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#Salvation through Christ
karryalane · 5 months
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"The unmistakable message all through the New Testament is, we are saved by believing on Jesus. So, rivet your attention on Christ in the gospels: John, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and in the whole Bible. Rivet your attention on Christ and say what you see: “We confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord” (Romans 10:9)."
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pastordin · 1 year
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Our Response to the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ
The sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross is the cornerstone of the Christian faith. Through His atoning death, Jesus provided the ultimate means of salvation and established a new covenant with humanity. As believers, it is essential to understand and respond to this incredible act of love and grace. Acknowledge our need for a Savior The first step in responding to the sacrifice of Jesus…
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walkswithmyfather · 5 months
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The world wants peace, but rejects the Prince of Peace. The world wants love, but rejects the Author of Love. The world wants life, but rejects the One Who gave His to save theirs. The world desperately wants Jesus, but they're too busy rejecting Him to realize He's the answer.
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choosejesuschrist · 2 months
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apollo-cackling · 3 months
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I need to reread the spear cuts through water to get my thoughts sorted about the Third Terror. what a bleak existence, to be hated and neglected your entire life, taught violence as your only mode of interaction, for cruelty to be so enmeshed within the very fabric of your being that you are incapable of reaching to the first scrap of kindness you have ever been shown without being monstrous
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dramoor · 5 months
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"What does it mean to believe in God? It’s necessary to believe not only in the existence of God the Creator and in the salvation given us through Jesus Christ, but we must also believe unwaveringly, in all circumstances of life, no matter how difficult, that God is merciful, that He desires our salvation; and seeing in this and knowing not only our temporary well-being, but also eternal, leads us to Him as a loving but wise father for His children, guiding them with equal love, tenderness, and firmness. Therefore, we must accept everything with hope in the mercy of God, asking only for His help in every trial or temptation, whether it comes from outside, from our infirmities, or from men—God’s instruments for our salvation, and often mutual. Our humility will save even those who grieve us."
~St. Arsenia of Ust-Medvedits
(Ballpoint pen art by Sergii Radkevych, 2012)
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sandratorres59 · 8 months
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Ephesians 6:16 ESV
In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one
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tabernacleheart · 8 months
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Whosoever, He said, commits sin, whether Jew or Greek, rich or poor, king or beggar, is the servant of sin. O miserable bondage! ...when wearied with the hardness of his tasks... whither does the slave of sin flee? He takes it along with him, wherever he goes; for his sin is within him. The pleasure passes away, but the sin does not pass away: its delight goes, its sting remains behind. He alone can free from sin, Who came without sin, and was made a sacrifice for sin. [With these truths,] Christ purposely alarms us first, and then gives us hope. He alarms us, that we may not love sin; He gives us hope, that we may not despair of the absolution of our sin. Our hope then is this, that we shall be freed by Him who is free. He has paid the price for us, not in money, but in His own blood: If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. Not from the barbarians, but from the devil; not from the captivity of the body, but from the wickedness of the soul. [Now] the first stage of freedom is, the abstaining from sin. But that is only incipient, it is not perfect freedom: for the flesh still lusts against the spirit, so that you do not do the things that you would. Full and perfect freedom will only be, when the contest is over, and the last enemy, death, is destroyed. Do not then abuse your freedom, for the purpose of sinning freely; but use it in order not to sin at all. Your will will be free, if it be merciful: you will be free, if you become the servant of righteousness.
Saint Augustine of Hippo
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1. TURN AWAY FROM YOUR SINS (REPENT) AND TURN TO JESUS CHRIST, HE CLEANSES SINNERS OF THEIR SINS AND ETERNAL LIFE IS OFFERED TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM! 2. TURN AWAY FROM YOUR SINS (REPENT) AND TURN TO JESUS CHRIST, HE CLEANSES SINNERS OF THEIR SINS AND ETERNAL LIFE IS OFFERED TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM! 3. TURN AWAY FROM YOUR SINS (REPENT) AND TURN TO JESUS CHRIST, HE CLEANSES SINNERS OF THEIR SINS AND ETERNAL LIFE IS OFFERED TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM! 4. TURN AWAY FROM YOUR SINS (REPENT) AND TURN TO JESUS CHRIST, HE CLEANSES SINNERS OF THEIR SINS AND ETERNAL LIFE IS OFFERED TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM! 5. TURN AWAY FROM YOUR SINS (REPENT) AND TURN TO JESUS CHRIST, HE CLEANSES SINNERS OF THEIR SINS AND ETERNAL LIFE IS OFFERED TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM! 6. TURN AWAY FROM YOUR SINS (REPENT) AND TURN TO JESUS CHRIST, HE CLEANSES SINNERS OF THEIR SINS AND ETERNAL LIFE IS OFFERED TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM! 7. TURN AWAY FROM YOUR SINS (REPENT) AND TURN TO JESUS CHRIST, HE CLEANSES SINNERS OF THEIR SINS AND ETERNAL LIFE IS OFFERED TO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM!
