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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 ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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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.

Any author who believes that Catholics believe that Baptism alone guarantees their way to Heaven has never spent 2 minutes in Catholic Sunday School.


44 posted on 03/09/2007 6:55:51 AM PST by Polybius
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