[FourtySeven]

Ok. Fair enough. Note, I’m not going to claim this is a complete list of dogmatic teachings but I’d say it’s pretty close. In no particular order one must agree:

1. God is one being in three persons (the Trinity)
2. Jesus died for our sins.
3. Baptism saves you.
4. The Church is Jesus’ Mystical Body.
5. God the Father is the Creator.
5. Jesus is His Son, God the Son.
6. God the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.
7. Jesus rose from the dead and sits at the right hand of the Father.
8. He ascended into heaven.
9. Jesus was born of Mary, a virgin.
10. Mary was and is a perpetual virgin.
11. Mary was conceived without Original Sin and lived a sinless life.
12. Mary was assumed bodily into heaven.
13. The Communion of Saints is real, the connection between all those on earth and all those in Heaven is through Christ.
14. Purgatory is real, and exists to purge all affects of sin from the soul that remain after death (if any)
15. The Eucharist is the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
16. Absolution through the Sacrament of Confession confers real, sanctifying grace.
17. The Sacrament of Matrimony is between one man and one woman only.
18. Contraception, that employs any device or method to thwart the natural result (conception) of the marital act is forbidden.
19. The Sacrament of the Holy Orders enables men and only men, through the power of Jesus Christ (and only His power given to the ministry of the whole Church) to confect bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, to forgive sins, and to bless sacramental objects such as water, statues and Rosaries.
20. The Sacrament of the Annointing of the Sick confers actual, sanctifying (and sometimes physically healing) grace upon the recipient.
21. The Pope is the Vicar of Christ, His representitive on Earth, and speaks preserved from error when he speaks to the entire Church Universal on matters of faith and morals.

I’ve probably missed some but those are just off the top of my head. Sorry, gotta go!

Later,

[MHGinTN]

Oh shucks, I was gonna ask if these are required to gain the blessings of the Church or to obtain Salvation, or are these synonymous. But thanks for taking a minute to post them.

[metmom]

Thanks for the list.

Without being snarky, I would be genuinely curious about why something like the perpetual virginity of Mary, which is found nowhere in Scripture, would be a dogmatic teaching that is required for salvation?

If God thought it necessary for salvation, would He not have had Jesus tell us so? Would not the Holy Spirit have inspired at least ONE of the NT writers to say something, anything about it?

[Elsie]

The Sacrament of Matrimony is between one man and one woman only.

Dang!

Who knew that THIS could keep one outta Heaven!

[CynicalBear]

Wow! Paul and Silas must have messed up when the told the jailer what he needed for salvation.