Is faith in God also love for God?

[Steven_Merten]

Catholic4aReasn:

Is that what the snake handling crown believes when one of their numbers dies from a snake bite? I have no idea! That certainly would be a good example if it’s true.

In Christ,
Nancy

hello Nancy,

It has been years, maybe decades, since I saw the documentary on TV, so my details may not be exactly as displayed in the film. However, the whole reason or concept for the Protestants handling snakes is because scripture tells them that if they do have “faith” then they will even be able to handle serpents and not be harmed.

I do think that the Protestant snake handlers display the errors and pit falls of the sola-scripture theology.

 

[Steven_Merten]

John Joseph:

Methinks I’m glad that I’m Catholic!

I’ve never really spent a whole lot of time thinking about love vs. faith as I’ve always assumed that they were both major components of the whole salvation process. Which is true. Where I get confused is when a faith only Protestant tells me that faith alone is all one needs, but then when asked if you need to love God also says, “of course you do”. Where does the connection between the two exist in the whole sola fide system?

Thanks for all of your replies!

John

Hello John,

And then we have the Protestant thought that the law is out and if one has faith and is saved then they will not sin. Do we have any Protestants who have never sinned since they were “saved”? If one connects not sinning with faith then how is it that they also say that obedience to God is not needed? If obedience is needed for faith, how can Protestants also state “faith alone, not works”?

“Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to decieve” is a saying that comes to mind.

Peace,
Steven

 

[Della]

Contrini wrote:

In a sense, it’s Catholics, not Protestants, who believe in sola fides. You don’t believe you can be saved by it (hence it’s not “sola fide”), but you believe it can exist. We don’t. We think that faith not working by love is just another religious opinion, of no particular spiritual value except in the general sense that all truth comes from God.

But, Catholics don’t believe one can have faith without love. Knowing something is true doesn’t equal faith, which is the type of “faith” Satan has and many people who claim to believe in God.