Wednesday, July 20, 2011

"Wrongly feeling compelled to choose between either God or creatures,

"the Protestant teachers naturally chose God...

"In their thinking, God does everything in our salvation,

"and we do practically nothing..."


Snippets from Dr. Marc Pugliese's article in the June 2011 Newsletter of The Coming Home Network International titled A Journey of Mind and Heart.

"Wrongly feeling compelled to choose between either God or cretaures, the Protestant teachers naturally chose God, whence their well - known slogan, soli Deo Gloria -- to the glory of God alone.

"In their thinking, God does everything in our salvation, and we do practically nothing.

"They were rejecting the traditional Catholic view that in one sense God does it all, but in the creaturely realm we do it all -- there is no competition.

"As I pondered this matter, I saw how in Scripture and philosophy, as creatures infinitely different from God we must receive all our knowledge of God through other creatures, never directly.

"The Word of God in the Bible is still in human concepts and languages, and God's fullest revelation to us was His becoming a human being, Jesus Christ.

"Grace and truth of necessity always come to us through a created medium of one sort or another.

"This is the incarnational and sacramental principle at the heart of the Christian faith, made abundantly clear in Catholic teaching.

"When I realized the Protestant metaphysical mistakes of a perceived competition between God and creatures, leading to a denial of the sacramental principle, I found the lynch pin upon which all Protestant objections to Catholic teaching hinged: the real activity of creatures and human beings in salvation.

"This mistake in their thinking lies at the root of their objections to free will, works, merit, the sacraments, the saints, the Church, and the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is the archetype of the Church ..."

Way to go, Doctor! :)

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