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Trent says justification cannot be effected without the sacrament. And again, where is the Divine Providence in your a BOD? You must necessarily omit His Providence out of the formula completely - or it does not work.

If you have faith, you easily understand that Almighty God provided everyone, including you with the time to do it, and the water for doing it, and the minister for doing it. If God arranged for you to be baptized, it is by the very same Providence He can arrange for anyone else who desires or is willing to receive it - regardless of what the circuмstances are.

A BOD is salvation via faith alone - as St. Alphonsus said and as Trent condemned.

Buddy ... you're a shameless Pelagian heretic.

... and you're throwing one handful of crap after another at the wall hoping the something will stick.

1) Book of Job ... what on earth are you moronically babbling about?

2) Been mansplained to you many times ... "washed but now crowned" (St. Ambrose), or St. Cyprian's theory that the angels pronounced the words and the blood of martyrdom could supply for water as valid matter, where he considered it merely an alternative confection of the Sacrament (his word)

3) So one can WILL himself to salvation along with having faith ... Pelagian heresy.

While it's permitted by the Church to believe in BoD, we find that 95% of BoDers are Pelagian heretics.

At first, I was frustrated and angry by your arguments, thinking them completely stupid and beneath me. Then, through learning how to counter those arguments, I became more adept at moral theology and at interpretating Church teachings. I found original ways to think about the subject of baptism of desire that most people would never have thought of.