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Pope St. Innocent I’s Declaration That No One Is Saved Without Baptism
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In his letter Inter Ceteras of Jan. 27, 417, Pope St. Innocent I confirmed the Council of Mileve and condemned the heresy of the Pelagians.  His letter was considered an authoritative response of the Apostolic See.  It’s also referenced as such by St. Augustine and St. Robert Bellarmine.[1]  In the docuмent Pope St. Innocent teaches that eternal life is only conferred by baptism.  He also says that those who believe eternal life is granted without baptism should confess or admit that in their view the baptismal streams are of no benefit.


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Pope St. Innocent I, Inter Ceteras, To The Council of Mileve, Jan. 27, 417: “But that claim which your Fraternity asserts that they [the Pelagians] preach, namely, that children can be endowed with the rewards of eternal life even without the grace of baptism, is utterly foolish… But those who claim this [eternal life] for them without regeneration seem to me to wish to nullify baptism itself, since they preach that these have what is believed to be conferred on them only by baptism.  If therefore they [the Pelagians] want to claim that not being reborn is no hindrance [to eternal life], it is necessary that they should confess that the sacred streams of regeneration are of no benefit.  But in order that the perverse doctrine of unnecessary men may be refuted by the swift reason of truth, the Lord proclaims in the Gospel, saying: ‘Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of heaven’ (Luke 18:16).”[2]



[1] St. Augustine, Against Julian, Book 1, Chap. 4; St. Augustine, Sermon 131, Sept. 23, 417; St. Augustine, Against Two Letters Of The Pelagians, Book 2, Chap. 7; St. Robert Bellarmine, De Amissione Gratiae Et Statu Peccati, Book 6, Chap. 2.

[2] J.P. Migne, Patrologia Latina, 33:785
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