December 20, 2023
DAY 354
CHALLENGE
“Catholic theology of merit is false. We can’t earn our place before God.”
DEFENSE
The Church does not teach that we can earn our place before God. Everything we receive from him is due to his grace.
When we first come to God and are justified, it is entirely by his grace, for “none of those things that precede justification, whether faith or works, merit the grace of justification” (Trent, Decree on Justification 8).
After our initial justification, God’s grace leads us to do good works (Eph. 2:10) and he rewards these (Rom. 2:6–7), but still, “with regard to God, th...
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