Protestant Justification
The issue goes to whether
salvation is to Gods glory
alone or whether it leads to a
divided glory
-James White, The God Who
Justifies, 104
Christs righteousness is
imputed to us; it is an alien, or
external righteousness.
The name of Christ excludes
all merit. -John Calvin
The Roman concept of being
justified is hardly permanent,
for it can be undone by the
commission of a mortal sin. It is
in the clearest sense of the
term conditional justification,
one that is not permanent but
dependent on the continued
faithfulness of the person. -
Protestant apologist James
White, The Roman Catholic
Controversy, 132
Catholic
The merit of man before God
in the Christian life arises from
the fact that God has freely
Root chosen to associate man with
the work of his grace.
-Catechism of the Catholic
Church, par. 2008
Christs righteousness is
Definition infused into us; we are made
righteous intrinsically.
Baptismal Regeneration
Purgatory
Treasury of merit
Indulgences
Consequences Sacrament of Confession
of definition Sacrifice of the mass
Sacrament of Penance
Priesthood
Relics
Pilgrimages
Intercessory prayers to saints
Marian doctrines
The Catholic Church, not
surprisingly, understands
justification differently. It sees it
as a true eradication of sin and
a true sanctification and
Illustrative renewal. The soul becomes
Quote objectively pleasing to God and
so merits heaven. It merits
heaven because now it is
actually good. Scripture
conceives of the forgiveness of
sins as a real and complete
removal of them. -Catholic
apologist, Karl Keating,
Catholicism and
Fundamentalism 167-168
 Protestant Justification Catholic
Even though my conscience
accuses me of having grievously
sinned against all God's
commandments and of never "No one can merit the initial
having kept any of them, and even grace which is at the origin of
though I am still ever inclined conversion. Moved by the Holy
toward all evil, nevertheless,
Spirit, we can merit for
without my deserving it at all, out
Gospel ourselves and for others all the
of sheer grace, God grants and
credits to me the perfect graces needed to attain eternal
satisfaction, righteousness, and life, as well as necessary
holiness of Christ, as if I had never temporal goods," -Catechism of
sinned nor been a sinner, as if I the Catholic Church, par. 2027.
had been as perfectly obedient as
Christ was obedient for me. All I
need to do is accept this gift of
God with a believing heart.
-Heidelberg Catechism, Q. 70

Warning

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in
the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel which is really no gospel at
all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert
the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel
other than the one we preached to you, let them be under Gods curse! As we have
already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than
what you accepted, let them be under Gods curse!

-Galatians 1:6-9