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Offline DecemRationis

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Re: John 3:5 defined as Dogma at Trent, Theologian admits (video)
« Reply #190 on: August 26, 2022, 01:36:18 PM »

So I hold that there is a BoB/BoD that can remit sin, i.e. can justify, but that it does not suffice for entry into the Kingdom, the Beatific Vision, since it is precisely the character of Baptism that enables human beings to receive this supernatural faculty to see God as He is, a capacity that we lack by nature.  I hold that martyrs who would die without the Sacrament would go to a place of perfect natural happiness, i.e. to a Limbo very similar to that of the infants.  Those who have BoD, depending on how perfect their desire and contrition are can have UP to a similar complete remission, but also varying degrees short of that.

This again is the distinction between justification (remission of sin) and salvation (entry into the Beatific Vision).  While BoD/BoB suffice for the former, it does not for the latter.


:facepalm:

Sin is only remitted through application of the merits of the Blood of Christ, and anyone who receives that application (and it's merits), if they were to die with in that state, would be saved. You cannot be justified and die in a state of justification and go to hell, even if it were a hell of only having to listen to Ladislaus ridiculously speculating for eternity. 


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CHAPTER III.


Who are justified through Christ.

But, though He died for all, yet do not all receive the benefit of His death, but those only unto whom the merit of His passion is communicated. For as in truth men, if they were not born propagated of the seed of Adam, would not be born unjust,-seeing that, by that propagation, they contract through him, when they are conceived, injustice as their own,-so, if they were not born again in Christ, they never would be justified; seeing that, in that new birth, there is bestowed upon them, through the merit of His passion, the grace whereby they are made just. For this benefit the apostle exhorts us, evermore to give thanks to the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light, and hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love, in whom we have redemption, and remission of sins.

CHAPTER IV.


A description is introduced of the Justification of the impious, and of the Manner thereof under the law of grace.


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.


That's Papal Magisterium telling us exactly what justification is. 

Submit.

Or fall under the ax you hold over Stubborn's head . . . for rejecting an ecuмenical council that disclaimed speaking with that authority. 


Offline DecemRationis

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Re: John 3:5 defined as Dogma at Trent, Theologian admits (video)
« Reply #191 on: August 26, 2022, 01:44:09 PM »
And yet you're trying to bind everyone to a particular interpretation of Trent.

And, yes, the Church's interpretation of doctrine is in fact binding, especially when done by an Ecuмenical Council and done consistently by Catholic popes for 60+ years ... and this is precisely what makes you a heretic.

Ecuмenical Councils, Papal Magisterium:  binding
Theologians:  non-binding

But you have the temerity to REVERSE these two.

Theologians:  binding
Ecuмenical Councils, Papal Magisterium: non-binding

You make a fool of yourself.

I hold the first, while you hold the second.

You're an absolute idiot if you think the Council of Trent didn't clearly tell us what "justification" is.

And I haven't quoted a theologian in this exchange with you. I quoted the Council of Trent, and the Catechism of the Council of Trent, interpreting the Council. You can argue the Catechism is not binding, but it certainly indicates my reading is the reading of the fathers of Trent, of St. Pius V.

You're a moron who thinks he's a genius, one that loves to hear himself speculating, against clear words of the Magisterium, which he professes to follow. :jester:

Unbelievable.


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Re: John 3:5 defined as Dogma at Trent, Theologian admits (video)
« Reply #192 on: August 27, 2022, 11:23:53 AM »
You're an absolute idiot if you think the Council of Trent didn't clearly tell us what "justification" is.

And I haven't quoted a theologian in this exchange with you. I quoted the Council of Trent, and the Catechism of the Council of Trent, interpreting the Council. You can argue the Catechism is not binding, but it certainly indicates my reading is the reading of the fathers of Trent, of St. Pius V.

You're a moron who thinks he's a genius, one that loves to hear himself speculating, against clear words of the Magisterium, which he professes to follow. :jester:

Unbelievable.


Trent was clearly describing in context the initial justification that takes place on account of receiving the Sacrament of Baptism.  Post-Tridentine theologians used the term more broadly, and some held that infidels can be justified but not saved, and that they would not in that case be in a state of sanctifying grace.  Your quarrel is with them.  I wasn't even aware of this until XavierSem cited them.  I had actually been opposed to the "Feeneyite" distinction between justification and salvation, in the context of BoD, until I went and read some of these theologians, and I changed my mind about the matter.  Initially I had supposed that the distinction between justification and salvation is that one can be justified in this life, but then doesn't become saved until dying in said state of justification (with the additional grace of final perseverance).  You need to actually read the context of Trent.  If you were to pull a sentence out of context, you might miss the fact that Trent is speaking about Baptism for adults, and that much of it doesn't apply to infants.

How dare you attack me for speculating against the clear words of the Magisterium, when you REJECT THE CLEAR WORDS OF (what you claim is) THE MAGISTERIUM at Vatican II.  Your hubris knows no abounds.  And we're not discussing here merely the definition of "justification" but you have applied the same self-serving hypocritical approach to the entire subject of BoD, arrogantly asserting that we must heed your (false extension of) the Magisterium while rejecting the Magisterium of an Ecuмenical Council and of the Papal Magisterium for 60+ years.

I reject the notion that theologians constitute the Magisterium.  You on the other hand assert that we are bound by the opinions of theologians, but then it's OK to reject an Ecuмenical Council and 60+ years of Papal Magisterium.

Either accept Vatican II, the New Mass, and the last 60+ years of Papal Magisterium, or shut your stupid trap about how I am "speculating against the clear words of the Magisterium".

You're completely ridiculous, and you know it, but instead of honestly examining your self-contradiction, you lash out with insults and ridicule, complete with emoticons.  You're having an emotional meltdown due to the fact that someone is goading you regarding the contradictions, and you're upset with my allegation that your ecclesiology is heretical (which it is).

Offline trad123

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Re: John 3:5 defined as Dogma at Trent, Theologian admits (video)
« Reply #193 on: August 27, 2022, 07:47:33 PM »
https://www.cathinfo.com/baptism-of-desire-and-feeneyism/john-35-defined-as-dogma-at-trent-theologian-admits-(video)/msg842844/#msg842844



Whatever anyone else teaches, Trent does not teach that desire can justify, Trent teaches that desire (a true desire/vow by a catechumen) cannot justify.

I know that Fr. Feeney admits as much, but I believe he is wrong on this point.


I agree.





:facepalm:

Sin is only remitted through application of the merits of the Blood of Christ, and anyone who receives that application (and it's merits), if they were to die with in that state, would be saved. You cannot be justified and die in a state of justification and go to hell, even if it were a hell of only having to listen to Ladislaus ridiculously speculating for eternity.



Could be thinking more along the lines of limbo, but that's still in hell. Or could be closer along the lines of "I do not know" like what Fr. Feeney wrote in the Book of Life.

Lad, are you aligning more and more with the theological position of the Saint Benedict Center?

Offline trad123

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Re: John 3:5 defined as Dogma at Trent, Theologian admits (video)
« Reply #194 on: August 27, 2022, 07:49:44 PM »
I had actually been opposed to the "Feeneyite" distinction between justification and salvation, in the context of BoD, until I went and read some of these theologians, and I changed my mind about the matter.  Initially I had supposed that the distinction between justification and salvation is that one can be justified in this life, but then doesn't become saved until dying in said state of justification (with the additional grace of final perseverance). 


Do you believe to be justified is to be born again?