Salvation

Catholic Church

"If anyone says that in every good work the just man sins at least venially, or, what is more intolerable, mortally, and hence merits eternal punishment, and that he is not damned for this reason only, because God does not impute these works unto damnation, let him be anathema." Reference 28

Scriptures

As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. ~Romans 3:10-12

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. There fore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. ~Romans 3:19-20

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; ~II Corinthians 1:9-10

Comments

God does not impute good works as justification. There is merit for eternal punishment to every sinner born on earth.