[SoothingDave]

Any Justification which must be preserved via Good Works, and increased via Good Works, is not a "finished action".

#1, you continue to talk of "Good Works" as if they were something we did apart from God's Grace. It is misleading, to say the least, of you to frame responses in this manner. Unless you truly don't understand that our "Good Works" are the result of grace and not our own action.

#2, I am sure you committed to providing food for your children. But I doubt you gave them all 18 years' worth of food on the first day.

In the same way, God's committment to deliver grace to us, to transform us and to enable our good works, while "completed" in eternity, must play out in our time.

SD

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

you continue to talk of "Good Works" as if they were something we did apart from God's Grace.

No, SD; as I said in my #95, I will stipulate that the Roman church teaches that it is God's grace which gives us the ability to perform Good Works. But that being said, let me ask you the same question I have asked Dominick:

Here is the teaching of 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."

Alright, then...

Stipulating in advance that the ability to perform Good Works is granted by the grace of God, is it True that "eternal life is the reward given by God for good works and merits"?

Well? True, or False?