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To: Petronski; Dr. Eckleburg

That passage concerns works of the law, and Paul is right: circumcision is not necessary for salvation; the uncircumcised gentiles of Ephesus are just as saved through Christ as the circumcised Jews.

Even the Roman Catholic Comments on Eph.2:8-9 deny what you are saying about it referring to Jewish Law.

8 For by grace you are saved through faith: and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God. 9 Not of works, that no man may glory.

Comment- Not of works... as of our own growth, or from ourselves; but as from the grace of God. (emphasis added).

http://www.newadvent.org/bible/eph002.htm

My goodness that sounds PROTESTANT!

1,324 posted on 05/22/2008 4:41:27 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)

almost left out this, which makes those comments legimate Roman Catholic statements-

Imprimatur. +James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, September 1, 1899
Nihil Obstat!

1,325 posted on 05/22/2008 4:50:27 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)

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