If you don't go any further in this video, I want to be very clear, Catholics do not believe

that we are saved by our works. What do we believe in? We believe, excuse me,

how many names father Mike Schmitts and this is essentially presents. There is this kind of, I don't

know, old argument or old debate that goes back to the 1500s when it came to those who broke

away from the Catholic church and started their own denominations about, is it faith or is it

works? In fact, one of the kind of cries was solar feeday or faith alone. And so sometimes people

say like, okay, so Protestants believe in faith alone, we're saved by faith alone, just

five by faith alone. Whereas Catholics believe that you're saved by your works, right? So this

kind of thing is faith or is it works? And on one hand, our Protestants saying it's faith,

on the other hand, it's Catholics saying it's works. Now, that's probably a, what's the word?

That is probably a mischaracterization of both parties. In fact, I know it's a mischaracterization,

mixed, I know it's a mischaracterization of Catholic party because we don't believe that we're

saved by our works. What do we believe in? We believe that we are saved by grace through faith,

working us out in love. And there are a lot of Protestants who would say like, no, no, you have to,

there's some kind of thing you have to do. So, but there's some though who would say, no, no,

solar feeday, all you have to do is profess faith in Jesus. That's all you have to do is have faith

in Jesus. In fact, the scripture says, if you believe in your heart, profess with the lips, Jesus

is Lord, you'll be saved. Now, at the same time, we can't isolate a scripture passage and take it

and read it at the exclusion of all the other scriptural passages. So, how do I understand a

Catholic vision of salvation? Well, what we need is both faith and works. Let's go back to the

original definition. We're saved by grace, right? It's just a free gift, saved by grace. It's

God's free gift. It's unmerited. It's, it's, it is bestowed upon us before we have done anything

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