I’m responding more to the conceptions I’ve seen among the Protestant posters on this forum.
But if we say that a faithful faith alone saves then I think even the Catholic Church could agree to that definition.
But I think we need to establish first how each side defines the word faith.
Or are we using the word “faith” in the context of how the word was used in St. Paul’s day.
Languages change and evolve.
Define the word faith.
It is all in the semantics. Perception of what we think of word.
Faith! Yikes! Put two experts in a room.LOL!!
se·man·tics [si-man-tiks] Show IPA noun ( used with a singular verb )
1. Linguistics .
a. the study of meaning. b.
the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
2. Also called significs. the branch of semiotics dealing with the relations between signs and what they denote.|
3. the meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a word, sign, sentence, etc.: Let's not argue about semantics.
4. general semantics.