Is it true that catholics live more by law than by faith?

Answer 1

As a former Catholic, I can say yes to your question. I was raised a Catholic and decided early on that Gods Word and the Catholic church do not see eye to eye on some key issues. For one thing, saying 5 hail Mary's and 5 our fathers cannot cleanse us from sin. Another thing is the constant repetitious prayers used to invoke Gods blessing. Sit, kneel, stand, while repeating the same prayers, week after week, does not please God. Praying to Mary and the saints, for any reason, is Idolatry and offensive to God.
The modern day Catholic church has forsaken Gods word, in order to attract more members and is being run more like a business, than a house of worship. Catholics do believe in The Trinity and redemption through Christ Jesus, however they don't spend alot of time on these subjects. Mostly they just say their repetitious prayers, throw a few bucks in the offering plate and then go home. I also attended a Catholic school until 9th grade and I never learned much about Christ Jesus, most teachings were about Mary and the saints. Even at a very young age I wondered about this. My Mother is still a devout Catholic, she stays after church and helps count the money, she serves coffee and donuts etc. In all my life, I have never seen her open a bible. She serves the Catholic church, Not Christ Jesus.
I thank God for my Catholic upbringing, but I thank Him more for showing me His truth, not man made rules and regulations.
The Catholic church reminds me of the Pharisees in Jesus' day, all worried about washing hands, working for good deeds on the sabbath and always accusing Christ Jesus of breaking their rules. Christ Jesus told His disciples to be leary of the leaven of the Pharisees...(Teachings of the Pharisees)
For good reason.
I love all my fellow Catholic friends and acquaintances, I simply choose to follow a different teaching. Gods Word, not mans.
God Bless You...Peace.

Answer 2

I think you're mistaken, the laws are local, state and federal laws, not Christian / Catholic - I believe that Vermont and Mass allow gay marriages - and Canada also accepts those - as well as common law marriages (allowed in some southern states). Since you seem to take exception to the laws of marriage, how about the age limits - why can't 12 year olds get married, or why can't children marry their parents, or their brothers or sisters? The problem with finding a single law you don't like is that there are often parts of it that you agree with. I think Alabama just recently got rid of their law against mixed marriages - go figure. I think that most laws were created with a sense of the morality of the people creating them - thus, the laws are actually more Puritan than Catholic (remember, Catholics were ostracized in the early US - it was Protestants who built the country - Catholics didn't start streaming in until the Irish started coming to Boston after the great potato famine in Ireland). Since you mentioned Islam, I'm highly doubtful that gay marriages would be allowed in an Islamic country. And "who" decided that murder should be a crime, or euthenasia? Once you start down the slippery slope of what is or isn't allowed, it becomes difficult to put a stake in the sand. Isn't it the ten commandments, a religious tenet, that purports that murder is illegal? In England, you cannot get a transplant if you are over the age of 50, because you are no longer valuable enough to waste an organ on - Become aware of all of the laws, and see that lawful, even if uncomfortable, is preferable to lawlessness.

Answer 3

Catholics thrive on the real and substantial body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ in the authentic Eucharist, who is at the very center of the Catholic faith.

Grace is next, then faith, then charity.

Only then would Catholics concern themselves with church laws or requirements, and that would only be in order to help eliminate sin from their lives.

Catholics have 10 commandments, plus 6 church precepts to observe. Not a lot, by any standards.

Answer 4

NO, I am catholic and live completely on my faith. Most of the "LAW" is more of guidelines on what a person should do to be a more "holy" for lack of better word. I don't go totaly by what the pope says and that's ok we are all our own people. The "laws" are set in place to try to help us understand jesus' suffering. such a lent.

Answer 5

No. Faith first.

Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006):

By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works.

Accepting God's law of love is a natural outgrowth of this faith.

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

Faith is the reason we do everything we do. Jesus said that the entire law was summed up in one law; love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul - and love your neighbor as yourself. This is the 'law' that guides everything that Catholics do through faith.

Answer 7

How do you define your use of the word "law"?

If my "law" you mean "Works of the Law", then the answer is NO. Catholics do not believe there is anything salvific in "works of the law".

If by "law" you are referring to "Good Works", the the answer is YES. Good Works in sanctifying Grace lead to Salvation.

Answer 8

No it is not true. Catholics live more by love. #1. for God , #2. for neighbor. Where is your love?

Answer 9

As with ALL religions they live by RULES of the CHURCH. They just have nice loopholes and good lawyers to help them get around some of those rules without actually breaking them directly.

Some protestants and other religions like Islam simply don't agree with that concept.

Other protestants get even MORE liberal about the rules!

Answer 10

By the law of Christ. Faith without works is dead. You need to have both.