[metmom]

So why do Catholic continually flaunt their good works as if Protestants never do any of those same things? The presumption always seems to be that just because Christians (not necessarily Protestants) believe that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, that that means that we are exempt from doing the works that God ordained that we should walk in.

So far every Catholic who appeals to those works listed does so with the implication that only Catholics do all of that and that those they are addressing don’t.

This may have escaped your attention, but there are those who do good works like that who don’t trumpet it from the street corner. The same Jesus who said that we should feed the hungry and clothe the poor, also said not to do our works of righteousness to be seen and lauded by men.

The assumption and accusation that just because we don’t talk about the works we do or that we don’t believe that they are required for salvation, means we don’t do them is disingenuous.

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It’s simply because they believe that we are anathema. Seriously. We CANNOT be saved, who deny the sacraments, the baptism of the RCC, the blah, blah of Catholicism. What works would they recognize of us? NONE. Because we have none, in their eyes. That’s the dirty little secret of the bigotry and hate for non-Catholics. Well, not so secret. They make that clear daily.

[Running On Empty]

I won’t reply to all the many people you pinged to your post.

When I mentioned the “good works” ( as you referred to them...I never called them “good works”), I had no intention of “flaunting”.

I made no presumptions that other Christians were “exempt from doing good works”.

I never once thought that “only Catholics do all of that and that those they are addressing don’t”. I know better.

I know there are “those who do good works and don’t trumpet it from the street corner.”

You appear to assume and perhaps even accuse me of being assumptive and accusative...and even “disingenuous”.

You may have missed the fact that I was responding to boatbum’s accounting of her experiences with Catholics. And I was merely expressing my experiemce with Catholics, as a Catholic, as a counterbalance.

There’s no need for seeing any more into what I wrote than what it was that I intended.

If I didn’t make my intention clear, I’ m trying to do so now.

My intent was to relate experiential and anecdotal experiences...the same criteria used by boatbums, as I mentioned in my post to her.

So now that this whole thing has been blown out of proportion to its significance, I’m happy, for my part, to close it.

[RnMomof7]

So why do Catholic continually flaunt their good works as if Protestants never do any of those same things?

Because they want to remind God why He has to save them.. they have wages due