Everytime I try to play "devil's advocate" and see if BOD fits, there's just holes in that block of cheese. I can't make it work. If one reads the entirety of Trent, the council does a good job of closing the loopholes. But one only sees all the loopholes if you read Trent holistically. If you pull out this phrase or that sentence, out of context, you can make it say anything.
Very true. I used to believe in BoD because I had been under the impression that Trent taught it. So one day I sat down and read both Sessions V and VI in the original Latin, and realized that Trent was not teaching BoD in any way, shape, or form. This was not the intent of its teaching. It was teaching about how the Sacraments work, through a cooperation of the
ex opere operato effect of the Sacrament and the cooperation of free will (related to
votum) with grace. There was no intent here to teach the so-called alleged "Three Baptisms". You would have expected a mention of the Third, but Trent's text, if read the BoDer way, would rule out a third Baptism that did not simply reduce to
votum. I read it over and over again and there was simply no way for me to squeeze "BoD" into the teaching. Trent didn't rule it out either, but it clearly wasn't teaching it.
But when individuals take that famous passage out of context, leave out the quotation from Our Lord, and use the grossly mistranslated "except through", then and ONLY then can you see "BoD" in Trent.
Topic: The Catechism of the Council of Trent does not teach Baptism of Desire (Read 64340 times)