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To: P-Marlowe
One person asks a simple yes or no question and the other person refers them to some web site rather than giving a direct answer. I think I know what your answer is. I think you would answer "NO, salvation is only through the rituals and sacraments and authority of the Roman Catholic Church."

Really, this is quite amusing. You asked a yes/no question, but as I tried (and apparently failed) to indicate, it is not a yes/no answer. I pointed you to another document because it gives a fuller answer for those interested in the truth.

Let me try a different tack.
Would you knowingly and deliberately reject divinely-revealed doctrine? If so, then the answer is probably "No", you cannot be saved outside the Catholic Church (or even inside for that matter).

What if you unknowingly or accidentally reject divinely-revealed doctrine? If so, then the answer is probably "Yes", you can be saved outside the Catholic Church.

If you seek the Truth, and do not turn away from it, then all will be well.
866 posted on 01/25/2004 2:11:34 PM PST by polemikos ("To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant" - John Henry Newman)
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To: polemikos; AlguyA
If you seek the Truth, and do not turn away from it, then all will be well.

Does that go for Buddhists and Hindus and Muslims? I would say that they all honestly seek the truth. They believe Buddhism and Hinduism and Islam to be the truth. The generally don't turn away from their religions to become Roman Catholics, but it would objectively appear that many of them, indeed maybe most of them, are seeking what they believe to be the truth.

Will all be well for them?

878 posted on 01/25/2004 2:49:32 PM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o* &AAGG)
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