2. Roman Catholic Teachings Concerning Justification, Taken from the Council of Trent
In the papal bull issued by the Roman pope Pius IV on November 13, 1564, we read the following:
I embrace and accept each and every thing that has been defined and declared by the holy Council of Trent concerning original sin and justification.
19. 2 In fact, in regard to the four theological points just listed, Roman Catholics before the Reformation had exactly the same teachings as Protestants did after it. That is, Catholics had the same teachings regarding the trinity of persons in the Divine, the same teachings regarding original sin, the same teachings regarding the assigning of Christ’s merit, and the same teachings regarding our being justified by believing that we are assigned Christ’s merit; the only difference was that Catholics united that faith to goodwill or good works.
74. 17 The reference in Matthew 24:21 to “a great affliction such as has never existed since the world began and will never exist again” means an attack by falsities and the resulting end — the devastation — of all truth in the Christian denominations of today.
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