[metmom]

That is a false characterization of my statements. I have clarified them multiple times, yet for some reason they keep getting misrepresented so as to appear to comport with a hackneyed old (and false) anti-Catholic treatise.

You've clarified nothing. Works are not necessary to "keep" Salvation. If you sincerely want to discuss this issue please stick to the facts.

Works are not necessary to "keep" Salvation. If you sincerely want to discuss this issue please stick to the facts.

Then no one needs to be baptized, go to confession, take communion, get last rites, do good works or works of charity or whatever you want to call them, correct? And then we can expect to see Catholics quit taking James 2:24 out of context, correct?

[Natural Law]

"Then no one needs to be baptized, go to confession, take communion, get last rites, do good works or works of charity or whatever you want to call them, correct?"

Corporeal and Spiritual Works of Mercy proceed from Salvation. Their absence is proof that Salvation too is absent.

[Elsie]

SOMEone’s brain is just a wee bit over compartmentalized...