Are non-Christian religions acceptable?

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We do definitively say that. Faith in Christ is absolutely necessary. From the CCC:
161 Believing in Jesus Christ and in the One who sent him for our salvation is necessary for obtaining that salvation.42 "Since “without faith it is impossible to please [God]” and to attain to the fellowship of his sons, therefore without faith no one has ever attained justification, nor will anyone obtain eternal life ‘But he who endures to the end.’"43
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What we do acknowledge is that “in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him” (CCC 848).
 
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The poster to whom I was responding seemed to be asserting (although I could be wrong) that an explicit faith in Christ is absolutely necessary for any possibility of salvation. That is what I assert we cannot definitively say.

Also from the CCC, 847:

“This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church:
Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.”

And from the CCC, 1261:

“As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus’ tenderness toward children which caused him to say: ‘Let the children come to me, do not hinder them,’ allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism. All the more urgent is the Church’s call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism.”
 
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We do definitively say that. Faith in Christ is absolutely necessary. From the CCC:
161 Believing in Jesus Christ and in the One who sent him for our salvation is necessary for obtaining that salvation.42 "Since “without faith it is impossible to please [God]” and to attain to the fellowship of his sons, therefore without faith no one has ever attained justification, nor will anyone obtain eternal life ‘But he who endures to the end.’"43
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Folks are forgetting stuff…

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And then there’s…

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Which takes us to @RyanBlack’s affirmation, which is 100% accurate. This isn’t a call for us to make.

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StAugustine said:
There is no salvation for
Anyone in any circumstance without this faith. Amen.
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You aren’t God. How do you know?

Jesus will come again to judge the living and the dead. It is not your job to decide who does and does not have salvation.
 
With regard to 847, this does not exclude the necessity of explicit faith, as the subsequent paragraph 848 notes. What this paragraph shows is who those are that God may lead to this faith. Here is how St. Robert Bellarmine explained how following an upright conscience with the aid of grace can lead to this faith (he is countering certain Protestants who said that the existence of non-Christians means Christ does not offer salvation to all):

St. Robert Bellarmine, De Gratis et Libero Arbitrio, lib. 2, cap. 8
This argument only proves that not all people receive the help they need to believe and be converted immediately. It does not, however, prove that some people are deprived, absolutely speaking, of sufficient help for salvation. For the pagans to whom the Gospel has not yet been preached, can know from His creatures that God exists; then they can be stimulated by God, through His preventing grace, to believe in God, that He exists and that He is the rewarder of those who seek Him: and from such faith, they can be inspired, under the guidance and help of God, to pray and give alms and in this way obtain from God a still greater light of faith, which God will communicate to them, either by Himself or through angels or through men.
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Pope Francis taught the same thing in Lumen Fidei:
Because faith is a way, it also has to do with the lives of those men and women who, though not believers, nonetheless desire to believe and continue to seek. To the extent that they are sincerely open to love and set out with whatever light they can find, they are already, even without knowing it, on the path leading to faith.
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St. John Paul II, after discussing the salvation of those ignorant of Gospel, says the following:
  1. What I have said above, however, does not justify the relativistic position of those who maintain that a way of salvation can be found in any religion, even independently of faith in Christ the Redeemer, and that interreligious dialogue must be based on this ambiguous idea. That solution to the problem of the salvation of those who do not profess the Christian creed is not in conformity with the Gospel. Rather, we must maintain that the way of salvation always passes through Christ, and therefore the Church and her missionaries have the task of making him known and loved in every time, place and culture. Apart from Christ “there is no salvation”.
As Peter proclaimed before the Sanhedrin at the very start of the apostolic preaching: “There is no other name in the whole world given to men by which we are to be saved” (Acts 4:12).

For those too who through no fault of their own do not know Christ and are not recognized as Christians, the divine plan has provided a way of salvation. As we read in the Council’s Decree on Missionary Activity Ad gentes, we believe that "in ways known to himself, God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel" to the faith necessary for salvation (Ad gentes, n. 7).
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https://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/JP950531.htm

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With regard to infants, the grace of baptism (whether received ordinarily or extraordinarily) infuses the habit of faith. For such infants, with regard to actual faith, as St. Augustine says “He believes by another, who has sinned by another.” (De Verb. Apost., xiv, xviii). Faith is imputed by proxy. But once a person has a sufficient intellect and will, he must believe himself.
 
