Necessary-Fruit-Not-Meritorious WCF baseline
Good works are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith; they cannot merit pardon of sin or eternal life (WCF XVI.2, 5).
The Confession affirms this position as its confessional norm. Personas and schools that hold the Westminster baseline on this attribute will show this value; those who depart from it will show one of the alternatives below.
Who holds this position
Personas (181)
Cruxes on this attribute
The Assembly navigated 1 crux that bear directly on Good Works.
Other positions on Good Works
Cite this position
Study Reformed, “Necessary-Fruit-Not-Meritorious” (Position), Westminster Standards Atlas, version 79a5f9880ac1, https://studyreformed.com/atlas/cite/position/law_sanctification/good_works/necessary_fruit_not_meritorious/.
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