Jimmy Akin Debate Report

The famous Algo pointed me to a rather lengthy thread in the Catholic Answers Forums today, found here. It is an excellent example of how the constant drumbeat argument of Rome, that sola scriptura leads to differences of belief and practice, etc., but Rome is wonderfully unified, etc., is not a wit short of ludicrous. Here you have faithful Roman

Lessons learned this AM:  Respond to one rC, and another will say you are misrepresenting him. Lesson: rC’s are allowed to differ, but you aren’t allowed to criticize. rC’s can go ballistic and lose all balance on rC blogs, without rebuke (at least, public rebuke).  If you say, “This position trumps soteriology with sacramentalism” rC’s will say, “No, you are

Sippo continues in reference to Romans 9:14-16, This is locus classicus for the doctrine that there is no strict merit before God. God is not obligated to reward the creature for morally upright works done by the natural man apart from God or His covenants. This does not exclude the possibility of condign merit {due to the obedience of faith