How do Catholics rectify their concept of God being a kind and loving God with their belief that if your baby is not immediately baptized after birth and dies his/her spirit has no chance of returning to Heaven

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• Very astute. The question is over-simplified and wrong. It only considers the ordinary way that the Catholic Church knows about regarding Baptism. It makes no allotment for the extra-ordinary way Christ my impute these graces known only to Him. +1

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  by Aldebaran on June 14th, 2008

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• God gives life and can take it away as he sees fit. Since your intellect is human and therefore limited, what make you fit to sit in judgment of Almighty God's actions? This is the same God that created you out of nothing and holds you in existence from one moment to the next.
  God needs nothing because He is perfect. So why, if not out of love, did He create you?

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  by Aldebaran on June 14th, 2008

• where is the proof of this?

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  by DiSTurBiA on June 17th, 2008

• For the existence of God? There are the five classical proofs offered by St. Thomas Aquinas. Try re-reading those with a more open mind.
  Here's something else to consider. You exist and you have intellect and free will. There was a time when you did not exist. You could not have exercised your intellect and free will to bring yourself into existence. Prove me wrong by exercising your intellect and free will to bring someone else into existence. This would be a lesser act than self-creation at a time when you did not exist, so you should be able to do it, right?
  You might be tempted to cite the very real act of your parents bringing you into existence, but that was an act of their intellects and free wills, not yours. They gave you a physical body. They did not give you intellect and free will. If they did, then you would know and love what they know and love. So where did your intellect and free will come from?
  Your existence is dependent upon the free acts of other persons.

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  by Aldebaran on June 18th, 2008

• we all didnt exist at one time, then through cellular mitosis we came into being, and before that one celled organisms borne of the sea, and various elements of earth.

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  by DiSTurBiA on July 1st, 2008

• And where did the cells that did the mitosis come from? The "various organisms"? What caused them to come into being?

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  by cramrei on November 3rd, 2008

• matter collision(so to speak) it all boils down to a atomic level

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  by DiSTurBiA on November 4th, 2008

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• basically it means that catholics believe in a kind and loving God but on the other believe if a child dies before he or she was baptized they have no chance of getting into heaven that doesn't sound like a Kind and loving God to me if he would deny an innocent child entry to heaven simply because they died before they could be baptized

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  by asweetguy4u2know saya R.I.P Nelson on August 23rd, 2007

• actually rectify mean how do you justify believing in two ideals that conflict with one another it's like someone saying they are against capital punishment but scream bloody murder for the head of a killer when iut is someone they loved that was the murder victim

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  by asweetguy4u2know saya R.I.P Nelson on August 23rd, 2007

• http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rectify

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  by .avallach on August 23rd, 2007

• Asweetguy used the word correctly- one rectifies an apparent contradiction by explaining how it is not a contradiction.

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  by Magenta on August 23rd, 2007

• Thanks Magenta I wasn't sure if i explained it right I have no problems with the Catholic faith my whole family is catholic I just have never been able to get a straight answer from any ofd them as to how they can believe on the one hand that God is kind and loving yet on the other would be so cruel as to deny an innocent child the right to enter heaven simply because he/she died before having the chance to be baptized

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  by asweetguy4u2know saya R.I.P Nelson on August 23rd, 2007

• Magenta: if you say rectify the contradiction yea that makes sense, but not in the way he used it. Not that it's a big deal lets move on.

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  by .avallach on August 23rd, 2007

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• Every religion contradicts itself - save the One, Holy, Apostolic, Church -- the Catholic Church. The reason is that every other Church was founded by imperfect men -- Lutheran, Calvanists, Wesleyan, etc. The Catholic Church was founded by the God-man Jesus Christ. He will not let it teach false doctrine. If it can not teach false doctrine, it can not teach contradictory doctrine.
  Remember, God desires "all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth". God would not desire us to do something that is impossible. Humanity needs an infallible guide to determine what is true and what is false - what is to be believed (faith) and how to act (morals). This is why Christ established an authoritative, teaching Church that he would be with until the end of the world.

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  by Aldebaran on June 14th, 2008

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