#277 What Justifies a Christian? - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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How can the Catholic Church teach that our justification is a process when the Letter to the Romans says that our justification is a one-time event? Karlo Broussard can’t help himself, he just has to keep meeting Protestant challenges to Catholic belief. Cy Kellett: What does it take to get right with God? Karlo Broussard next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending the Catholic faith. Please, don’t forget to subscribe to Focus at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. That way you’ll be…

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0:00.0	What does it take to get right with God, Carlo Broussard, next?
0:03.2	Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding, and defending the Catholic faith.
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0:22.4	And you can give us that
0:23.2	five-star rating or review to help us grow the podcast. This week all
0:27.2	Christians will agree that Christ makes it possible for us to be restored to
0:31.9	proper relationship with God.
0:33.5	We call that process or event being justified.
0:37.1	We all agree that Christ can do this for us
0:38.9	so long as we have faith in him,
0:40.6	but how does this happen?
0:42.0	Is it a one-time event or an ongoing process?
0:44.6	In general, Catholic Christians will think of justification as an ongoing process.
0:48.3	Well, Protestant Christians will emphasize justification as a one-time event.
0:53.2	Our guest, Carla Broussard, tackles this debate in his book,
0:55.9	Meeting the Protestant Challenge, answering 50 biblical objections
0:59.3	to Catholic belief.
1:00.0	So we asked him to explain to us and to defend the Catholic position and he agreed to do that.
1:05.2	In the book he makes reference to the story of Abraham's justification by faith as an example of the
1:10.1	Catholic view which is a little different a lot of Protestants will be used to that justifying
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