Posted on 08/17/2018 8:40:24 AM PDT by wardaddy
It doesn’t follow. We are saved by grace alone, which gives us faith and it gives us ability to do works of love, as Matthew 25:31-46, shorter version in Romans 2:6-10, explains.
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You DO realize that ‘works of love’ are works of the law, right? Considering how Jesus put the commands ‘love the Lord your God’ and ‘love your neighbor’ as the highest commands in the law, RIGHT?
You’re preaching an accursed gospel of works if you insist that ‘works of love’ are necessary for salvation, and if you believe that your ‘works of love’ really earn you salvation, that’s a one-way ticket to Hell.
I swear, the more I read about Catholic theology, the more I see how diabolically clever it is in its goals to undermine the Gospel.
Claim to be saved by grace, but define grace as being allowed to become good enough to get salvation. You’re not justified by your works, but you have to get yourself justified by OTHER works that aren’t works of the Law, as if God’s teaching could be just dismissed.
And if you ever realize that you CAN’T be perfect and holy like the Lord is, that’s okay! You don’t have to depend only on God’s grace and not your works to save you, you get to spend time in Purgatory instead and that’ll MAKE you good enough! And if you buy some indulgences, oh, excuse me, DONATE for some indulgences, you’ll get some extra merit from the saints so you DON’T have to spend the whole time in Purgatory getting good enough!
Every last word claims to worship Jesus and then points at anything and everything OTHER than him.
It’s utterly disgusting.
“You’re preaching an accursed gospel of works if you insist that ‘works of love’ are necessary for salvation, and if you believe that your ‘works of love’ really earn you salvation, that’s a one-way ticket to Hell.
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Paul says of the one preaching the false Gospel, “let *him* be accursed.”
“him”
That appears to carry instruction for us on this thread.
All we can do is warn them.
Adsum, flee this false pagan gospel before you are accursed!
Annalex, flee by his false gospel of paganism, before you are accursed!
You describe Christianity wrong.
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