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To: annalex

“Do you imply that Christ has something against well-formed faith?”

My opinion is unimportant. God’s standard is the issue.

He has made it clear that in Christ alone is our hope of salvation. His work of salvation is complete. We bring nothing to it. We have no merit nor will we ever bring merit or works of any kind to the saving work of Christ.

The quality of our faith is immaterial if it is not faith built on this postulate: That Christ alone saves, and that we bring nothing to our own salvation.


1,396 posted on 01/10/2010 12:12:43 PM PST by esquirette (If we do not know our own worldview, we will accept theirs.)
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To: esquirette
His work of salvation is complete. We bring nothing to it. We have no merit nor will we ever bring merit or works of any kind to the saving work of Christ.

That is your own personal interpretation of Scripture, and you are welcome to it.

1,397 posted on 01/10/2010 12:14:59 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: esquirette
We bring nothing to it

Sure we do. See, for example, Col. 1:24.

1,405 posted on 01/10/2010 12:29:26 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: esquirette

So, if I don’t believe the right thing, I am not saved? Is faith a saving work that must be done correctly?


1,411 posted on 01/10/2010 12:52:13 PM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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