Stubborn, I could be wrong about justification. It seemed to me that the usual quote used to support BOD mentions the word justification, not salvation. That was what I was referring to in my post above.
Where does Trent say justification can not be effected without the Sacrament? Does it say justification or does it say Baptism is necessary for Salvation? There is a distinction between those two things, is there not?
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 [to justification], since the promulgation of the Gospel, cannotbe 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."
Then in the 7th session, (On the Sacraments in general) Trent anathematizes whoever says the sacraments are not necessary for salvation....
Canon 4
If any one saith, that the sacraments of the New Law are not necessary
unto salvation, but superfluous; and that, without them, or without the desire thereof,
men obtain of God, through faith alone, the grace of justification;-though all (the
sacraments) are not indeed necessary for every individual;
let him be anathema.
Also 7th session, (On the Sacrament of Baptism)
CANON II.-If any one saith, that true and natural water is not of necessity for
baptism, and, on that account, wrests, to some sort of metaphor, those words of our
Lord Jesus Christ; Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost; let him
be anathema.
CANON V.-If any one saith, that baptism is optional, that is, not necessary unto
salvation; let him be anathema.
Topic: Father Feeney on Trent (Session VI, Chapter 4) or the Catechism of Trent on BOD (Read 22238 times)