The irony is that although they accept that Adam’s sin was imputed, or credited, to all mankind, and that our sins were paid for by Christ, they strongly deny that Christ’s righteousness is imputed to believers. The Catholic church accepts that our sins were punished in Jesus when He sacrificed Himself on the cross (sort of more on this below). Adam was our representative, so to speak, and part of God’s curse was that all of Adam’s progeny would be fallen, or spiritually dead, just as Adam died when he ate of the fruit. This doctrine states that we are born sinners because of Adam’s sin. How one believes this is accomplished determines whether a person has the true gospel or a false gospel.Īlso as mentioned in the Sola Fide article, the Catholic church ironically accepts the teaching of original sin. Second, we must be perfect, just as our Father in heaven is perfect. First, our sins must be punished, for God is a just God. Our savior needs to solve our problem on two levels. We cannot save ourselves we need a Savior.
Man’s problem is that we are sinners, and are separated by sin from our Holy God. This is why it’s important to always look to Scripture alone.) If they reject the gospel they are damned if they are ignorant, they have a chance. By this logic, you’d be better off not preaching the gospel to remote jungle natives. This is taught in the Catholic Catechism: “847 This affirmation is not aimed at those who, through no fault of their own, do not know Christ and his Church: Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience - those too may achieve eternal salvation.” In the interest of brevity, compare this to Romans 1 and 3 (people exchange the truth of God for a lie, worship the creature rather than the Creator, no one seeks God, there is none righteous, etc.). (As an aside, the Catholic church actually teaches that people can be saved apart from Christ, through works alone.
IN CHRIST ALONE BIBLE VERSE PLUS
The key question when it came to Christ alone was, “Is Christ sufficient for our salvation, or must we add something to His work?” The Catholic church said salvation was by Christ plus works, sacraments, etc. Salvation is by faith alone apart from works, and it is also in Christ alone apart from works. As we said about Sola Fide, there is a large overlap with Solus Christus, for a person is saved by faith alone in Christ alone. The Reformers rejected this, as we have seen in the previous Sola articles. Indeed, even God’s grace for salvation was believed to be imparted by the sacraments. The seven sacraments identified by Rome were baptism, confirmation, the eucharist, penance, extreme unction, order, and matrimony (not that one needed to be married to be saved).
Of course, only the church could administer the sacraments. For example, in addition to faith in Christ (see our previous article on Sola Fide here), the Catholic church taught that the sacraments were necessary for salvation.
Conveniently, a person needed the church for most of these requirements. At the time of the Reformation, the Catholic church had so corrupted the gospel that many man made requirements were necessary for one to be saved.
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