Question to Cultural Catholics

**renaissance12** · 09-09-2019, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by Kostej

It is not enough because as is written in James 2:17 "Faith Without Works Is Dead"

It is necessary... Without faith in God.....it makes no sense discuss further..

**~~Wanderer~~** · 10-05-2019, 01:21 AM

This amazes me too. In Catholic soteriology, it is very easy to lose your salvation. BTW, the idea that one can actually lose salvation is heresy. See John 6:39, 10:27-29; Romans 8:28-39, 11:6. Die with an unconfessed “mortal sin” and you’re going to hell, according to Catholicism. It is not "grace" if it requires works! (Romans 11:6). Salvation is "not of works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:9).

If you belong to Jesus, then it is His faithfulness that keeps us, not our own. What a sweet, lovely Savior He is! He is eternally faithful and true to His bride!

Originally Posted by renaissance12

Theological differences between Catholics and Protestants are practically nothing..

Every Anglican or protestant agree with 99% ( more and less ) of Catholic Dogmas...

Not at all! Catholicism is a different "gospel" the likes of which Paul condemned in his epistle to the Galatians.

**Aldaris** · 10-07-2019, 10:38 AM

What you've described may have been true some hundreds of years ago, but certainly not now. I've been a catholic for quite some time and extreme views such as that anyone who disbeliefs in all the Church dogmas is guilty of 'mortal sin' aren't held by anyone except for a few catholic zealots - by definition in the Catholich catechism, 'mortal sin' requires grave mattter and full knowledge that the act is sinful. That means, if you don't accept some detail in the catholic teachings without any malevolent intent behind it, it won't even meet either criteria. Most catholics, both church attendees and priests believe that being some kind of general Bible-believing christian is enough in the faith aspect of 'salvation', although it's naturally true that they value traditional catholic conventions over just that. Such teachings are not even the official position of the Church, although even if it was, beliefs of catholics vary a lot when it comes to details and ultimately, they are the ones who actually form the Church, it's not just the Pope and a few cardinals. There's a reference to catechism about catholic dogmas and how they actually work.

http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s1c2a2.htm#90