Salvation, Justification, & Predestination

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For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God....

--St. Paul to the Ephesians, Eph 2:8

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COMPREHENSIVE ARGUMENTS

--Rescuing Romans from the Reformers

--Rescuing Romans from the Reformers Again

--Salvation

--Justification

--Adult Justification

--Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification

--Justification in Catholic Teaching

--Biblical Overview of Justification and Salvation

--Justification, Salvation, and Redemption

--Predestination

--New Answers to Old Questions

--Salvation: Past, Present, and Future

--Reflections on Faith and Works and Initial Justification

--The Salvation Drive

--Do Catholics Have a Personal Relationship with Jesus?

--What Is the Redemption?

SPECIFIC ARGUMENTS

Salvation: Hope vs. Assurance

--Questions and Answers about Salvation

--A Short Catholic Creed of Salvation

--Hope

--Are Catholics Born Again?

--Are You Saved?

--Assurance of Salvation?

--Salvation is a Life-Long Process

--Mortal vs. Venial Sin

--The Problem of Grave Sin

--Catholic Exegesis of Biblical Passages Allegedly Suggesting Absolute Assurance of Salvation

--"Certainty" of Eternal Life? (1 John 5:13 and John 5:24)

--Salvation: Past, Present and Future

--Temporal and Eternal Salvation

--"Asking Jesus Into Your Heart"

--Salvation: An Engineer's Perspective

--What Must a Catholic Do to Be Saved?

--Are You Saved?

--The Myth of Eternal Security

--Catholic Rebuttal to a Baptist Tract

--Can One Lose Salvation? Parts One and Two

--Two Biblical Passages that Disprove Eternal Security

--How Once-Saved-Always-Saved Destroys the "Assurance of Salvation"

--Jesus' Teaching on Salvation

--Once Saved, Always Saved?

--Assurance of Salvation

--Rev. 22:19 and Eternal Security

--Rev. 22:19--The Nail in the Coffin of Once-Saved-Always-Saved

--The Unconditional Assurance of Salvation?

--The Once-Saved-Always-Saved Quiz

--Before You Object....

--The Evangelical Notion that Christians Can't Lose Their Salvation

--Once Saved, Always Saved?

--Catholic Assurance of Salvation

--The Predestination Debate: Will We All Persevere?

Grace and Merit

Grace

--Actual Grace

--Sanctifying Grace

--Controversies on Grace

--Supernatural Adoption

--The Primacy of Grace

--Grace: What It Is and What It Does

--What Is Grace?

--What Difference Does Grace Make?

--Grace and the Catholic View of Salvation

--Grace and Justification

--Dialogue on Catholic Soteriology (Specifically Grace)

--Justification by Grace Alone

--St. Augustine's Theology of Grace

--Grace Alone

--Grace Empowers Works

--The "Magic Eye" of Grace

--Does Grace Eliminate Obedience to the Mosaic Law?

--1 Cor. 3:9 and John Calvin's Distorted Understanding of the Council of Trent's Doctrine of Grace

--1 Cor. 3:9 and Man's Cooperation With God

--Resisting and Cooperating with God

--Grace: A Precious Gift of God

--The Catholic Doctrine of Justification by Grace

Merit

--Merit

--What the Church Means by "Merit"

--Merit: Catholic Doctrine vs. Caricature (James McCarthy's Distortions)

--Righteousness and Merit

--Earning Salvation?

--Repayment for Works?

--It "Works" For Me: The Church's Teaching on Justification

--James 2:14-26 and Meritorious Christian Works

--The Ironies of Grace

Controversies Concerning Grace

--Pelagianism

--"Rome Has Spoken; The Case Is Closed": St. Augustine, Pelagianism, and the Holy See

--Semi-Pelagianism

--Dialogue on the Alleged Semi-Pelagianism of the Catholic Catechism

--Dialogue on Semi-Pelagianism

--A Primer on Semi-Pelagianism and Arminianism

--Observations on Arminianism

--Second Council of Orange (529 AD): Canons

"Faith and Works by Grace" vs. "Faith Alone"

--Faith

--Justification by Christ Alone

--One Saving Action

--Justification by Faith Working in Love

--A Fictional Dialogue on Justification and Salvation

--Reflections on "Faith and Works" and Initial Justification

--Is Sola Fide a Legitimate Development of Patristic and Augustinian Soteriology?

--The Interpretation and Exegesis of Romans 2-4

--Dialogue on Justification in James

--Not By Faith Alone

--Faith Alone, Faith and Works, or Is it Something Else?

--Internet Debate: Justification by Faith Alone?

