re: Conversation with a secular/agnostic friend about what has happened in America

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You just have a Catholic perspective, and adopting psuedo-works based salvation and pseudo-Divine worship of Mary is why I will never be Catholic.

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The works based salvation part is all about framing. My paradigm on this has shifted, and I no longer view sacraments as a work, but closer to something like participation in divine grace.

I'm getting much more comfortable in saying that we need to participate in our salvation to remain engrafted in it.

I don't see how that's unbiblical. I do, however, see how it can be made to sound unbiblical. It's all about the framing.
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You make a decision for Christ, you don't do anything afterward. What do you have? Likewise, you get baptized as an infant, you don't do anything afterward, what do you have?

So yes, I'm beginning to think that there's actually quite the argument for the notion that you can reject Christ after once having been united with him.