From McArthur’s article you link to, he says “Catholic theology views justification as an infusion of grace that makes the sinner righteous. In Catholic theology, then, the ground of justification is something made good within the sinner…” How does his accusation make any sense? They are saying that when God justifies the person by faith he also gives them the power to actually be what he has just declared them to be, i.e. just. That is not making the “ground” of justification something in them; that is making something in them match the fact that they’ve been justified. Is it just me, or is McArthur’s “explanation” a gross misinterpretation of the Catholic view?
paulspassingthoughts said, on July 23, 2013 at 10:18 PM
Yes, because Rome and the Reformers both saw sanctification as finishing justification. They were both wrong. His representation presumes the views are different from the only realty that the Reformers accept–a linear gospel where sanctification links justification and glorification.
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Yep, false gospel MacArthur.
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From McArthur’s article you link to, he says “Catholic theology views justification as an infusion of grace that makes the sinner righteous. In Catholic theology, then, the ground of justification is something made good within the sinner…” How does his accusation make any sense? They are saying that when God justifies the person by faith he also gives them the power to actually be what he has just declared them to be, i.e. just. That is not making the “ground” of justification something in them; that is making something in them match the fact that they’ve been justified. Is it just me, or is McArthur’s “explanation” a gross misinterpretation of the Catholic view?
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Yes, because Rome and the Reformers both saw sanctification as finishing justification. They were both wrong. His representation presumes the views are different from the only realty that the Reformers accept–a linear gospel where sanctification links justification and glorification.
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