The reformed position? Is called heresy. Being polite I know of no other way to put it.
Justification as** Luther **-]and Calvin /-]proposed is a heresy and a very old one at that. Nothing new they bought to the table.
New-Advent Justification …will inform anyone of the topic who choose’s to proceed with an open-mind. Men are sinners always will be. And its not for men to determine who is predestined its Gods will as I AM. And He wills his Sanctifying Grace as He so wills, not as man desires or thinks. Far from men to decide who will walk through the gates of heaven.
Faith is a infused supernatural virtue each receive at the moment of Baptism. This infused virtue does not always remain in every soul Baptised. In many cases’s it is lost, some are not aware of their obligation to preserve this virtue of the Lord. The “basic” basis of our salvation is Faith, for its impossible to please God without faith. However Faith alone is “not enough”, yet it is absolutely necessary. If faith is taken we cannot be saved unless we regain our faith.
A heretic believes many things a Catholic believes. A heretic unlike an apostate denies one or a few of the articles of faith. An apostate rejects them all.
A heretic really doesn’t have faith otherwise he would accept what God teachs. Because he chooses to only accept this or that dogma, he only has a kind of “opinion” which in many ways agrees with the articles of faith or outright denies them. As we see here in this topic.
However because the heretic rejects some dogmas his belief is not based on faith. Where a man who believes “everything” God teachs is TRUE because the Faithful Soul knows that GOD who is ALL KNOWING who is ALL HOLY cannot tell a lie, and cannot be mistaken.
So who shall we believe Gods chosen Apostles or the heretics?
Incidentally, we may here call attention to another significant fact, namely that it was Luther who laid the foundation for the separation of religion and morality. For, by stating that fiduciary faith alone suffices for obtaining both justification and eternal happiness, he minimized our moral faculties to such an extent that charity and good works no longer affect our relations with God. By this doctrine Luther opened a fundamental breach between religion and morality, between faith and law, and assigned to each its own distinct sphere of action in which each can attain its end independent of the other.
Precisely why we hear “Why Pay any Attention to Christ Crucified on Holy Week” why would that matter its over finished, we are predestined to be Holy with him.
We have an “Authentic Doctrine” on justification and a authentic explanation of the Catholic doctrine in the famous “Decretum de justificatione” of the Sixth Session (13 Jan., 1547) of the Council of Trent, which in sixteen chapters (cf. Denzinger-Bannwart, “Enchir.”, nn.793-810) and thirty-three canons (l.c., 811-43) gives in the clearest manner all necessary information about the process, causes, effects, and qualities of justification.
Peace