--Justification by Faith Alone

--Justification in James 2

--The Justifications of Abraham

--When Was Abraham Justified?

--Salvation is Both Faith and Works

--Paul and the Law

--The Works of the Law

--Jewish and Christian Boasting in Romans

--Bible Says Faith and Works Needed for Salvation

--Faith And Baptism Are Way To Salvation

--Faith, Works, and Justification

--Faith Is Work of Holy Spirit

--Justification Debate: Sola Fide vs. Faith and Works

--Faith or Works or Both?

--Faith, Works, and Salvation

--The Greek Behind James 2:14

--Sola Fide: Can It Work?

--Salvation: Is It By Grace, or by Faith, or by Works?

--Works of the Law: What Are They?

--Did Paul Teach Justification by Faith Alone?

--Justification by Faith

--Does the Catholic Church Teach that You Earn Salvation?

--Galatians 3: Faith, Works, and Works of the Law

--John 3:16: Does it Teach Salvation by Faith Alone?

--Is Romans 4:4-8 Proof for Justification by Faith Alone?

--The King James Bible Disproves Sola Fide

--Good Works

--Faith vs. Works and Justification by Faith Alone

--Faith, Works, and Doughnuts

--Aren’t We Saved by Faith Alone?

--A Clarification of Good Works

--Torah! Torah! Torah!: Old Covenant Law vs. Works by Grace

--Even the Demons Believe

--Faith: A Stumbling Block and a Balm for Christianity

Predestination

--Catholic Predestination

--Predestination

--Molinism

--Thomism

--Which Body is Closer to Augustine: Reformed Protestants or Present-Day Catholics?

--A Tiptoe Through TULIP

--Predestination, Catholicism, and Calvinism

--Are All True Christians Predestined to Persevere?

--St. Augustine on Grace and Predestination

--Grace and Predestination

--Predestination

--Chosen in Him: The Catholic Teaching on Predestination

--The Presumption of Election in Protestant Thought

--Predestination and the Catholic Church

--Calvinist Confusion Concering Election, Valid Baptism, and Christian Brotherhood

--The "Ransom Theory" of Atonement in the Fathers

--Augustine Debate on Universal Atonement

--Calvin, Supralapsarianism, and God's Sovereignty

--Reflections on Judgment and Sufficient Knowledge for Salvation

--Dialogue on the Nature of God's Foreknowledge and Sovereignty

--Providence

--Leibniz, Divine Foreknowledge, and Human Freedom *

--Divine Foreknowledge and Newcomb's Paradox *

--Reconciliation of God's Foreknowledge with Human Freedom

--note: also see the "Calvinism" section of the Non-Catholic Christian Denominations entry

Total Depravity and Free Will

--Lutheranism vs. Catholicism

--Total Depravity and the Fall

--"Filthy Rags" (Isaiah 64:5)

--Dialogue: Question for the Total Depravity Crowd

--An Encounter Predestined: Free Will and Predestination

--"All Have Sinned" (Mary?)

--Free Will

--Luther on Free Will

--Predestination and Free Will

--On Free Will

--The Biblical Evidence for Original Sin

--Original Sin Explained and Defended

--note: also see the "Calvinism" section of the Non-Catholic Christian Denominations entry

Righteousness: Infused vs. Imputed

--Council of Trent: Canons on Justification

--Justification

--The Nature of Justification

--Protestant/Catholic Discussion on Imputed Righteousness

--Justification

--Romans 4: One-Time Imputation or a Process?

--The Bible Defends Justification

--On Justification

--Grace and the Divinization of Humanity

--The Doctrine of Theosis

--God’s Love Is Effective!

--note: search within the following articles for the word "righteousness" to read only the pertinent information (Edit....Find...."righteousness"....Find Next).

--Righteousness in 2 Corinthians

--Righteousness in Colossians, and 1 & 2 Thessalonians

--Righteousness in Hebrews

--Righteousness in Galatians and 1 Corinthians

--Righteousness in Ephesians and Phillippians

--Righteousness in 1 & 2 Timothy, and Titus

Salvation Outside the Church

--No Salvation Outside the Church: An Explanation

--Ignorance: Invincible and Vincible

--How to Become a Catholic

--Is There Salvation Outside the Church?

--Leonard Freeney on "No Salvation Outside the Church"

--Tragic Errors of Leonard Freeney

--No Salvation Outside the Church

--Salvation Outside the Church

--Which Church Saves?

--The Necessity of Being Catholic

--Is There Salvation Outside the Church?

--Can Outsiders Be Insiders?

--Without the Church There Is No Salvation

--Who Will Be Saved?

