How do you have faith, if you don’t show it to God?
How do you love God (and neighbor) without a response (action)?
Our acceptance - Baptism, the sacraments and not dying in mortal sin.
We believe that salvation is a process by which we come closer to God throughout our whole life as we participate in the sacraments and the grace that comes through them.
But it is not true that man plays as important a role as God. God the Father planned our salvation, not man. God the Son gained our salvation by his death and resurrection; no one else did these things. And God the Holy Spirit infused the very love of God into our hearts by his presence (cf. Rom. 5:5). This is beyond our human ability.
Still, we must cooperate with God’s grace to find eternal happiness with God. If we don’t, we will be cut off from God forever.
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 shed blood of Christ either cleanses you or it doesn't.
“throughout our whole life as we participate in the sacraments and the grace that comes through them.
Scripture to the church never says grace comes to us by Christ’s two sacraments. The other five are not sacraments.
Nor is there a treasury of merit.
All paganism.
Do you honestly think that God doesn’t already know if we have saving faith or not?
He sees the heart. He already knows. We don’t need to prove nything to HIM.
It’s each other the works are for. God doesn’t need our works.
And the sad thing is, you as a leader of a flock do not realize how wrong you are. You are teaching them to strive for (that’s working for it) salvation through fealty to your ORG. That is the nicolaiten way and Jesus condemned it in the Revelation to John. You are mistaking sanctification with Salvation ... and thereby leading some to destruction as they try to earn what your ORG claims comes through them only.