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You're welcome. Now, can you answer my example: "Now, I gave you an example for this: If I say that my thirst cannot be quenched without water, or at least without some juice, then a logical inference is that the juice can substitute for the water.

And this is how the authorized and qualified Doctors, unlike you, a layman not authorized by the Church, interpret Trent: The Desire can sometimes supply for the Water. And note that the desire of them is in the Plural. That means that there are Two Sacraments at least for which the Desire of the Sacraments obtains Justification. Those can only be Baptism and Penance.

You evidently lack reading comprehension, yet imagine yourself to have mind-reading capabilities.

I have explained clearly what I believe. Your denial that BOD justifies places you in objective heresy.

I have cited authorities for what I believe word-for-word. Your argument is not with me but with them.

I answered your question above, yet your selective reading tendency did not allow you to see it.

Here it is in bold, so that even you do not miss it this time. I stand with St. Athanasius, St. Thomas and St. Alphonsus.

"No one will be saved without explicit faith in Christ, i.e. in the Trinity and Incarnation."

Now, go back and answer the authorities I cited. Nor did I say Baptism of Desire is a Sacrament.

First Authority: "St. Alphonsus: On the Council of Trent, 1846, Pg. 128-129 (Duffy): "Who can deny that the act of perfect love of God, which is sufficient for justification, includes an implicit desire of Baptism, of Penance, and of the Eucharist. He who wishes the whole wishes the every part of that whole and all the means necessary for its attainment. In order to be justified without baptism, an infidel must love God above all things, and must have an universal will to observe all the divine precepts, among which the first is to receive baptism: and therefore in order to be justified it is necessary for him to have at least an implicit desire of that sacrament." http://www.baptismofdesire.com/

Second Authority: Also St. Alphonsus: Thus, then, according to the Angelic Doctor [St. Thomas], God, at least remotely, gives to infidels, who have the use of reason, sufficient grace to obtain salvation, and this grace consists in a certain instruction of the mind, and in a movement of the will, to observe the natural law; and if the infidel cooperates with this movement, observing the precepts of the law of nature, and abstaining from grievous sins, he will certainly receive, through the merits of Jesus Christ, the grace proximately sufficient to embrace the Faith, and save his soul.” (The History of Heresies, Refutation 6, #11) https://exlaodicea.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/st-alphonsus-liguori-on-st-thomas-on-the-necessity-of-explicit-faith-in-the-trinity-and-the-redeemer/

Third Authority: H.H Pope St. Pius X: "17 Q. Can the absence of Baptism be supplied in any other way?

A. The absence of Baptism can be supplied by martyrdom, which is called Baptism of Blood, or by an act of perfect love of God, or of contrition, along with the desire, at least implicit, of Baptism, and this is called Baptism of Desire."


What the Popes have said of St. Alphonsus and Moral Theology (where the Doctor teaches BOD is de fide after Trent) in particular:

"(Unique position) “In 1831, Pope Gregory XVI had «decreed it safe to follow St. Alphonsus’ opinion, even if you do not know the reason behind it – a badge of honour Rome has given no other saint.»” (Joseph Maier C.SS.R. in ‘The Priest’, Vol. 19, Sept., 1963).” (Source: Thirty-Three Doctors of the Church, Rengers C. O.F.M. Cap., Washington, 1993, p. 623)"

From: https://www.goodcatholicbooks.org/alphonsus/alphonsus-facts.html