--No Salvation Outside the Church?

--The Church Necessary for Salvation

--If "No Salvation Outside the Church" Is Infallible, How Can We Say Today that People Outside Can Be Saved?

--"Mr. Critic" and Salvation Outside the Catholic Church

--Against Feeneyism

--The Unam Sanctam "Problem" Resolved

--No Salvation Outside The Church?

--The Church’s Position on Salvation Outside the Church Is Unchanged

--Salvation for Non-Christians Explained

--The Case Against Father Feeney and for Baptism of Blood/Desire

--An Examination on Three De Fide Decrees on "No Salvation Outside the Church"

--Is There Salvation for Non-Catholics?

--Can Non-Christians Be Saved?

--Salvation by Conscience

--Refuting Integrists and Extreme Traditionalists

--Salvation Outside the Church?

--note: also see the "Baptism of Blood or Desire" section of the Baptism entry and the "Confronting Specific Ultratraditionalist Dissenters" section of the Vatican 2 and Ultratraditionalism entry

SCRIPTURE REFERENCES

--"Saved" In Scripture

--Salvation: A Biblical Portrait

--Against an Unmistakable Knowledge of Salvation

--Salvation

--Assurance of Instant Salvation vs. Salvation as a Process

--Justification

--Infused Righteousness

--God's Remedies: Grace

--God's Gifts: Faith and Hope

--Free Will

TESTIMONY OF THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS

--Mortal Sin

--Once Saved NOT Always Saved

--Salvation

--The Necessity of Baptism

--Reward and Merit

--Salvation Outside the Church

--Infused Righteousness

--Did Any Church Fathers Teach Sola Fide?

--Faith and Works

--Salutary Works Require Grace

--The Early Church Fathers on Justification

--The Church Fathers and Sola Fide: Justification By Faith Alone

--The Interpretation and Exegesis of Romans 2-4 (Justification and Works of the Law)

--Is Faith Alone a Legitimate Development of Patristic Soteriology?

--The "Ransom Theory" of Atonement in the Fathers

--Was Jesus Christ Literally Made Sin on the Cross: Luther and Calvin vs. the Church Fathers

--Luther On Augustine's View Of Justification and other Church Fathers

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

--Grace and Justification

--"Outside the Church there is no salvation"

AUDIO DOWNLOADS

Salvation

--Mark Brumley on Salvation

--Tim Staples on Justification

--Fr. Benedict Groeschel on Hope and Grace

--Matthew Pinto on Obedience/Salvation

--Fr. Groeschel on Christ, Our Only Salvation

--Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J. on Salvation

--Dr.William Marra on How Easy Is Salvation?

--Scott Hahn on Salvation

--Bob Sungenis on Justification

--Kristine Franklin on Salvation

--Marcus Grodi on Eternal Security

Grace and Merit

--Fr. Benedict Groeschel on Grace and Justification

--Fr. Richard Hogan on Grace: Parts One and Two

--Fr. Foley on Grace

--Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on Sanctifying Grace

--Fr. Paul Keenan on Law and Grace

--Fr. Robert J. Fox on Sanctifying Grace

Faith and Works

--Catholic Answers Live and Bob Sungenis on Are We Saved by Faith, Works, or Both?

--Frs. Levis and Trigilio on Faith Online: Salvation

--Kris Franklin and Rosalind Moss on Faith, Works, Grace, and Salvation

--Bob and Penny Lord on Justification Through Faith

--Fr. Benedict Groeschel on Virtues: Faith

--Jeff Cavins with Steve and Cindy Ray on Faith and Works

--Curtis Martin on Working Out Your Salvation

Predestination

--Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner on The Predestination of the Virgin Mary

Total Depravity

Mother Angelica on Free Will

Righteousness

--Colin Donovan on Virtues: Aquired and Infused

Salvation Outside the Church

--Dr. Alan Schreck on The Church and Salvation

--John Martignoni on The Bible and the Catholic Faith: Part Three--Salvation

Edited May 31, 2005 by phatcatholic

[Laudate_Dominum]

[phatcatholic]

haha, don't do that!! that's the [i]old[/i] reference section!! this one's better:

Salvation, Justification, and Predestination
[url="http://www.phatmass.com/directory/index.php/cat_id/8"]http://www.phatmass.com/directory/index.php/cat_id/8[/url]

[franciscanheart]

[Laudate_Dominum]

I'll bet google still returns the old reference section.

I was playing around and googling certain obscure theological terms and sometimes all of the results would be old threads on phatmass. haha

[phatcatholic]

phatmass rocks