[ealgeone]

>how many good works must you do? How do you know you’ve done enough?<

It is like asking a husband "how do you know when you loved your wife enough?"

These are works of love. You do them because you love God and God loves you, whenever you can.

That's a weak answer. The catholic maintains you have to do works to keep your salvation.

If that is the premise how many do you have to do? There must be a minimum required to keep salvation.

One cup of water given in His name? One act of kindness?

Is there a daily or weekly minimum?

Surely if the catholic is staking their eternity on works plus faith....they need to have a scorecard.

If not, how do you know you won't come up short at the end??

It's a terrible position to be in for the catholic....not having the assurance of salvation.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"That's a weak answer. The catholic maintains you have to do works to keep your salvation."

That's a FALSE answer, wrong in itself and also falsely attributed to Catholicism.

If I had one favor I could request of my FReeper friends for the New Year, I would request that you refrain from making erroneous statements about Catholic doctrine, of which you manifestly do not have an adequate understanding.

I do try to do the same for other people's faiths; and when I fail in this respect, by attributing something erroneously to your creed or practice, please know I will appreciate a charitable correction.

[annalex]

The catholic maintains you have to do works to keep your salvation.

Yes. You have to practice self-denial every day so long as you live. The day you say "I did enough" is the day your soul perishes.