Posted on 02/26/2011 1:52:09 PM PST by Dr. Eckleburg
"Grace is not a reward for faith; faith is the result of grace." - John Blanchard
"Saving faith is not a native product of the human heart, but is a spiritual grace communicated from on High." - A.W. Pink, http://bit.ly/drXWnO
"It is not faith that saves, but faith in Jesus Christ.... It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not int he act of faith or the attitude of faith or in the nature of faith, but in the object of faith." - B. B. Warfield
Justification is by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone. This is the article by which the church stands or falls...There is no gospel except that of Christ's substitution in our place whereby God imputed to him our sin and imputed to us his righteousness. Because he bore our judgment, we now walk in his grace as those who are forever pardoned, accepted and adopted as God's children. There is no basis for our acceptance before God except in Christ's saving work, not in our patriotism, churchly devotion or moral decency. The gospel declares what God has done for us in Christ. It is not about what we can do to reach him. We reaffirm that justification is by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone. In justification Christ's righteousness is imputed to us as the only possible satisfaction of God's perfect justice. We deny that justification rests on any merit to be found in us, or upon the grounds of an infusion of Christ's righteousness in us, or that an institution claiming to be a church that denies or condemns sola fide can be recognized as a legitimate church. - Cambridge Declaration
Faith itself is man's act or work and is thereby excluded from being any part of his justifying righteousness. It is one thing to be justified by faith merely as an instrument by which man receives the righteousness of Christ, and another to be justified FOR faith as an act or work of the law. If a sinner, then, relies on his actings of faith or works of obedience to any of the commands of the law for a title to eternal life, he seeks to be justified by works of the law as much as if his works were perfect. If he depends either in whole or in part, on his faith and repentance for a right to any promised blessing, he thereby so annexes that promise to the commands to believe and repent as to form them for himself into a covenant of works. Building his confidence before God upon his faith, repentance and other acts of obedience, he places them in Christ's stead as his grounds of right to the promise and so he demonstrates himself to be of the works of the law and so be under the curse." Galatians 3:10 - John Colquhoun (A Treatise on Law and the Gospel)
You don’t give any evidence of knowing what “a sign and seal” means.
Within that Tabernacle or monstrance is bread.. I asked if Catholics did not bow before a piece of bread
“EGOS”
Do you realize that is a Latin word?
Q.E.D.
(For those in Rio Linda, QED is an initialism of the Latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum, which means “what was to be demonstrated”.)
ROTFLMAO!
(For those in Rio Linda, eh, forget it!)
Am I your slave?
And what denomination ??
Sooooooooooo
Are you prepared to stand before Almighty God and assert with a straight face that you are
100% CERTAIN
that NOT A SINGLE ROMAN CATHOLIC
EVER HAS THE LEAST BIT OF IDOLATRY IN THEIR HEART TOWARD MARY
WHEN RECITING THOSE WORDS?
“Men like John Blanchard, A.W. Pink, or B. B. Warfield?
Have I quoted them? Nope.. but even if one does, we do not build doctrine on their words.”
Ahhhh, that right is reserved for Luther, Zwingli, Calvin and thousands of their follower preachers.....there are a multitude who have invented their own doctrine and covenants away from Christ’s own Church.
“Within that Tabernacle or monstrance is bread.. “
Nope - it is the very Body, Blood and Divinity of Our Lord.
Think algebra. A variable x, may look like a letter, but you know It's actually a number. The wafer has been TRANSUBSTATIATED.
And when exactly she was given her faith is irrelevant. Other great people in scripture such as Samuel, Samson, or even John the Baptist were endowned with the Holy Spirit prior to birth. But it makes no difference when we arrive at faith. As Paul states to the Galatians, he was chosen from his mother's womb, although it was many years later when God granted him faith. So are we all chosen from the womb and, as Mary stated, we are all blessed. It's all about timing as to when God will open our eyes and ears giving us His faith. Just like everyone else, Mary was given her faith based upon the mercy and grace of the Father at the appointed time.
We are reminded of the wisdom of Augustine who clearly saw this in the scriptures and reasoning:
Faith, then, as well in its beginning as in its completion, is God's gift; and let no one have any doubt whatever, unless he desires to resist the plainest sacred writings, that this gift is given to some, while to some it is not given.
- Augustine, A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints
Faith is a gift given to us from heaven, and we all obtain it in exactly the same way. Including Mary.
If someone believes that works save them or even help save them, they are trusting in their own righteousness. Since we know that all our righteousness is as filthy rags in God's sight (Isaiah 64:6), they are completely worthless in contributing towards our salvation. Can you imagine the number of people who are going to offer God their unclean works to Him and expect Him to accept them because they don't think the work of Christ on the cross was enough?
What hubris. They might as well go spit in Christ's face for the insult that is to Him.
Luke 18:9-14 9He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: 10"Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.'
13But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' 14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
Do you deny that tradition is = to scripture? Do you deny only Rome can CORRECTLY interpret scripture (tell you what it means) , Do you deny that the pope like scripture is infallible in matters of doctrine?
One more time Rome is the final arbitrator ..not Gods word ..
That a self-potrait, quix?
That a self-portrait, quix?
A Deo rex, a rege lex. - LEX LUTHER
Ahh but none of them are infallible like YOUR POPE
We see them as men that put their pants on one leg at a time.. and were subject to error as any men .. No King but Jesus
In post 184 Natural Law wrote that I’m under the influence of Satan.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2680611/posts?page=184#184
Not only is that post against the rules, it is corrupt and unbridled arrogance.
I’m not about to trade insults with you or NL. Your comments are here for all to see. As I said, this is why I didn’t ask for a Caucus label for this thread — all the better to discern the good fruit from the evil fruit.
You haven’t been around for the context
And there are some NT letters that suggest that real Christians don’t always follow the ideal.
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