Yet you continue to claim you are saved by Grace Alone through Faith Alone. The EO are more straightforward. They will clearly state that Calvary only created the opportunity to be saved, but it's up to the individual to do the right things.
We have the faith of our fathers, going right back to the Apostles at Pentecost.
So you claim but yet so many of your practices and beliefs are inconsistant with what we see in Scripture. After all your pope claims higher authority than the Apostles. Your pope can make pronouncements that have no basis in Scripture and you must follow them. I rather trust the Apostles. They took their instruction directly from Jesus.
The Holy Spirit made sure that we would have the TRUTH by having writers record what we needed to know. Yet your fathers claim a special power of interpretation and your church claims to control God by the rituals you perform.
My faith is in my Saviour Jesus Christ. Forsaking All I Trust Him and because of this and this alone I have been blessed with God's Riches At Christ's Expense. Given the choice to trust Jesus or your church and what it claims to be true I'm going with Jesus everytime.
***If we have done nothing to be Judged by, then we are instructed that we will be thrown into everlasting hell.
Yet you continue to claim you are saved by Grace Alone through Faith Alone. ***
We definitely claim that; yet the Protestant side has tremendous trouble with Matt 5-7. Would you be able to comment on that please?
***After all your pope claims higher authority than the Apostles. Your pope can make pronouncements that have no basis in Scripture and you must follow them. I rather trust the Apostles. They took their instruction directly from Jesus.***
You have demonstrated that you do not trust the Apostles. And the Pope has no more authority than the Apostles. He is after the successor of St. Peter.
***The Holy Spirit made sure that we would have the TRUTH by having writers record what we needed to know. Yet your fathers claim a special power of interpretation and your church claims to control God by the rituals you perform.***
The powers of interpretation outside of the Church are adequately understood given the thousands of Protestant denominations and the millions of individual understandings of the Faith.
***My faith is in my Saviour Jesus Christ.***
But my question is in whether or not that you understand the faith. The majority of Protestants quite clearly do not.