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The Catholic view is a lot more nuanced than that.
That's also not correct.I see it as good works accompanied by merited grace.
That's also not correct.
Try though I might, I can't really think of a bumper sticker slogan to use in the poll.Explain your position.
The Catholic Church does not now, nor has it ever, taught a doctrine of salvation by works…that we can “work” our way into Heaven. Additionally, nowhere in the Bible does it teach that we are saved by “faith alone.” The only place in all of Scripture where the phrase “faith alone” appears is in James 2:24, where it says that we are not justified (or saved) by faith alone. The Bible says very clearly that we are not saved by faith alone.Works do have something to do with our salvation. Numerous passages in the New Testament that I know of about judgment says we will be judged by our works, not by whether or not we have faith alone. We see this in Romans 2, Matthew 15 and 16, 1 Peter 1, Revelation 20 and 22, 2 Corinthians 5, and many, many more verses. If we are saved by faith alone, why does 1 Corinthians 13:13 say that love is greater than faith? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? As Catholics we believe that we are saved by God’s grace alone. We can do nothing, apart from God’s grace, to receive the free gift of salvation. We also believe, however, that we have to respond to God’s grace. Protestants believe that, too. However, many Protestants believe that the only response necessary is an act of faith; whereas, Catholics believe a response of faith and works is necessary…or, as the Bible puts it in Galatians 5:6, “For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumsion is of any avail, but faith working through love…” Faith working through love…just as the Church teaches.
https://www.catholicscomehome.org/your-questions/church-teachings/salvation
Soteriology is one of those words I have to google to know what it means. Okay, now that I've done that, I believe salvation is the act of the Lord getting us out of the messes we get ourselves into. That is different than going to heaven. After we've been saved, we still have work to do.Really curious, that's all.
Try though I might, I can't really think of a bumper sticker slogan to use in the poll.
If you need some kind of explanation for it, one might be...
I am a Calvinist, what is called "hyper-Calvinism" has to do with more than a view on the logical order of God's decrees. More often that not it is also used as a pejorative term and as a means of division. The issue of Infralapsarianism and Supralapsarianism is what you might call an in-house debate. This also includes a number of other related issues, and there is the temptation to say "well so and so held to this, and so and so held to that" but I think, and this is my opinion, what is most important to the issue of hyper-Calvinism are the implications. Regardless of where one stands, it should be understood on this issue that historically Calvinists have a great track record concerning evangelism. For example, Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, both Calvinists, were leaders in a revival known in American history as the "Great Awakening". Another less known man, a Presbyterian, a Calvinist by the name of Arthur T. Pierson was a pioneer of evangelistic missions, who lived to see the world evangelized. Personally, I am probably more in line with "moderate Calvinism", but probably have some "higher Calvinism" tendencies.
If you click on the Infralapsarian and Supralapsarianism link, you'll read from the article: "Many Calvinists reject both lapsarian views for various reasons." And it would be interesting if one could make a real case for either from any major historical Reformed Confession.
Didn't want to make it a 30 word statement, but I see it as good works accompanied by merited grace.
In response to the Catholic Answers website, that is essentially what I believe but that works are a result of our regeneration in Jesus Christ our Savior. We are inclined... even persuaded by the Holy Spirit to do good works.
Yet if God transforms me on my deathbed, that also means I'm going to Heaven, does it not?
Without regeneration (being born again), our works amount to nothing.
That sounds closer to what many Protestants believe; that saving faith automatically produces good works, which are fruits of, but not an aspect of, salvation (which is understood by them to be through faith alone, that faith being made possible by grace).
Hey, CIS. These may give some more answers.
Did you know that John Wesley and Whitefield were great friends even though they debated over their differences in theology. John Wesley gave the sermon at George Whitefield funeral.For example, Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, both Calvinists, were leaders in a revival known in American history as the "Great Awakening".
Quite a good understanding of that doctrine, may I say.
Yes, without a change of heart divinely imbued by Jesus Christ Himself, our works are just self-serving and vain at the heart of it all.
We don't strive to look pious but to be righteous. Righteousness isn't the clothes you wear, the words you say, but the inner state granted through regeneration.
Seeing your post and reading the post about your husband being a Baptist just reminded me of one of the greatest evangelistic preachers of all-time the Calvinistic Baptist Charles Hadden Spurgeon. How I allowed him to slip my mind I do not know, getting old I suppose.
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