To: Alex Murphy
The goofiest statement of all:
3) Many people who have been baptized as infants believe they are going to heaven because a priest or a pastor sprinkled some water on their forehead when they were a few weeks old.
No Catholic would imagine they are going to heaven based on Baptism. NYer already published the Church practice as related by early Bishops, which predate the Bible. I can come up with a load of material stating the correct thing, that Faith in Gods Mercy and constant action and vigiliance is what is required of us for our Salvation.
42 posted on
03/09/2007 4:55:53 AM PST by
Dominick
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To: Dominick
The goofiest statement of all: ................ "3) Many people who have been baptized as infants believe they are going to heaven because a priest or a pastor sprinkled some water on their forehead when they were a few weeks old." No Catholic would imagine they are going to heaven based on Baptism.
But some "Born Again" Baptists sure do.
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Any author who believes that Catholics believe that Baptism alone guarantees their way to Heaven has never spent 2 minutes in Catholic Sunday School.
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44 posted on
03/09/2007 6:55:51 AM PST by
Polybius
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