You cannot have it both ways.Why? What makes you an expert? You refuse to identify which silly sect teaches you these odd ideas, you brag that you are NOT an expert and yet you proclaim these odd dogmas. What makes you so special?
Either it’s grace or it’s works.Again, why? What makes you an expert?
Let us see what over 2,000 years of study by the Apostles and their hand picked successors says, shall we?
GRACE AND JUSTIFICATION
The first work of the grace of the Holy Spirit is conversion, effecting justification in accordance with Jesus' proclamation at the beginning of the Gospel: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."You might find much of the lies many believe about what the Church teaches refuted there - by the Church Herself!Moved by grace, man turns toward God and away from sin, thus accepting forgiveness and righteousness from on high.
"Justification is not only the remission of sins, but also the sanctification and renewal of the interior man.
Rom. 11:6, "But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace."
Gal. 2:21, I do not nullify the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly.
>> You might find much of the lies many believe about what the Church teaches refuted there - by the Church Herself!<<
LOL I really don’t care what the RCC teaches. I see what the Catholics who rely on the RCC think it teaches. When the RCC teaches something that is clearly condemned by scripture one need no longer wonder if they are in error.