[Apologetics] Re: Saved by faith alone, but the faith that is not alone

[Art Kelly]

I think there may be some fundamentalists who think
they are irrevokably "saved" by making a one-time
altar call.

But if you talk to them a while, many will eventually
admit that "faith" involves a life-long commitment to
all that Jesus commanded of us.

Likewise, justification by faith is a CATHOLIC
docrine, provided the terms "justifcation" and "faith"
are properly understood.

As Stuart mentioned, "We are saved by faith alone, but
faith that is not alone" is BOTH a Catholic doctrine
AND the most common ways that a lot of Protestants
explain their beliefs.

That's one of the reasons Catholics and Lutherans were
able to reach a joint declaration on justification,
which Cardinal Ratzinger strongly supported.

Art

--- "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at bmsi.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Dianne Dawson wrote:
> 
> > No, because I doubt very much that there are very
> many protestants know the
> > difference. - Dianne
> 
> They do.  The American Protestant speak is "dead
> faith" (James)
> vs. "saving faith", however "We are saved by saving
> faith alone" sounds rather
> redundant.  The most popular modern Protestant
> slogan in common use is
> 
> "We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that
> saves is not alone."
> 
> Which is far less ambiguous than Luther's version,
> and properly
> echoes both Ephesians and James.
> 
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