The 62 PRIMARY ERRORS of Roman Catholicism

[PolyCarp of Smyrna]

I'm gonna tear this one up. Someone needs to correct these Anti-Catholic distortions these people are purporting as what the Chruch teaches. This will be my "apologia pro vita sua".


Anyone else like a piece of this?

[url="http://www.servantssalute.com/biblestudy/62primaryerrorscatholicchurch.htm"]http://www.servantssalute.com/biblestudy/6...holicchurch.htm[/url]

and if that link don't work, try this one:

[url="http://www.servantssalute.com/biblestudy.html"]http://www.servantssalute.com/biblestudy.html[/url]

and then click on the "62 errors of Catholicism" selection.

I am going to respond to these items line by line, and destroy thier misguided insinuations.

Surely this has already been done. These are the same "62" that Bottener flatulated in the early part of the 1900's.

I hope you all will join me in this challenging endeavor. If you don't mind, I would like to utilize your responses in cultivating this comprehensive apologia.

Thank you.

Pax Chrisiti,


Thom

[PolyCarp of Smyrna]

Ok, here's my response to the first item of their "62 errors". I have found that many of these people so often misquote the documents of the Church such as the Catechism, Canon Law, the Councils...that sometimes just providing a correction of thier misquotation does a tremendous amount of damage to their anti-Catholic Bul....oney..yeah..buloney..

Ok, here it is..all I did was to post the CCC passages that they reference and the associated foot notes (...you like those footnotes, don't ya S.R.? )



Salvation

What the author CLAIMS the Roman Catholic Church Teaches wrote:
[color=blue]1. Justification is a transformation of the soul in which original sin is removed and sanctifying grace infused (1987-1995). [/color]

[color=red]What the Roman Catholic Church ACTUALLY teaches as per the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) wrote: [/color]
CCC 1987-1995
1987 The grace of the Holy Spirit has the power to justify us, that is, to cleanse us from our sins and to communicate to us "the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ" and through Baptism:34
But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. For we know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves as dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.35
1988 Through the power of the Holy Spirit we take part in Christ's Passion by dying to sin, and in his Resurrection by being born to a new life; we are members of his Body which is the Church, branches grafted onto the vine which is himself:36
[God] gave himself to us through his Spirit. By the participation of the Spirit, we become communicants in the divine nature. . . . For this reason, those in whom the Spirit dwells are divinized.37
1989 The first work of the grace of the Holy Spirit is conversion, effecting justification in accordance with Jesus' proclamation at the beginning of the Gospel: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."38 Moved by grace, man turns toward God and away from sin, thus accepting forgiveness and righteousness from on high. "Justification is not only the remission of sins, but also the sanctification and renewal of the interior man.39
1990 Justification detaches man from sin which contradicts the love of God, and purifies his heart of sin. Justification follows upon God's merciful initiative of offering forgiveness. It reconciles man with God. It frees from the enslavement to sin, and it heals.
1991 Justification is at the same time the acceptance of God's righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ. Righteousness (or "justice") here means the rectitude of divine love. With justification, faith, hope, and charity are poured into our hearts, and obedience to the divine will is granted us.
1992 Justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ who offered himself on the cross as a living victim, holy and pleasing to God, and whose blood has become the instrument of atonement for the sins of all men. Justification is conferred in Baptism, the sacrament of faith. It conforms us to the righteousness of God, who makes us inwardly just by the power of his mercy. Its purpose is the glory of God and of Christ, and the gift of eternal life:40
But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins; it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus.41
1993 Justification establishes cooperation between God's grace and man's freedom. On man's part it is expressed by the assent of faith to the Word of God, which invites him to conversion, and in the cooperation of charity with the prompting of the Holy Spirit who precedes and preserves his assent:
When God touches man's heart through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, man himself is not inactive while receiving that inspiration, since he could reject it; and yet, without God's grace, he cannot by his own free will move himself toward justice in God's sight.42
1994 Justification is the most excellent work of God's love made manifest in Christ Jesus and granted by the Holy Spirit. It is the opinion of St. Augustine that "the justification of the wicked is a greater work than the creation of heaven and earth," because "heaven and earth will pass away but the salvation and justification of the elect . . . will not pass away."43 He holds also that the justification of sinners surpasses the creation of the angels in justice, in that it bears witness to a greater mercy.
1995 The Holy Spirit is the master of the interior life. By giving birth to the "inner man,"44 justification entails the sanctification of his whole being:
Just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification. . . . But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life.45

FOOTNOTES
34 Rom 3:22; cf. 6:3-4.
35 Rom 6:8-11.
36 Cf. 1 Cor 12; Jn 15:1-4.
37 St. Athanasius, Ep. Serap. 1,24:PG 26,585 and 588.
38 Mt 4:17.
39 Council of Trent (1547): DS 1528.
40 Cf. Council of Trent (1547): DS 1529.
41 Rom 3:21-26.
42 Council of Trent (1547): DS 1525.
43 St. Augustine, In Jo. ev. 72,3L 35,1823.
44 Cf. Rom 7:22; Eph 3:16.
45 Rom 6:19,22.


What the author CLAIMS the Bible teaches:
[color=blue]- Justification is an act of God in which He declares a sinner to be righteous in His sight, having forgiven his sins and imputed to him God’s own righteousness. [/color]


[color=red]The Scriptural support the author uses to attempt to justify (pardon the pun) his pecuilar and novel postion wrote: [/color]

- Romans 3
3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:
3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
- Romans 4
4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
4:6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
4:7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.




....what kind of substance is this argument taken from only parts of two chapters from a single epistle? Look at the CCC references...now that's the comprehensive Christian view. This narrow spectacle is a heinous effort to dupe honest people in to accepting severe error.

Ok, ..I am fixin' to move on to the next one...I will post it later...


Pax Christi,


Thom

[phatcatholic]

[quote name='PolyCarp of Smyrna' date='Jan 22 2005, 12:51 PM'] What the author CLAIMS the Roman Catholic Church Teaches wrote:
[color=blue]1. Justification is a transformation of the soul in which original sin is removed and sanctifying grace infused (1987-1995). [/color] [/quote]
what's wrong w/ this statement?

btw, when you quote large chunks of information (like those paragraphs from the CCC) make sure that you either highlite the pertinent info, or provide your own explanatory statements so he knows exactly how you are refuting what he has provided.

[phatcatholic]

oh, hehe, nevermind. i see what he's doing now. he's actually presented catholic doctrine correctly, he's just disagreeing w/ it b/c he believes in imputed righteousness instead of infused righteousness. how silly.........

btw, i hope u plan on putting ur work in. it often takes many pages to correct the damage of one sentence, especially when it comes to a topics like justification, sanctification, and salvation.

[phatcatholic]

i just noticed that the original author of these 62 errors is unknown. so, the person in charge of the website didn't even write what he is providing. i hope he can defend it.....

[StColette]

lol what is it with these sites ? lol

[MagiDragon]

[quote name='phatcatholic' date='Jan 22 2005, 04:12 PM'] i just noticed that the original author of these 62 errors is unknown. so, the person in charge of the website didn't even write what he is providing. i hope he can defend it..... [/quote]
i hope he *can't* defend it!