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  1. MoreCoffee

    Justification

    I may be wrong but maybe Albion is thinking of "works" as a purely human activity quite apart from grace. Maybe you are using the same word with significantly different meanings.
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    Justification

    You say "what justifies is faith, period" I presume that means "faith without anything else" but you can correct me if that is not what you mean. The idiom "period" is rather foreign to me. But if you mean that faith without anything else justifies how is it that saint James says "Think of our...
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    Justification

    No cart and no horse. True enough. But why do you insist that faith produces works if there is no implied order - no cart and horse arrangement? Still, saint James says a person is justified by works, and not by faith alone. It's a nice piece of inspired revelation. Not troubling but...
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    Justification

    Saint James did that sort of thing, putting works before faith in Justification, quite irritating for a theology that wants it the other way around. James 2:21 Think of our father Abraham. Was he not justified by the act of offering his son Isaac on the altar? 22 So you see, his faith was...
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    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    I don't recall, I didn't click the link in Josiah's post but I watch a lot of theological videos even if they are Lutheran ;) But your reply was at best curt and far from profound.
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    Justification

    You're right; receptivity matters. Jesus explained it with a parable: Matthew 13:1 That same day, Jesus left the house and sat down by the lake - side. 2 Many people gathered around him. So he got into a boat, and sat down, while the crowds stood on the shore; 3 and he spoke to them in parables...
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    Trump repaid Cohen for hush money

    There are a whole pile of untruthful statements made by Donald and Sara from the white house. It seems likely that Donald is heading for impeachment or arrest for crimes. Let's see how it plays out.
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    Justification

    Yes brother popsthebuilder, those verses are pertinent to God's saving work in human beings. Good works are good because God gives them for Christians to live by. No one does good works and thereby earns salvation but everyone who receives life, love, and faith from God does good works. It is...
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    Justification

    You are right that the first word is "repent". Repent for the kingdom of heaven is upon you. And the speaker is God's messenger, the forerunner of the Son of God, saint John the Baptist. He came to prepare the way of the Lord Jesus Christ who was sent into the world not to condemn it but to save...
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    Justification

    Post #6 gives a Catholic perspective on the role of God's grace in human justification (it is all of grace) from fundamental Catholic documents. Post #10 gives a good working definition of Justification from a Catholic perspective and it is drawn from fundamental Catholic documents. Post #13...
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    Justification

    Brother MennoSota, your posts make me rejoice in the Catholic faith.
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    Justification

    You're right (except for being inspired, that seems to be a word reserved for holy scripture in the holy scriptures) but I'd add that when we struggle against the sins that beset us and grace is given by God to help us overcome them then overcoming those sins is doing the works of God rather...
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    Could it all be a fraud?

    Brother Pedrito, MennoSota's claim is not correct, saint Athanasius did not produce a 66 book list of canonical books of holy scripture. At the Easter of AD 367 saint Athanasius wrote an Easter letter, called a festal letter because it was written for the feast of Easter, in which he lists the...
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    COMMUNION: Does "is" mean "is?" Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical

    I'll have to try that argument in a thread some time soon. It's so profound :disgonbegood:
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    Justification

    Holy scripture says a person is justified by works, and not by faith alone. So your struggle is against what is written in holy scripture. You wrote "I am amazed and perplexed by the number of people who are arguing they are justified by works." Saint James writes "So you see, a person is...
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    Justification

    Adding the phrase "the bible teaches" is like playing a trump card; the player who plays it thinks he's won the game. But since the definition of "the bible" is established by tradition that "trump card" is as ineffective for making a point in theology as is appealing to a comment found in saint...
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    Justification

    My question was intended to represent the view held by Baptists rather than representing what is true. The definition of "baptism" is more complex than "submerge" but the case for "submerge" is often given great emphasis by people who share a Baptist view of baptism. No matter what level of...
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    Justification

    "must ... be a symbolic ..." really? I see no must about it. That appears to be something that is desired by some but not something that must be. And what has "immersion of sinners into Christ" to do with "our propitiation" I do not agree that there is a link between these concepts in a...
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    Justification

    In answer to DHoffmann's question, "literal fire?" ... I do not know, does it matter? The story that saint John the Baptist tells is of a threshing floor and winnowing grain and chaff the wind carries away the chaff and leaves the grain so the grain can be gathered and the chaff swept up and...
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    Could it all be a fraud?

    Like you I don't feel any compulsion to prove a Hindu wrong or a Muslim or a Jew. Yet there are people who make a living out of lecturing against Jehovah's witnesses and Mormons and Muslims - James White does that I think.
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