Originally Posted by
Colonel
That's the way God wants it, deal with it.
In the series I'm watching on Church History this came up yesterday.
After the Reformation the rcc realised that maybe it should change a bit and had the Council of Trent at which it finally decided how it understood justification. Here's a summary of what they believe:
God loves the lovely and for God to love you you need to become a different person. You are not loved because of the righteousness of Christ imputed to you but you are loved because Christ comes into you and changes you into a person who can be loved by God. You are justified by being changed into a different moral person by the grace of God.
Meanwhile, rather than dealing with it, I'll stick with the likes of Luther and Augustine and believe otherwise.