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Faith or Works? Part 10: Is the Church a Real Thing? (#311)
Episode 313
In practice, most Protestants believe that after justification we are called to grow in sanctification through good works, which is the Catholic posi…
1 year, 3 months ago
Faith or Works? Part 9: Locked In or Left Guessing? The Truth About Eternal Security (#310)
Episode 312
This is one of those age-old debates—“Once saved, always saved?” or can you lose your salvation? And who’s really fretting at night—Catholics, or our…
1 year, 3 months ago
Faith or Works? Part 8: The Mystery of Merit (#309)
Episode 311
Greg tackles one of the trickiest, most misunderstood words in Catholic theology: “merit.” The very mention of merit sets off alarm bells for many no…
1 year, 3 months ago
Faith or Works? Part 7: Indulgences (#308)
Episode 310
The whole Faith vs. Works debate really kicked off in 1517, when Martin Luther complained about the Catholic Church charging German peasants money fo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Faith or Works? Part 6: Purgation (#307)
Episode 309
We've been talking about how salvation is a multi-phase process, not a single event. It involves justification, which is entirely by grace through fa…
1 year, 3 months ago
Can Suffering Have Value? (#306)
Episode 308
Greg and Ed discuss their friend Danny, who is going through an extremely difficult experience. Ed realizes that before he began considering Catholic…
1 year, 3 months ago
Faith or Works? Part 5: Types of Sin and Whether We Can "Work Them Off" (#305)
Episode 307
Catholicism identifies three categories of sin: original, mortal, and venial. What are the differences? How are they addressed or overcome in salvati…
1 year, 3 months ago
Faith or Works, Part 4: A Call to Growth (#304)
Episode 306
Protestants teach that we have "imputed righteousness" because Christ, in a one-time legal transaction, swaps our guilt and debt for his innocence an…
1 year, 4 months ago
Faith or Works? Part 3: Where to Begin—Jesus or Paul? (#303)
Episode 305
Greg explains that the "Romans Road," a handful of cherry-picked verses from the first half of Paul's Letter to the Romans, is the interpretive lens …
1 year, 4 months ago
Faith or Works? Part 2: Biblical Examples (#302)
Episode 304
Greg takes the tired old cliche that Catholicism is a works-based religion in which we earn our way to heaven on our own steam by looking at some Bib…
1 year, 4 months ago