March 21, 2010 – Catechism 160-165

I understand that faith is important.  This section talks about how there is no salvation without faith.  But he whole notion of faith alone just confuses me.  I understand that someone with a great faith will show it through there actions, and that is the Catholic belief, but it seems unnecessary to perform actions when you believe in faith alone.  You can act in anyway you want, as long as believe in God and believe Jesus was the Son of God, you will be saved.  That just doesn’t seem to be enough to save us.  It isn’t there are faith hope and love and the greatest of these is faith.  Wouldn’t that be what it says if we are saved by faith alone.  And faith or having faith is in and of itself an action. 

It is also a very difficult thing to keep our faith in the face of difficult times.  That is when we are told to look to examples of Abraham and Mary and the difficult steps they took based on faith in a God they trusted.