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How do the protestant and Catholic views on salvation grace differ?
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In Catholic theology there are several different kinds of grace, with necessarily different definitions:
Grace: The free and undeserved gift that God gives us to respond to our vocation to become his adopted children.
Sanctifying grace: As sanctifying grace, God shares His divine life and friendship with us in a habitual gift, a stable and supernatural disposition that enables the soul to live with God, to act by His love.
Actual grace: As actual grace, God gives us the help to conform our lives to His Will.
Sacramental grace (and special graces - charisms, the grace of one's state of life) are gifts of the Holy Spirit to help us live out our Christian Vocation. (see CCC 1996, 2000; cf. 654.)
It is impossible to say how they differ for the simple reason that there are 30,000 different protestant sects who all believe something different. Protestants usually define grace as "God's unmerited favor towards us in Christ". But try and get a couple protestants together from different belief systems and come to a common definition, well, I'm just saying.
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What can you say to the Protestant?
They believed that Bible,faith,grace alone are the basis of salvation.
What conclusions did the Council of Trent reach about salvation?
The Council of Trent affirmed traditional Catholic teachings on salvation. It stressed the importance of both faith and good works for salvation, rejected the idea of salvation by faith alone, and emphasized the sacraments as channels of God's grace. It condemned the beliefs of Protestant reformers on justification by faith alone.
What issue sparked Martin Luther's reformation?
taxes at the time of the catholic revolution
How do you translate the words to Amazing Grace to french?
HUH? A Protestant hymn? France is a Catholic country, so you don't.
Are you saved by grace or works?
There is no such thing as salvation by works, only salvation through grace.
What are facts about the protestant church?
. Stated by Martin Luther [not Mr. King]. . Any non Catholic christian is Protestant. . It is one of the 3 major branches of Christianity. . It was formed in 1517. . Martin Luther did not mean to start another major branch of Christianity, but to reform Catholic church.
Cause of the Protestant Reformation?
¨The Protestant Reformation was caused by Martin Luther, during the 16th century. ¨The Reformation did not occur in orthodox Christianity in Russia or what was left of the Byzantine empire in Greece. ¨It was called the protestant reformation because it was originally an attempt to reform the traditional institutions of the western church but also supporting the motivation of offerings for the means of salvation. ¨Martin Luther became very unhappy with the Roman Catholic Church and how it had became. One particular practice that he didn't like was when priests will sell "entrances to heaven" to people in exchange for money. The Roman Catholic Church were selling indulgences, saying that if you buy it, you have salvation, and people like Martin Luther didn't agree with that, saying that by God's grace we are saved. ¨Luther later posted all his complaints about the Catholic Church in the door of a Catholic church thus starting the Protestant Reformation.
Why did the Roman Catholic Church start?
Roman Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church started because God willed it as the Mystical Body of His Son so that His grace and salvation could reach all peoples throughout time.
Definitnition of protestant belief on salvation?
Salvation is completely by grace, that is, by the unmerited (undeserved) and unearned love of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Our efforts to live a moral life, give to the church, help the poor do not complete or in any sense bring about salvation. Rather, they are a way of saying Thank You to God.
What has the Catholic Church brought us?
.Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, established by Christ, and guided by the Holy Spirit to bring us to God, and God, through His Sacraments and His Grace to us. The Catholic Church has brought us salvation.
Will you go to hell because you are not Catholic?
Anyone who rejects the Catholic Church will go to hell because the Catholic Church is necessary for salvation. However, if someone is innocently ignorant of the Catholic Church and its necessity, they may be saved if they cooperate with whatever grace they have. If they are, it will only be through Christ and His Church.
The Great Awakening taught that salvation was by?
grace
