Small potatoes, NKP_Vet.
Don't forget this part:
All Human Creatures Are Subject to the PopePopes have more influence that a mere Bishop and Doctor of the Church, right?
Check these out to reinforce your quote that declares that all Christians outside the Catholic Church have no chance for salvation:
"The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved." Pope Innocent III, ex cathedra, Fourth Lateran Council (1215 AD)I especially like the part that says "no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic ChurchWe declare, say , define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” -Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam (1302 AD)
“The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, also Jews, heretics, and schismatics can ever be partakers of eternal life, but that they are to go into the eternal fire ‘which was prepared for the devil and his angels’ (Mt. 25:41) unless before death they are joined with Her… No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.” Pope Eugene IV, ex cathedra, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino (1441 AD)
There are thousands of martyrs for Jesus in the Kingdom of God right now, resting at the bosom of Jesus Christ, who would disagree with that statement. Reminds me of the shortest verse in the Bible, "Jesus wept"
More popesquotes [I coined a word, I hope that is not reported for bashing]:
"The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her (The Catholic Church) will not be saved." Pope Saint Gregory the Great (590-604)Well, that pretty much proves it.“By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside (The Catholic Church) which we believe that no one is saved.” Pope Innocent III, Eius exemplo, 18 December 1208
"Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.” -Venerable Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis
You win NKP_Vet.
We must all be subject to the Catholic Pope and a member of the Catholic Church to be saved.
But then, there is this...
All of those "pontifications" pretty much write off many Bible passages, of which I will post one:
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved--Romans 10:9I certainly agree with this phrase from the last popequote: Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith.
....”No one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.”.......( Pope Eugene IV, ex cathedra, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino (1441 AD).....
Well there it is yet again....
and certainly when they add...Canon 4 regarding the ‘sacrements given by the priests’.....
....that... (“If anyone shall say that the sacraments are not necessary for salvation, but are superfluous, and that, although all are not necessary for every individual, without them or without the desire of them, through faith alone men obtain from God the grace of justification; let him be anathema.”)....
....then the ‘stronghold’ of catholicism keeps it’s membership in bondage.... So the cross is made of NO effect....what ‘they add’ does nullify the simple gospel because they believe they are saved through the sacraments and church membeership .... They do not trust that the cross that Christ died on can bring ‘full redemption in and of itself’... ... This is what Paul stated as a different gospel.