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  1. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    Show THAT from the text... This is purely human speculation... It has NO Scriptural basis... Arsenios
  2. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    Do you STILL believe in SELF-SANCTIFICATION? Do you REALLY believe a man can MAKE HIMSELF HOLY? God Justifies, Josiah... And God Sanctifies... Man does neither... One is Holy... One is Lord... Jesus Christ... To the Glory of God the Father... Amen. Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    Salvation

    Does the Bible NOT teach that we are Baptized INTO Christ? It DOES so teach, my brother, and... THAT is Justification and Sanctification... Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    Well, er... I mean... After all... We ARE ALL, are we not... I mean in the last analysis... Are we not all... er... ?!?!?SINNERS?!?!? I mean... Jes' SAYIN'... :) Arsenios
  5. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    And the answer is NEITHER... Christ Himself Saves us - It is God Who Saves... That is why we are Baptized INTO Christ. Good works are those works which Christ commanded His Apostles to disciple the Nations... Beginning with the foundation of repentance unto Baptism... Good grief NO not...
  6. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    Flattery will get you NOWHERE!!! :) Arsenios
  7. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    Me too... Yet Ananias is more exalted than the greatest worldly rulers... BECAUSE... He is a Servant of the Most High God... When Ananias Baptized Saul, it was GOD'S Hands Baptizing Saul INTO Himself... Arsenios
  8. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    Well, if what you call "saving faith" necessarily produces works, then works are a necessary feature of your "saving faith"... Find a believer not DOING the Faith, and you will have to conclude he does not have "saving faith"... As you go on to explain: Works are an essential feature of...
  9. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    Works are not an air-conditioner in the car whose motor is faith... They are not some non-essential add-on to Faith... They are an integral and essential feature of faith... Without them, there is NO faith... As you said so softly! :) Arsenios
  10. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    Then you are arguing that faith = works... Because faith without works is, as you say, not faith... I could not agree more... I should add that works of faith prove the faith of the worker... James concurs... Arsenios
  11. Arsenios

    Salvation

    This means because you have been Baptized INTO Him... This means you are now in fact freed from the power of sin... So IF we are freed from the power of sin, do you imagine we are thereby freed from the temptations of sin??? That somehow we CANNOT be overcome by sin??? That somehow we...
  12. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    The question centers on the ESSENTIALITY of works of Faith... We say our faith saves us... But not faith apart from works... So works are essential for Salvation... Without works there is no Salvation... So if your faith is without works, you will not be saved... And if your works are without...
  13. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    Well I DO! But thank you for your optimism nonetheless! :) Nor did Christ... And He USED that zealousness... Ol' Saul thought he could kill off the Kingdom of Heaven Who is Christ... He was so blind he was blinded... Then healed in that very Kingdom of Heaven... Right here on this...
  14. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    2Thess 2:15 Therefore, Brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or by our epistle. The ones taught by word and by epistle... Right! SOOoooooo......... HOW do YOU propose that we FIND OUT?? For my part, I simply look to the Apostolic...
  15. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    Well, the Bible does command us to HOLD the Traditions handed down, whether by word or by writing... And the Bible DOES command us to confess to one another in the Ekklesia... The Russians, btw, still DO confess before the Ekklesia prior to Communion... And Orthodox penances are still given as...
  16. Arsenios

    Faith without good works is dead.

    Taking up one's cross is a work one does, is it not? One must be willing and desire to do so... Because one desires to follow Christ... The actual quote is literally: IF ANY is WILLING... After Me to come... Let him first deny himself... This is repentance unto Baptism... THEN let him take...
  17. Arsenios

    Discussion of a Foundational "Evangelical" Teaching

    Rome has made its share of errors... So has every other denomination spawned from Her... So have Orthodox Churches... So the point of commentary was not to deny Rome Her errors in teaching you and Josiah, but to simply encourage Josiah especially to move on from them, and set aside this...
  18. Arsenios

    Discussion of a Foundational "Evangelical" Teaching

    Looking for patterns, I am not surprised that the Left sees Protestants much as Protestants see Roman Catholics... Betrayal's resentment runs deep... Good and evil are at stake... Always... Arsenios
  19. Arsenios

    Salvation

    God will not purify you if you willfully cling to your impurities... You have to try, and WHEN you have expended your strength, THEN God will purify... IF it is God alone who purifies, THEN why are we not all pure? And what do you do with the Parable of the Sower? Mar 4:16 And these are...
  20. Arsenios

    Discussion of a Foundational "Evangelical" Teaching

    I was crying uncle?? Making up a category of theology, "Narrow Justification," and bandying it about as a consistent and final determiner of all discussion, where any perceived variation, existent or not, is condemned as denial that Jesus is the Savior, and not man, and constantly going back...
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