Ankerberg and Weldon - "Protestants and Catholics: Do they now agree?"

This book is filled with so many short, out of context, improperly referenced, ellipse-ridden, cobbled together quotes it is not difficult to imagine an audio document of the text would sound like a very thinly veiled and poorly edited hack job.  In addition, there are many instances of words added to quotations in square brackets which completely alter the intended meaning (much like Luther did when he added the word "alone" wherever he felt it was necessary in his translation of the Bible).

 

It is difficult to attribute a sense of credibility to such a document but for the service of those desiring me to "look at both sides" (which really means "stop looking at Catholicism") I will comment on a few passages from this book.

 

P195 - "No Christian needs to feel guilty over leaving a church that is not Biblical.  One's commitment is to Christ first, not a church."

P198 - "The thousands of churches who accept the inerrancy of scripture do, in fact, have an infallible authority for determining correct doctrine."

 

If that is true, then why are there so many opposing views and so little unity?

 

P198 - "All genuine Christian churches who accept Biblical authority have found general agreement on these issues without the assistance of the catholic Church."

 

And would the authors care to begin naming who the "genuine Christian churches" are?  

 

Can one be saved by faith [alone] and perform no good works for the rest of his life and still be saved?

 

Is it possible to be saved and not perform a good work for the rest of one's life?

 

If faith without works is dead, how can we claim that works have no saving power?

 

If works are only a result of salvation and not a contributor to it, what is the value and responsibility or our wills?

 

If we do not choose God but rather He chooses us (or causes us to choose him), is He then unjust for not choosing everyone?