Reflection #  7

        There are many conflict happens between the Roman Catholic and the protestant, when the Protestant work hard to achieve reformation, the Roman Catholic Church also established the Council of Trent, they counter the teaching of the protestant that say's teaching Justification by faith alone is condemned as a heresy. when I am living in these stage I think will be confused, but good thing the Bible taught us that Salvation s by grace alone, that's what the Bible say's, but I think they use it, to threatened their members not to leave the Church. I think this is not a good way, because forcing people by made them scared is the the way that Jesus did, in fact he never force people to follow him, he want them to decide in their own.
         They taught people that sacrament is very important to gain salvation, and they reject the teaching on assurance of salvation, they made the salvation complicated, their teaching was not helping people to get closer to God in fact their teaching lead people astray from the truth. Also we cannot deny that Jesus said, that if we are in Christ no one can snatch us from His Father's hand how come that the rejected this important truth?
       Another thing they revived the authority of the tradition, they taught people that Scripture and Tradition have the same authority, this is to counter the teaching of the Protestant on the Scripture is the final and the highest authority, amazing they have that confidence to teach that wrong teaching. but good thing for us believers that we truly understand that we do not depend on good works ceremonies, but we fully depend on Christ.