Not even worth reading after this point. We part ways entirely here. Matt Slick believes in a God who declares sinners righteous without actually making them anything of the sort. Catholics believe in a God whose very word brings reality into existence, who justifies sinners, infuses righteousness purchased at the Cross into their souls, and makes them his adopted sons and daughters through grace.
Which one will you choose? A God who declares something righteous which isn't (making him a liar!), and leaves the sinner a "snow-covered dungheap" (according to M. Luther) ... or a God who lifts up the lowly and seats him with princes (1 Sm 2:8), a God who shares his sonship with his people by becoming their eldest brother (Rom 8:29; 1 John 3:1), a God who makes, not merely declares, his people righteous (1 John 1:9) pouring out his love within their hearts (Rom 5:5), a God who makes his people participants in his very divinity (2 Pt 1:4) through his own Body and Blood in the Eucharist (1 Cor 11:23-30).
Your choice. As for me, I would never give up the true Gospel for the unbiblical legal fiction of Protestant imputed righteousness.
Justified, made just in legal terms. If you break a law, frequently you can be justified in our legal system with the payment of a fine. Jesus paid our debt making us just in God’s eye.
I think you are speaking more to sanctification. Being set apart, being made more Christ like.
[Your choice. As for me, I would never give up the true Gospel..]
Yea, and neither will I. And there are so many Protestant denominations who are apostate also. This is the course of mankind left to his own inventions. Again, I believe the Scriptures are the Word of God and that many traditons of today are lies when scrutenized by the Word of God.
One of us is wrong, God knows.
“Matt Slick believes in a God who declares sinners righteous without actually making them anything of the sort. Catholics believe in a God whose very word brings reality into existence, who justifies sinners, infuses righteousness purchased at the Cross into their souls, and makes them his adopted sons and daughters through grace.”
You regularly take to task people who, in your estimation, misrepresent Catholic theology - but you are doing the very same thing here. You are misrepresenting the Evangelical theology of justification.
Life is too short to waste wrangling over misunderstandings. Wouldn’t you be better off if you had an accurate view of Evangelical theology against which you could argue?
We part ways entirely here. Matt Slick believes in a God who declares sinners righteous without actually making them anything of the sort.
Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Gal 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Gal 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.