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superpointlesschicken · 3 months
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What's your salvation story?
I grew up in the church, so I've known about God my whole life. I went to a small private school an hour away from where I lived, I had some great friends, and all that jazz. As a kid I would always say I was a Christian, but I didn't really know what it meant. I said it to make my family happy I guess.
Winter of my fourth grade year we moved, it wasn't like a big move or anything, we moved thirty to twenty minutes closer to our school, and closer to my mom's work. The move wasn't that bad, I still went to school with my friends and we still went to the same church.
Summer after fourth grade driving to my friend's house to pick him up for my birthday party, I was asked if it'd be ok to move schools. I didn't really think about the question and said that it'd be fine. Fifth grade year I was in public school, I knew a few girls from softball, but that was about it. I tried to make some friends, but I was really sad. I just kept my sadness in I didn't bring it to anyone much less God.
Camp really helped me find out who God really is. My relationship with God was brought to life at camp. Sixth grade I made some really good friends. Those friends have helped me grow as a person, I thank God for them. Some really crazy things happened in sixth grade, and seventh. I went to camp for five days both summers.
Somewhere between seventh and eighth grade I dedicated my life to God. I can't give an exact date, because for me it was a slow thing that took twelve to thirteen years to happen.
Now I'm working on growing in my faith, building on everything I've been told as a kid.
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geminiagentgreen · 4 months
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Please pray for my friend, James.
For his health and for his salvation; he has been a rather esoteric-minded man, displayed some very non-Christian ideas of God and Christ, but now is really in a dire situation with an unknown illness that has him asking for - and being especially thankful for - prayer.
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karryalane · 8 months
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Hello! I hope you can help me with this: Veritatis Splendor n. 11 says
But if God alone is the Good, no human effort, not even the most rigorous observance of the commandments, succeeds in "fulfilling" the Law, that is, acknowledging the Lord as God and rendering him the worship due to him alone. This "fulfilment" can come only from a gift of God: the offer of a share in the divine Goodness revealed and communicated in Jesus, the one whom the rich young man addresses with the words "Good Teacher.”
I may be misunderstanding it because what I’m getting is that if fulfilling the moral law is a gift of God, then those who don’t fulfill it simply didn’t receive that gift from God, and thus are at risk of damnation because God didn’t grant them that gift? Thank you, and God bless you, your wife, and your baby.
Or is it that God offers that gift to all of us but we can choose to reject it? (Sorry, just thought of this after sending the first ask)
Aha! You have found a key soteriological controversy in the De Auxiliis controversy and Calvinist polemic against Catholicism.
The key to the solution is in the previous paragraph (10):
The moral life presents itself as the response due to the many gratuitous initiatives taken by God out of love for man. It is a response of love . . . Thus the moral life, caught up in the gratuitousness of God's love, is called to reflect his glory:'"For the one who loves God it is enough to be pleasing to the One whom he loves: for no greater reward should be sought than that love itself; charity in fact is of God in such a way that God himself is charity.'"
After original sin, human beings are not able to do anything morally good or meritorious without God's grace. We cannot earn heaven by human power; cut off from sanctifying grace and in our weakened state of sin, such a destiny is totally beyond our power. So God offers us His power, His supernatural grace, which is completely unearned, undeserved, and freely given. This grace allows us to first turn from sin and desire a life in God, secondly to seek baptism, thirdly to receive it and be regenerated in it.
We are free to accept or reject this grace and when we accept it, God has freely decided to give a reward for that cooperation that have in working virtuous deeds through God’s grace, which we cannot do alone.
The trick is that we don’t know whom God has chosen to give which graces because we cannot see as God sees. We (at best) know what graces we have received, and even this, only dimly. We have no way of knowing who has accepted or rejected the graces God offers. We know of no other means than baptism (or the desire therefor) of salvation, but that does not mean that God is bound by the sacraments. God alone searches the heart.
Salvation is a gift freely granted. Sin (as a deliberate act) only rejects the free gift of God as virtuous action accepts it.
We know God calls all to holiness and salvation, but we do not know to whom God has offered grace, how, when, and where. God judges all according to their opportunity to know the truth and we will not know that calibration until heaven. God calls all to holiness and thus we can assume that all are offered sufficient grace for salvation. But how and when, we do not know, so we cannot judge the heart.
CCC citations under the cut.
1257 The Lord himself affirms that Baptism is necessary for salvation.60 He also commands his disciples to proclaim the Gospel to all nations and to baptize them.61 Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament.62 The Church does not know of any means other than Baptism that assures entry into eternal beatitude; this is why she takes care not to neglect the mission she has received from the Lord to see that all who can be baptized are "reborn of water and the Spirit." God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments.
