Of course, according to traditional Catholic dogma, men are born into a state of condemnation even before they commit any mortal sins; that's called, "original sin." And to say God foresees the mortal sins that some infants might commit if they were permitted to grow to adulthood, and decides to end the lives of those infants early, is a speculation that just proves my main point: God chooses those infants as opposed to others who he lets age and commit mortal sins and go to hell. Thus, He purely gratuitously favors one sinner who deserves hell over another whom He consigns to it.
You can see here men (Pax, for example) fighting against the teachings of Scripture and its necessary conclusions, the same men who rail against the Novus Ordo and the Conciliarists who do the same thing with Tradition. Ironic.
It is a rather poignant demonstration of my point.
Read the citations of St. Augustine, St. Thomas, the Douay Rheims and Haydock annotations that I posted earlier in this thread, and ask yourself: why are these Trad Catholics like Pax "kicking against the pricks" and pulling against the teachings and their import regarding how God saves - gratuitously, and without man being determinative; man and his will are involved, but they are not determinative - and the extent of man's role in salvation.
Pax can claim these infants are an "exception," but, since they are men, that exception disproves the claim that "all men" individually receive sufficient grace for salvation (all men do only in the sense expressed by St. Alphonsus - God's provision of the means (baptism) which can avail all and any men anywhere as the means of salvation). Mind you, it is not simply posited by influential theologians such as Francisco Marin-Sola (pre-V2) that men would not be damned without personal sin, but that all men would be saved if they didn't posit an obstacle - their sin or opposition - to God's will that they be saved. Clearly, the infants do not posit such an obstacle, and yet the Traditional Catholic view is that they are not saved. One simply cannot square the view of theologians like Marin-Sola with the thought and teaching of men like St. Augustine, St. Thomas - Traditional, classical Catholic thought - on this issue.
It is interesting to see Trads back away from the doctrine of Limbo to preserve their human sense of fairness/justice which they see as requiring that all men individually and directly receive sufficient grace for salvation. I see that as an indication of the problem that went to its extremes in the Novus Ordo religion.
Topic: God's salvific will to save "all men" and the death of unbaptized infants (Read 304893 times)