In words, we cannot be sure that babies who die without being baptized go to Heaven and not to hell. This is how serious and important baptism is in Catholic Theology. Here is the testimony of Bob Bush, a former Roman Catholic priest. "It took me many years to realize that I was compromising by staying in the Roman Catholic Church. Throughout all those years I continued to stress that salvation is only in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross and not in the infant baptism; that there is only one source of authority which is the Bible, the word of God; and that there is no purgatory but rather that when we die to either go to heaven or hell." (p. 69) Catholics believe that their salvation journey begins through baptism. By being baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church, they receive God’s life. Baptism allegedly washes away the original inherited sin of Adam and those sins that were personally committed before baptism, but not the sins that will be committed throughout a Catholics post-baptism life. The claim is made by Catholic teachers that the New Birth is non-meritorious (CCC 2010). However, this same birth is said to infuse God’s sanctifying grace in a Catholic which enables them to perform good deeds to merit their salvation and justification before God (CCC 1266, 2003). Catholic Church Catechism 2027 states: can merit for ourselves and “we for others all the graces needed to attain eternal life, as well as necessary temporal goods.” The Catholic Church Catechism 1257 also states: Lord himself affirms that Baptism is necessary for salvation” “The CCC 985: is the first and chief sacrament of the forgiveness “Baptism of sins: it unites us to Christ, who died and rose, and gives us the Holy Spirit.” CCC 980: is through the sacrament of Penance that the baptized “It can be reconciled with God and with the Church...This sacrament of Penance is necessary for salvation for those who have fallen after Baptism, just as Baptism is necessary for salvation for those who have not yet been reborn.” None of this sounds non-meritorious as Catholic theologians suggest! How can something be for salvation” but at the same time be “necessary considered non-meritorious. This sounds like jangling” (1 Tim. 1:6) or “vain a bunch of random, empty, and senseless talk!
In words, we cannot be sure that babies who die without being baptized go to Heaven and not to hell. This is how serious and important baptism is in Catholic Theology. Here is the testimony of Bob Bush, a former Roman Catholic priest. "It took me many years to realize that I was compromising by staying in the Roman Catholic Church. Throughout all those years I continued to stress that salvation is only in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross and not in the infant baptism; that there is only one source of authority which is the Bible, the word of God; and that there is no purgatory but rather that when we die to either go to heaven or hell." (p. 69) Catholics believe that their salvation journey begins through baptism. By being baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church, they receive God’s life. Baptism allegedly washes away the original inherited sin of Adam and those sins that were personally committed before baptism, but not the sins that will be committed throughout a Catholics post-baptism life. The claim is made by Catholic teachers that the New Birth is non-meritorious (CCC 2010). However, this same birth is said to infuse God’s sanctifying grace in a Catholic which enables them to perform good deeds to merit their salvation and justification before God (CCC 1266, 2003). Catholic Church Catechism 2027 states: “we can merit for ourselves and for others all the graces needed to attain eternal life, as well as necessary temporal goods.” The Catholic Church Catechism 1257 also states: “The Lord himself affirms that Baptism is necessary for salvation” CCC 985: “Baptism is the first and chief sacrament of the forgiveness of sins: it unites us to Christ, who died and rose, and gives us the Holy Spirit.” CCC 980: “It is through the sacrament of Penance that the baptized can be reconciled with God and with the Church...This sacrament of Penance is necessary for salvation for those who have fallen after Baptism, just as Baptism is necessary for salvation for those who have not yet been reborn.” None of this sounds non-meritorious as Catholic theologians suggest! How can something be “necessary for salvation” but at the same time be considered non-meritorious. This sounds like “vain jangling” (1 Tim. 1:6) or a bunch of random, empty, and senseless talk!
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