Does the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church believe only in good works?

Question

Isn't adding good works, along with faith, for justification saying that Christ's blood wasn't sufficient for salvation?

Answer 1

No.

Jas.2

1. [14] What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?
2. [17] So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

Cheers :-)

Answer 2

The Roman Catholic Church use the Latin Vulgate and the jap Orthodox use the Septuagint, which incorporates some books that are no longer interior the Hebrew Bible. those books, translated from the Septuagint, are exact deuterocanonical interior the Latin Vulgate Bible. Protestant Bibles persist with the Jewish scheme and exclude those books. The Vulgate is an early 5th century version of the Bible in Latin that's largely the end results of the labors of Jerome, who replaced into commissioned via Pope Damasus I in 382 to make a revision of the previous Latin translations. Its previous testomony is the 1st Latin version translated at as quickly as from the Hebrew Tanakh (Torah) rather than from the Greek Septuagint. The Septuagint is a selection of Jewish scriptures in Koine Greek, translated in ranges between the third and 1st centuries BC in Alexandria. that's the oldest of various historic translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Who should you think? the two... this is barely that one is a Latin and the different a Greek translation. There are some solid English translations obtainable at present, besides the King James version. I want the recent American standard Bible myself, which adheres as heavily as a possibility to the unique languages in accordance to present day English utilization.

Answer 3

Do you mean that in those Churches good works are claimed to be the means of obtaining salvation? If so you are wrong. All Christians believe what Paul wrote in his letter to the Romans in Chapter 10, verse 9. Turn it up. Of course, faith breeds good works.

Answer 4

Believe only in good works? If you are asking if they believe that works alone are essential for justification, then the answer is now.

If you are asking if they believe that for justification that it is grace through faith in Christ AND works, then that would be more typically accepted...

The Reformation differed from Rome in the issue of justification being the work of God ALONE versus a work of God + the person (protestantism would view santification as this type of process)...

Soli Deo Gloria

Answer 5

no they don't. they believe that faith in God - leads to love of God - leads to loving the people that God loves - leads to wanting to do good for others. frankly i don't see how one can have faith without wanting what is best for others, and trying to make the world a better place.

i think this is what is meant where it says in the Bible that 'faith without works is dead' those religions that want to rely solely on 'faith' may just be lazy, or trying not to feel guilty.......

Answer 6

No.

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.

Once we are "saved," all Christians (including Catholics) are called by Jesus to perform good works.

He who has two coats, let him share with him who has none; and he who has food must do likewise. (Luke 3:11)

But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, everything is clean for you. (Luke 11:41)

If a brother or sister is ill clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? (James 2:15-16; cf. 1 John 3:17)

We come to the aid of our neighbors in their bodily and spiritual needs by these charitable actions.

The spiritual works of mercy include
+ Instructing
+ Advising
+ Consoling
+ Comforting
+ Forgiving
+ Patiently forbearing

The corporal works of mercy include
+ Feeding the hungry
+ Clothing the naked
+ Visiting the sick and imprisoned
+ Sheltering the homeless
+ Burying the dead

With love in Christ

Answer 7

Do you mean to be saved? or just in general? Catholics (myself included) believe we are saved through grace alone, and faith in that and in our Lord God and that it is a faith that shows through works

Answer 8

Faith and good works just like it says in the bible.

Answer 9

Only in good works? not really, you cannot deny Jesus and still get to heaven by good works alone, but if you never knew about Jesus you can still get to heaven through him by good works.

Peace!

Answer 10

no faith and good works