To: OrthodoxPresbyterian
From the Vatican:
The Catholic Church maintains, moreover, that the good works of the justified are always the fruit of grace. But at the same time, and without in any way diminishing the totally divine initiative, they are also the fruit of man, justified and interiorly transformed. We can therefore say that eternal life is, at one and the same time, grace and the reward given by God for good works and merits.
Where? What document. I quoted the definitive Church position.
100 posted on
10/03/2004 5:25:51 PM PDT by
Dominick
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
To: SoothingDave
101 posted on
10/03/2004 5:26:46 PM PDT by
Dominick
("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
To: Dominick
RESPONSE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
TO THE JOINT DECLARATION OF
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE LUTHERAN WORLD FEDERATION
ON THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION
Cited above, with link provided, in my #87.
So, then:
Stipulating in advance that the ability to perform Good Works is granted by the grace of God, is it True in any sense that "eternal life is the reward given by God for good works and merits"?
Well? True, or False?
102 posted on
10/03/2004 5:43:09 PM PDT by
OrthodoxPresbyterian
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