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Saved by Works? The Catholic Theology of Salvation | Prof. Matthew Thomas

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The Paradox of Sin

Free will is an idea that the devil went and made up to try to compute people in the strike Christianity. Even if you could have it, what would it mean? It just means that you would lose it because we're fallible here. And so of course we would mess it up. So free will, very bad. Don't like it. What about this is a sin. Sin does not harm us as much as our own righteousness. How do you make sense of that? God is the only source of righteousness. The only way you can arrive at righteousness is completely, possibly receiving it from God who does one of the people who does 100%.

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