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To: annalex; metmom
Did St. Paul write “you are saved by faith alone” anywhere in these quotes? Or does St. Paul express proper Catholic doctrine? It is a good idea to know something about the matter which you intend to discuss. Otherwise you reinforce my opinion that Protestants figured out how they can ignore half the Bible by profusely citing another half, which does not say anything in support of their theological fantasies.

It not only would be a good idea for to know something about the matter you intend to discuss, but also, apparently, what you actually have already said. You stated:

Yeah, yeah. Fantasize all you want. Al I need to do is to read "not by faith alone are ye saved" and no matter what else we can find in the Bible about faith, it becomes clear that whoever defends their fundamental doctrine of salvation by faith alone is a charlatan who wants to re-write the Bible.

You were shown that this is certainly NOT something you have read nor is it ALL you need to read to understand such an important doctrine of Soteriology. You pick out a phrase, based on your own faulty memory and try to dispute ALL the other verses that show your faulty phrase to NOT be what you claim it is. "Protestants", contrary to your habitually false inclinations, don't HAVE to ignore "half" of Scripture because it only reinforces what the Reformation, and true believers, have ALWAYS asserted. I don't disagree that there are some confessions that hold on to the label of "Protestant", who haven't held onto the tenets of genuine Christianity, but, like Catholicism, they do not represent it anymore.

Those "theological fantasies" can be found in the volumes of Roman Catholic dogmas that really DO ignore Scripture in order to profess the accursed gospel of works for salvation as well as other novel doctrines that were unheard of in Scripture. But, like I already said, you do so at your own peril and have NO effect on those hearts to whom the Holy Spirit has illuminated the truth. As long as someone is still breathing, there will always be hope that they can join them.

345 posted on 04/30/2014 1:52:24 PM PDT by boatbums (quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus)
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To: boatbums; metmom
I stand by my post with one correction, for the biblically illiterates among us:

Yeah, yeah. Fantasize all you want. Al I need to do is to read "not by faith alone are ye saved" (compare James 2:24) and no matter what else we can find in the Bible about faith, it becomes clear that whoever defends their fundamental doctrine of salvation by faith alone is a charlatan who wants to re-write the Bible.

349 posted on 04/30/2014 6:32:18 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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