“The doctrine of sola fide (faith alone) was developed by the Reformers in response to the Roman Catholic Churches corrupted teachings that emerged in the 16th Century teaching that one could gain favor with God and shave off years in Hell and Purgatory by giving money to the church or doing acts of penance.”
Perhaps the author should ‘get it right’ before he uses examples such as this. It’s not a teaching of the Church that you can buy yourself out of hell. Once your in hell, you’re there forever. The selling of indulgences was wrong. The doctrine of indulgences is perfectly sound.
You got some scripture for that??? If not, it's a false doctrine...
The doctrine of indulgences is perfectly sound.