How can one consider a christian of another denomination is not recognized or brought to
the fullness of the eternal life if they are not in total union with the Catholic Faith.
Not exact matches
They are revealed by God's historical and dialogical self - revelation by words and deeds, and in the
fullness of time by God's
eternal Son becoming flesh in a certain time and space
of history; in church history under the guidance
of the Holy Spirit they have to be witnessed to and developed through the
living tradition (see the dogmatic constitution Dei Verbum, 2, 8).
If the gospel is not preached with conviction — the convictions that humanity is in need
of salvation and that Jesus is the Savior who liberates us into the
fullness of our humanity and gives us
eternal life — then the gospel will not be believed.
His coming at the «
fullness of time» is the completion and crowning glory
of the Father's
eternal plan to raise us up to share in his own
life.
The love
of a man and a woman,
lived out in the power
of baptismal
life, now becomes the sacrament
of the love between Christ and his Church, and a witness to the mystery
of fidelity and unity from which the «New Eve» is born and by which she
lives in her earthly pilgrimage toward the
fullness of the
eternal wedding.»
We
live in the
fullness of this, and still somehow this is an
Eternal Source that precedes us.
He willingly gives his
life for them, and offers them the
fullness of life eternal.