Baptism And The Remission Of Sins

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Are the temporal effects of actual sinning cleansed through baptism?

Thinking of an adult who has never been baptized, and comes into the Church.....

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Are the temporal effects of actual sinning cleansed through baptism?

Thinking of an adult who has never been baptized, and comes into the Church.....
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Summa Theologica > Third Part > Question 69: The effects of Baptism

On the contrary, Ambrose, commenting on Romans 11:29, "The gifts and the calling of God ate without repentance," says: "The grace of God in Baptism remits all, gratis."

I answer that, As stated above (49, 3, ad 2; 68, 1,4,5) by Baptism a man is incorporated in the Passion and death of Christ, according to Romans 6:8: "If we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall live also together with Christ." Hence it is clear that the Passion of Christ is communicated to every baptized person, so that he is healed just as if he himself had suffered and died. Now Christ's Passion, as stated above (Question 68, Article 5), is a sufficient satisfaction for all the sins of all men. Consequently he who is baptized, is freed from the debt of all punishment due to him for his sins, just as if he himself had offered sufficient satisfaction for all his sins.

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