“”how has he lied about the Catholic Church?””
Too many to even mention,we speak of this guy in the same breath as hunt and chick
Pastor John F. MacArthur’s Ignorant Misrepresentation of Catholic Teaching
http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/a137.htm
The first few I read are not lies. They are judgments about the sum total of Catholic teaching, and I’ve encountered ample folks here on FR claiming the same. If we are born again by being baptized, that is works based...and utterly contrary to scriptural teaching on baptism.
If we need to wait until judgment day to see if our works are good enough - as I’ve been told before by Catholic posters - then it is works based.
Purgatory is works based - as is the Storehouse of Merit, or something like that. If the Pope can transfer the merit of someone’s good deeds to relieve the ‘temporal punishment’ of another, and spring the latter out of Purgatory, that is works based.
Are there other ways to interpret the catechism? I suppose so, since other Catholics have given me different views.
But yes, I see doctrine like Purgatory and indulgences and penance as works based, and totally wrong. Scripture says “Repent”, not “Do penance”.