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The old law has nothing to do with the heretical "implicit faith" of modernism.  Just stop.

If anyone wants to believe in BOD, then the following conditions are the ONLY ones given by saints and Trent.

1.  St Thomas/St Bellarmine/St Augustine/ Trent ==  All of them talk about FORMAL CATECHUMENS.
2.  Trent's schema on justification is in the context of CATECHUMENS PREPARING FOR BAPTISM.

3.  St Thomas == specifically says that the minimum requirements for conversion are:
a.  Belief/acceptance of the Incarnation (i.e. Christ, as God, came to redeem the human race from Original Sin).
b.  Belief/acceptance of the Trinity.

4.  The Holy Office letter (in 1600s) to missionaries, on the conditions necessary for pagan indians to be baptized:
a.  Belief/acceptance of the Incarnation and Trinity.

5.  Trent gives multiple chapters on the conditions necessary for a catechumen to be baptized.  There is no way BOD applies to anyone other than catechumens.


Conclusions:
a.  Catechumen ==  a Christian convert under instruction before baptism.
b.  A muslim cannot be saved as a muslim, because the muslim religion denies the Incarnation/Trinity.
c.  Same applies for Jews, hindus, pagans, etc.
d.  All of these peoples would have to REJECT THEIR OLD RELIGIONS FIRST, which is a REQUIREMENT to being a catechumen.
e.  The reason why St Thomas/St Bellarmine/St Alphonsus argued that catechumens could receive BOD is because they were already "spiritually united to the Church" by their desire to enter it.  Catechumens were called "christians" because they wanted to be such.
f.  No muslim, jew, pagan, etc can be "spiritually united" to the Church if they have not rejected their false religion first. 
g.  A muslim cannot come to a priest and say "I want to take lesson on becoming a catholic, but I still want to be muslim."  Uhhh...that doesn't work.
h.  You can't receive BOD if you don't have a desire (or knowledge) to be catholic first.  You cannot desire what you do not know. 

If you want to believe that BOD exists, then it ONLY exists for formal catechumens, who have rejected their old religions and desire to enter the Church.  And...they have the minimum knowledge necessary to desire the Church (i.e. knowledge/acceptance of the 2 minimum doctrines -- Incarnation/Trinity).

Anyone who does not fulfill these requirements 1) isn't a catechumen, 2) doesn't desire catholicism, 3) doesn't know enough to desire either.  You cannot desire what you do not know.

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Anyone who holds the position that ANYONE BESIDES CATECHUMENS could receive BOD is a heretic.  There is no support for your theories and they contradict St Thomas, St Augustine, St Alphonsus, St Bellarmine, and Trent.  Your theories are modernist, anti-catholic and have no basis in church history, theology or doctrine.

Yes, I like this presentation.  And the Council of Florence is very explicit when it says that even if one were to shed his blood and remain outside the Catholic Church, he cannot be saved. Islam was already established when Florence convened; and one could argue that Protestantism existed in seed form at the time of Florence. The Council of Florence seems to bolster the last statement above. 

I have had Catholics tell me, "Oh, I believe that a Buddhist can be saved if he has never heard of the Church, and never been baptized."  I say, "Well, that certainly sounds heretical to me in light of Florence. If he made no effort to find out about the Church, then we presume he is of bad will."

I have a Protestant friend who told me, "Harry just died, and he was a great guy, a Bible believer."  I said to him, "I talked to Harry last week and he was a heretic."  Which is it?