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501 App       |          factually to 4.3, but emphasizes the 'convicting function' of
502 App       |                   convicting function' of the law which is important to
503 App       |                  E 53-56; VELKD 90ff) ~- "The question is: How can, and
504 App       |                 weakness?" (LV:E 53). ~- "The foundation and the point
505 App       |                        The foundation and the point of departure [of the
506 App       |                the point of departure [of the Reformers is] ..the reliability
507 App       |                    of the Reformers is] ..the reliability and sufficiency
508 App       |         sufficiency of God's promise, and the power of Christ's death
509 App       |         resurrection; human weakness, and the threat to faith and salvation
510 App       |                   involves" (LV:E 56). ~- The Council of Trent also emphasizes
511 App       |                  forgiven, save freely by the divine mercy on account
512 App       |                   that we must not doubt "the mercy of God, the merit
513 App       |                  doubt "the mercy of God, the merit of Christ and the
514 App       |                   the merit of Christ and the power and efficacy of the
515 App       |                 the power and efficacy of the sacraments; so it is possible
516 App       |                   farther. They urge that the uncertainty should not merely
517 App       |               practically, and personally the objective efficacy of the
518 App       |                 the objective efficacy of the absolution pronounced in
519 App       |                  absolution pronounced in the sacrament of penance, which
520 App       |                 in heaven' (Matt. 16:19), the believer ..would declare
521 App       |                  a rock-like assurance on the forgiveness of God uttered
522 App       |             forgiveness of God uttered in the absolution ..This reliance
523 App       |             subjectively uncertain - that the assurance of forgiveness
524 App       |             another problem, so to speak: the believer should turn his
525 App       |                  Catholics can appreciate the Reformer's efforts to ground
526 App       |                efforts to ground faith in the objective reality of Christ'
527 App       |                 and to focus believers on the specific word of absolution
528 App       |             mutual condemnation regarding the understanding of the assurance
529 App       |            regarding the understanding of the assurance of salvation "
530 App       |             particularly if we start from the foundation of a biblically
531 App       |                  this sense, he cannot at the same time believe that God
532 App       |                 Luther's words - faith is the assurance of salvation" (
533 App       |                 56). ~- With reference to the concept of faith of Vatican
534 App       |               Divine Revelation, no. 5: "'The obedience of faith' ..must
535 App       |                  freely to God, offering 'the full submission of intellect
536 App       |                   and freely assenting to the truth revealed by Him."~- "
537 App       |                truth revealed by Him."~- "The Lutheran distinction between
538 App       |              Lutheran distinction between the certitude (certitudo) of
539 App       |             securitas), which is based on the human being, has not been
540 App       |              dealt with clearly enough in the LV. The question whether
541 App       |                 clearly enough in the LV. The question whether a Christian “
542 App       |                  E 53) does not arise for the Lutheran understanding,
543 App       |                   VELKD 92,2-9). ~For 4.7:The Good Works of the Justified (
544 App       |                 For 4.7:The Good Works of the Justified (paras.37-39) (
545 App       |                 66ff, VELKD 90ff) ~- "But the Council excludes the possibility
546 App       |                  But the Council excludes the possibility of earning grace -
547 App       |                can. 2; DS 1552) and bases the earning or merit of eternal
548 App       |                  merit of eternal life on the gift of grace itself, through
549 App       |               merits' as a gift. Although the Reformers attack 'Godless
550 App       |                trust' in one's own works, the Council explicitly excludes
551 App       |              1548f). It is evident ..that the Council wishes to establish
552 App       |                 Augustine, who introduced the concept of merit, in order
553 App       |                merit, in order to express the responsibility of human
554 App       |                 human beings, in spite of the 'bestowed' character of
555 App       |                  66). ~- If we understand the language of "cause" in Canon
556 App       |                  is done in chapter 16 of the Decree on Justification,
557 App       |                   on Justification, where the idea of communion with Christ
558 App       |        foundational, then we can describe the Catholic doctrine on merit
559 App       |                 on merit as it is done in the first sentence of the second
560 App       |                  in the first sentence of the second paragraph of 4.7:
561 App       |           antitheses could be overcome if the misleading word 'merit'
562 App       |                  about in connection with the true sense of the biblical
563 App       |         connection with the true sense of the biblical term 'wage' or
564 App       |                 or reward" (LV:E 67). ~- "The Lutheran confessions stress
565 App       |                   confessions stress that the justified person is responsible
566 App       |                   responsible not to lose the grace received but to live
567 App       |                  but to live in it ..Thus the confessions can speak of
568 App       |                 Canon 24 is understood in the sense that it affects human
569 App       |      righteousness' in Canon 24 refers to the Christian's acceptance by
570 App       |                 perfect; compared with it the works of Christians are
571 App       |          Concerning Canon 26, we refer to the Apology where eternal life
572 App       |                 our merits but because of the promise" (VELKD 94,20-24).~~~