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To: sionnsar
Rome holds that God infuses righteousness into us so that our righteousness, though enabled by grace, is the righteousness of our good works rather than Christ's imputed righteousness.

I notice this statement is not footnoted. It appears to contradict what the Church teaches.

1992 Justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ who offered himself on the cross as a living victim, holy and pleasing to God, and whose blood has become the instrument of atonement for the sins of all men. Justification is conferred in Baptism, the sacrament of faith. It conforms us to the righteousness of God, who makes us inwardly just by the power of his mercy. Its purpose is the glory of God and of Christ, and the gift of eternal life:40

40 Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1529.

1993 Justification establishes cooperation between God's grace and man's freedom. On man's part it is expressed by the assent of faith to the Word of God, which invites him to conversion, and in the cooperation of charity with the prompting of the Holy Spirit who precedes and preserves his assent:

When God touches man's heart through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, man himself is not inactive while receiving that inspiration, since he could reject it; and yet, without God's grace, he cannot by his own free will move himself toward justice in God's sight.42

42 Council of Trent (1547): DS 1525.

6 posted on 12/26/2006 1:28:26 PM PST by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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To: siunevada

Yes, it very directly contradicts Catholicism, which holds that we are saved by grace alone (as opposed to through faith alone): it is grace by which faith is granted, for no man can make himself believe anything.


9 posted on 12/26/2006 2:50:50 PM PST by dangus (Pope calls Islam violent; Millions of Moslems demonstrate)
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