Genesis315 said:
With regard to infants, the grace of baptism (whether received ordinarily or extraordinarily) infuses the habit of faith. For such infants, with regard to actual faith, as St. Augustine says “He believes by another, who has sinned by another.” (De Verb. Apost., xiv, xviii). Faith is imputed by proxy. But once a person has a sufficient intellect and will, he must believe himself.
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Biblical references to baptism seem to indicate belief and repentance should precede baptism. Is it fair to say that the concept of infant baptism was derived from Tradition rather than direct explicit Biblical teaching?
 
I don’t disagree that salvation is always mediated by Christ. My assertion, which I don’t think is at odds with what you are saying, is that we can’t say that it is impossible for Christ to save someone who, “through no fault of their own” is unable-in an explicit manner involving assent of the will-to respond to the Gospel.
 
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With regard to infants, the grace of baptism (whether received ordinarily or extraordinarily) infuses the habit of faith. For such infants, with regard to actual faith, as St. Augustine says “He believes by another, who has sinned by another.” (De Verb. Apost., xiv, xviii). Faith is imputed by proxy. But once a person has a sufficient intellect and will, he must believe himself.
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My reference to infants concerned those who die without baptism.
 
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Genesis315:
With regard to infants, the grace of baptism (whether received ordinarily or extraordinarily) infuses the habit of faith. For such infants, with regard to actual faith, as St. Augustine says “He believes by another, who has sinned by another.” (De Verb. Apost., xiv, xviii). Faith is imputed by proxy. But once a person has a sufficient intellect and will, he must believe himself.
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Biblical references to baptism seem to indicate belief and repentance should precede baptism. Is it fair to say that the concept of infant baptism was derived from Tradition rather than direct explicit Biblical teaching?
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According to the Bible, whole families were baptized. I doubt they were explicitly excluding infants.

Also, at one point it was pretty hard to be born into Christianity…simply because it didn’t exist.

We Catholics aren’t the only Christians who baptize infants, either.
 
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Genesis315:
With regard to infants, the grace of baptism (whether received ordinarily or extraordinarily) infuses the habit of faith. For such infants, with regard to actual faith, as St. Augustine says “He believes by another, who has sinned by another.” (De Verb. Apost., xiv, xviii). Faith is imputed by proxy. But once a person has a sufficient intellect and will, he must believe himself.
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Biblical references to baptism seem to indicate belief and repentance should precede baptism. Is it fair to say that the concept of infant baptism was derived from Tradition rather than direct explicit Biblical teaching?
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According to the Bible, whole families were baptized. I doubt they were explicitly excluding infants.

Also, at one point it was pretty hard to be born into Christianity…simply because it didn’t exist.

We Catholics aren’t the only Christians who baptize infants, either.
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I understand what you are saying however you did not answer my question.:roll_eyes: I am totally open to being shown Biblical references that directly teach the infant baptism stance. My understanding is that it may not have been practiced for a couple of centuries at the beginning. So I ask if it is fair to assume that it was conceived from Tradition.
 
4000 different world religions?? If we look at the Atlas of faith in the Encyclopedia Britannica, there are only 4 categories of major religions:

Christian 33%
Islam 19.8%
Hindu 13.3%
Buddhists 5.9%

The rest are either miscellaneous indigenous beliefs, or agnostic/atheist. Judaism is too small to be included as a major category. So there are 4 major categories, with those considering themselves Christian covering a far greater percentage than the other 3. The other 3 are condemned by our Lord Himself in the quotes in the OP. That leaves Christianity as the only viable option. As for which is true among Christians is a completely different discussion.

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I assure you there are more than four or five religions out there.

It’s both dismissive and presumptive to say otherwise.
 
By acceptable I mean a religion by which we can save our souls. If Jesus says they are condemned then that means we cannot save our souls through them.
 
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