Don't be afraid of adapting the language we use to help our separated brethren better understand the Holy Catholic Faith. Only be weary of, in this honorable pursuit, mangling the faith such that the substance is changed by conforming to the positions of those we try to reach.

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Wherefore, even eternal life itself, which is surely the reward of good works, the apostle calls the gift of God. For the wages of sin, he says, is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Wages (stipendium) is paid as a recompense for military service; it is not a gift: wherefore he says, the wages of sin is death, to show that death was not inflicted undeservedly, but as the due recompense of sin. But a gift, unless it is wholly unearned, is not a gift at all. We are to understand, then, that man's good deserts are themselves the gift of God, so that when these obtain the recompense of eternal life, it is simply grace given for grace. Man, therefore, was thus made upright that, though unable to remain in his uprightness without divine help, he could of his own mere will depart from it. And whichever of these courses he had chosen, God's will would have been done, either by him, or concerning him. Therefore, as he chose to do his own will rather than God's, the will of God is fulfilled concerning him; for God, out of one and the same heap of perdition which constitutes the race of man, makes one vessel to honor, another to dishonor; to honor in mercy, to dishonor in judgment; that no one may glory in man, and consequently not in himself. St. Augustine, The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love 107

Inquietude proceeds from an inordinate desire of either being delivered from the evil we feel or of acquiring the good we hope for. And yet, there is nothing that more increases the evil or removes the good further from us than an unquiet mind. Birds remain prisoners in nets, because finding themselves prisoners, they eagerly flutter and beat about to get loose again and, by that means, entangle themselves even more. Whenever, then, you are pressed with a desire to be freed from some evil or to attain to some good be careful first to settle your mind in repose and tranquility, and to compose your judgment and will. Then, follow the movements of your desire, quietly using the means which maybe most convenient. St. Francis De Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life 4.11

Denying hotdogs are sandwiches is an infallible sign of reprobation.

"Paedobaptism... which emerges in the late 3rd, early 4th century." Meanwhile: St. Irenaeus (A.D. 189), who explicitly ties regeneration to Baptism: "For He came to save all through means of Himself—all, I say, who through Him are born again to God—INFANTS, and children, and boys, and youths, and old men." (Iren., Adv. Haer. 2.22.4) St. Hyppolitus of Rome (A.D. 215): “Baptize first the children, and if they can speak for themselves let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for them” (The Apostolic Tradition 21:4) Origen (mid 200s): "The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit" (Commentaries on Romans 5:9)

Justin said: “Worship the God of the Christians. We hold him to be from the beginning the one creator and maker of the whole creation, of things seen and things unseen. We worship also the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He was foretold by the prophets as the future herald of salvation for the human race and the teacher of distinguished disciples. For myself, since I am a human being, I consider that what I say is insignificant in comparison with his infinite godhead. I acknowledge the existence of a prophetic power, for the one I have just spoken of as the Son of God was the subject of prophecy. I know that the prophets were inspired from above when they spoke of his coming among men.” Rusticus said: “You are a Christian, then?” Justin said: “Yes, I am a Christian.” The prefect said to Justin: “You are called a learned man and think that you know what is true teaching. Listen: if you were scourged and beheaded, are you convinced that you would go up to heaven?” Justin said: “I hope that I shall enter God’s house if I suffer that way. For I know that God’s favor is stored up until the end of the whole world for all who have lived good lives.” From the Acts of the martyrdom of Saint Justin and his companion saints

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1 John 2:16-17 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passes away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for ever.

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He who lives in heresy through ignorance for which he is not himself to blame is not a heretic in the sight of God. Thus those who are brought up in Protestantism, and have no opportunity of obtaining sufficient instruction in the Catholic religion, are not heretics in the sight of God, for in them there is no obstinate denial or doubt of the truth. They are no more heretics than the man who takes the property of another unwittingly is a thief. Rev. Francis Spirago, The Roman Catechism Explained 1.7.1.a