~Glorious Appearing~ wrote:
Canons of the Council of Orange
(529 AD)
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According to the catholic faith we also believe that after grace has been
received through baptism, all baptized persons have the ability and
responsibility, if they desire to labor faithfully, to perform with the aid
and cooperation of Christ what is of essential importance in regard to the
salvation of their soul. We not only do not believe that any are
foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utter
abhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they
are anathema. We also believe and confess to our benefit that in every good
work it is not we who take the initiative and are then assisted through the
mercy of God, but God himself first inspires in us both faith in him and
love for him without any previous good works of our own that deserve reward,
so that we may both faithfully seek the sacrament of baptism, and after
baptism be able by his help to do what is pleasing to him. We must therefore
most evidently believe that the praiseworthy faith of the thief whom the
Lord called to his home in paradise, and of Cornelius the centurion, to whom
the angel of the Lord was sent, and of Zacchaeus, who was worthy to receive
the Lord himself, was not a natural endowment but a gift of God's kindness.
Thanks for that, but you seem to be posting contradictory stuff;
usually Protestant, but now Catholic. Not a big deal, I suppose. If I
may ask, which are you?
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Most of my quotes are from:
http://www.carm.org/doctrine.htm http://www.carm.org/cults.htm
http://www.carm.org/apologetics.htm http://www.carm.org/seekers.htm
http://www.carm.org/atheism.htm http://www.carm.org/boards.htm
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/ http://www.christianquotes.org/
http://bible.gospelcom.net/
you should visit
http://www.catholic.com/default.asp
http://www.catholicintl.com/index.htm
http://www.catholicculture.org/index.cfm
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