NECESSITY OF MEANS (Letter of the Holy Office 1949-Theological Foundation for the New Theology based upon the false premise )

 

NECESSITY OF MEANS (Letter of the Holy Office 1949-Theological Foundation for the New Theology based upon the false premise. ) 

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Necessity of means is relative when it does not exclude the possibility of being supplied by something else. Thus Baptism of water is necessary for salvation by a relative necessity of means; in fact, under certain conditions, Baptism of desire (in voto ) can remit original sin.

Lionel:

The baptism of water is always necessary on earth for salvation. Every one needs it.Practically there are no cases of the baptism of desire.

It is written, that 'The Baptism of water is necessary for salvation by a relative necessity of means, in fact, under certain conditions, baptism of desire can remit original sin’, Under no conditions known to us humans can the baptism of desire remit original sin. The baptism of water is always necessary for salvation. De facto there are no known cases of the baptism of desire there is no relative necessity of means.The baptism of desire can only be a concept by defacto necessity.

Necessity of means is relative when it does not exclude the possibility of being supplied by something else. Thus Baptism of water is necessary for salvation by a relative necessity of means; in fact, under certain conditions, Baptism of desire (in voto ) can remit original sin. Similarly the Church is necessary for salvation by absolute necessity of means, but membership in the Church is necessary only by relative necessity of means, because, if one is invincibly ignorant of the Church and at the same time, through the Church's invisible mediation, one possesses faith and sanctifying grace, one can be saved without being a formal member. Relative necessity of means is also called physical necessity.

‘Membership in the Church is necessary only by relative necessity of means, because, if one is invincibly ignorance of the Church and at the same time, through the Church’s invisible mediation, one possesses faith and sanctifying grace, one can be saved without being a formal member.’ This is false.Practically membership in the Catholic Church is always necessary for salvation.The norm for salvation is faith and baptism. If one is invincilbly ignorant and is saved it would only be known to God. No such case is known to us on earth. Also if someone is saved outside the Church, without faith and the baptism of water, it is an unknown case to us and so is not an objective exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.

If ‘ one possesses faith and sanctifying grace, one can be saved without being a formal member.’ This is false and heretical. If one possesses faith and sanctifying grace, in a hypothetical and theoretical case, it is not an objective case in the present times and so it is not a practical exception to the strict interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus(EENS). So this is a false premise. It comes from the objective error in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949.

-Lionel Andrades

 

Bibliography: f. lakner, Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche ², ed. j. hofer and k. rahner (Freiburg 1957–65); suppl., Das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil: Dokumente und Kommentare, ed. h. s. brechter et al., pt. 1 (1966) 7:862–863.

 

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