With
Reformation Day this week, it is a good time to remind ourselves of
what exactly the differences are between the Roman Catholic Church and
Protestants. Certainly on just about every single area of theology there
are differences, but here are what I think are the five most glaring
and significant issues that separate the Catholic Church from the gospel
of grace:
1) Justification
Evangelicals teach that sinners are justified on the basis of faith alone,
and that ones’ faith is placed in the finished substitutionary work of
Jesus on the cross, confirmed by his glorious resurrection, and that
this is a gift based entirely on his grace. Finally, that justification
is complete and total at the moment of our conversion, and that
believers never grow more justified.
In contrast the Catholic church teaches that justification is a
process that includes works (with those works “infusing” one’s faith),
and that those works are the cause of the justification process. Beyond that, the Catholic Church teaches:
“If anyone says, that by faith alone the impious is justified; let him be anathema” (Council of Trent #9) Continue at Jesse Johnson
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