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IIRC, we read that Abraham and the entourage (including his son) were heading to the altar mountain and Abraham told the entourage to wait at the foot of the mountain, that ‘THEY’ would return to them when the sacrifice was completed. I have thought of that in regards to what Paul wrote in Romans regarding ‘faithing’ in God’s Promises. Abraham was so sure of God’s Promise in Isaac would Abraham be blessed that even going to sacrifice him on that altar he told the men with them to wait for THEM to return from the event. Brother, that’s walking in FAITH.

Amen, yes it is. One wonders how it would go if one of us was put to the same challenge of faith. It would take a miracle for me to get through that. But that's when grace shines brightest, when the darkest nights descend, so that God gets all the glory, from now till world's end.

Peace,

I'm finding some interesting spin on what you've written so clearly, like: "... we have a difference of view as to whether the works are "substantially productive" in the process of justification, vs. whether they're simply a "handy and good after-effect of something already done". I believe the former, and you seem (as per your commentary) to believe the latter."

It is not the works that are the focus, it is the Person to whom the glory is due FOR THE WORKS, the One who has already come into the believer, the 'faither'. The administration of the Holy Spirit IN THE BELIEVER is not some after effect, it is the transformative life in Christ!To phrase your comments so they can be viewed as straw is, well, irritating. I do not read your posts as saying what the replier has tried to fashion from your teaching.

So, to repeat the following for Catholaholics, Many are called but few are chosen. Faithful is He that calleth you, for He will also do it. So of the many called, why are so few chosen? Because so few will let Him do it, let Him transform them through the indwelling Holy Spirit sealing our soul unto the full redemption moment coming soon ... Good works are to the glory of The God Who is within us, Who is greater than he who is in the world.