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papabenefan
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SOMEONE PLEASE READ THIS AND HELP ME!!! I’ve only been a Catholic for a couple years now, and it seems the more I learn (especially on blogs like these) the more confused I get about some things. SO CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME! All I ever hear about (and teach myself) is how the Eucharist is the greatest of all sacraments and the “source and summit of the Church”, and baptism by water is necessary for salvation…as well as Eucharist…so if all this is true, then what of those non-Catholic Christians that consciously reject the Catholic Church, and by extension, it’s sacraments and really, Christ Himself? People keep saying that baptism by desire can be possibly applied for them (for had they know the Truth of the Church and the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, they would have chosen it), or they say that these people are ‘grossly ignorant’ of the truth. But doesn’t this just excuse their responsibility to learn the truth? I mean, what’s the point of having a one true Church if God’s calling people to be baptists, calvinists, lutherans, methodists, etc… I mean, if the Gospels reflect the sacraments, and the sacramental communities gave proof to the gospels deemed ‘canonical’, then how does being a ‘christian’ outside of the sacramental Church lead to salvation? I understand the case for non-Christians, who through no fault of their own have never been exposed to Christ, but I don’t understand personally how God pulled me away from atheism into the Catholic Church, and yet ‘Christians’ who reject our Church and sacraments are given every benefit of the doubt to be saved. Thank you for your time!