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  1. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    Jesus does not save all... The Call of God is unto repentance... Which Calling is unto Justification by God... Which Justification is unto Glorification by God... Not all obey the commandment of the Gospel unto repentance... Arsenios
  2. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    Have you found some place in Scripture that describes Baptism before vs Baptism after the Crucifixion? Christ Himself established His Baptism prior to His Crucifixion... Peter Baptized Cornelius into Christ AFTER the descent of the Holy Spirit upon his party of Gentiles... Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    Absolutely right - God alone gives the Gift of Salvation... Not God's works... Not our works... God Himself... The Life of Christ, if we make His Life ours by obedience to Him, is our New Life... Because... THAT is HOW Christ set up His Household of Salvation... Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    The dead, as you like to call us all equal to the corpses, can repent from the evil which they do... Arsenios
  5. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    We have to ask that we receive because we cannot EARN the Gift of God that God IS... The Gift IS God Himself, and NO creation can EVER earn the UNcreated God... Arsenios
  6. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    OK - Grammar School it is: blepeiv oti h pistiv You are seeing that the faith (of him) sunhrgei is synergizing together with toiv ergoiv autou the works of him kai AND... ek twn ergwn out of these works h pistiv The faith (of him) eteleiwyh was perfected It is absolutely...
  7. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    That was a great WAA, Josiah! Then how do you understand this sequencing by Paul in Romans 8 ?? Rom 8:29-30 For whom He did Foreknow, He also did Foreordain to be conformed to the Image of his Son, that He should be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did Foreordain...
  8. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    Neither - We are justified by God, and Christ IS God... "ASK and ye shall RECEIVE..." Do you remember Who said this? We ask, and God Gives... It is a Gift sought for and received... Arsenios
  9. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    It is about the role of works in the Faith of Christ as obedience to God... Josiah says the works are a consequence of the Faith of Christ... The Ancient Faith of the Apostolic Fathers hold that willfuil obedience to God is the Faith... By his view, the sinner can do nothing to be saved by...
  10. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    May your effort be blessed! And all agree... The glue-loose I am seeing is not on the Catholic side, so perhaps you have made an intemperate remark... Never even so much as once repudiating the statement "Jesus is the Savior"... That glue is solid... Your glue just came loose in...
  11. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    Sola Fide is "Trick Words"??? D'Accord!! Arsenios
  12. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    The sin whereby death entered into the Kosmos was the disobedience of Adam... The virtue by which man in Adam is redeemed is obedience to Christ... Which is why obedience is the Treasury of the Orthodox Christian Faith of Christ... Others seek their authority, scripitural or Ekklesiastical, as...
  13. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    We have to ask God in the obedience of repentance... Indeed, obedience to Christ is what Christ, in His Ekonomia, GAVE to us as a Gift, that we should be obedient... The Gift of the Faith of Christ which He discipled to His Disciples ... Through whom we too are discipled in the Ekklesia, the...
  14. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    Yes, Menno, we are indeed Baptized INTO Christ... So is it Harry and Maude who baptize us into Christ? Or is it the Holy Spirit Who Baptizes us into Christ? Or is it Christ Himself Who Baptizes us IN the Holy Spirit into Himself? Here is the answer given in Holy Scripture: Matt 3:11 I...
  15. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    Here is a new tack: Do we need to resist sin in order to be saved? Or are we saved and only then do we resist sin? Does God save unrepentant sinners? Why or why not, from Scripture please... Menno: Whatcha think? Arsenios
  16. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    We are Baptized by Christ, Menno... Scripture says so... Arsenios
  17. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Do not murmur, O children of God, because you find life difficult. Only wrestle with sin and entreat help from the Lord, and He will hearken, for He is full of compassion and loves us. St. Silouan of Mt. Athos
  18. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Happiness is found within ourselves, and blessed is the man who has understood this. Happiness is a pure heart, for such a heart becomes the throne of God. Thus says Christ of those who have pure hearts: "I will visit them, and will walk in them, and I will be a God to them, and they will...
  19. Arsenios

    SPIRITUAL MORSELS from the Ancient Fathers

    Let’s not mix things up. Did the Saints have the kind of joy we are seeking today? Did Panaghia have such joy? Did Jesus go around laughing? Which Saint has gone through this life without pain? Which Saint had the joy sought by many present-day Christians who do not want to hear anything...
  20. Arsenios

    Can faith save him?

    A story comes down from the Church in Constantinople, about a brigand who instilled great fear in the populations around Constantinople, so vicious and inhumane were his crimes, and unrepentantly ongoing... Indeed, the Emperor sent troops to capture him and bring him in for trial and execution...
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