The Holy Spirit is the master of the interior life. By giving birth to the "inner man,"44 justification entails the sanctification of his whole being:
Rom 6:19, 22 --> Just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for sanctification.... But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life
Our justification comes from the grace of God. Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life
The grace of Christ is the gratuitous gift that God makes to us of his own life, infused by the Holy Spirit into our soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it. It is the sanctifying or deifying grace received in Baptism. It is in us the source of the work of sanctification
The preparation of man for the reception of grace is already a work of grace.
“Our justification comes from the grace of God. Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life”
Then why does the Roman Catholic Church need to add to this??? And, please—do not say that Rome has not or does not do that very thing, because we all here have seen “tradition” touted.
That is the problem — out of one side of a Rome’s mouth we hear God’s Word quoted, and then, out the other side we hear it twisted and mangled so viciously all for the purpose of controlling people, and trying (and may I add, not very successfully) to support false, man-made doctrines that have no foundation outside of men.
Sorry— had stopped with what God said, ‘we are saved by grace’ Instead of pushing traditions (here and other threads), we could agree.
Hoss