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1 | Ecumenical Movement Avoid or Not? | Bible general | Beja | 239708 | ||
Ed.O, This is a difficult question to answer while still remaining true to the intentions of this forum. The forum is very specifically meant to be a place where both catholic and protestant professions are free to come and study scripture together. Your question has another question imbedded within it. The imbedded question asks us to give a blanket verdict on the doctrine of Catholics and those who would join with them. While I would naturally and permissibly disagree with catholics while discussing particular texts on this forum, I think it crosses a line to simply discount their beliefs. It invites argument in the absence of working on particular passages. In respect to the intentions of this forum I will not answer that imbedded question but I will state this: Evangelicals still preach salvation through faith alone, and Catholics still argue some other merits are necessary in addition to Christ. In that sense, I do not understand what they could actually mean when they suggest the reformation to be over. We still disagree on the same things. Perhaps they mean to suggest that we no longer care about those things to the same extent as our spiritual forefathers? In Christ, Beja |
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2 | Ecumenical Movement Avoid or Not? | Bible general | Jasper72 | 239824 | ||
James 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. And what about baptism, didn't Christ say James 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Didn't Jesus say this. John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. And this, Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. |
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3 | Ecumenical Movement Avoid or Not? | Bible general | Beja | 239830 | ||
Jasper, I'm not sure what to make of your post. Either you: a) Wish to debate whether salvation is by Faith alone with me. Although I have not tried to assert a position. or b) You somehow think throwing your lot with one side of the reformation actually answers the question of whether the two sides still disagree, when it rather proves an ongoing disagreement instead. Since the second option is silly and therefore would be ungracious of me to assume of you, I am left to think that you are trying to persuade me of salvation through works? Help me out here. Am I misunderstanding you? In Christ, Beja |
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