Don't fall for this nonsense.  This is a tactic on his part to promote BoD.  That's why he "respects" the fact that you hold this opinion, because he's leveraging this to claim that Baptism of Desire can result in someone's salvation.  He has no respect whatsoever for anyone who doesn't believe in BoD.  He's even gone to the point of trying to ally with the Dimond Brothers (who consider him a heretic for both not being SV and for believing in BoD) ... because it's convenient to use as a line of attack.

Those of us who do not believe that anyone can be saved without reception of the Sacrament can take our disagreement to another thread without letting this guy here derail this thread, which is about whether BoD can save.

When the Dimond Brothers disagreed with the position of Father Feeney on this point, they were very polite about it and chalked it up to a mistake on his part, and pointed out that the common enemy of EENS try to exploit this attack on Father Feeney to justify their EENS denial.

By turning the last couple BoD threads into us arguing amongst ourselves about justification and salvation, he's attempting to take our eye off the true common enemy, those who assert that the Sacrament of Baptism is not necessary for salvation.  Don't fall for it.

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Chapter 13 [X]—His Seventh Error. (See Above in Book II. 13 [IX.].)


If you wish to be a catholic, do not venture to believe, to say, or to teach that “they whom the Lord has predestinated for baptism can be snatched away from his predestination, or die before that has been accomplished in them which the Almighty has predestined.” There is in such a dogma more power than I can tell assigned to chances in opposition to the power of God, by the occurrence of which casualties that which He has predestinated is not permitted to come to pass. It is hardly necessary to spend time or earnest words in cautioning the man who takes up with this error against the absolute vortex of confusion into which it will absorb him, when I shall sufficiently meet the case if I briefly warn the prudent man who is ready to receive correction against the threatening mischief. Now these are your words: “We say that some such method as this must be had recourse to in the case of infants who, being predestinated for baptism, are yet, by the failing of this life, hurried away before they are born again in Christ.” Is it then really true that any who have been predestinated to baptism are forestalled before they come to it by the failing of this life? And could God predestinate anything which He either in His foreknowledge saw would not come to pass, or in ignorance knew not that it could not come to pass, either to the frustration of His purpose or the discredit of His foreknowledge? You see how many weighty remarks might be made on this subject; but I am restrained by the fact of having treated on it a little while ago, so that I content myself with this brief and passing admonition.

Augustine, Saint. The Complete Works of St. Augustine: Cross-linked to the Bible and with in-line footnotes (p. 8846). Kindle Edition.

This is St. Augustine's considered response to the idea that some of the predestined (infants) could be snatched away by death before they obtain baptism.


It is also a very powerful response to those who would say that baptism of desire supplies for the lack of baptism in catechumen or other "just" among the elect (and some misguided souls also apply this to non-Christians) who do not receive baptism: the truth of predestination and God's law of the necessity of baptism makes a mockery of the thought of the need for such a "supply" as BOD provides.

If only St. Augustine had written a passage in his later life explicitly confronting the idea of BOD as salvific in light of his mature understanding of Predestination, which he so eloquently talked about in his anti-Pelagian writings.

And yet again the importance of this dogma of the faith, Predestination, and the long-reaching consequences of its recession from the front of the Catholic mind, is demonstrated: BOD, the salvation of non-Catholics, etc.

God's salvific will to save "all men" and the death of unbaptized infants - page 4 - The Sacred: Catholic Liturgy, Chant, Prayers - Catholic Info (cathinfo.com)

I was directed to this section from Denzinger (388, 13th ed., 1954) to emphasize that BoD is taught as doctrine. BUT, of the variety proposed by the Doctors, NOT the Pelagian variety that has infected trad clerics.

Did I read that correctly?  A priest that was not baptized?  How does that even happen?

IIRC it was referring a to a Jєωιѕн priest

This diabolical inversion has gotten so bad that thsoe Catholics who in fact simply answer, "No.  Only Catholics can be saved." are denied the Sacraments and treated as heretics by Trad bishops and priests.  This is how deep the error and the heresy run.