Posted on 10/19/2013 8:50:26 PM PDT by jodyel
That's an excellent question because there is the inference that there are good works that the believer can do that are somehow NOT covered in or by the Law.
Yes. Grace is not by works. Catholic teaching.
What YOPIOS? That’s the Catechism.
Okay, YOPIOS/VII/CCC. Happy now?
Meanwhile, Scripture tells us that God LAVISHES His grace on us. He doesn't dispense in in stingy parcels when we do the right works.
Ephesians 1:3-14 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Thank you. That is Catholic teaching. Compare:
God is able to make all grace abound in you; that ye always, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work (2 Corinthians 9:8)
No it isn't because the Catholic church teaches that it's through the sacraments that grace is dispensed and that is not done LAVISHLY.
Not necessarily. Prayer also brings forth grace, and good works, and study of the Holy Scripture. Besides, where did you get the idea that the Sacraments do not pour out the grace lavishly?
No Scripture to support that ANY sacraments impart ANY grace to the believer.
But to answer the question, if grace were imparted lavishly, it wouldn’t be lost every time we sinned and one would not have to go back for refills all the time.
bttt
It is not lost: it sustained the man till such time that he chose to sin.
And then it’s gone.
The man loses it.
God’s grace is pouring down on all of us all the time.
Without His grace, we wouldn’t even be alive.
Yes, all the time. That is what makes the world go round.
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