To: Uncle Chip
Let's just post the CCC's teaching on the salvation of non-Catholics:
"Outside the Church there is no salvation"
846 ... Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.336
146 posted on
12/29/2006 8:10:32 AM PST by
kawaii
(Orthodox Christianity -- Proclaiming the Truth Since 33 A.D.)
To: kawaii
So then does Paragraph 846 modify or negate or affirm Paragraph 841?
152 posted on
12/29/2006 9:18:44 AM PST by
Uncle Chip
(TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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