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To: Petrosius
St. Paul.

I feel it is only fair to ask for a New Testament reference where Paul said what you posted.

I know he didn't come close to saying that, even if you twist his recorded words, and that you cannot show where he did.
94 posted on 11/02/2014 6:12:31 PM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero
I feel it is only fair to ask for a New Testament reference where Paul said what you posted.

Philippians. See my post #62. He also wrote the following:

If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.… So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1 Cor. 13:1-3, 13)
Faith without love is nothing. We even have the words of our Lord:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’ Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.’ (Matt. 17:21-32)
If you still do evil you will not enter the kingdom of heaven no matter how often you cry "Lord, Lord." And what is the will of the heavenly Father? What is the first commandment?
When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them [a scholar of the law] tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.” (Matt. 22:34-40)
Love, not faith, is the central message of the Gospel. Faith is indispensable but is only the gateway to love. As Saint James stated:
So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead. (James 2:17)
While Protestants claim that salvation by faith alone is base purely on Scripture, in fact it is based on the human tradition started by the Reformers. Sola fide cannot be found anywhere in the Bible and just ignores those passages that go against it.
117 posted on 11/02/2014 6:52:18 PM PST by Petrosius
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