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Jacqueline,

You provided quotes from Sacred Scripture (from a Protestant bible), from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, so I'd like to provide those same quotes from a Catholic Bible.

The quotes I'll be providing are taken from the Douay-Rheims bible, Challoner version. Bishop Challoner translated the bible into English in the 18th century, from the original Latin which St. Jerome had translated from the original Hebrew and Greek in the 4th century. St. Jerome's translation has been used in the Western Church for 1500 years. St. Jerome was a linguistic genius who was fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.

Bishop Challoner included notes, or rather, commentary interpretations of the chapters, and of certain verses. Here are the verses you provided, but from the Douay Rheims bible:

To the Romans, 3:23:

"For all have sinned, and do need the glory of God."

Bishop Challoner describes Chapter three as thus: "The advantages of the Jews. All men are sinners, and none can be justified by the works of the law: but only by the grace of Christ."

This essentially means, I believe, that St. Paul is saying that the Jews cannot be saved by only adhering to the law, but rather they must have the grace of Christ.

To the Romans, 10:9,10:

"9) "For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10) "For, with thy heart, we believe unto justice; but, with thy mouth, confession is made unto salvation."

Bishop Challoner describes chapter 10 as..."The end of the law is faith in Christ; which the Jews, refusing to submit to, cannot be justified." Bishop Challoner also writes specifically about verse 9:

"Thou shalt be saved. To confess Lord Jesus, and to call upon the name of the Lord (verse13) is not barely the professing a belief in the person of Christ; but, moreover, implies a belief in his whole doctrine, and an obedience to his law; without which, the calling him Lord will save no man (St. Matt. 7,21)."

So, Bishop Challoner is saying that we must believe in Christ's whole doctrine, and this is described in St. Matthew, Chapter 7 and 21.

It is only the Catholic Church which teaches Our Lord's entire doctrine; there is no other that does so. Though the Catholic Church for the last 50 years or so has been somewhat negligent in this duty to teach Our Lord's entire doctrine. That's why we Traditional Catholics strive to adhere to all that the Church used to teach...which Our Lord wants us to do.

Douay-Rheims chapter 3 Here:



http://www.drbo.org/chapter/52003.htm