Theology on the Lighter Side – What do you call a sleepwalking nun? A roamin’ Catholic.
Official Roman Catholic theology includes beliefs, traditions and practices that are not in line with a Biblical Christian worldview. However, because of the broad range of practicing Catholic theology, and God’s basis of salvation (from Eph. 2:8-9 and John 14:6), many individual Catholics down through the ages are likely our brothers and sisters in Christ.
Of all the conflicts that do separate the Catholic faith from a Biblical Christian worldview, the one that holds the greatest eternal impact is the view that one must earn their way to Heaven (details here).
Catholic theology can be summarized… “to be saved, a person must receive Christ as Savior by faith, be baptized in the Trinitarian formula, be infused with additional grace by observing the Catholic sacraments, especially the Eucharist, and then die without any unconfessed mortal sins. If one accomplishes the above, he or she will be saved and granted entrance into heaven, likely after an extensive time of further cleansing in purgatory.”
This is works-based, not grace-based salvation (details here).
Salvation – Eternal Life in Less Than 150 Words
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