It is also central to the necessity of salvation that the dead had to rise, in order to be Baptized, before they could enter the Kingdom of Heaven. This reality necessarily points to the urgency of affirming the dogma in our day, "Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus" - "Outside the Church there is no salvation."
I personally do not trust apocrypha. It is apocrypha for a reason - there was questions as to its authorship and content. For example, the Protoevangelium of James has St Joseph as an old man, after having been married and having had children of his own prior to taking Mary as his wife. In my opinion it is unseemly that the guardian of the Holy Family should be other than a virgin himself, given the virginity of his spouse and the person of his son. In the East this is taught, but not in the West.
I have never read any of the apocryphal writings due to their having been rejected, for whatever reason, by the Fathers. Error is subtle, and our enemies have ways to introduce the drop of the poison of error and doubt into our thinking.
Finally, in my nearly 70 years as a Catholic, in both Roman and Byzantine branches, after extensive reading of the Fathers, I have never read that the resurrected dead of the Old Testament had to be baptized prior to their entry into heaven. It certainly is not a dogma.
KHRYSTOS VOSKRESE, bro!
Fascinating!! Thank you!
Leaving for Divine Liturgy soon.
Our Lady of Guadalupe watch over you!
It is also central to the necessity of salvation that the dead had to rise, in order to be Baptized, before they could enter the Kingdom of Heaven. This reality necessarily points to the urgency of affirming the dogma in our day, "Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus" - "Outside the Church there is no salvation."
Dear Phillip, thank you for the reference to the MLR site. I am unable to find the article to which you refer. God bless.
Phil, buddy, you're taking a break. I've warned you about cut-pasting books in this way. See you in a month. -L
More information that was hidden by V-II. Thank you for posting this.
Thank you for this extremely interesting article!
I personally do not trust apocrypha. It is apocrypha for a reason - there was questions as to its authorship and content. For example, the Protoevangelium of James has St Joseph as an old man, after having been married and having had children of his own prior to taking Mary as his wife. In my opinion it is unseemly that the guardian of the Holy Family should be other than a virgin himself, given the virginity of his spouse and the person of his son. In the East this is taught, but not in the West.
I have never read any of the apocryphal writings due to their having been rejected, for whatever reason, by the Fathers. Error is subtle, and our enemies have ways to introduce the drop of the poison of error and doubt into our thinking.
Finally, in my nearly 70 years as a Catholic, in both Roman and Byzantine branches, after extensive reading of the Fathers, I have never read that the resurrected dead of the Old Testament had to be baptized prior to their entry into heaven. It certainly is not a dogma.