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Date Posted: 19:57:17 09/03/99 Fri
Author: Peter
Subject: Can Evangelicals and Catholics Reconcile?

Will there ever come a day when the break between Protestants and Catholics ever be healed?

The gulf that is fixed between Roman Catholicism and Evangelical Protestantism is so vast that it would take throwing out the majority of Catholic dogma to even begin to attempt any negotiations with Bible believing Catholics. The differences that separate the two is no small matter:

For instance, when examing the biblical requirments of salvation, the Roman Catholic vehicle frustrates the grace of God, because it interprets "saved by grace through faith"
as something that is open to negotiation. And they in turn insert their own definition of grace and how faith has to cooperate with works to be justified.

Example: INFANT BAPTISM
According to Roman Catholic doctrine, a person must cooperate with the grace of God. And that when an infant is baptized, grace is infused into their soul, regenerating it. This is contrary to true Biblical teaching because the prototype and example of true baptism is full immersion as an adult, at the age of reasoning. The fact that Roman Catholicism states that grace must be ccoperated with is contradicting because an infant is not cable of cooperating with the grace of God because he or she has not reached the age of reasoning.

Justification by faith is obvious in the Bible. One acknowledges themselves as a sinner and believes in the atoning work of Jesus Christ and is saved. Might sound simplistic, but nevertheless is, without controversy, the humble road that God has chosen for every believer to walk down and the only effective vehicle of Salvation. There are no substitues!

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