there is no salvation outside the Church, and that non-members of that Church can be saved
You can stop reading here, on the very first sentence.
Apparently that's what you do when you read something, quit before reading something in context, where things are clarified.
A sure sign of someone having a SERIOUS problem with their faith is when they criticize something like the Baltimore Catechism which was approved by Rome and peacefully accepted for generations by the Church. Any boy who ever responded adamantly to one of it's teachings, "I don't like that", would have been looked at immediately as a budding heretic. There are several like that here on this forum.
The Baltimore catechism has errors, which is fact no matter who says otherwise, but this article begins with denying the dogma EENS, which SHOULD be looked upon as heretical by members of the Church.
Thankfully one did not have to read the whole thing before discovering the fraud.
Yes, of course, you think you are smarter than all the popes since it was approved, the whole Catholic world of clergy and laity for generations, including some Saints, particularly St. Pius X who included the same in his catechism, canon law incorporating it...none of them noticed...but you know better!
It's typical for a heretic to have such a mindframe.
LOL - look who is calling who a heretic - you who explicitly reject Our Lord's proposition.
Can a man enter the Kingdom of God without being born again of water and the Holy Ghost?
Don't pretend as if your question is not based directly on Scripture.
It is obvious from my messages that the answer to your question is "yes".
You are evasive when asked direct questions (typical of a heretic), but if I were to ask you now whether the meaning of Scripture is always literal, what would you answer, if you could?
I am never evasive, I have answered every question you've ever asked except for one, which I will never answer because no sense handing more pearls to you on a silver platter for you to trample. No, the meaning of scripture is not always literal, but John 3:5 is, Trent even declares it is to be understood "as it is written". But you reject that directive as well.
OTOH, you have still never answered a number of my questions, the
latest question that you refuse to answer is:
One Lord, one faith, one Baptism - Eph 4:5
Q.How many baptisms are there?
A. ________
Why do you refuse to answer? - that is, as you say, typical of a heretic.
Error is error no matter where it comes from. The BC, for all the truth it teaches, has a few drops of poison in it - which you naturally slurp right up.
Error harmful, in any way to faith or morals, doesn't come from the Church's magisterium, extraordinary magisterium, or not.
That is wrong. Or to state it more accurately, that is only a half truth. What you are saying is Novus Ordo teaching and thinking that obviously you cannot shake free from and apparently there is no convincing you otherwise, so you will remain in your error until you shake free from that error and accept the truth. Until such a time as God willing, you reject your error and accept the truth, if you want to remain anathema, I will do as the Church teaches and let you be anathema.
Aside from that, the Baltimore catechism is a text book, it is fallible, it has errors same as nearly all the other catechisms. The errors found within it helped fuel the modernist thinking that welcomed in the New faith as it rejected the True faith - which you embrace as truth even after all this time to serve as witness against such thinking. Quite incredible how that works.
Pope Pius IX taught such errors could be expected when bishops convened a council independent of the Pope, as was the case with the BC, which was "prepared and enjoined by Order of the Third Council of Baltimore". But for you, a fallible gathering of bishops produced an infallible text book, which has been revised umpteen times since it first was published in the late 1800s - another clue for you that the BC is fallible.
You give the fallible catechisms authority over explicit papal teachings, dogmatic decrees and even the clear words of God Himself - FYI, that is Novus Ordo.
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