The key is bad will, BODers just can't accept ALL the dogmas on EENS and baptism as it is written, just like a disciples that walked away from our Lord when he said they had to eat Him. They say "This saying is too hard"
Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, Constitution 1, 1215, ex cathedra: “There is indeed one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice.”
Even the catechumen are not part of the faithful, let alone what the BODers believe that anyone can be saved even if they have no explicit desire to be baptized, martyred, or mad a Catholic, and they have no belief in Christ and the Trinity.
Pope Eugene IV, The Council of Florence, “Exultate Deo,” Nov. 22, 1439, ex cathedra: “Holy baptism, which is the gateway to the spiritual life, holds the first place among all the sacraments; through it we are made members of Christ and of the body of the Church. And since death entered the universe through the first man, ‘unless we are born again of water and the Spirit, we cannot,’ as the Truth says, ‘enter into the kingdom of heaven’ [John 3:5]. The matter of this sacrament is real and natural water.”
Because
there are no dogmatic decrees on even baptism of blood, let alone their real belief in salvation by implicit faith in Christ, BODers are forced to rely on periphery quotes and writings of post Renaissance theologians. There is no doubt that after the definition of Papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council in 1870 there is much more clarity about which docuмents are infallible and which are not. Saints, Doctors and theologians who lived before 1870 did not necessarily have this degree of clarity about what constitutes a dogmatic decree,
this caused many of them to lessen the distinction, in certain cases, between the infallible decrees of popes and the fallible teaching of theologians. It caused them to not look literally at what the dogma actually declares, but rather at what they thought the dogma might mean in light of the opinion of popular theologians of the time. Catholics who live today can say that they understand more about Papal Infallibility and dogmatic decrees than the theologians and doctors in the middle ages all the way down to the end of the 19th century and that they possess an advantage in evaluating this issue not only because they live after the definition of Papal Infallibility, but also because they can review the entire history of papal pronouncements of the Church on this issue and see the harmony among them on the absolute necessity of water baptism.
BODers, because they seek teachers according to their own desires, have developed an edifice built on scattered quotes of those theologians who thought that a dogmatic decree was just another opinion to be improved upon. Hence a BODer read a clear dogmatic decree like this:
Pope Innocent III, Fourth Lateran Council, Constitution 1, 1215, ex cathedra: “There is indeed one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which nobody at all is saved, in which Jesus Christ is both priest and sacrifice.”
and conclude that there is:
Salvation for anyone even if they have no explicit desire to be baptized, martyred, or to be a Catholic, and have no explicit belief in Christ.
Topic: Quotes that BODers Say Must Not be Understood as Written (Read 15506 times)