Justification by faith plus works

Justification by faith plus works
RELATED TOPICS	Good works, Law, Salvation, Grace, Justification by faith Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy Indulgences
SERMONS, ESSAYS AND OPINIONS	* Justification by faith alone (G.G.) Catholicism teaches justification by faith plus works (justforcatholics.org)
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The teaching of justification by faith plus works is the teaching that a person is saved by the grace of God through both his faith and good works. This is taught in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. This issue was one of the main issues causing the Reformation. Protestant churches today teach that a person is saved by faith in Christ alone.

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Quotes

Quotes from the Council of Trent

Canon 1

If any one saith, that man may be justified before God by his own works, whether done through the teaching of human nature, or that of the law, without the grace of God through Jesus Christ; let him be anathema.

Canon 11

If anyone says that men are justified either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ or by the sole remission of sins, excluding grace and charity which is poured into their hearts by the Holy Spirit and inheres in them, or also that the grace which justifies us is only the favour of God, let him be anathema.

Canon 12

If anyone says that justifying faith is nothing else than confidence in divine mercy, which remits sins for Christ's sake, or that it is this confidence alone that justifies us, let him be anathema.

Canon 24

If anyone says that the justice (righteousness) received is not preserved and also not increased before God through good works but that those works are merely the fruits and signs of justification obtained, but not the cause of the increase, let him be anathema.

Canon 30

If anyone says that after the reception of the grace of justification the guilt is so remitted and the debt of eternal punishment so blotted out to every repentant sinner, that no debt of temporal punishment remains to be discharged either in this world or in purgatory before the gates of heaven can be opened, let him be anathema.

Canon 32

If anyone says that the good works of the one justified are in such manner the gifts of God that they are not also the good merits of him justified; or that the one justified by the good works that he performs by the grace of God and the merit of Jesus Christ (of whom one is a living member), the justified does not truly merit an increase of grace, and eternal life, provided that one dies in the state of grace, the attainment of this eternal life, as well as an increase in glory, let him be anathema.

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