[smvoice]

The RCC has a huge problem.
The Law involves the flesh
Sin results from breaking the Law
To attempt to follow the Law in order to be justified is impossible because that system is completely flesh based.
And by the flesh shall NO MAN BE JUSTIFIED.
If you are trying to keep the Law to be justified before God, you can only count on your works of your flesh. God says that you will never be justified by the Law, works.

Why is this so hard to understand?

[Luircin]

Easy to understand.

Impossible to believe without intervention from the Holy Spirit.

After all, before the regeneration of the Holy Spirit, we were dead in our sins. Not dying, not in danger, but dead. And a corpse can do nothing but decay.

[Mark17]

Why is this so hard to understand?

Well, it’s not hard for you and I to understand, since we have now been enlightened. As you know, those who are natural men (and women) are spiritually blind, and cannot possibly comprehend spiritual principles under any circumstances. I mentioned, when I was a catholic, I was completely spiritually blind. I even believed in evolution, which is the epitome of spiritual blindness. Now, I have spiritual insight, but certainly not when I was a catholic. 👍

[MHGinTN]

To understand the Truth you present the Catholic religion would have to set their imaginary purgatory aside, because that imagined realm is said to cleanse the 'flesh' / behavior mechanism of soul and body for entry into Heaven. Since they must maintain this false doctrine, they also must reject the moment when GOD has PROMISED to in a twinkling of an ey give His Born Agains a new behavior mechanism and new body, fit for the sinless spirit to inhabit eternally.

Satan loves it when these in their religion go on and on about cleansing the flesh because it is avoiding The Turth of the Gospel of Grace which cleanses THE SPIRIT and has GOD ABIDING therein thereafter.

[metmom]

Spiritual discernment.