The decision to for Christ

[Anastasia13]

Is the decision to believe in and follow Christ a work?

[photosynthesis]

well, I know that prayer can be categorized as an "act." Like we say acts of faith, acts of contrition, acts of hope and acts of love. I guess the Protestant "sinner's prayer" can be categorized as an act of contrition and an act of faith. so...um...i don't really know the answer to your question but i'd say that giving your life to Christ is a work.

[StColette]

I would say that's an act of faith to believe in Christ. A work would be something one does because of their faith in Christ. For example, in Matt. Christ tells us to visit those in prison etc. Those are works which come from our belief in what Christ teaches.

[phatcatholic]

faith works.

the two words are practically synonymous.

[StColette]

[quote name='StColette' date='Aug 27 2005, 09:54 AM']I would say that's an act of faith to believe in Christ. A work would be something one does because of their faith in Christ. For example, in Matt. Christ tells us to visit those in prison etc. Those are works which come from our belief in what Christ teaches.
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I needed to add something to my post and I can't edit it.

Faith and Works go hand in hand together. You can't have one without the other.

Jms:2:17:
17 So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. (DRV)

[Benedict]

We were just reading about this in the Catechism:

[quote]Faith is a human act

[b]154 [/b][u]Believing is possible only by grace and the interior helps of the Holy Spirit. But it is no less true that believing is an authentically human act[/u]. Trusting in God and cleaving to the truths he has revealed is contrary neither to human freedom nor to human reason. Even in human relations it is not contrary to our dignity to believe what other persons tell us about themselves and their intentions, or to trust their promises (for example, when a man and a woman marry) to share a communion of life with one another. If this is so, still less is it contrary to our dignity to "yield by faith the full submission of. . . intellect and will to God who reveals", and to share in an interior communion with him.

[b]155 [/b]In faith, the human intellect and will cooperate with divine grace: "Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace."[/quote]

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='Light and Truth' date='Aug 27 2005, 12:43 AM']Is the decision to believe in and follow Christ a work?
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A decision is a choice, an[i] act[/i] of choosing.

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='Light and Truth' date='Aug 27 2005, 12:43 AM']Is the decision to believe in and follow Christ a work?
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A decision is a choice, an[i] act[/i] of choosing.

[thessalonian]

[quote name='StColette' date='Aug 27 2005, 10:59 AM']I needed to add something to my post and I can't edit it.

Faith and Works go hand in hand together. You can't have one without the other.

Jms:2:17:
17  So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. (DRV)
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I was thinking about this the other day. Faith opens the floodgates of grace so that we may channel it to others through our works. If we do not channel it we are a dead end for grace. Not what God wants us to be. It's kind of like we are dumptrucks loaded with grace to distrubute alone the road of life to those less fortunate than us at work and in the malls and wherever we go. If we stay at home with the grace once again the grace does nothing for anyone including ourselves.

Blessings