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Originally Posted by Sam
In the Roman Catholic Church (which also teaches "born of water" means "water baptism" and also teaches that baptism washes away sin), what you have spoken of is called "baptism of desire" or "baptism by desire" (not sure of the exact words). The idea is that the person would have been baptized if possible but since he couldn't, God gives him credit for being baptized.
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Exactly, just like God gave credit to Abraham for offering Isaac, even though God, through the angel, stopped the offering!