Excuse me Caraffa, but you are taking my words out of context, and you are making an unproved assumption by saying people outside the Church receive supernatural faith through grace. In
another thread,
...The necessary dogmas are contained in the Athanasian Creed, and their necessity is testified to by Pope Eugence IV, when he asserts the following:
"This is the Catholic Faith. Unless a person believes it faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved."
So a person who does not believe the Catholic Faith cannot be saved, neither is this person Catholic. A person who believes, but is not baptized has natural faith, which may be a gift of prevenient grace from God, insofar as it disposes him to seek baptism, but it cannot save him without this sacrament.
Perfectly in line with infallible Catholic Tradition:
Council of Trent, Session 6, Decree on Justification, Chapter 5:"The Synod furthermore declares, that in adults, the
beginning of the said Justification is to be
derived from the prevenient grace of God, through Jesus Christ, that is to say, from His vocation, whereby, without any merits existing on their parts, they are called; that so they, who by sins were alienated from God, may be disposed through His quickening and assisting grace,
to convert themselves to their own justification..."
How do they convert themselves to their own justification? As was laid out in the chapter immediately before this one:
Council of Trent, Session 6, Decree on Justification, Chapter 4: "By which words, a description of the Justification of the impious is indicated,-as being a translation, from that state wherein man is born a child of the first Adam, to the state of grace, and of the adoption of the sons of God, through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, our Saviour. And this translation, since the promulgation of the Gospel, cannot be effected, without the laver of regeneration, or the desire thereof, as it is written;
unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God."
So the burden is upon you not to refute a strawman argument, which you have built by implying that I said there is no
grace outside of the Church, but the burden of proof is upon you to refute my assertion that it is the sacrament of baptism alone that confers
SUPERNATURAL FAITH.
Furthermore, I offer you this ex cathedra decree to reassert that without the sacrament of faith, a person may not be justified:
Council of Trent, Session 6, Decree on Justification, Chapter 7: "
Of this Justification the causes are these: the final cause indeed is the glory of God and of Jesus Christ, and life everlasting; while the efficient cause is a merciful God who washes and sanctifies gratuitously, signing, and anointing with the holy Spirit of promise, who is the pledge of our inheritance; but the meritorious cause is His most beloved only-begotten, our Lord Jesus Christ, who, when we were enemies, for the exceeding charity wherewith he loved us, merited Justification for us by His most holy Passion on the wood of the cross, and made satisfaction for us unto God the Father;
the instrumental cause is the sacrament of baptism, which is the sacrament of faith, without which (faith) no man was ever justified;"
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