What is the EO view on what God is looking at in declaring you justified to enter heaven?
From the Catholic perspective, God is only looking at one thing: whether you are a just person because you have "justice" in you. And you receive this "justice" when God pours love and sanctifying grace into you. Loving people can be loving and therefore just. In short, a person is justified to enter heaven by the justice that God Himself has placed in you (i.e. God looks at the love which He Himself has placed in you by His workmanship as "a new creation"). Here is the citation from Trent: "Of this Justification the causes are these: ...the alone formal cause is the justice of God, not that whereby He Himself is just, but that whereby He makes us just, that, to wit, with which we being endowed by Him, are renewed in the spirit of our mind, and we are not only reputed, but are truly called, and are, just, receiving justice within us... yet is this done in the said justification of the impious, when by the merit of that same most holy Passion, the charity of God is poured forth, by the Holy Spirit, in the hearts of those that are justified, and is inherent therein"
Do the EO have the same view, or a different view?
Related to this, since justification can refer to your justification in this life and the justification at the last judgment, do the EO distinguish between the two, as to what God is looking at?
From the Catholic perspective, God is only looking at one thing: whether you are a just person because you have "justice" in you. And you receive this "justice" when God pours love and sanctifying grace into you. Loving people can be loving and therefore just. In short, a person is justified to enter heaven by the justice that God Himself has placed in you (i.e. God looks at the love which He Himself has placed in you by His workmanship as "a new creation"). Here is the citation from Trent: "Of this Justification the causes are these: ...the alone formal cause is the justice of God, not that whereby He Himself is just, but that whereby He makes us just, that, to wit, with which we being endowed by Him, are renewed in the spirit of our mind, and we are not only reputed, but are truly called, and are, just, receiving justice within us... yet is this done in the said justification of the impious, when by the merit of that same most holy Passion, the charity of God is poured forth, by the Holy Spirit, in the hearts of those that are justified, and is inherent therein"
Do the EO have the same view, or a different view?
Related to this, since justification can refer to your justification in this life and the justification at the last judgment, do the EO distinguish between the two, as to what God is looking at?
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