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To: Dionysiusdecordealcis
No, you're confused. The whole point is that an infant cannot commit a sin because he does not yet know right from wrong.

...and I never said otherwise! But if I'm wrong, then please point me to a source that says Limbo is part of heaven.

Again, let me reformulate the argument. Forget about whether an unbaptized baby merits hell. I'm talking about whether he can go to heaven. A perfectly sinless person yet *without* the supernatural grace of the sacraments, *still* cannot go to heaven. Period. So where does he go? That's what I'm asking.

And for goodness sake, don't ever accuse me of seeing things through Protestant eyes.

Point taken. My apologies.

194 posted on 11/29/2005 5:44:26 PM PST by Claud
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To: Claud
A perfectly sinless person yet *without* the supernatural grace of the sacraments, *still* cannot go to heaven. Period. So where does he go? That's what I'm asking.

Not according to the Catholic Catechism:

1260 "Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery." Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and of his Church, but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it, can be saved. It may be supposed that such persons would have desired Baptism explicitly if they had known its necessity.

213 posted on 11/29/2005 5:59:40 PM PST by sinkspur (Trust, but vilify.)
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To: Claud

That's patently false and leads people to believe that Catholics teach that only a Catholic can go to heaven.


322 posted on 11/30/2005 6:33:42 AM PST by Rutles4Ever
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