Catholic Verses - 95 Bibles Passages That Confound Protestants?
ST. PAUL: "DOERS OF THE LAW" WILL BE JUSTIFIED
Pages 93-94: Romans 2:5-13: "But by your had and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. For he will render to every man according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God show no partiality. All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified." The obvious central place of works in this scenario is similar to the outlook of James, and St. Paul (and that of the Catholic Church).
Note: In context, Saint Paul is warning people who are practicing sin and have rejected the gospel of Christ based on faith such as this author.
Romans 1:16-17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
Note: Cult members rarely quote Scripture in context.
Page 94: Is "faith alone" ever mentioned here? No. Rather, we see works, well-doing, being factious, not obeying, being wicked, doing evil, doing good, sinning, being doers of the law - this is all Paul talks about. Yet Protestants typically tell us, contrary to Jesus, Paul, and James, "We are justified by faith alone, not by faith and something we do."
Note: In context, this author has rejected the righteousness of God and does not have genuine faith in Jesus Christ.
Romans 3:21-22 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe.
Note: Cult members rarely quote Scripture in context.
Page 95: This is what Protestant commentators often say when a strain of thought in the Bible is difficult to dispose of, according to their preconceived systems of theology. Faced with a dilemma, a little display of overconfidence comes in handy.
Note: In context, this author has rejected the righteousness of God and does not have genuine faith in Jesus Christ.
Romans 3:23-26 For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Note: Cult members will readily accuse Christians of the very sins that they are practicing.
Page 95: Indeed, no one denies that God does these things (author refers to Romans 8:30), but merely asserting these truisms does not overcome the fact that St. Paul places works in a very prominent and "un-Protestant" position here (author is referring to Romans chapter 2).
Note: In context, this author has rejected the righteousness of God and does not have genuine faith in Jesus Christ.
Romans 3:27-28 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law.
Note: Cult members rarely quote Scripture in context.