Why the Roman Catholic Arguments for the Canon are Spurious

Christian Truth ^ | Unknown | William Webster

[HarleyD]

Although indulgences and money were connected at one time — the money is not accepted today.

Well, some might count that as progress. But working for one's salvation, God's grace, or whatever it is one is working for forgets about the work of Christ.

Joh_6:29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."

You also forgot the Book of James — faith AND works

Last I check the Book of James was in the Protestant Bible. There is only one work, and that is to believe in Christ. We manifest works as we abide in Him.

Joh_15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

All Christians WILL performed good works. It is appointed for us to do good works. It is in our nature now. And I would suggest that what we think we're doing as "good works" is really not so. The true good works we do being led by the Spirit is of the close council of God. Thus we will say, "Lord, when did we see you naked, or hungry, or..." As Augustine stated:

Whatever, therefore, of good works Cornelius performed, as well before he believed in Christ as when he believed and after he had believed, are all to be ascribed to God, lest, perchance any man be lifted up. - Augustine

The purgatory reference you quote is only one.

Ummm...I looked up the "references". I wouldn't want to defend a cause on things that are loosely implied (and certainly misconstrued).

The Immaculate Conception was validated through the witness of a young girl, St. Bernadette

And Joseph Smith claimed to have seen an angel and was given a peek at some golden tablets. Do you believe him? The reason we have the scripture is to finalize the Word of God. What "validates" Bernadette's vision as being a vision from heaven and not Joseph Smith?

From Wikipedia on St. Bernadette-"She described the lady as wearing a white veil, a blue girdle and with a yellow rose on each foot — compatible with "a description of any statue of the Virgin in a village church"."

Interesting how likeness often take the form of idols in the village. Most of the angels (if not all) documented in scripture struck fear in the hearts of men and women-so much that they often start off saying "Fear not...". This is because man simply cannot stand in the presence of a holy God or even the holiness of His angels. People who do not have this reaction are 1) either telling stories, or 2) not meeting with holiness.

If there was ever an example of being "snookered" this certainly is one of them.

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[aMorePerfectUnion]

"The Immaculate Conception was validated through the witness of a young girl, St. Bernadette"

I understand how this works entirely...

The sinfulness of indulgences, Salvation by faith alone in the completed work of Christ and Justification by faith alone were validated through Scripture, as witnessed by a young man named Martin Luther, who was a German Monk, Roman Catholic Priest, and professor of theology at University of Wittenberg.

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