Bad baptisms

[Hotrod216]

A priest in Phoenix has resigned because he used an incorrect word while baptizing thousands of people. All of those baptisms are now invalid which is a requirement for salvation in the Catholic church.  It gets worse. It also Iinvalidates subsequent required sacraments in the Catholic church. So it appears that thousands of people are in danger of Hell fire unless they get baptized again.

[Shiela_M]

So if one of those people died prematurely through illness or accident, then they go to hell because the priest made a boo-boo??

[Hotrod216]

So if one of those people died prematurely through illness or accident, then they go to hell because the priest made a boo-boo??

Good question.  Only God knows. Would seem unfair to burn in hell for eternity just because a priest messed up. But bear in mind these are man's rules, not God's, and therein lies the problem.

[Pornhubby]

We usually talk about religion in 1408.

First, no one is going to “hell” for “eternity.” Two primitive concepts invented by superstitious primitive people.

Second, baptism is considered a sacrament. So, if the sacrament was conferred improperly, the orthodox viewpoint is that it wasn’t conferred at all.

The irony of it is that the Catholic Church has been changing things for hundreds of years. Purgatory, indulgences, the prohibition of marriage by priests, the immaculate conception of Mary, and others, are all Catholic heresies that got Christianity in the mess it’s in right now. These practices gave us Martin Luther, the universal priesthood of believers, and sola scriptura. And 45,000 denominational sects.

Think one word isn’t important? Google “Filioque.” One word that split the Christian church in two in 1054. The Roman pope changed the Nicene Creed, without calling an ecumenical council. When he was called to account on it, he excommunicated the rest of the Christian world.