The Council of Trent shares many similarities with Calvin and his notion of justification, but the Council of Trent offers a slightly different interpretation. Calvin asserts that humans are justified by faith alone and that humans have no involvement in their salvation or damnation. Furthermore, Calvin denies the idea that freewill allows humans to choose right from wrong, and that this freewill contributes to human salvation. This assertion is challenged by the Council of Trent which states “thought God touches a person’s heart through the light of the holy spirit, neither does that person do absolutely nothing in receiving that movement of grace, for he can also reject it: nor is he able, by his own free will and without God’s grace to move
