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To: bkaycee
even Arminians and the Reformed believe that Salvation is by Grace alone thru Faith alone in Christ Alone.

Faith Alone is false. The scripture teaches the exact opposite. But that is a weak common denominator for Protestantism because, for example, the disagreements of the TULIP are substantial and so the Protestants as a whole cannot be all lead by the Holy Ghost. I don't think any of them are.

The Orthodox and the Protestants are all Christians, but that is where the commonality ends. Apart from the matter of Church governance, the Orthodox hold theological positions that are Catholic. The Protestants, however, teach heresy. Faith Alone is heresy, and it is at the heart of Protestantism.

For the Orthodox to come to the Church all they need is to ask. The Protestants need to recant of Protestantism before they can become Catholic.

1,493 posted on 11/11/2010 6:10:32 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex; bkaycee
Galatians 3:1-14 O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Did you suffer so many things in vain—if indeed it was in vain? Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith—just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?

Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed." So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them." Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith." But the law is not of faith, rather "The one who does them shall live by them." Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

1,497 posted on 11/11/2010 6:21:43 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: annalex; bkaycee
Faith Alone is false. The scripture teaches the exact opposite

Scripture please

The Protestants, however, teach heresy. Faith Alone is heresy, and it is at the heart of Protestantism.

Catholics believe in faith in Rome alone saves them ...I guess it is just where one puts their faith ..As for me and mine..it is Jesus

1,532 posted on 11/12/2010 8:53:11 AM PST by RnMomof7 (Gal 4:16 asks "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?")
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