I have always firmly believed that God gives each person enough grace to save their souls.
"Thanks be to God, we corresponded with the grace which He gave us! God has sufficient grace waiting for every man in the world,would he but take it! Were God to see that he would take it were it offered to him, it would be given." - Fr. Feeney
The majority of non-Catholics have heard of the Catholic Church but for various and sundry reasons don't look into it seriously, choose not to join etc... They make their choices.
"Before man is life and death, good and evil, that which he shall choose shall be given him" Eccl. 15:15
"...Among all the mysteries that we live amongst, is that of the fact that God saves those whom He wills. And yet those who are lost are lost because they will. No one is saved against his will and no one is damned against his will. At the same time almighty God has known from all eternity who would be His whom he would succeed in saving..." - Fr. Wathen (The Little Flower and other saints have said the same thing)
So now the question is do they save their souls through implicit baptism of desire or does Providence always send a way for them to have at least explicit baptism of desire, if not water baptism.
"There is no one about to die in the state of justification whom God cannot secure Baptism for, and indeed, Baptism of Water. The schemes concerning salvation, I leave to the skeptics. The clear truths of salvation, I am preaching to you". - Fr. Feeney
Other than trusting God's perfect justice and mercy 100%, I don't know what to think. It's seems like deep down it depends on whether you believe a) God gives to each enough grace to save or damn their souls, or, b) God gives some enough grace to either save or damn their souls and to others He gives just enough not to damn themselves but not enough to save themselves. Where you stand on that is going to dictate where you stand on implicit baptism of desire.
Trusting in God's perfect justice and mercy is what is known as having faith in God.
We are bound to keep Holy the Sabbath by Divine Law. We are bound to go to Mass on Sundays and Holy Days by the Church Law. But this is conditional because if the Church does not provide the Mass for us, then we are not bound to go.
When it comes to being baptized, it is only through our faith in God that we believe that since God explicitly mandated the sacrament, there is not even any question or doubt that He will God will certainly provide it to all who sincerely desire it! Why do we believe that? Because God said: "For every one that asketh, receiveth: and he that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened". - John 7:8
Commentary for this verse:
Whatever we ask necessary to salvation with humility, fervour, perseverance, and other due circuŠ¼stances, we may be assured God will grant when it is best for us. If we do not obtain what we pray for, we must suppose it is not conducive to our salvation, in comparison of which all else is of little moment. (Haydock)
To promote a BOD is to deny God's Providence.
I believe that everyone who is as zealous as Sean is in promoting a BOD would be just as zealous in promoting the Divine Providence, they would soon find that a BOD is an insult to the Divine Providence.
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