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One thing I frequently encounter in the âfaith aloneâ vs âfaith + worksâ debate is the Protestant rebuttal:
âWe are justified by faith aloneâbut justifying faith is never alone and is always accompanied by good worksâ
I have been meaning to address this topic for awhile now.
However, before I can even begin itâs important to note that not everyone who adheres to sola fide believes in the doctrine of Once Saved Always Saved. So Iâll break this post up to address each of those sub-groups.
Group#1: Those who assert Sola Fide but do NOT believe in OSAS.
If a person is justified by faith alone then how could OSAS be false since losing salvation would mean that a person who used to be saved suddenly stopped doing the works of righteousness which you said always and necessarily results from true saving faith?
Does it therefore not follow, logically, that good works donât ALWAYS continue after one has been justified by faith?
Group#2: Those who assert Sola Fide but who DO believe in OSAS. If good works always flow from âtrue saving faithâ, how does one explain the sin of apostasy?
(1 Timothy 4:1-3)
âThe Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.â
How can someone âabandon the faithâ if true saving faith necessarily means that you wonât?
MY ANALYSIS
With respect to those who are not OSAS adherents, it would seem that the claim that the âfaith which justifiesâ will always result in good works is false since some may be lost after receiving justification. Owing to this, we Catholics would assert that something beyond âfaithâ is needed for justification(i.e; justification through âgood worksâ) in order to remain saved.
With respect to those who DO hold to OSASâit seems your position is undone given that someone can become an apostate. Owing to this, we Catholics would assert that something beyond âfaithâ is needed for justification(i.e; justification through good works) in order to remain saved.
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Why was Abraham credited as being righteous without some sort of imputation of the righteousness of Christ? Jesus had not yet died on the cross so how can this be possible?
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Galatians 3:6
âEven as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.â
Also it says God credited it to HIM (Abraham) as righteousness. SO how can Abraham be credited as being righteous if one can ONLY be credited as righteous through an IMPUTATION of the righteousness of Christ
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Here is how an imputation of righteousness actually works.
No, you are not being given the righteous reputation of Christ at any point when God declares you are justified. Thatâs not how it works. Let us look at that in detail with 1
John 1:9, which says:
âIf we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from ALL unrighteousness.â
So, breaking it down step by stepâŚ
Step 1. We confess(repent).
Step 2. He cleanses us of âall unrighteousnessâ.
Step 3. He âimputesâ or âcreditsâ us with righteousness.
You see the REASON why step 3 onlyđhappens AFTER step 2 is because God CANNOT lie.
He cannot say you are a righteous person if that is not the truth. He must purify you of your sin FIRST and then he may credit you with righteousness. Once that is done, you now have the ârighteousness of Christâ by which is meant that you are righteous the same WAY Christ is considered righteous, which is in truth.
Now this imputation of righteousness does NOT preclude the possibility of being declared âmore righteousâ from one day to the next. You can have a declaration that you are righteous one dayâand then a declaration that you are âmore righteousâ the next day on account of your cooperation with the process of Sanctification.
It is impossible to become âmore-likeâ Christ without also granting that one is becoming âmore righteousâ since these are relative terms. THAT is where âsemanticsâ has undone Sola Fide.
Sola Fide says that only faith can increase justification, while the Protestant understanding that Sanctification makes us âmore like Christâ as we become more obedient to Him, contradicts that.THAT âď¸is semantics.
Once you say I have become âmore likeâ Christ on account of my obedience then one is saying that I have become âmore righteousâ on account of that obedience. Ergo it is not only by faith that we are âmade righteousâ but also by these acts of obedience(aka: works) which are being done under the inspiration of the Spiritâcausing Paul to say:
âBut we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to BE SAVED BY the sanctification of the Spirit âď¸ANDâď¸ by faith in the truth.â(2 Thessalonians 2:13)
We are being saved by sanctification AND by faith. Not by Sola Fide. Not by âfaith aloneâ.t
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The problem a Calvinist has is; How much 'evidence' is enough?? No one is guaranteed the "Gift of Perseverance".. . and no one can ever know if they have it.... or will get it... until they die. Evanescent Grace hangs over them all their lives. The truly "Elect" are pre-chosen having nothing to do with anything they will ever do. Any profession of faith is only by God's decree... BUT, so too is any apostasy. God decrees their faith, and also the denial. Any so-called "evidence" is no less God's decree than the profession of faith already in question. In the end.. they can only 'hope for the best'. There's really nothing else available in Calvinism.
They worship a God who cannot be trusted.
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@BirdieSenpai
2 months ago
Simple as that. These past few days, I've read lots of folks going back and forth debating semantics about faith vs. works, and I wish they would all watch this clip.
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