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To: annalex
He repented of his theft, suffered for it, defended an innocently accused, defended God against blasphemy, and prayed to Christ to get to heaven.

Perhaps the insinuation is that these things are not good.

539 posted on 03/26/2008 11:19:21 AM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Petronski; dan1123

There could be a genuine misunderstanding there. Love in Latin is caritas, from which we also have “charity” — not quite the same thing, especially in modern society that industrialized charity. The modern understanding of “work” is “paid job”. As we know, any work done for a reward — social recognition or plain old salary — is not salvific. On this point Catholics and Protestants often speak past each other. The inability of recognizing the good works — a term of art for Catholic Christians, — of the Good Thief is an illustration of this problem.


542 posted on 03/26/2008 11:33:24 AM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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