Do only Catholics have salvation?

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John,
Greg and I have gone round and round on this subject for over a year now, so i’m sure he’ll be non-plussed by my posting, which he has seen before over on beliefnet.com.
 
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DanMan916:
Be that as it may, i beleive that it is indeed possible for those who through no fault of their own, do not “know” Christ’s Church may be saved. But that salvation is still mediated by Christ through His graces which all flow THROUGH his Church.
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That’s the problem here, you’re all stating your own opinion, what YOU believe. Are you the Pope in disquise? Is what you believe and teach infallible? Does your belief speak for all RCs? Am I to believe you?

And just what does “no fault of their own” mean? All this is so ambiguous for something as important as eternal salvation.
 
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Ozzie:
Now if there is constant disagreement as to WHO can actually become saved, then it is obvious that the root problem is a basic lack of understanding or knowledge as to WHAT salvation is in the first place.
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This is not at all obvious to me. Would you care to unpack the reasoning behind this claim?
After reading several threads on this forum I have concluded that Roman Catholicism is just as diverse when it come to issues, even salvation, as Protestantism. It’s just that you all call yourselves by one name. I think there are just as many Roman Catholics as there are Protestant denominations.
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In merely empirical terms, I think you make a fair point. The difference (and this is not nothing) is that no Protestant has any better a claim to being a Protestant (or even a Christian) for holding the opinion which he holds. By contrast, there really is only one Catholic answer to any question of importance, and while you might well find many “Catholics” who hold to other answers, they are each less truly “Catholic” for their disagreements. My fellow Catholics and I, then, are arguing among ourselves as to who has the better claim to the name “Catholic.”
 
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Dan-Man916:
Greg and I have gone round and round on this subject for over a year now, so i’m sure he’ll be non-plussed by my posting, which he has seen before over on beliefnet.com.
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Indeed, but I do award two extra bonus points for Dan’s elegant use of the word “non-plussed.” 😉
 
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GrzeszDeL:
By contrast, there really is only one Catholic answer to any question of importance, and while you might well find many “Catholics” who hold to other answers, they are each less truly “Catholic” for their disagreements. My fellow Catholics and I, then, are arguing among ourselves as to who has the better claim to the name “Catholic.”
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None of you.

The dogma that your Bishops of rome are “sole successors of Peter”, hasn’t that title been rejected?, “sole Christ on earth” is built on a foundation of false claims, to petrine connections, etc., built on a phantasm unrelated to the term “catholic” as understood in the early Church.

‘catholicism according to Rome’ is the “geographical provincialism” of the Donatists, why would any of you want to claim it?

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