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I do not believe faith is “real” unless faith is acted upon. To say you believe in Jesus must mean you do what he says. So like James says faith without works is dead. Faith alone (or belief alone) does not save. Faith with works enacted in love is the saving kind.
I think we must all agree with this.
The Catholic Catechism says ‘to know Him is to love HIm and to serve Him!’
We have nothing to give Christ that matters except our love. Our total uncompromised committed love.
However, Christ did not take on the sins of the whole world,
I find that repugnant and am sure you did not mean it the way it is put.
My understanding is that Christ MORE than compensated for the sins of the WHOLE world [as St Paul rightly tells us].
Ransome" refers to Jesus being incarnated as a representative of the human race and to willingly undergo His Passion
In 1000 years there will be people who do not agree with you NOT because you have misinterpreted but because words are organic, that is to say 'they alter and take on new meanings over the course of time. We should not therefore get too hooked up on any one given word but to take the word in the context of the WHOLE text.
It does not refer to His taking on mankind’s sins.

Sounds like a bit of a contradiction to me
Jesus atoned for our faults and made satisfaction for our sins to the Father
Er yes and no!
i do not believe that when He died, the Father said: 'ah well, I am now satisfied. No, I think He was as hurt as was Christ if not more so, to see His only Begotten Son die, let alone such a painful and ignimous death. I would say that the Father was there right beside Him and the Holy Spirit too, even though They were not present to Christ’s senses in the same way that for most of the time, God is not present to our senses but He is still there, right beside us.
Christ the creator of all that exists ‘through Him all things were made and not one ting in all creation was made without Him’ Jn1:3-4. Christ took FULL RESPONSIBILITY for His creation even when they CHOSE to disobey.
But to say that it ‘satisfied the Father’ is a bit of a misnomer. In one sense but not that the Father demanded it, rather, the Father is perfect. Infinite love demands infinite justice. It is a pre-requisite of His authority and love. Were it not so, He would not be ALL powerful.
It was because God is who He is that the consequences of disobedience was so devastating, but that does not mean that the Father relished in the sufferings of Christ or needed some sort of bizarre satisfaction from seeing His Son crucified. His infinite love demands infinite justice. Only God Himself could pay the price since only God is infinite.
Christ cannot have taken on our sins.
Being God, He is Perfect Justice. Justice for sins is Death, Eternal Death.
Amen
Whereas, Catholics do not view justification as a one-time act.
‘Through the suffering of my servant will many be justified!’
It is a one time act but it is also a free gift to us [seeings we can do nothing to earn it]. But as with all gifts, we can also lose it or reject it. If we at first accept then decide later on to reject it, then we have essentially rejected Christ’s salvation, which is of itself sin and grieviously since it ‘calls Him a liar!’ 1Jn 5-10
For a gift to be received, it must be accepted. Your boss could give you a cheque as a special bonus, but you have to accept it, if you chose to tear it up and throw it away, the gift is STILL valid, your boss has still been generous towards you but you have refused to accept it. The price of man’s sin has still been paid but the gift has been rejected. Christ paid the price but He does not compel anyone to accept.
Anyone who does accept, can still sin and fall short so that they have sin that needs reparation [confessing before Almighty God]. The price of that sin has been paid but the consequences of that sin remain. Infinite justice’ demand for satisfaction for sin has been made and until it is made, we are still in a state of sin but not necessarily in forfeit of eternal life, depending on the gravity of the sin.
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Protestantism is …] a personal system of belief and lifestyle that capitalizes on one’s subjective “understanding,” one’s personal preferences
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One can go further than that, I have heard non-Catholics tell me that 'the Bible is to be interpreted and as many as there are people, so there are interpretations as the Bible speaks to each as an individual.
I agree it is a living Word so we can all get something very personal from it, but it’s core message is a universal proclamation of the truth…and only ONE version of it!
They reject THE Church. They can only be described as “coming out of THE Church” as one can say Lucifer came out of heaven on his way to hell.
Blessings and peace