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What an eccentric use of "self" and "alone". The Catholic Church has around a billion plus adherents. But I suppose it suits your purposes. Ought I refer to Protestants in general as "half self" and "less then alone"? It would be absurd to do so and as a result I do not make such disparaging...
Josiah, you say "self alone" when you are in fact referring to the Catholic Church. Is that because you are fixated on it being one Church instead of a plethora of denominations?
Mark 7:4 καὶ and ἀπ’ from ἀγορᾶς market ἐὰν if μὴ not ῥαντίσωνται they might sprinkle οὐκ not ἐσθίουσιν, they are eating, καὶ and ἄλλα other (things) πολλά many ἐστιν is ἃ which παρέλαβον they received κρατεῖν, to be holding fast, βαπτισμοὺς baptisms ποτηρίων of cups καὶ and ξεστῶν of pitchers...
Friday 1st April 2016
MORNING
The fruit of the Spirit is joy. Gal. 5:22
Joy in the Holy Ghost. Rom. 14:17
Unspeakable and full of glory. I Pet. 1:8
Sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; ... exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. II Cor. 6:10; 7:4
We glory in tribulations. Rom. 5:3...
The only folk I've met who are dismissive of their own sins are the ones who loudly proclaim that once they are saved they are always saved and cannot lose their heavenly reward no matter what they think, say, or do.
He did change the bible to make sure it didn't include bits about praying for the departed or the departed saints interceding for the living. That's why he removed seven books and parts of two more from the old testament. He also disliked justification by works and faith together so he wanted to...
For those keen on lexicography here's a nice long and rather detailed entry from "The Complete Word Study Dictionary":βαπτίζω
baptízō; fut. baptísō, from báptō (G911), to dip. Immerse, submerge for a religious purpose, to overwhelm, saturate, baptize (Joh 1:25).
(I) Washing or ablution was...