Is baptism essential for salvation? Paweł Lisicki on the degradation of the Christian doctrine of the Church

Is baptism essential for salvation? The Catholic Church has always taught that so. The Lord Jesus Christ himself commanded his disciples to baptize all nations. Today, however, baptism is promoted as a specified symbol. Paweł Lisicki spoke about this problem on PCh24 TV.

– There is simply a very clear call for baptism in the Gospels. This is something that is clearly emphasized in all the endings of the Gospel describing the teaching of the risen Christ. In the Gospel of Saint Mark, we even read a strong message that whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, and whoever does not believe will be condemned. – emphasized Paweł Lisicki in an interview with Paweł Chmielewski on PCh24 TV.

Also in Acts, St.Peter says to all Jews that if they want to be saved, they must be baptized due to the fact that that is their only hope. Similarly, St. Paul in his letter to the Romans indicates that whoever wants to be saved must confess that Jesus is Christ.

– One could quote a very long passage of the fresh Testament that says baptism is simply a prerequisite for salvation. There is no uncertainty that this is how the Church understood baptism—from the fresh Testament, through the Apostles, to the Fathers of the Church and the Council. Teaching about the request for baptism to be saved is simply a constant part of Christendom said Paweł Lisicki.

In time, any changes took place. erstwhile missionaries discovered the vast parts of the earth inhabited by unbaptized people, it was considered that the baptism category could be understood in a somewhat broader way than literal. Thus, it would not only be a water sprinkling but besides a desire to be baptized. In the ancient Church there was both water baptism and blood baptism. The baptism of blood active those martyrs who wanted to be baptized and joined the Church but had not yet arrived. So they were not formally Christians, but they wanted to become Christians. Persecution fell upon them, they died for Christ – so it was logical that they had, to say so, the right to salvation.

This was translated into the situation of those who live in countries outside Christendom. The popular theological opinion has become that the desire for baptism may besides be vague. This means that if a individual truly could be baptized in a historical sense, but did not do so due to circumstances, he should be regarded as being baptized in the relation to salvation. The discipline of insurmountable ignorance appeared on this cane, peculiarly clearly present in Pius IX. The Pope was very emphatically stressing that whether individual has specified a vague desire for baptism, and cannot accept it due to the insurmountable ignorance, God alone decides.

– In another words, the Church does not regulation out a situation in which a individual without baptism can be saved, but only treats it as “not excluded”. The situation of insurmountable ignorance is not positive. He's just any excuse in court. - He said.

According to Paweł Lisicki, in the modern doctrine of the Catholic Church there was a circumstantial inflation of “the right to salvation”. What Pius IX treated with large care was considered a common law. It began to be said that since there is simply a vague desire, in fact, all individual has a desire to be baptized and could be baptized. Baptism has become nothing but symbolic. It is no longer a sign of belonging to the Mystical Body of Christ, but alternatively a sociological or political category, a sign of belonging to a certain social group.

Finally, Karl Rahner developed a category of “anonymous Christianity”, according to which all man, whether he knows it or not, is deep down a Christian. Henri de Lubac besides developed specified thinking, indicating that the Church saves unbelievers in their name. – Henri de Lubac replaced the Church with a category of humanity. It turned out that since all mankind is to be saved, the Church is at most the tip of the iceberg. This iceberg, or all mankind, will be drawn to salvation by the Church. I usage a metaphor here, but that's what reasoning leads to. said Lisicki.

According to the publicist, this leads to the depreciation of human choice. The fresh Testament takes this choice very seriously. After all, the Gospel says that disciples should preach Christ everywhere, and if they do not accept them, they are to shake dust off their feet and go on. specified a city that would not accept them will be harder on the day of judgement than Sodom and Gomorrah. This shows the large importance of a choice between religion and disbelief.

There is besides the promotion of humanism, which is based on specified an elevation of human dignity born to all man that we lose sight of the category of human dignity as a kid of God. People always became Christians due to the fact that they could become children of God. It was an elevation to a completely fresh status. But if everyone is considered to have the highest possible dignity only due to being human, baptism becomes unattractive or simply unnecessary, he acknowledged.

– The fresh Testament and the full Tradition of the Church treat disbelief as a sin and moral crime. There is no excuse for infidelity. Therefore, the category of insurmountable ignorance cannot be regarded as a approval for ignorance. We let specified a situation, but we must not make it a doctrine, as unfortunately it did. said PCh24 tv guest.

Source: PCh24 TV

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