Faith is a gift, but by virtue of the gift of freewill we much choose God which begins as an assent of the will. Before this faith can be exercised, man must have the grace of God to move and assist him; he must have the interior helps of the Holy Spirit, who moves the heart and converts it to God, who opens the eyes of the mind and makes it easy for all to accept and believe the truth.
We are not going to agree nor will we settle in this forum a discontinuity in the unity of His Church that has been lingering for 600 years.
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“Faith is a gift, but by virtue of the gift of freewill we much choose God which begins as an assent of the will.”
This was already disproved with the previous scriptures. Christ wasn’t kidding when he said “You have not chosen me, I have chosen you.” Or that no one can come to the Father unless they are drawn, and that the lack of drawing on the Father’s part is the reason why they disbelieve.
“We are not going to agree nor will we settle in this forum a discontinuity in the unity of His Church that has been lingering for 600 years.”
Actually, Augustine predates this by a great deal. It’s the Catholics that have been out of unity with the scriptures for about 2,000 years.