[LearsFool]

When you stand before the Lord don't for one second think you can offer your works as the admittance fee.

That's right. We better do the will of the Father instead, just like Jesus said. If we don't do the Father's will, we won't be allowed into the kingdom.

[agere_contra]

It is a Catholic doctrine that you must somehow balance faith and works

If we believe in God, then we must do what He asks us to do.

We must feed the hungry. Shelter the widow and orphan. Have mercy. Love God and our neighbor. Eat the Body of Christ. Drink the Blood of Christ. Baptize in the name of the Trinity. And so on.

This is not so hard. There is nothing perplexing about it.

Catholics do not expect to present their works to God in lieu of faith. They do them because they have faith - because God asks them to do these things.

If we claim to have faith and we do not do the will of God - of what use is our faith?

[verga]

And this is the problem with “Bumper Sticker Theology”. Easy beliverism, is not a path to heaven, but to perdition instead.

[Elsie]

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

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John 6:28-29

Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

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[Elsie]

 

 

 

 

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Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

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John 6:28-29
Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?

 Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."

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1 John 3:21-23
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him.
And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us.

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James 1:27

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

 

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[circlecity]

The Lord’s prayer and the verse immediately following it would seem to suggest that “forgiveness” is a work absolutely necessary for salvation.