1260 "Since Christ died for all, and since all men are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being made partakers, in a way known to God, of the Paschal mystery."63 Every man who is ignorant of the Gospel of Christ and of his Church, but seeks the truth and does the will of God in accordance with his understanding of it, can be saved. It may be supposed that such persons would have desired Baptism explicitly if they had known its necessity.
1960 The precepts of natural law are not perceived by everyone clearly and immediately. In the present situation sinful man needs grace and revelation so moral and religious truths may be known "by everyone with facility, with firm certainty and with no admixture of error."12 The natural law provides revealed law and grace with a foundation prepared by God and in accordance with the work of the Spirit.
II. GRACE
1996 Our justification comes from the grace of God. Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life.46
1998 This vocation to eternal life is supernatural. It depends entirely on God's gratuitous initiative, for he alone can reveal and give himself. It surpasses the power of human intellect and will, as that of every other creature.47
2001 The preparation of man for the reception of grace is already a work of grace. This latter is needed to arouse and sustain our collaboration in justification through faith, and in sanctification through charity. God brings to completion in us what he has begun, "since he who completes his work by cooperating with our will began by working so that we might will it:"50 Indeed we also work, but we are only collaborating with God who works, for his mercy has gone before us. It has gone before us so that we may be healed, and follows us so that once healed, we may be given life; it goes before us so that we may be called, and follows us so that we may be glorified; it goes before us so that we may live devoutly, and follows us so that we may always live with God: for without him we can do nothing.51
2002 God's free initiative demands man's free response, for God has created man in his image by conferring on him, along with freedom, the power to know him and love him. The soul only enters freely into the communion of love. God immediately touches and directly moves the heart of man. He has placed in man a longing for truth and goodness that only he can satisfy. The promises of "eternal life" respond, beyond all hope, to this desire . . .
2005 Since it belongs to the supernatural order, grace escapes our experience and cannot be known except by faith. We cannot therefore rely on our feelings or our works to conclude that we are justified and saved.56 However, according to the Lord's words "Thus you will know them by their fruits"57 - reflection on God's blessings in our life and in the lives of the saints offers us a guarantee that grace is at work in us and spurs us on to an ever greater faith and an attitude of trustful poverty. A pleasing illustration of this attitude is found in the reply of St. Joan of Arc to a question posed as a trap by her ecclesiastical judges: "Asked if she knew that she was in God's grace, she replied: 'If I am not, may it please God to put me in it; if I am, may it please God to keep me there.'"58
2006 The term "merit" refers in general to the recompense owed by a community or a society for the action of one of its members, experienced either as beneficial or harmful, deserving reward or punishment. Merit is relative to the virtue of justice, in conformity with the principle of equality which governs it.
2007 With regard to God, there is no strict right to any merit on the part of man. Between God and us there is an immeasurable inequality, for we have received everything from him, our Creator.
2008 The merit of man before God in the Christian life arises from the fact that God has freely chosen to associate man with the work of his grace. The fatherly action of God is first on his own initiative, and then follows man's free acting through his collaboration, so that the merit of good works is to be attributed in the first place to the grace of God, then to the faithful. Man's merit, moreover, itself is due to God, for his good actions proceed in Christ, from the predispositions and assistance given by the Holy Spirit.
2010 Since the initiative belongs to God in the order of grace, no one can merit the initial grace of forgiveness and justification, at the beginning of conversion. Moved by the Holy Spirit and by charity, we can then merit for ourselves and for others the graces needed for our sanctification, for the increase of grace and charity, and for the attainment of eternal life. Even temporal goods like health and friendship can be merited in accordance with God's wisdom. These graces and goods are the object of Christian prayer. Prayer attends to the grace we need for meritorious actions.
2011 The charity of Christ is the source in us of all our merits before God.  . .
2013 "All Christians in any state or walk of life are called to the fullness of Christian life and to the perfection of charity."65 All are called to holiness: "Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."66  
In order to reach this perfection the faithful should use the strength dealt out to them by Christ's gift, so that . . . doing the will of the Father in everything, they may wholeheartedly devote themselves to the glory of God and to the service of their neighbor. Thus the holiness of the People of God will grow in fruitful abundance, as is clearly shown in the history of the Church through the lives of so many saints.
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2014 Spiritual progress tends toward ever more intimate union with Christ. This union is called "mystical" because it participates in the mystery of Christ through the sacraments - "the holy mysteries" - and, in him, in the mystery of the Holy Trinity. God calls us all to this intimate union with him, even if the special graces or extraordinary signs of this mystical life are granted only to some for the sake of manifesting the gratuitous gift given to all.
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walkswithmyfather · 1 year
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choosejesuschrist · 4 months
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crucifiedwithhim · 1 year
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The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. Psalm 23:1 NKJV
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