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To: NKP_Vet

Do you trust that these good works will eventually earn eternal life?


73 posted on 08/26/2015 12:34:13 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: MHGinTN
Do you trust that these good works will eventually earn eternal life?

Salvation is by grace alone. Free will allows us to reject grace. Faith is a gift of grace. And faith without works is dead.

"If you love me, keep my commandments." --Jesus

"You will know them by their fruits." --Jesus

"What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead." -James 2

God's Salvation: Law and Grace, CCC
76 posted on 08/26/2015 12:45:42 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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