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 10/23/11 3:21 PM |
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John UK wrote:
Why such veneration for Augustine? Well Well John. Your hyperwesleyan leanings showing again in your anti-Calvin anti-Augustine diatribes. You will find VERY little in the REAL Church which supports Michaels support for the Donatist heresies and his objection to the Biblical Christian Augustine. Well Well Michael. Like John your hate for all things Calvinist demonstrates your Roman Catholic (works based) leanings. You two make a matching set!! Quote::
"As for the leaders of the church in other ages, Spurgeon's saying has been already quoted: "You may take a step from Paul to Augustine, then from Augustine to Calvin, and then-well, you may keep your foot up a good while before you find such another." When he visited the Simplon Hospice, he said, "I was delighted to find that they are Augustine monks, because, next to Calvin, I love Augustine. I feel that Augustine was the great mine out of which Calvin digged his mental wealth; and the Augustine monks, in practising their holy charity, seemed to say: 'Our Master was a teacher of grace, and we will practice it, and give without money and without price to all comers whatsoever they need.'" (C.H.Spurgeon and history) |
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| 10/22/11 4:48 PM |
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Michael;
"It is Augustine who gave us the Reformation. For the Reformation, inwardly considered, was just the ultimate triumph of Augustine's doctrine of grace over Augustine's doctrine of the Church. This doctrine of grace came from Augustine's hands in its positive outline completely formulated: sinful man depends for his recovery to good and to God entirely on the free grace of God; this grace is therefore indispensable, prevenient, irresistible, indefectible; and being thus the free grace of God, must have lain in all the details of its conference and working, in the intention of God from all eternity...
If the necessity of prevenient grace was thereafter [after the second Council of Orange, 529] the established doctrine of the Church, the irresistibility of this prevenient grace was put under the ban and there remained no place for a complete "Augustinianism" within the Church, as Gottschalk and Jansen were fully to discover. Therefore, when the great revival of religion which we call the Reformation came, seeing that it was on its theological side a revival of "Augustinianism," as all great revivals of religion must be (for Augustinianism is but the thetical expression of religion in its purity), there was nothing for it but the rending of the Church." (A.C.Custance) |
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| 10/22/11 4:10 PM |
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Michael Hranek wrote:
a) on Augustine of Hippo, his worldview, and the influence of his amazing eisegeisis of the Bible with it?"b) done with someone like you who claims his beloved church is false c) me who rejects infant baptism (sprinkling) a) Where do you get all this baloney about Augustine, Michael? All expert and right thinking Protestant theologians know that Augustine fought against many heresies in his own time but essentially his theology was predominantly Biblically correct.b) Augustine was battling with the likes of Pelagius and Cassian against Semi-Pelagian theory. This semi-Pelagian stuff has become the Arminianism theory of today - you know the salvation by works which you seem to have carried across from the RCC when you left it. c) This deep water submersion theory of yours just doesn't hold water Michael. You have picked just ONE meaning of 'batizw' and made that the 'rock' of your religion. Sprinkling and effusion, as every good Greek language knowing theologian knows, are both carried in the Greek word baptizw.  The "Reformation" I refer to is the God ordained 16th century Reformation, which brought into being the REAL Church, Protestant and Presbyterian in accordance with God's Holy Word.  |
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| 10/21/11 2:35 PM |
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Mike wrote:
1. You say a true church does not require reformation, 2. yet the Reformation was ordained of God. 3. Since the true church does not need reforming, what church then were they trying to reform? 4. To reform means to change that which is not desired into that which is desired. Then you say this:
"As for John Calvin; - Look how God used him in such a mighty way to Reform the Church, and change nations, along with Martin Luther." 5. If they were not reforming the true church, which according to you doesn't require it in the first place, we can only conclude they were trying to reform the false. 1. Yes!
2. Yes!
3. The false!
4. Close enough.
5. I agree with your conclusion.Mike;
And your point is? |
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| 10/21/11 2:20 PM |
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The Roman Catholic religious philosophy is works based religion. This philosophy contradicts the Word of God and teaches human effort unto salvation. Our Roman Catholic cannot perceive the difference as Lurker's post shows and LEO's response further demonstrates. The Vatican is the blind who lead the blind."Faith is chosen by God to be the receiver of salvation, because it does not pretend to create salvation, nor to help in it, but it is content humbly to receive it. Faith is the tongue that begs pardon, the hand which receives it, and the eye which sees it; but it is not the price which buys it. Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ. She becomes a good servant to bring the riches of the Lord Jesus to the soul, because she acknowledges whence she drew them, and owns that grace alone entrusted her with them." — Charles Spurgeon, All of Grace Ro 4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."
16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed;" NOTHING mortal man can ever do or aspire to do can save him. |
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| 10/21/11 10:58 AM |
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LEO wrote:
(a.) False. I know Christ personally.
(b.) False. A Catholic (or Christian of any stripe) is saved by grace through faith in Christ. Period. a) Thats what Christ refers to in Matt 7:21-23. "21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."In other words "YOU SAY" you are saved - BUT then you go and worship dead bodies, pictures, statuettes and other UNBiblical and pagan idolatry.
YOUR ACTIONS speak louder than your words - judging by your UnBiblical UnChristian ACTIONS - YOU are NOT saved!  b) A Roman Catholic who REMAINS amongst all that idolatrous and blasphemous pagan ritual and junk - Is NOT saved. YOUR worship of relics icons idols and heresy such as co-redemptrix and blasphemy such as your RC unholy mass is proof of your satanic practices and your rejection of God, Christ and the Word of God! |
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| 10/21/11 10:13 AM |
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"But the question here is are there any saved Roman Catholics? That is, being a saved person and remaining in Roman Catholicism. Just as you cannot mix fire and water neither can one be a saved person and remain a faithful Roman Catholic. What is more, this would be directly against the official teaching of Rome: One who would dare to consider himself, or herself, saved (that is, certain of heaven), being a devout Roman Catholic commits one of the gravest sins--the sin of presumption. Sincerity is good. And if sincerity alone could save a person, the monks and nuns would be first to reach heaven. But sincerity is not good enough. God says: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; NOT OF WORKS, lest any man should boast." Roman Catholics know about Christ, but do not know Him personally, therefore they are trying to work their way to Him. Roman Catholicism is essentially a religion of works and not of grace as taught in the Scriptures. Though the cross and the death of Christ are emphasized, the saving truths of Redemption are not taught. Or they are so mixed with Mary, penance, purgatory, ritual, mass and with idol and saint worship, that faith unto salvation is completely obscure." (H.G.Adams; Former Priest) |
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