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To: netmilsmom
That bold is an interpertation from the website and not from the Catholic Church.

It's not an interpretation...It's an educated and informed opinion based on the writings of your church and church fathers...The catholic source material is at the bottom of the page...

147 posted on 03/26/2006 6:24:48 PM PST by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the whole trailer park...)
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To: Iscool; netmilsmom
It's not an interpretation...It's an educated and informed opinion based on the writings of your church and church fathers...The catholic source material is at the bottom of the page...

No it's not. It's an uneducated opinion by someone who (at best) doesn't know what the Church teaches. Let's review the quote again:

This attempt at harmonizing leaves many Anglicans, Muslims, Protestants, Wiccans, and followers of other religions in an awkward situation. Many know of the claims of the Roman Catholic Church and reject them in favor of the teachings of other groups. That would seem to eliminate any possibility for them to be saved and attain Heaven, according to the Roman Catholic Church.

In bold, we see where the opinion goes wrong: The Church never says there is "no possibility for salvation" while on Earth. No matter what anyone does, there is always a possibility for salvation. The people described in the previous sentence (of the quote) do indeed loose their salvation, but not because they are Anglicans, Muslims, Protestants, Wiccans, per se, but because they know what the Church is yet still reject it. If the members of the previous groups (Anglicans, Muslims, Protestants, Wiccans) or any other than the Catholic don't fully know what the Church is, it's still possible for them to be saved outside the faith. This is called the doctrine of invincible ignorance.

So to say that "As I understand it, your church makes the claim and takes the position that anyone who is not Catholic, who is not 'sprinkled with blessed holy water', by a 'Priest', can not be a real born again Christian...", (emphasis added) as you did in post 82, is not accurate at all.

176 posted on 03/27/2006 9:21:59 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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