which is, if un-confessed, when you get into serious trouble), is only actually mortal as opposed to a lesser kind of sin, if it's done knowing it's bad, and also meaning or ("consenting") to do it.

Swearing by instinct which is what you seem to be talking about clearly doesn't have consent behind it (you never had time to think about whether you should swear or not before you swore).

So in other words, you're fine with regards eternal damnation.

Despite the best efforts of a certain kind of miserable Catholic who clearly wish they were really Calvinists, it's actually quite difficult to commit a genuinely mortal sin.

BlueSkyKing · M

@Persephonee Would breaking a commandment qualify? Like working on a Sunday?