To: Petrosius
Jesus says that if we do not forgive others we will not be forgiven. So merely faith is not enough. Kind of simple.
A little overly-simplified by you in your post. You appear to be operating with a minimalist's definition of faith in Lord Jesus Christ.
Saving faith in Christ alone, Scripturally in the Holy Bible and also witnessed by at least one other non-Roman Catholic Christian posting here encompasses many other facets of daily living as parts of the whole of this kind of faith; facets that have nomenclatures such as "forgiveness", "humbleness" and "loving kindness", for a very few.
To: Resettozero
Saving faith in Christ alone, Scripturally in the Holy Bible and also witnessed by at least one other non-Roman Catholic Christian posting here encompasses many other facets of daily living as parts of the whole of this kind of faith; facets that have nomenclatures such as "forgiveness", "humbleness" and "loving kindness", for a very few. Then I suggest that we are talking past each other. For Catholics faith in the context of the debate between faith and works means the submission of the intellect to God. If you wish to under the category of "saving faith" the submission of the will in the concept of the obedience of faith then this is what Catholics mean when we use the term "faith and works."
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