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To: Forest Keeper; kosta50
In my own case the actual doing of good works has helped me to develop a servant heart

Ah, very well. Like I said, this alone makes your understanding sufficiently Catholic. But why then do you say that you faith was not grown by your developing a "servant heart"? Faith is increased through work of free will:

5 [...] the apostles said to the Lord: Increase our faith. 6 And the Lord said: If you had faith like to a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this mulberry tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou transplanted into the sea: and it would obey you. 7 But which of you having a servant ploughing, or feeding cattle, will say to him, when he is come from the field: Immediately go, sit down to meat: 8 And will not rather say to him: Make ready my supper, and gird thyself, and serve me, whilst I eat and drink, and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink? 9 Doth he thank that servant, for doing the things which he commanded him? 10 I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

11,449 posted on 03/19/2007 12:08:08 PM PDT by annalex
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To: annalex
But why then do you say that you faith was not grown by your developing a "servant heart"?

I think I said on another line, but I can't remember who was pinged. :) (I.e., we're just crossing lines.) Just to be sure then, the only distinction I was making was on the origin of faith. Once God delivers faith to the elect, it will then grow under the direction of the Holy Spirit. Part of this growth is through good works. "Grow from" can mean "begin from", that's all.

11,670 posted on 03/22/2007 12:13:18 AM PDT by Forest Keeper
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