Posted on 07/08/2008 8:16:05 AM PDT by Gamecock
Sola Fide
Latin “faith alone”
The historic Protestant doctrine that the only instrumental cause of justification, from the human perspective, is faith. While God is the ultimate cause of justification, Protestants believe that faith in Christ through the message of the Gospel is necessary. There are no works, no matter how meritorious they may seem, that can add to justification (Eph. 2:8-9). This doctrine, according to Protestants, finds its roots in the teachings of Paul but was obscured in the middle ages and restored during the Reformation. Many Protestants would be quick to point out that it is not the doctrine itself that saves, but the reality that the doctrine represents. In other words, one is saved by faith alone, not by belief in the doctrine of faith alone. As well, most Protestants would say that “it is faith alone that saves, but the faith that saves will not be alone.” This doctrine represents a major point of distinction between Protestants and Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and, often, Eastern Orthodox.
No, I am NOT wrong. I am just frustrated that you folks continually deny that you can know that you are saved before you DIE. Die in your ignorance then.
I have this lamentable habit, I know, of denying lies like that.
It’s not a lie Petronski. Your life may depend on it, for eternity. But, go ahead and keep denying it, to your detriment.
You’ve been sold a lie.
No, YOU have and you relish in it. Too bad. I hope you open your eyes before it’s too late for you.
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Feel the love.
“I am just frustrated that you folks continually deny that you can know that you are saved before you DIE.”
Well, I, for one, always feel pretty good about my place in the scheme of things when I walk out of the confessional. Once I’m out the door, though, and the wide path invitingly presents itself again, I start to worry again.
LOL. I know. My husband used to feel the same way.
Yes, love. I am more concerned with your salvation and where Catholics will end up at the end of their lives than most RC’s here can ever know. You WILL die in your sins if you don’t receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour and Lord. Baptism won’t save you, your Eucharist can’t save you, Mary can’t save you. It’s Jesus and Jesus only.
I find your love to be other than it proclaims.
You don’t know my heart or how it aches for my Catholic brethren who depend on baptism and other extra biblical things for salvation.
Right.
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