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NASB | Matthew 22:32 'I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 22:32 'I AM THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB'? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living." [Ex 3:6] |
Subject: purgatory is it true? |
Bible Note: 1 of 2 parts Joe, "P.S. No altar in my church. Christ already made the last sacrifice of atonement." He is always before the Father presenting His sacrifice and that is the altar to which we attend. Read Revelation. The Eastern Orthodox are not in the same category as the Protetsant reformers. The Orthodox accept the sacraments, the apostolic succession, the priesthood and all the Marian doctrines which you say are from the late middle ages, though the orthodox parted much earlier and if anything hold Mary if it is possible in higher esteem as "the Panagia", the all holy. As for Romans 4. Paul NEVER said "faith alone," only Luther's isogesis reads that into the text. Paul preached a faith that was faithful and active in obedience that was received by grace. If there is anything we are saved by alone it is grace. Paul never said faith alone and James never said works alone but he did say "we are saved by works not by faith alone" because thay both knew that saving faith is not a passive virtue. A living person is an integrated whole of body and soul or it is dead. A saved person has faith and works by grace or that person is spiritually dead. Paul and James were speaking of the same faith. They both used Abraham to illustrate. Abraham's faith was an active responsive faith. Paul and James were talking about a different kind of works. Paul about works of the law ( circumcison, dietary, etc) and any works outside of grace given active saving faith. James was talking about works in Christ which Pauls addressed as "faith working through love" and " we are created in Christ Jesus for good works." Note that Abraham's works could not be works of the law because they were done in faith and before the law was given. Jesus said; " Not eveyone who cries Lord, Lord will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but him who does the will of the Father." Emmaus |