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    Friendship with God ...

    "A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity." "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves." "Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm." It may be worth one's time to consider...
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    Good faith

    There's an implied code of conduct for Christians in the holy scriptures. It is very like the implied code of conduct among the heathen. It is very like the code of conduct among atheists. That is so because it is written in human nature so deep that even a sociopath is aware of it. It...
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    Conflict

    Conflict need not be a bad thing. Conflict need not lead to incivility. Suppression can be a bad thing. Suppression does not end conflict. Suppression makes conflict hide in dark places where it can brood and become resentment. Saints Paul and Mark had conflict. Saint Barnabas too was...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Let the hundreds of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish martyrs of the Faith know that they were not persecuted as they were hanged, or hanged, drawn, and quartered as traitors to the English Crown because they were Catholic and refused to worship as Anglicans. And tell it to the tens of...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    What you "preach" is no good news of any kind, it is the bad news of determinism and unrighteous believism, like the Jews of Jesus day who preached the Law but didn't observe it choosing instead to live the life of hypocrites.
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    Salvation - Part 2

    MennoSota, aren't you the one who follows Judaism in your 39 book old testament, it's a wonder your Tradition accepted all 27 books of the new testament but even that was on shaky ground in your circles. Judaisers are us, could be the name of your denomination.
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Your perception and your spin on what you allege they (I think that you mean me, since I am the subject of most of the rest of what you say and that is cut for brevity's sake in the quote above) hold as their position but which is not in fact their position. "their position" is that Jesus...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Ephesians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus. and to the faithful I. e. “the saints,” under a different aspect. For the word as used, of Christian believers, see Act 10:45 (“the faithful of the...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    "The faithful" is used in exactly the same sense in which "the saints" and "the body of Christ" and "the Way" is used in holy scripture; it means nothing more or less than "the people of God". Your statement in the quote above is absolutely untrue and remarkably stupid.
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    Salvation - Part 2

    The video is funny to me, I got a little chuckle out of it. I don't like the sorts of songs it critiques so I see the humour in it, but yes it is a little bit like that whole "Lutheran satire" approach; it is funny at times at least for those who agree with whatever critique is in the specific...
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    The problem with "Christian" music today

    I attend a parish that uses almost nothing but "traditional" liturgical music and we have (according to last week's count) 897 regular attendees. We sing things like Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts. Heaven and Earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in...
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    The problem with "Christian" music today

    I have friend who attends a local Pentecostal church that sings songs like the ones being critiqued (condemned as rubbish really) in the video. I visited their new building on a Sunday back in 2007 because they asked me to. I haven't set foot in it again. Not because the people are bad or...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    They are not "Protestant affirmations" Josiah, they are your affirmations and your critiques as well as those of the other individuals participating in the thread. Your churches/denominations do not speak the nonsense that is present in the posts by yourself and the other individuals in this...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Looking at the thread and the many posts that were written after Josiah's statement about how quickly it could be wound up if only a Catholic (or an Orthodox) would say "Jesus Christ is Lord and Saviour" I can't help but laugh at it all. Protestant arguments are not to protect God and the Lord...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Your reply is one reason why there will be many more posts than is necessary in a thread about Salvation ...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    There is one way of salvation and it is by grace through faith for the purpose of doing the good works that God creates the faithful to do (Eph 2:8-10). Let's see what comes next.
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Brother Arsenios wrote But we are saved BY Grace THROUGH obedience to the Gospel. and you respond with There is no grace in your statement. Your statement is absurd.
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Amen, such a man is saved by grace though faith despite his life on Earth that was cut short by a deadly heart attack. Such a situation is, praise God, rather exceptional. The vast majority of those who are given grace and receive faith, exercising their faith in Jesus Christ, live productive...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Albion, included a quote in his post but when I quoted his post the quote that he included disappeared. That happens because things surrounded with "quote" tags bet left out of a reply by the software but I want to take a look at what Albion referred to. Here's Albion's post with the quote...
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    Salvation - Part 2

    Amen, "the faithful" does mean those who have faith in God, explicitly faith in the Holy Trinity. As the holy scriptures say, faith in God and in Jesus Christ whom the Father sent (John 6:29). For faith to be alive it must do good works, faith without works is dead (James 2:17) Amen, the...
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