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To: rzman21
"Do you believe that God created human beings with free-will?"

YES!

Good point! If God is doing it only there is no love from God. He is a dictator and we are robots. They think they are being humble but they really are taken their individul selfs that God gave them away. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Like there is no self.

480 posted on 01/20/2012 4:15:31 PM PST by johngrace (I am a 1 John 4! Christian- declared at every Sunday Mass ,Divine Mercy and Rosary prayers!)
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To: johngrace

The difference between Catholicism and Protestantism is that Catholicism is synergistic and Protestantism is monergistic.

The Church Fathers were synergists.

Jesus established the bridge between ourselves and the Father on the cross, but it is up to us to cross that bridge and cooperate with God.

Faith alone is necessary only if your cooperation with God’s grace is not necessary.

For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
1 Corinthians 3:9

St. Paul uses the Greek word synergoi, which is the root of the word synergism.
http://concordances.org/greek/sunergoi_4904.htm


491 posted on 01/20/2012 6:31:49 PM PST by rzman21
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