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To: Campion
And again, it's a necessity of means that is normative, not absolute. A three-week old baby who dies still wet from a Catholic baptismal font has no conscious or explicit "knowledge of Christ".

Little children have infused supernatural faith given to them by the Sacrament itself. Again the Council of Trent:

whence, man, through Jesus Christ, in whom he is ingrafted, receives, in the said justification, together with the remission of sins, all these (gifts) infused at once, faith, hope, and charity. (Session 6, Chapter VII)

If they did not have faith, we could not account them as members of the faithful, nor as heirs to Christ's promise concerning those who believe in Him (St. John 3.16, etc.)

Supernatural faith is an absolute necessity of means of salvation, since without faith, no one can be justified. And without justification, no one can receive salvation.

688 posted on 12/09/2009 10:09:36 PM PST by Heliand (St. Pater Mavimeno, pray for us)
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To: Heliand
Little children have infused supernatural faith given to them by the Sacrament itself. Again the Council of Trent:

Where did the council of Trent get this non-biblical knowledge??? It's apparent to me they made it up to support their notion that babies must be baptized...

It's a matter of having faith in the men attending your council at Trent as opposed to faith in the truth of the scripture...

God says you must repent before being baptized...That disqualifies any baby baptizing...

694 posted on 12/10/2009 1:56:17 AM PST by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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