And somehow it's not possible to do that in a Catholic Church? Hmmmmm. You're perhaps suggesting that it's possible for us to negate God's "election" of us by our own actions? Double Hmmmmmm.
Count me out of your little game, pal. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. (John 5:39-40).
And somehow it's not possible to do that in a Catholic Church? Hmmmmm. You're perhaps suggesting that it's possible for us to negate God's "election" of us by our own actions? Double Hmmmmmm.
Boy, you just make it us you go along don't you!
There are no works involved in salvation-period!
A work is defined very clearly in Rom.4 as is grace.
Receiving a gift is not a work, and when you receive a present from someone you don't claim credit for accepting it, the person giving it gets the credit and the praise, you get the gift.
So, you did no work in receiving the gift, it was the one who paid for the gift that gets the credit, because they worked to pay for it, not you.
Count me out of your little game, pal. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. (John 5:39-40).
And those scriptures point out that there is no salvation in any faith/works system.
So, you have rejected the very scriptures you appeal to.
Those same scriptures will be your judge when you appear at the Great White Throne judgement with all the others who mocked at grace and thought they could add to God's grace with their works.(Rom.11:6)