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)
The Religion Moderator made allowances for foreign words now used regularly in the vernacular such as “adieu” and “bon appetite” and as you point out, “amen.”
When you post it from my account, you are essentially stealing from me.
Perhaps you are unaware of how such things work.
Photobucket.com is a standard photo hosting site with thousands of photos for SUBSCRIBERS to use in posting on other websites.
The Terms and Conditions of SUBSCRIBING to such websites is fairly standard. One MUST TRANSFER TO ONE’S ACCOUNT any photos to be used by one in posting on other websites.
Anyone who uses that link causes FR to go TO MY ACCOUNT FOR PRESENTING THAT PHOT ON THEIR SCREEN. That is, essentially, theft of my bandwidth and my account at photobucket.com. Please stop it.
I transferred from the general photobucket library, that photo to my account before deriving that link. The link you used USES MY ACCOUNT—and my bandwidth—AND WITHOUT MY PERSMISSION. Please stop it. Do not do it again.
Why is it that RC’s feel free to do this quite commonly and Proddys never do?
What is it about RC’s that they seem to feel such freedom?
On some things - yes. His defense of things like BIGAMY, well, no. You?
Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:57:55 PM · 162 of 180 Dr. Eckleburg to Deb From where in God's name have you drawn that conclusion??? (God's Name taken in vain.)<<<-----
Thursday, February 10, 2011 3:00:31 AM · 1,704 of 2,713 Dr. Eckleburg to Cronos Your confusion lends no credibility to your complaint. Peddle it elsewhere.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:21:58 AM · 1,420 of 2,713 Dr. Eckleburg to one Lord one faith one baptism; caww RCs should say what they mean and they'd be a lot better off. Because as it looks now, they mean exactly what they say and they do what they say and we Protestants understand what that means, even if RCs don't.
Tuesday, February 08, 2011 11:19:44 PM · 1,367 of 2,713 Dr. Eckleburg to one Lord one faith one baptism you have greater devotion to Calvin than i have ever witnessed any Catholic have to any saint. Then check your eye sight. I admire Calvin's Scriptural knowledge and devotion to Christ.
Monday, February 07, 2011 9:17:30 PM · 970 of 2,713 Dr. Eckleburg to Natural Law Some days it’s difficult to keep the false accusations from RCs straight
I'll get more later.
Thanks for the ping.
You probably should explore other ways of protecting your images if you choose not to identify them as copyrighted material. Publishing a linked image is effectively the same as publishing the link. It invites "fair usage".
The "fair use" exemption to U.S. copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author.
That's what you did to come with the doctrine that Mary isn't the Mother of God. I've showed you Scripture that demonstrates otherwise. You reconcile it.
“What was ‘taught first’ was Catholicism “
If that was the case then you should be correcting your Protestant brothers when they constantly state things in error about the Catholic Church.
It’s always the Catholics that speak of hate! It reeks of liberalism. “If you don’t embrace my beliefs, you are hating me”.
That is a weak strawman argument. It is valid hate when the same posters over and over repeat lies and then are informed of the real Catholic belief, and yet the lies are still repeated day after day. That is hate, deceit and working with the Evil one.
“I have the Holy Spirit to TEACH, GUIDE and COMFORT...to the rants of the Roman Catholic Comedy crew and watching those men in fancy glittery dresses, slippers and funny hats eating flesh and blood. Yep, they even throw in some magic in their ‘circus’.”
Some think they walk in light and they walk in Darkness. As I said, some have to put away their hatred and attempt to emulate Christ’s ways before they can see Truth.
“When you post it from my account, you are essentially stealing from me.”
What are you paying for that account? Or is it the FREE account that you use?
I asked how does veneration differ in practice than adoration??
Main Entry: veneration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: reverence
Synonyms: admiration, adoration, esteem, honor, idolization, respect
Main Entry: veneration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: honoring
Synonyms: admiration, adoration, awe, devotion, esteem, honor, repayment, respect, reverence, vengeance, worship, wrath
Antonyms: disrespect
Main Entry: adoration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intense love
Synonyms: admiration, amore, ardor, attachment, crush, devotion, esteem, estimation, exaltation, glorification, hankering, honor, idolatry, idolization, infatuation, pash, passion, puppy love, reverence, shine*, veneration , weakness*, worship, worshipping, yen*
How does the veneration of Mary differ from the worship of God IN PRACTICE
Yup. In the real world. In God's world. I still hope God will open your eyes and soften your hear to His truth.
What odd little heretical and hatefilled sect teaches that it does?
Odd that you would equate God's word with a "hatefilled [sic] sect." I just quoted you what Jesus said. The flesh profits nothing. By your reasoning, Jesus is a door and a vine. And as reasoning, that fails.
As does your argument.
Hoss
Amen!
They can not because there is no difference, it is a word game taught by Rome
This is old territory.
Y’all REALLY should keep up better.
If you are too unaware . . . to put it politely . . .
to post pics properly and legally,
then, by all means, DO NOT DO IT.
You understanding of Catholicism is incomplete.
What odd little heretical and hatefilled sect teaches that it does?
I doubt that many are even THAT aware of the whole situation.
Um, OK. It all seems like a joke though. I’m ‘adieu’ from here. Carry on.
It's Saturday and a new moon, so yes. I've spent years figuring out the push-me pull-you of the Martin Luther love/hate relationship among certain posters here, and that is my deduction.
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