Tag: Salvation
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The Church Fathers: Salvation l
SALVATION THROUGH FAITH AND WORKS By your stubbornness and impenitent heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrathand revelation of the just judgment of God, who will repay everyone according to his works: eternal life to those who seek glory, honor, and immortality through perseverance in good works, but wrath…
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The Church Fathers: Justification l
Infused & Intrinsic righteousness Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.Fill me with joy and gladness;let the bones which thou hast broken rejoice.Hide thy face from my sinsand blot out all my iniquities.Create in me a clean heart, O God,and put a new and right…
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The Church Fathers: The New Eve
MARIOLOGY God said to the serpent:‘I will put enmities between thee and the woman,and thy seed and her seed:she shall crush thy head,and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.’Genesis 3, 15 {DRB} My explications of the Patristic texts Justin Martyr (A.D. 155)Dialogue with Trypho “He became man by the Virgin so that the…
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The Church Fathers: The Assumption of Mary
MARIOLOGY My beloved spoke and said to me,“Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,come with me.See! The winter is past;the rains are over and gone.”Song of Solomon 2, 10-11 My explications of the Patristic texts Epiphanius of Salamis (A.D. 377)Panarion 78.23 “If the Holy Virgin had died and was buried, her falling asleep would have been…
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The Church Fathers: The Sacrament of Holy Eucharist
Sacramentology While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave itto the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, and aftergiving thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood…
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The Church Fathers: Infant Baptism
The Sacrament of Baptism Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of JesusChrist for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the HolySpirit. For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off,whomever the Lord…
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The Church Fathers: Baptism & Born Again
sacramentology Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptizedin the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins;and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.Acts 2, 38 He saved us, not because of our righteous actions, but because of his mercy.He saved us through the Holy…
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The Church Fathers: The Church Is One & Visible
Ecclesiology There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of yourcalling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,who is above all and through all and in all.Ephesians 4, 4-5 My Explications of the Patristic Texts Tertullian (A.D. 197)Apology, 39:1 “I shall at…
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