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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Jesus’s death provided for our salvation as part of God’s plan.

However, we can either reject or accept salvation. As Jesus told us to follow His commandments. Love God and love our neighbor. That requires action on our part or works.

I don’t see that the pursuit of holiness in any way takes our trust away from Christ and puts it in ourselves. It seems to me that Hebrews makes it very clear that without holiness “no one will see the Lord” (Heb. 12:14). Why would the author say this? Because God is holy and, if we’re going to live with God forever, we too must be holy. So our entire life should be a pursuit of the holiness that Christ gained for us by his death on the cross. God desires to put this holiness within us, or as Hebrews 12:10 says, “that we may share his holiness.” That is the ultimate rationale behind the Catholic view of salvation: to share in the holiness of God. Nothing less will save us!

The rest of the article: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/is-salvation-an-act-or-a-process


54 posted on 09/03/2017 2:24:10 AM PDT by ADSUM
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To: ADSUM; Ruy Dias de Bivar
However, we can either reject or accept salvation.

Mat 13:13-15 This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: "'"You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive." For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.'

While your view makes for a good story, this is not what the scriptures teaches. Only His sheep hear his voice.

56 posted on 09/03/2017 3:54:37 AM PDT by HarleyD (Ecc 10:2 A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left.)
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