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To: stfassisi
It is given to those who are humble enough to freely accept it.

How can one accept faith? You either have faith or you don't.

Christ invited people to faith and conversion, but never coerced them.

This is wrong according to Augustine and Cyprian. Christ does not "invite" people to have faith. Faith comes from God.

6,252 posted on 09/14/2007 10:47:35 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD; MarkBsnr

“”This is wrong according to Augustine and Cyprian. Christ does not “invite” people to have faith. Faith comes from God.””

BOOK 7
From Writings of Augustine
Book 7 http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/Pusey/book07
7.1.1
Deceased was now that my evil and abominable youth, and I was passing into early manhood; the more defiled by vain things as I grew in years, who could not imagine any substance, but such as is wont to be seen with these eyes. I thought not of Thee, O God, under the figure of a human body; since I began to hear aught of wisdom, I always
avoided this; and rejoiced to have found the same in the faith of our spiritual mother, Thy Catholic Church.

Dear Brother, Then that Faith that came from God was found in the Catholic Church,so says Blessed Saint Augustine.

Perhaps you should follow His advice since you seem to think of yourself as an Augustinian.

Got work to do...I wish you Blessed Day


6,261 posted on 09/14/2007 11:51:08 AM PDT by stfassisi ("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"St Francis Assisi)
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