On BOD, if someone is a catechumen and dies before they get to the font, or if someone lives on a primitive island where there are no priests - let's say they possess one Bible and have a desire to be baptized and be part of Christ's church, but they have a limited understanding, and they die before they have the chance, how can you say that certainly they are damned? Is God a cruel God, or is He a good God, merciful and just? Can someone just explain this to me in short terms. Now, BOD has a liberal interpretation which is false. Of course "not everyone who says 'Lord, Lord' shall enter into the kingdom of heaven." Mt. 7:21 The novus ordo would like to propose so. "Everyone goes to heaven following their own path." Pp. Francis said "good Muslims can go to heaven".
What is so difficult to accept that a good, merciful and just God would certainly provide the minister, the time and the water to administer the sacrament to such a catechumen? Do BODers believe God is too busy, preoccupied, or what to provide the sacrament which He Himself made a requirement for heaven?
Again, the only way a BOD works is when God's Providence is completely taken out of the formula, which is to say that with the divine providence, a BOD fails, without it, it works.
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There is no one about to die in the state of justification whom God cannot secure Baptism for, and indeed, Baptism of Water. The schemes concerning salvation, I leave to the skeptics. The clear truths of salvation, I am preaching to you." - Bread of Life by Fr. Feeney
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