First of all, you know I’m asking about unique Catholic dogma. But I’ll entertain you anyway…
No sola fide? What do these passages mean then?
- Romans 8:33-34, “Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns?”
- Luke 18:14, “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
- Acts 13:39, “Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.”
- Romans 3:24, “and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”
- Romans 3:26, “he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.”
- Romans 3:28, “For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law.”
- Romans 3:30, “since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.”
- Romans 4:1-2, “What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, discovered in this matter? If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had something to boast about–but not before God.”
9.Romans 4:5, “However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness.”
10.Romans 4:25, “He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.”
11.Romans 5:1, “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,”
12.Romans 5:9, “Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!”
13.Romans 5:16, “Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man’s sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.”
14.Romans 5:18, “Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.”
- Galatians 2:16, “know that a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law, because by observing the law no one will be justified.”
- Galatians 3:11, “Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, ‘The righteous will live by faith.’”
- Galatians 3:24, “So the law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.”
- Galatians 5:4, “You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.”
- Titus 3:7, “so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.”
- Ephesians 2:8-10, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
- Titus 3:4-5, “But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us,”
- Romans 11:5-6, “Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.”
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