RE: Good exists - a Catholic comments
August 19, 2023 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2023 at 11:39 am by Bucky Ball.)
(August 19, 2023 at 11:21 am)LinuxGal Wrote:(August 19, 2023 at 10:48 am)Barry Wrote: Babies don’t “need to be baptised”. But the CC says OS is forgiven through Baptism.
So babies don't need to be forgiven of original sin, is what you are teaching here.
Hi LG,
No one needs to actually get baptized by water, according to the RCC.
In fact no one even needs anything to do with any religious anything.
Both the Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church and its theology (and Aquinas for that matter) teach
that Baptism of Desire, and "implicit" Baptism of Desire are sufficient for salvation.
The Catechism also teaches that we alll have the absolute right to Freedom of Conscience, and we are all saved if (whatever we believe) we follow our consciences.
So while the religionists have to follow all sorts of churchy-shit, we are free (according to THEIR teachings), to follow our consciences and we end up equal to the religionists.
There is no Biblical notion of "original sin". The Jews had no such idea. It was never the function of a messiah to die for sin.
We know a lot about when the church cooked up that notion, and you can watch as they invented it, by reading the
proceedings of the Councils (available on Fordham University's website).
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
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