I hold that your opinion that adults in your New Covenant go to a perpetual limbo-like state to be objectively heretical. St. Augustine never held that. He taught BOD in at least 5 places, and he never retracted BOD itself. He never for e.g. retracted that Cornelius received Baptism of Desire. He only held, in the case of the Good Thief, that the Thief may have received Baptism in an extraordinary manner. Thus St. Augustine said, someone predestined to eternal life, would not be allowed to end this life, without the Sacrament of the mєdιαtor.
So the true XavierSem comes out, despising again the necessity of Baptism for salvation. Ironically, Xavier, it is you who are embracing and endorsing heresy.
Dummy, the corollary to the St. Augustine position is obviously that if someone did not receive the Sacrament of Baptism, then it follows that they were not predestined for eternal life. Your bad will causes even your logical faculties to fail. Ergo, if Fr. Hermann's mother died without the Sacrament of Baptism, then she was not predestined for eternal life, i.e. she was not saved. Duh. As I pointed out, NOWHERE in this story, if it's even real, does it claim that she went to Heaven, just that she didn't perish ... which is consistent with justification vs. salvation.
Both Karl Rahner and the theologian cited in that Catholicism.org article on St. Augustine both conclude that St. Augustine retracted his belief in BoD as being salvific. Like St. Ambrose, he likely believed that a baptism of
votum, of sorts, could wash the soul to certain extent but could not obtain crowning in the Kingdom.
You make absurd attempts to explain away Pope St. Simplicius as well.
All this proves that you've already made up your mind and are begging the question, and then using confirmation bias to filter out anything that doesn't agree with you.
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