Heretic Thomas Aquinas Loved & Supported by Fake Calvinists Like R.C. Sproul скачать в хорошем качестве

Heretic Thomas Aquinas Loved & Supported by Fake Calvinists Like R.C. Sproul

Lordship Salvation is a heresy that teaches justification by faith and works. It mixes the Law and the Gospel. It conflates justification with sanctification. This is a false gospel that claims that the faith that saves is made perfect by our love, charity, or obedience (i.e., this is the papist notion of Fides Formata). The hucksters that push this heresy will claim we are justified before God by an active and working faith, then they will—like the papists—appeal to James 2:14-26. R.C. Sproul was one of the greatest supporters of the heresy of Lordship Salvation. Sproul was an independent Presbyterian (his church was not part of any Presbyterian denomination, and while that does not imply incorrect teaching of itself, few today seem to realize this). Sproul's best buddy was a man named John MacArthur, and this guy was the champion of Lordship Salvation until he died. Both Sproul and MacArthur worked together and supported each other throughout their heretical ministries. One way Sproul supported the heresy of justification by faith and works was by promoting the theology of Thomas Aquinas. Sproul and his teacher John Gerstner both spent their careers claiming Aquinas was a Protestant and a Calvinist. Because of this, they never pointed out that Aquinas was a papist heretic, who publicly rejected the Bible to be the alone Word of God, as well as rejecting justification by faith alone (Sola Fide) for the pope's heresy of justification by faith and works (Fides Formata). Thomas Aquinas taught that the faith that justifies us before God is active and working, and that it includes our love or charity, which is another way of saying faith includes our works. By defining saving faith to include our works, Aquinas necessarily taught justification by faith and works. Aquinas claimed that saving faith must have more than mental assent, that mere belief in the Gospel was not sufficient. Aquinas taught that one's good works (love) must be added to belief to form saving faith (Fides Charitate Formata). For Aquinas, saving faith, the faith that justifies, is NEVER passive, it does not simply receive the righteousness Christ alone, but it itself is active and works, and so contributes and cooperates in our justification (this is human free will and synergsim). Aquinas did not think we are justified by the sole object of faith (Christ and what He did for us), but also by our activity and love/works. This false teaching by Aquinas is easily seen in his published writings: "Whether Charity Is The Form of Faith?...Now it is evident from what has been said (A. 1), that the ACT OF FAITH is directed to the object of the will, i.e., the good, as to its end: and this good which is the end of faith, viz., the Divine Good, is the proper object of charity. Therefore charity is called the form of faith in so far as the ACT OF FAITH is PERFECTED and FORMED by CHARITY...charity is called the form of faith because it QUICKENS the act of faith." (Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II—II, Question 4, Article 3, emphasis mine)