Wednesday, June 12, 2019

There are no exceptions to EENS. The baptism of desire is not an exception


You keep referring to BOD as exceptions to EENS. There are no exceptions to EENS, whether you call them hypothetical cases, or practical cases.(Great so there are no exceptions to EENS. BOD is not an exception to EENS for...)
You hold that the baptismal character is an absolute necessity for salvation. It is not. It is not even a relative necessity for salvation. (The baptism of water is necessary for salvation. The Catechism(1994) says that the Church knows of no means to eternal beatitude other than the baptism of water. Also the same message is there in the Catechism of Pope Pius X  and the Church Councils which defined EENS.)
You fail to distinguish between grace and the baptismal character. Grace can be obtained without the character and hence one can be saved without the character. Hypothetical? Fine.(Hypothetical. Fine. Agreed)  But Feeney said they couldnt be saved.(This is an interpretation. I could quote Fr. Leonard Feeney criticizing the Jesuits and Cardinal Cushing for suggesting there are literal exceptions to EENS i.e literal cases of the BOD, BOB  and I.I) 
-Lionel Andrades

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