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by dragonwriter 1209 days ago
> The Catholic church has perverted the gospel in many ways

Whichever side of Catholic-Protestant disputes is a perversion, we can avoid inventing false ones as a slander. (The Decalogue, as I recall, has something to say about that.)

> Salvation by works, condemned in the Bible

The Catholic Church does not believe in justification by works but that works are the fruit of justification; for a rather more thorough explanation, see, the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification By the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church. [0]

[0] (pdf) https://www.lutheranworld.org/sites/default/files/Joint%20De...