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To: the_conscience
For the Greeks and Romans the works component is motivated by a desire to acquire merits for final salvation.

This is false, or at least very misleading. We are saved by adoption in the family of God. There are no amount of works you can for anyone to earn adoption into their family. It has to depend on their gracious invitation.

Real Catholics and real Orthodox are here, and are perfectly capable of presenting our own beliefs.

866 posted on 01/31/2008 7:17:29 PM PST by Campion
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To: Campion
Real Catholics and real Orthodox are here, and are perfectly capable of presenting our own beliefs.

Are there special decoder glasses needed to read your canons or are they plain to all who read them?

"If anyone says that the good works of the one justified are in such manner the gifts of God that they are not also the good merits of him justified;... let him be anathema."[

872 posted on 01/31/2008 7:47:55 PM PST by the_conscience (McCain/Thompson 08)
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