Category: Catholicism

  • The Five Bible Passages That Led Me To the Catholic Church

    The Five Bible Passages That Led Me To the Catholic Church

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    The Five Bible Passages That Led Me to the Catholic Church The Bible contains over 31,000 verses, each offering profound wisdom and truth. Yet, it was five specific passages that prompted my journey to Catholicism. These verses didn’t just challenge my Protestant beliefs—they illuminated a path that ultimately led me home to the Catholic Church.…

  • Is Faith Sufficient for Conversion?

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    Are individuals converted and justified solely through the disposition of faith, i.e. justified by and through faith alone? As mentioned previously, God justifies the ungodly by making an unjust soul just. But is the disposition of faith sufficient for this act of God to be efficacious to the particular person? Does an unjustified soul need…

  • God Justifies, Faith Disposes

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    In the context of conversion (initial justification), who or what exactly makes and declares us to be righteous in God’s sight? In other words, what is the primary (efficient) cause of our justification? Is it faith? Is it God? Is it both? First, it is entirely necessary to be properly disposed in order for God…

  • Is Marriage the Hardest Vocation?

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    Saint Francis de Sales said, “The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.” (emphasis mine) Notice the key words ‘constancy’ and ‘perpetual’, because in marriage the dying to oneself (“mortification”) is 24-7, 365 days a year. Not only is it required…

  • Monergism or Synergism?

    Monergism or Synergism?

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    Does the Christian have any amount of responsibility when it comes to his or her own salvation, or is the Christian completely and entirely passive? When applied to a Christian’s eternal destiny, the theology of Monergism implies that God is entirely, completely, and solely responsible for any person’s salvation. In contrast, the theology of Synergism…

  • Justification by Works?

    Justification by Works?

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    All Christians are in complete agreement in confessing that a person is justified by faith. Why then are Catholics and Protestants in such stark disagreement about confessing whether or not a person is justified by works, at least by faith and works?  Perhaps we are asking the wrong question, or, perhaps the question needs to…