Hello,
Luke11:45,46,52
It has happened.
Best not to be evangelized lest the whole weight of canon law keep us from heaven.
The law is meant to guide is toward salvation, not keep us from our. A desire to follow the law isn’t a bad thing, and a failure to adhere due to no fault of our own is not held against us.
I know. Your right that God’s law is meant to lead us to goodness. Sometimes, it seems like figuring it out is tough to do if the lawyers are to be believed. There is something about the word of God being inaccessible to the unlearned to hear the academics pontificate, and yet Jesus in particular seemed to call the poor and illiterate. “not many wise, not many noble…” The mosaic law was a taskmaster to lead us to Christ who set us free from the burden of the law. In all cases, the law is always an accuser. Nobody gets proven good by the law. At best the accuser’s case is inadequate. However, the scripture says that while the law accuses it is Christ who justifies. It seems a step back after Christ has paid so great a price to justify those who live by faith to create an extensive and esoteric law which requires the expert opinion of a canon lawyer just to figure out if a man is baptized. I get that the majority view is he is either correctly baptized or a recipient of baptism of desire. Just seems a long way to go to say so little. It seems real simple, if a Christians applied water to his hide and proclaimed him baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, he’s baptized. If an aging priest pronounced the words while a younger stronger man applied the water, who cares. The baptism is under the authority of the Trinity–in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
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