[annalex]

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.

Saint Elizabeth Distributing Alms

Martin Johann Schmidt

c. 1778
Oil on canvas, 64 x 192 cm
Parish Church, Veresegyház

[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.

[ealgeone]

Your post 3307....now we have Elizabeth giving out alms????

It never stops with catholicism does it?