Wise Words on Wednesday: Deacon Benjamin
“Do not let failures in the past hold you back, let it simply become the prologue to your salvation story”
– Deacon Benjamin
Tag: Salvation
Live Debate Tonight!
In case you didn’t know, Trent Horn from Catholic Answers will be debating James White from Alpha & Omega ministries on the subjection of whether or not Christians can lose their salvation. The rather exciting news this morning is that the debate is going to be streamed live on the Internet at 7pm EST (4pm PST):
A powerful sermon
Wise Words on Wednesday: Saving Love
“Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved”
– St Robert Bellamine
Catholic View of Salvation
Quite some time ago I remember reading an article at Called To Communion where I was presented with the positive case for Catholic salvation and I had my mind blown. I hadn’t realized quite how many non-Catholic concepts had crept into my brain.
During this past Lenten season I sent an email to Nick over at Nick’s Catholic Blog. Nick writes a lot on the subject of justification so I asked him to write a post putting forward the positive case for the Catholic view of salvation. The Protestant identity is often a negative one i.e. “Not Catholic” and I didn’t want to see Catholic soteriology go in the same direction i.e. “Not Sola Fide”. Here’s what he wrote:
If you’d like to understand more about the Protestant Reformed view of salvation and Penal Substitution, Joe recently did an article on this subject over at Shameless Popery.
Dwight Theology: 2 Peter 3:9
Are you saved?
The most common question I’ve heard from non-Catholics is probably “Are you saved?”
The majority of Protestants view salvation as a one-time event when they accepted Jesus as their personal Lord and Saviour which guarantees them entry into Heaven. This is not the Catholic conception of Salvation. Here’s the Catholic answer to that question:
Thanks to All You Can Eat Catholics for this