I do not know about protestants in general, but the saved Protestant should be celebrating the work of Christ to satisfy the wrath of God against us , to save us and give us a clean conscience
How should the saved act? Like ones freed from the condemnation of the law, that are free to live out and celebrate the plan of God He has ordained for us.. not out of fear, but out of sheer joy !
Are Catholics freed from the condemnation of the Law?
How should the saved act? Like ones freed from the condemnation of the law, that are free to live out and celebrate the plan of God He has ordained for us.. not out of fear, but out of sheer joy !
AMEN!!!
The Christian life is one of faith, confidence in Scripture and good fruit of the Holy Spirit. Christianity is the only religion that at its very core says someone else did something for you, without regard to repayment or effort on your part. Just because it pleased God to save His lost sheep and transform their lives from love of self and useless striving to Christ and gratitude for His free gift of grace through faith.
From the WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM...
A. Man's chief end is to glorify God, [a] and to enjoy him for ever. [b]Q. 1. What is the chief end of man?
These types of statements confuse the Trinity as if they are not united and CO-Equal LOVE..Thus, come across as the Trinity consisting of a God who is wrath, the other who is only sacrificial satisfaction and would thus leave the Holy Spirit as wrathfully sacrificial.Thus, the angry God needed to be satisfied of His anger by sacrificing God the Son for something He created(mankind)for the sin that God planned mankind to commit according to the Calvinist
It almost seems possible that Calvin thought Christ was totally depraved being Incarnate
Perhaps you should read Bishop Fulton Sheen
In the Divine Essence, the Father not only contemplates His Son, Who is His Eternal Image. As a result of the mutual love for one another, there is also a spiration, or an act of mutual love, which is called the Holy Spirit. Just as to speak means to pronounce a word, and to flower means to produce blossoms, so to love is to breathe love, or sigh, or spirate. As we know that a rosebush is in flower by its blossoms, so the Father gives intellectual expression to all knowledge by His Word. Now we know that the Father and Son are in love, both for themselves and even for us, through their Holy Spirit of Love. This mutual love of Father for Son and of Son for Father is not a fleeting love like ours, but so eternal and so rooted in the Divine essence as to be personal. For that reason, the Holy Spirit is called a Person. The love of friend for friend is sometimes said to make them one soul; but in no sense does it breathe forth a new person. In the family, however, the analogy is better, for the mutual love of husband and wife does "breathe," not wholly in the order of the spirit but in the order of spirit and matter, a new person, who is the bond of their love. But all this is imperfect, for regardless of how much love there is among humans, the good which is loved remains separated and external.