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  1. MoreCoffee

    It's Advent; season of hope for all the faithful.

    These kinds of remark are just tiresome. Yet you post them as if they are to be taken as some kind of astute observation or witty rejoinder.
  2. MoreCoffee

    Are you saved because you believe? Or do you believe because you are saved?

    est autem fides sperandorum substantia rerum argumentum non parentum Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not apparent. ῎Εστι δὲ πίστις ἐλπιζομένων ὑπόστασις πραγμάτων ἔλεγχος οὐ βλεπομένων. One ought to be careful to avoid building a doctrine out of...
  3. MoreCoffee

    It's Advent; season of hope for all the faithful.

    As a PS ... The lyrics are - more or less - these: 1 Of the Father's love begotten ere the worlds began to be, he is Alpha and Omega, he the source, the ending he, of the things that are, that have been, and that future years shall see evermore and evermore. 2 Oh, that birth forever blessed...
  4. MoreCoffee

    It's Advent; season of hope for all the faithful.

    You have asked the wrong forum member. I do not usually do "bible proofs". That's another feature of Protestantism that really isn't characteristic of Catholic teaching. Mind you, Catholic teaching is in fact quite biblical, but all this proof texting seems childish. Besides, this thread isn't...
  5. MoreCoffee

    It's Advent; season of hope for all the faithful.

    And it is genuinely ancient.
  6. MoreCoffee

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    That is an interesting way to define "the elect" of Calvinistic theology. It has considerable truth in it. Of course, Calvinists do not say, nor teach in writing that the elect are sinless and righteous, what they say instead is that they are elect to sinlessness and righteousness [in heaven]...
  7. MoreCoffee

    Is grace the cause of one's salvation?

    The definition is useful. First it says, Grace [is] The free and undeserved gift that God gives us to respond to our vocation to become his adopted children. Which teaches that grace is given for a purpose, to effect a result, to achieve something specific. And it stipulates what the specific...
  8. MoreCoffee

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    A book on writing mathematical proofs or one on the philosophy of logic is helpful for formulating coherent arguments.
  9. MoreCoffee

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Interesting bit of projection onto God or god or whatever it is your post is about.
  10. MoreCoffee

    Are you saved because you believe? Or do you believe because you are saved?

    A protestant view, maybe. Surely, not one held by all Protestants.
  11. MoreCoffee

    Is grace the cause of one's salvation?

    Teachers in what school and at what age? That's just a background sort of question, since you brough up the subject of your teachers, which is really rather irrelevant to the thread topic. The CCC has a glossary which gives this definition of grace. GRACE: The free and undeserved gift that God...
  12. MoreCoffee

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Really? Where exactly is that written in holy scripture? I am not a protestant, so I do not usually expect holy scripture to contain a theological answer to questions. But I think you may be a Protestant, and it is common for Protestant posters on these kinds of forums to have bible proofs for...
  13. MoreCoffee

    Is grace the cause of one's salvation?

    Is it? Is grace the cause of one's salvation? What exactly is grace, by the way. Jehovah's witnesses never use "grace" in their bible, they have "undeserved kindness" instead. Is "undeserved kindness" the cause of one's salvation? I wonder ...
  14. MoreCoffee

    Are you saved because you believe? Or do you believe because you are saved?

    Is "universal atonement" the new buzzword in these here parts? Now, concerning the thread topic, which seems to be "is faith the cause of one's salvation or not?", the short answer is no, faith is not the cause of anyone's salvation.
  15. MoreCoffee

    It's Advent; season of hope for all the faithful.

    Of the Father's love begotten ...
  16. MoreCoffee

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Accepted. ;)
  17. MoreCoffee

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Those posts would improve without the . dot at the and with a world of spaces and new lines preceding it. My apologies for this meta-post. ;)
  18. MoreCoffee

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Okay, whatever you think you're debating is fine with me. I am not participating.
  19. MoreCoffee

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    Let's not divert the thread to some hobby horse topic. Let's stick with "Did Jesus die for the sins of the world"
  20. MoreCoffee

    Jesus died for the sins of the world

    I know you haven't responded to arguments put to you. I know you haven't indicated that you understood the argument in one case. I know that your attempt to side-track the conversation isn't helpful and will not work.
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