BEGINS...I see you put the qualifier in there.
Have you read the 6th session of trent on justification?
Back to my yes or no question...
According to catholicism, Can a sinner by good works, obtain the grace of justification?
YES OR NO?
More than one of us said "No." I qualified it as "begins" because for us justification is ongoing, workout your salvation with fear and trembling, yadda, yadda.....
The Council of Trent says the same thing we just told you:
It is furthermore declared that in adults the beginning of that justification must proceed from the predisposing grace of God through Jesus Christ, that is, from His vocation, whereby, without any merits on their part, they are called; that they who by sin had been cut off from God, may be disposed through His quickening and helping grace to convert themselves to their own justification by freely assenting to and cooperating with that grace; so that, while God touches the heart of man through the illumination of the Holy Ghost, man himself neither does absolutely nothing while receiving that inspiration, since he can also reject it, nor yet is he able by his own free will and without the grace of God to move himself to justice in His sight. (Council of Trent, Session 6, Chapter 5)
Yayyyyy! Simon can be Catholic!!
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