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“We can’t save ourselves, only God can.”

Thank you.

Yes, indeed.

ALL facets of our Salvation, including our sanctification (the process by which we are made Holy) and our glorification, the eternal state in eternal heaven with Jesus Christ where we will glorify Jesus Christ together forever (ah, won’t that be wonderful!), are from God who works in us to will and to do of His good pleasure. Yes we are to “work out our salvation with fear and trembling”, knowing that it is God who is transforming us from within, who cleanses us from all sin as we confess our sins TO HIM, who renews our minds as we dwell on His Word, who conforms us to the image of His dear Son.

We walk by faith - meaning - we trust in the One who called us, who saved us, who is sanctifying us, who will glorify us - trusting in HIS FINISHED WORK on the Cross and in His Resurrection, trusting that when He says that when we are Born Again by the Holy Spirit, that we are, therefore, NEW CREATURES, walking in the power of the Resurrection Life He died to bring us.....He means it. We can believe Him. We walk by faith in what GOD SAYS (and Jesus Christ is GOD, the living Word).

Paul said this before there was a Roman Catholic church.

Sorry to jump in here so late - having to catch up on this thread.

I regret there is quite a bit of slinging vituperative remarks back and forth......but, then, I’ve not been on many of these types of threads - preferring to avoid the “debates” and concentrate on what unites us.

Sadly, our unChristian words to each other matter a great deal because we,who both claim to be Christians, belonging to Jesus Christ, are “discussing Christianity” before a watching world.

Later would like to retell a story upon which (perhaps) we can together rejoice - as those who belong to Jesus Christ! and who long to carry out Jesus’ command to take the Gospel to all the world, baptizing them and making disciples of all nations!