Is Roman Catholicism Christianity?

The Apologetic Dog

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Now I alluded to the book of Tobit and the wisdom of Sirach they did not count that as scripture

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But guess who does the Roman Catholic Church over the time of church history they have ultimately said

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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

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Hebrew scriptures belong to the Jews and They denied those books as actually being authoritative.

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They were simply tradition and And so the Roman Catholic Church has adopted this ungodly teaching of works righteousness in order to be saved

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So the Roman Catholic Church like I said they've embraced this distorted view because when you add to scripture

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It's going to distort how you interpret everything this came out in church history with Pope Leo the great

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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

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Awful that is not what the gospel of grace teaches. We cannot do anything to atone for our own sins

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That's the whole problem right God is a just God. He will give us our just desserts on the day of judgment

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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.

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You still have Unforgiven sin that has to be accounted for that's all we need a perfect Savior to cover our account fully

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And so this just bothers me and as I was looking more into how Roman Catholic teachers teach on this

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I found One Roman Catholic apologist saying this about this fifth beatitude.

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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

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I've harmed people I cry out to God for mercy. It's good, but then he says but in order to get it

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I must be merciful to others in quote That is fundamentally wrong.

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We cannot earn salvation by being merciful This is a false works -based system

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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 in the 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

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Savior and I think one of the most clearest places in the Bible that destroys Legalism comes out of Romans chapter 4 the

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Apostle Paul says now to the one who works His wages are not counted as a gift

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But as his do think about that if you're doing merciful acts of kindness if you're doing works

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Then it's not by God's grace anymore or his mercy You're actually earning something at that point

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If it's if you're looking to yourself to gain favor with God can't be of grace can't be of mercy

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You're saying no, I actually earned that Paul says to the one who works his wages are not counted as a gift

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But as his do and to the one who does not work But believes in him who justifies the ungodly his faith.

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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.

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We do works Acts of mercy loving on other people helping them out to glorify