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To: DallasMike
Your silence is deafening.

And,your word waterfall is blinding.

The Word is Jesus Christ. I hope we agree on that.

We do agree,Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh.Can you tell me what that means to you? That may be our point of departure.

573 posted on 07/04/2003 3:53:21 PM PDT by saradippity
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To: saradippity
And, your word waterfall is blinding

Maybe it made you think. And if not now, then perhaps someday.

We do agree,Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh.Can you tell me what that means to you? That may be our point of departure.

Probably not too much of a departure, unless you're enthusiastic about Mariology and the Treasury of Merit. I agree with the Nicene Creed and the Apostle's Creed.

Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh. He is eternally co-existent with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. He is wholly God and wholly man. When Christ became man, he did not cease being man -- to paraphrase Athanasius:  in the incarnation we do not have the subtraction of deity but the addition of humanity.

Jesus was crucified for our sins and on the third day rose from the grave. He made numerous appearances to the apostles, his family, and once to 500 people before ascending back into heaven, where he is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge those who remain alive and those who have died. Those who believe in Him will reign with him forever.

Salvation is by God's grace, through faith alone in Christ alone, and the kind of faith that produces salvation is the kind of faith that produces good works. The good works don't produce salvation in and of themselves, but are evidence of a saving faith. Works are not a condition of our salvation, but a consequence of it. If we believe in Jesus, He alone will impute upon us a forgiveness of sins, He will cover our sins with His one perfect sacrifice.

So they said to him, "What can we do to accomplish the works of God?" Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent." (John 6:28-29)

For what does the scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." A worker's wage is credited not as a gift, but as something due. But when one does not work, yet believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness. (Romans 4:3-5)

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. (John 3:16)

Happy is the sinner whose fault is removed, whose sin is forgiven. Happy are those to whom the LORD imputes no guilt, in whose spirit is no deceit. (Psalm 32:1-2)

And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ (n.b. -- not through a Treasury of Merit) and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5: 18-19)

Indeed someone might say, "You have faith and I have works." Demonstrate your faith to me without works, and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works. (James 2:18)

Jesus Christ is the one sacrifice for all times:

But this one offered one sacrifice for sins, and took his seat forever at the right hand of God; now he waits until his enemies are made his footstool. For by one offering he has made perfect forever those who are being consecrated. (Hebrews 10:12-14)

Jesus Christ is the one mediator (not a co-mediator with Mary) between humans and God the Father:

For there is one God. There is also one mediator between God and the human race, Christ Jesus, himself human, who gave himself as ransom for all. (1 Timothy 2:5-6)

Now he has obtained so much more excellent a ministry as he is mediator of a better covenant, enacted on better promises. (Hebrews 8:6)

For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance. (Hebrews 9:15)

 

 


574 posted on 07/05/2003 10:09:11 AM PDT by DallasMike
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