catholic dogma

The Catholic Church teaches that baptism is necessary for salvation for "there shall not enter into it [heaven] any thing defiled." Since infants are not guilty of personal sin, but still have original sin on their soul, they cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. Many fathers and doctors of the Church have taught that infants who die without baptism go to limbo, a state of happiness, but they cannot see the face of God. Has this doctrine been defined by any councils or popes? Do we have to believe this or is it just an opinion?

No.

The Church has pondered the suggestion of Limbo for a few hundred years and has decided that it is not a good idea. Limbo was never official doctrine.

Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved." (Mark 16:15-16)

For centuries, people have wondered about children who died before they were baptized. The Bible does not explicitly state that they will go to heaven.

Limbo was suggested as the place where unbaptized babies went when they died. This idea was never official Church doctrine and has been rejected.

The Church now says that it is not sure what happens to unbaptized babies when they die but she entrusts them to the mercy of God.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church section 1261: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2s ect2.shtml#1261

With love in Christ.

2009-09-13 18:50:03 by Danny

What exactly is a Catholic Dogma?

After all isn't the Catholic Church the mother church?

I find it interesting that evangelicals and protestants are the first to scream heretic

2010-01-25 18:55:43 by Shin Nohara

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One's transubstantiation and the other's a tranny substation

What's the difference between this joke and a pile of sh1t?

2007-12-05 19:21:14 by b_i_l_l2002

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Like all religions, the actual theological assertions or lack thereof varies across its members. Every assertion that follows is only a tentative reflection of the current administration, having no authority outside of the authority that has been arbitrarily assumed and necessitated by the incorporation of the church.



Liturgy, Rights, and Organizational Concept:

1.) Each member of the Church of Atheism, or any person, has the legal authority of the Church to freely to declare their own sincerely held moral objections as religious objections, and by doing so obtain all protections of religious beliefs and practice under the constitution, and state and federal court cases.

2.) Each member of the Church of Atheism is of equal actual status and authority outside of the roles and responsibilities of the administration which has only been formed out of legal requirements and organizational advantages.

3.) Being that each member or person is of equal status and authority, they are free to declare their own Sabbaths, holidays, observances, dress, philosophy, theology, or any other aspect of belief or practice.

4.) Each member or person, with the legal authority of the church, is considered clergy by the Church and may officiate weddings.

Beliefs of the Church:

1.) The church has no answers. Everything that follows is almost entirely gibberish.

2.) None of the following beliefs necessarily reflect that of any member, and each member is free to declare the beliefs of the church, define atheism, and their own beliefs with equal authority as this declaration of the church.

3.) The world is probably not coming to an end anytime soon. This is getting really annoying. However, it is uncertain whether the world is progressively getting worse or better, whether it is within our abilities or not to change the outcome of humanity or the Earth, whether the world will end, or what it means by “ending.”

4.) The Soul, Ghosts, Angels, Jinn, an afterlife, and all other religious mythological beings and concepts probably don’t exist.

5.) All ultimate questions regarding the self, reality, morality, knowledge, meaning, value, being, and truth don’t appear to have any solutions. Sorry.

6.) Hierophanies and theophanies are hallucinations.

Interesting list, but it makes no sense to equate the Catholic Church with atheism. The Catholic Church is based on a belief in God as revealed through Jesus Christ.

2010-03-22 10:55:29 by Reverend

In accepting Catholic dogma you accept the authority of the Church and the pope.
Because the Church defined it.

Tertullian, the inventor of the concept of "the Trinity," was also an ascetic heretic, in the same manner as Luther and Wesley. Christianity is not only a religion of the heart, but also of the intellect; for "the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us," in the Person of Jesus. This was codified at the Council of Chalcedon, in 451 AD, which formulated a Definition (based on Pope Leo's suggestion of "two natures," both divine and human, "which exist without confusion, without change, without division, without separation"), which was eventually accepted by all the mainstream Christian churches. Protestantism was not a new religion, but it took certain things from the Catholic Church that are fundamental to Christianity. Take away the Trinity and you either get a form of gnosticism (positive, pure immanence), such as is found in the crackpot "Christian" cults; or you get a form of neologistic mysticism (negative, pure transcendence), such as is found in the most successful heresy, Islam. Christianity as a coherent religion cannot exist without the Trinity; it's not Catholic dogma, but a necessary part of accepting the dual nature of Jesus Christ.

2007-06-01 01:26:12 by carl