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1 | What do Catholics teach about salvation? | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64173 | ||
Let me ask you something that has my curiosity. What does the Catholic church teach on God's plan of salvation? | ||||||
2 | What do Catholics teach about salvation? | Matt 22:37 | Emmaus | 64196 | ||
FTimA, The catholic view is this: Initial justification is by grace alone and nothing man does before that can merit the grace ofjustification. After that initial justification, because we are in Christ we can do good works andthey do contibute to our increase in justification (sanctification) because they are done in Christ. Baptism is the ordinary means of tranmissionof the grace of justification. Regarding baptism , here is the teaching from the Catechism: "VI. THE NECESSITY OF BAPTISM 1257 The Lord himself affirms that Baptism is necessary for salvation.[59] He also commands his disciples to proclaim the Gospel to all nations and to baptize them.[60] Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament.[61] The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude; this is why she takes care not to neglect the mission she has received from the Lord to see that all who can be baptized are "reborn of water and the Spirit." God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments. 1258 The Church has always held the firm conviction that those who suffer death for the sake of the faith without having received Baptism are baptized by their death for and with Christ. This Baptism of blood, like the desire for Baptism, brings about the fruits of Baptism without being a sacrament. 1259 For catechumens who die before their Baptism, their explicit desire to receive it, together with repentance for their sins, and charity, assures them the salvation that they were not able to receive through the sacrament. 1260 "Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery."[62] Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and of his Church, but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it, can be saved. It may be supposed that such persons would have desired Baptism explicitly if they had known its necessity. 1261 As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus' tenderness toward children which caused him to say: "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them,"[63] allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism. All the more urgent is the Church's call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism. " Emmaus |
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3 | What do Catholics teach about salvation? | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64197 | ||
Thank you Emmaus. | ||||||
4 | What do Catholics teach about salvation? | Matt 22:37 | Emmaus | 64213 | ||
FTimA, Regarding the assurance of salvation, the Catholic Church holds that one can have a moral assurance, but not an absolute infallible asurance unless by a special revelation from God. The Catechism adresses the question as follows: "2005 Since it belongs to the supernatural order, grace escapes our experience and cannot be known except by faith. We cannot therefore rely on our feelings or our works to conclude that we are justified and saved.[56] However, according to the Lord's words "Thus you will know them by their fruits"[57] - reflection on God's blessings in our life and in the lives of the saints offers us a guarantee that grace is at work in us and spurs us on to an ever greater faith and an attitude of trustful poverty. A pleasing illustration of this attitude is found in the reply of St. Joan of Arc to a question posed as a trap by her ecclesiastical judges: "Asked if she knew that she was in God's grace, she replied: 'If I am not, may it please God to put me in it; if I am, may it please God to keep me there.'"[58] 57 Mt 7:20. 58 Acts of the trial of St. Joan of Arc." Emmaus |
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