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To: stfassisi
But to answer Augustine's and Cyprian's question; is faith given by God? Yes or No?
6,222 posted on 09/14/2007 7:10:02 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD

“”But to answer Augustine’s and Cyprian’s question; is faith given by God? Yes or No?””

It is Given to those who are humble enough to freely accept it.

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__PX.HTM

The freedom of faith

160 To be human, “man’s response to God by faith must be free, and... therefore nobody is to be forced to embrace the faith against his will. the act of faith is of its very nature a free act.”39 “God calls men to serve him in spirit and in truth. Consequently they are bound to him in conscience, but not coerced. . . This fact received its fullest manifestation in Christ Jesus.”40 Indeed, Christ invited people to faith and conversion, but never coerced them. “For he bore witness to the truth but refused to use force to impose it on those who spoke against it. His kingdom... grows by the love with which Christ, lifted up on the cross, draws men to himself.


6,229 posted on 09/14/2007 7:54:47 AM PDT by stfassisi ("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"St Francis Assisi)
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