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To: sitetest

If you believe that being a Catholic and that only being Catholic is the main or only requirement to being saved, and that Catholicism is the only way to Christ then yes I will regard you as unsaved, disobedient to the Bible, and also a heretic to Christianity.


379 posted on 12/08/2004 12:06:39 PM PST by DarthVader
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To: DarthVader

Dear DarthVader,

"If you believe that being a Catholic and that only being Catholic is the main or only requirement to being saved,..."

Well, that isn't quite what I said. What I DID say was that in being baptized validly, everyone becomes a member, even if imperfectly, of the Catholic Church. That includes even Protestants!

And the Catholic Church does teach that generally baptism is required for salvation.

"and that Catholicism is the only way to Christ then yes I will regard you as unsaved, disobedient to the Bible, and also a heretic to Christianity."

I'm not sure I said that, either. I think that there are plenty of denominations of Christianity. And the Catholic Church recognizes that these denominations contain parts of the Truth of Jesus Christ. Thus, these denominations can certainly lead to the Jesus, and greater embrace of the Body of Christ, which subsists in the Catholic Church.

However, I will note that you mark as unsaved those who adhere to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, albeit that your view of that Magisterium isn't quite accurate.

Thus, from your perspective, "good" Catholics, as defined as Catholics who actually believe and obey what the Catholic Church teaches and binds, are damned. Or at least as long as they remain good Catholics.

That's sort of interesting. ;-)


sitetest


383 posted on 12/08/2004 12:38:20 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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