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Originally posted by lumberjim
slarti,
forgive my blasphemous tone, but, the current pope writes in a loophole to make catholicism more pallateable, and it holds water with god? isn't that quote in direct opposition to the one mrnoodle posted?
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Blasphemous? I've heard worse. Carry on.
Someone's going to have to please point out that quote, I can't find it and skimming the six pages of this thread once is far as I can get without my head imploding.
But look, you've got several groups of people to look at:
-those born before Jesus, are they all damned because they could never hear about an event in the future?
-Those that have never heard of Jesus because they are in isolated geographic places.
-unbaptized babies.
-and finally, those that have heard the Good News (TM) but heard it improperly, poorly, or wrongly so they never did get a chance to accept Jesus the 'right way'.
Is it wrong to argue that since God's salvation is universal there must be a valid way for it to be available to EVERYONE somehow?