"Salvation" as defined by the Catholic Catechism

Catholic Catechism, - US Conference of Catholic Bishops ^ | Leap Day - 2-29-2012 | The Catholic Church

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If you look up "salvation" in a Catholic Catechism, what does one find?

I'll show you....

Several years ago, I had an authoritative catechism that didn't even have a glossary entry for "salvation", but the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has a catechism that DOES have an entry for "salvation".

Let's see what they say:

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(Here's the glossary location:)

"SAINT: The "holy one" who leads a life in union with God through the grace of Christ and receives the reward of eternal life. The Church is called the communion of saints, of the holy ones (823, 946; cf. 828). See Canonization.

SALVATION: The forgiveness of sins and restoration of friendship with God, which can be done by God alone (169).

SANCTIFYING GRACE: The grace which heals our human nature wounded by sin by giving us a share in the divine life of the Trinity. It is a habitual, supernatural gift which continues the work of sanctifying us--of making us "perfect," holy, and Christlike (1999)."

(Here's paragraph #169)

http://old.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect1chpt3.shtml#art1

169 "Salvation comes from God alone; but because we receive the life of faith through the Church, she is our mother: "We believe the Church as the mother of our new birth, and not in the Church as if she were the author of our salvation."55 Because she is our mother, she is also our teacher in the faith."

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Link:

http://old.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect1chpt3.shtml#art1

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I got saved by reading God’s Truth in the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible:

Ephesians 2:8-9

“For by grace you are saved through faith,

and that not of yourselves,

for it is the gift of God;

Not of works, that no man may glory.”

“Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)”

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Actually, I got saved by God.

By grace.

Through faith.

[Fido969]

841 to 848 is interesting.

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Oh yeah, let’s cut to the chase:

http://old.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art9p3.shtml

“841
The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”330

842
The Church’s bond with non-Christian religions is in the first place the common origin and end of the human race:

All nations form but one community. This is so because all stem from the one stock which God created to people the entire earth, and also because all share a common destiny, namely God. His providence, evident goodness, and saving designs extend to all against the day when the elect are gathered together in the holy city. . . .331

843
The Catholic Church recognizes in other religions that search, among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near since he gives life and breath and all things and wants all men to be saved. Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as “a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life.”332

844
In their religious behavior, however, men also display the limits and errors that disfigure the image of God in them:

Very often, deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the creature rather than the Creator. Or else, living and dying in this world without God, they are exposed to ultimate despair.333

845
To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray by sin, the Father willed to call the whole of humanity together into his Son’s Church. The Church is the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation. The Church is “the world reconciled.” She is that bark which “in the full sail of the Lord’s cross, by the breath of the Holy Spirit, navigates safely in this world.” According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah’s ark, which alone saves from the flood.334

“Outside the Church there is no salvation”

846
How are we to understand this affirmation, often repeated by the Church Fathers?335 Re-formulated positively, it means that all salvation comes from Christ the Head through the Church which is his Body:

Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation; he is present to us in his body which is the Church. He himself explicitly asserted the necessity of faith and Baptism, and thereby affirmed at the same time the necessity of the Church which men enter through Baptism as through a door. Hence they could not be saved who, knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ, would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it.336

847
This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church:

Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience—those too may achieve eternal salvation.337

848
“Although in ways known to himself God can lead those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel, to that faith without which it is impossible to please him, the Church still has the obligation and also the sacred right to evangelize all men.”338”

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Islam denies that Jesus is the Creator, that everything was created THROUGH Him, BY Him and FOR Him.

[aruanan]

Here you go, from the current Catechism of the Catholic Church:

Faith is a grace
153. When St. Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus declared to him that this revelation did not come "from flesh and blood," but from "my Father who is in Heaven." Faith is a gift of God, a supernatural virtue infused by him. "Before this faith can be exercised, man must have the grace of God to move and assist him; he must have the interior helps of the Holy Spirit, who moves the heart and converts it to God, who opens the eyes of the mind and 'makes it easy for all to accept and believe the truth.'"

The necessity of faith
161. Believing in Jesus Christ and in the One who sent him for our salvation is necessary for obtaining that salvation. "Since 'without faith it is impossible to please [God]' and to attain to the fellowship of his sons, therefore without faith no one has ever attained justification, nor will anyone obtain eternal life but 'he who endures to the end.'"

[Former Fetus]

Islam also denies the virgin birth, death on the cross and resurrection!

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169 "Salvation comes from God alone; but because we receive the life of faith through the Church, she is our mother: "We believe the Church as the mother of our new birth, and not in the Church as if she were the author of our salvation."55 Because she is our mother, she is also our teacher in the faith."

You omitted the emphasis present in the original: 169 "Salvation comes from God alone; but because we receive the life of faith through the Church, she is our mother: "We believe the Church as the mother of our new birth, and not in the Church as if she were the author of our salvation." Because she is our mother, she is also our teacher in the faith."

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Ephesians 2:8-9

“For by grace you are saved through faith,

and that not of yourselves,

for it is the gift of God;

Not of works, that no man may glory.”

“Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)”

Except that the "that" (the singular neuter demonstrative pronoun) is not referring to faith (a feminine noun); rather it and the subsequent "gift" (a singular neuter noun) are referring back to "the overwhelming wealth" (a singular neuter noun) in the previous verse 7. It's the "overwhelming riches of God's grace" that is the gift that we receive through faith.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

There is also a section on how to worship statues.

And how to dig a tunnel between the convent and rectory.

You’ll have to find these sections yourself, though.

Don’t give up until you find them.

[Salvation]

There are TEN pages of entries on salvation.

Aren't you cherry picking?

[Salvation]

1741 Liberation and salvation. By his glorious Cross Christ has won salvation for all men. He redeemed them from the sin that held them in bondage. "For freedom Christ has set us free." In him we have communion with the "truth that makes us free." The Holy Spirit has been given to us and, as the Apostle teaches, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." Already we glory in the "liberty of the children of God."

 

I tyhink you forgot this one!

[marshmallow]

Good to see that you're reading the Catechism.

Keep it up.

[milagro]

Same difference: Sola Gratia, Sola Fide,Sola Scriptura!

Sola Deo Gloria!

[Salvation]

Jesus is the SON, not the Creator!

God the Father

“In the beginning GOD created.......” Genesis

[A.A. Cunningham]

For those who aren't as disingenuous, at best, as you are:

salvation

[Pyro7480]

The Holy Trinity created, not just the Father, not just the Son, not just the Holy Ghost.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made." John 1: 1-3

[Ransomed]

Of course all that is merely the mundane stuff every Catholic should know. The juicy parts about albino assassin monks and the giant supercomputer beneath the Vatican with all the Protestant names and locations only reveals itself if the text is held up to a mirror by candlelight.

Freegards, Vatican Agent 15552#r5 out