Is Roman Catholicism Christianity?

The Apocrypha and the Roman Catholic Canon

Now I alluded to the book of Tobit and the wisdom of Sirach. They did not count that as scripture. But guess who does the Roman Catholic Church over the time of church history? They have ultimately said I will include that in the canon and the problem with that is the New Testament.

The Apostle Paul tells us that the oracles of God the Hebrew scriptures belong to the Jews and They denied those books as actually being authoritative. They were simply tradition and. And so the Roman Catholic Church has adopted this ungodly teaching of works righteousness in order to be saved.

Distorted Views of Grace and Atonement

So the Roman Catholic Church, like I said, they've embraced this distorted view because when you add to scripture It's going to distort how you interpret everything. This came out in church history with Pope Leo the Great.

He said for by prayer we seek to appease God by fasting. We extinguish the lust of the flesh and by alms we redeem our sins. Awful, that is not what the gospel of grace teaches. We cannot do anything to atone for our own sins.

That's the whole problem, right? God is a just God. He will give us our just desserts on the day of judgment. He will say look at all the times that you've broken the law. It doesn't matter how many good things that you do over here.

You still have Unforgiven Sin that has to be accounted for. That's all we need a perfect Savior to cover our account fully. And so this just bothers me and as I was looking more into how Roman Catholic teachers teach on this I found One Roman Catholic apologist saying this about this fifth beatitude.

He says we need forgiveness for our sins. I'm 63 now when I think about all the times that I've messed up how I've harmed people I cry out to God for mercy. It's good. But then he says but in order to get it I must be merciful to others in quote.

Salvation by Grace Through Faith in Romans 4

That is fundamentally wrong. We cannot earn salvation by being merciful. This is a false works-based system. And I do I really do think all false religions will say this in some way or another just try your best to be a good person and God will understand that it will allow you to get into heaven and I think the entire scripture is replete from Genesis to Revelation showing us that we need the mercy of God.

We need a Savior and I think one of the most clearest places in the Bible that destroys Legalism comes out of Romans chapter 4 the Apostle Paul says now to the one who works His wages are not counted as a gift.

But as his do think about that if you're doing merciful acts of kindness if you're doing works. Then it's not by God's grace anymore or his mercy. You're actually earning something at that point. If it's if you're looking to yourself to gain favor with God can't be of grace can't be of mercy.

You're saying no, I actually earned that. Paul says to the one who works his wages are not counted as a gift. But as his do and to the one who does not work But believes in him who justifies the ungodly his faith.

His faith is counted as righteousness. I don't think anything else in the scripture can be more clear than that all works important. Absolutely after we've been made right with God and justified in this site.

We do works. Acts of mercy loving on other people helping them out to glorify God. But we rest and trust in the finished work of Christ for our salvation.