TEST

How can someone make this profession this without knowing everything the Church teaches?           

·         Belief vs. Faith

o   Mere belief [to think with assent] can be based on any number of things (experience, arguments, trust, ignorance, etc.).

o   Faith is something that must be FREELY CHOSEN.

o   This is why people are judged according to their FAITH, not their KNOWLEDGE.

“Our actions are meritorious in so far as they proceed from the free-will moved with grace by God. Therefore every human act proceeding from the free-will, if it be referred to God, can be meritorious. Now the act of believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the Divine truth at the command of the will moved by the grace of God, so that it is subject to the free-will in relation to God; and consequently the act of faith can be meritorious.” (St. Thomas Aquinas ST II-II, Q.2, A.9).

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