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To: fortheDeclaration

Heb 11 lists Abraham's faith from Gen.12 thru Gen.22.

Ah, so Abraham's justification was NOT one moment, was it...

Glad to see you got the point.

Regards

12,029 posted on 03/26/2007 9:27:34 AM PDT by jo kus (Humility is present when one debases oneself without being obliged to do so- St.Chrysostom; Phil 2:8)

Heb 11 lists Abraham's faith from Gen.12 thru Gen.22. Ah, so Abraham's justification was NOT one moment, was it... Glad to see you got the point.

Sorry to see that you missed the point.

Abraham is saved when he first believed (Rom.4:3) and then grows in faith, showing that faith until his last test in Heb.11:17 where he is tried and passed then shows his close relationship with God, being called God's friend.(James 2)

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh (Heb.11:4).

Faith gives witness what one believes, by working, but works do not add to the faith, they are a result of it.

12,058 posted on 03/26/2007 2:16:34 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (For what saith the scripture? (Rom.4:3))

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