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  1. Arsenios

    Justification

    The account of Saul's baptism by Ananias is straight out of the Book of the Acts of the Holy Apostles... Acts IS Scripture... Fake News! Here is the Truth: Fully responsible, yes... With no control at all... God is Faithful... Fake News! Here is the Truth: God Baptizes, I only...
  2. Arsenios

    Justification

    Thank you for your prayers... Arsenios
  3. Arsenios

    Justification

    I wanna see it! Martin is one funny dude! How did I ever miss that one? Arsenios
  4. Arsenios

    Justification

    Both of those statements are true: The Holy Spirit is given in Baptism by Christ... The Holy Spirit does not baptize into Christ... And we can say more: Christ baptizes IN the Holy Spirit John baptized in water unto repentance... Then John baptized Christ... John himself was never baptized...
  5. Arsenios

    Justification

    I sense your Payne... Here: A small Balm... Act 9:17-18 And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, "Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and...
  6. Arsenios

    Justification

    What did the Scripture say? Did you see some other number than 11 in that Scripture? Actually, it is Christ Who Baptizes... Using the hands of His Servants who are members of His Holy Body... That is HOW Christ is the Baptizer, as John foretold, giving us the Holy Spirit... And in the first...
  7. Arsenios

    Justification

    No question! A.
  8. Arsenios

    Justification

    I love your imaginative projections... Well daaaah! Actually Paul discussed this very thing, for some are Called to be Apostles, remember? And do you remember what he said of them? And then of you and me? Arsenios
  9. Arsenios

    Justification

    Au contraire - The Holy Spirit is GIVEN in Baptism... Remember Ananias with Saul? The Holy Spirit is given in the laying on of hands at Baptism... Ananias filled Saul with the Holy Spirit... And he healed his blindness... The New Creation that we become in Baptism is the implacement of the...
  10. Arsenios

    Justification

    Matthew 28:16 tells us that it was the 11... Scripture says the 11... Paul was baptized into Christ by Ananias of the 11... I know... Arsenios - Of the 11...
  11. Arsenios

    Justification

    Rom 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Gal 3:27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Paul's very words about Baptism INTO Christ... So WHOM does Christ command to DO Baptism into Christ...
  12. Arsenios

    Justification

    Sounds pretty bitter to me! We simply presented you a scriptural problem with your false Reformational theory... And you accuse us of eating our own vomit... A kind of theological antifa? Attack the person? You will do better to engage the text rather than to accuse those who understand it...
  13. Arsenios

    Justification

    The Orthodox Catholics define Justification as right relationship with Christ... This means entry into Christ living a repentant life... And we define Sanctification as the acquisition of the Holy Spirit... This means living a life of ongoing repentance in Christ... We define Baptism as the Skin...
  14. Arsenios

    Justification

    Whom does Christ command to Baptize into Christ? Any answer OTHER THAN the 11 Apostles is wrong... Arsenios
  15. Arsenios

    Justification

    Normally the Greek definite article points to a specific instance of a noun, and here the reference is to autou, of him, so that the Faith he is working synergizes with the working of the Faith, and HIS works perfect THE Faith IN HIM who is doing the works... And as Paul reports in Hebrews...
  16. Arsenios

    Justification

    Pretty much ALL of them do... How could you be? You're not even Greek... For that matter, neither am I! That's why I do word for word literal as much as the text will allow... They are peer reviewed by hundreds of American, not Greek, scholars - Scholars who cannot think in Greek, and...
  17. Arsenios

    Justification

    Nice post - Loving enemies is a struggle for most... A great work indeed... Arsenios
  18. Arsenios

    Justification

    The last: ἐτελειώθη is an aorist passive indicative, and would be better translated as: "has been perfected", rather than "is being perfected"... But clearly, the perfecting of the faith is out of the works - And which works? The works of the Faith which Christ discipled to His Apostles whom...
  19. Arsenios

    Justification

    That is correct... And true... My point is that is says more: I stole this from your post: 22 βλέπεις ὅτι ἡ πίστις συνήργει τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτοῦ You are seeing that the Faith is synergizing with the works of him καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἔργων ἡ πίστις ἐτελειώθη, And out of the works the Faith is perfected...
  20. Arsenios

    Justification

    So we can go to your favorite translations and compare them with my merely literal one if you like... And just comparing say three with my one, I think you will see how they are all derived from it, each according to western scholarly opinion... And I would like to toss one more monkey...
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