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    Justification

    Catholics taught in 1547 (and before) the following: Decree Concerning Justification Introduction Since there is being disseminated at this time, not without the loss of many souls and grievous detriment to the unity of the Church, a certain erroneous doctrine concerning justification, the...
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    Justification

    Reading a post for what it says rather than misrepresenting it would improve what you wrote since I did not say "all protestants" I wrote "I think that Martin Luther's doctrine - including his doctrine on justification as a covering in which the unrighteous are declared to be righteous solely...
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    Justification

    I am fairly sure that the period following 1547 AD is the period that some Protestants identify as especially egregious for evil acts - both Catholic and Protestant groups went to war and slaughtered people who were not wicked.
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    Justification

    There is no single protestant position. Let's hear MennoSota's position and see what it is.
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    Justification

    Yes, that is a problem often encountered. For example, no matter how many times it is stated that Catholic teaching is that the faithful are saved by grace through faith their salvation being a gift from God and not the result of their own 'good' works or any of their own works of the law - by...
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    Justification

    I think that God inspired James' letter and had it preserved and made canonical holy scripture partly to head off heresies arising out of misreading Paul's letters. Saint Peter warned in his letters that what saint Paul wrote was difficult to understand and some unstable people [meaning people...
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    Justification

    I think that Martin Luther's doctrine - including his doctrine on justification as a covering in which the unrighteous are declared to be righteous solely because they believe even if they do not do good works pleasing to God - was condemned as heresy. I do not recall it being "apostasy". The...
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    Justification

    Even without printed bibles the Church still had bibles, just much more expensive in terms of human labour expended to make a copy.
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    Justification

    There is irony in the idea that printed bibles and Martin Luther's doctrine (with variations) was restoring a corrupted and maybe lost gospel.
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    Justification

    The Holy Spirit is not the baptiser is he? Jesus is, usually through an elder/priest sometimes through one of the faithful who is not an elder/priest or bishop.
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    Justification

    It is about apostolic succession but I do not think that Josiah has it right for all sorts of reasons not least being that he does not have a firm grasp of Catholic teaching and I doubt he has a grasp of Orthodox teaching.
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    Justification

    "Of the 11 ..." may mean more than you think it means. Stop for a moment and give it some thought. "I am of Apollos ..." "I am of Christ ..." what do you think those expressions mean?
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    Justification

    Did you notice "of the 11 ..."? Evidently not.
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    Justification

    The passage reads like this in one of my English translations: James 2:18 Say to whoever challenges you, “You have faith and I have good deeds; show me your faith apart from actions and I, for my part, will show you my faith in the way I act.” 19 Do you believe there is one God? Well enough, but...
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    Justification

    You are right, I relied on my memory and memory is not always accurate. I ought to have checked my lexicon. τελειόω,v \{tel-i-o'-o} 1) to make perfect, complete 1a) to carry through completely, to accomplish, finish, bring to an end 2) to complete (perfect) 2a) add what is yet wanting in...
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    Justification

    Arsenios translation looks correct to me, MennoSota. He rightly translates the phrase καὶ [and] ἐκ [out of] τῶν [the] ἔργων [works] as "and out of the works". He's given you a word for word translation of the Greek words into English words. And he rightly translates the phrase ἡ [the]...
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    Justification

    It was some Protestants who said that "we will always find faith doing works" the scholastic scholars said that belief without works is dead echoing saint James' letter.
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    Window shopping one's religion.

    Was the sinking of the boat a portent for the marriage? ... just wondered My previous parish priest would marry a couple where at least one was a Catholic, they had to book the marriage at least six months prior to the marriage date and had to receive marriage instruction during the six months...
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    Justification

    I'm not sure what you mean by "works interpretation" but I am sure that more than 1.5 billion people agree with Arsenios' proposition. You're in the minority in this matter. I do not contend that the majority is correct just because it is a majority but in this case the majority is correct and...
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    Window shopping one's religion.

    You didn't read what I wrote did you. I wrote "A Catholic becomes a member of a Catholic parish by attending mass at one of the parish's church buildings - my parish has three church buildings but one is in an isolated location and hasn't been used for masses for several years, the other two are...
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