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I am finally a member of the body of Christ. Praise God!
Walenburchs on how Protestants and the Reformed affirm the Necessity of Good Works.
St. Augustine Ser 169 "Listen to the same apostle saying the same thing more plainly: That we, he says, may be the justice of God in him (2 Cor 5:21). That we may be not our justice, but God’s; received from him, not taken over by us; imparted, not usurped; granted, not grabbed.”
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Yes, well, many of us are not, in fact, surprised, at all. I just wish the folks who mocked and ridiculed me for pointing out the dangers down that road would now wake up and go, "Hmm, maybe there is something to this?"
Mother of mercy and love, blessed Virgin Mary, I am a poor and unworthy sinner, and I turn to you in confidence and love. You stood by your Son as he hung dying on the cross. Stand also by me, a poor sinner. Amen.
This Excommunication Scene from Becket (1964) is so fire!
"My soul is sorrowful even unto death: stay you here, and watch with me."
St. Thomas Aquinas ST. III. Q. 69. Art. 2 "...it is clear that the Passion of Christ is communicated to every baptized person, so that he is healed just as if he himself had suffered and died...he who is baptized, is freed from the debt of all punishment due to him for his sins,…
Is it more fitting for the Blessed Virgin Mary to be assumed while alive or after she passed? Why?
St. Bernard of Clairvaux Sermon in Cant. Cant. LXVIII "...no regenerated infant is without merits, for they have the merits of Christ. Yet one renders himself unworthy of a participation in the merits of Christ by not joining thereto merits of his own, if this is due not to…
The Walenburchs were really cooking Gerhard in their Treatise on Justification LOL. Should I post some of it?
On the Perfection of Inherent Justice: 1. It is agreed among Caths & Prots, that inherent justice in us can be called inchoate, w/ respect to the justice, which Saints possess in heaven. 2. It is agreed that Inherent justice in us can be called imperfect, w/ respect to the…
St. Jerome on Matt 7:18 (Against Jovinian Bk. 2, n. 25) “The truth is that a good tree does not bear evil fruit, nor an evil tree good fruit, so long as they continue in their goodness, or badness.”
Martin Luther on Christian Liberty "Just as no good work benefits an unbeliever for righteousness & salvation, so conversely no evil work makes him evil or damned, but unbelief, which makes the person & the tree evil, also makes the works evil & damned. Therefore, when anyone…
Whether (1) eternal life as the highest reward falls under the concept of merit & (2) that the works of the righteous are meritorious by their own intrinsic dignity, is not a matter of controversy with the Lutherans, for these points are debated among our own Doctors, which does…
"It is agreed that the just can be certain of their grace, if by certainty we mean a determinate and true assent, which not only excludes doubt but also includes a conformity of the assent with the object."