• Seriously? This is a catholic book?
    The author's comment here sounds more like a baptist, who would deny that Romans 7 was Paul's post conversion narrative.
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    Martin Luther: Catholic Critical Analysis and Praise
    All this, yet St. Paul is somehow supposed to be analogous to Martin Luther, struggling
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    1. Does merit = conducive? Something can be beneficial to understanding the gift we are given, helping us focus on it, depend in it, appreciate it, yet not be the cause of it, yes?
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      The Book of Concord
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      1. I am curious to where they claim this is taught.

        1. Curious to where this is claimed to be taught
          1. Where what is claimed? I can see your post in the Logos Lutheran group, but not what you are replying to.

          2. I wondered the same thing?

        2. Mediatrix
          A good clarification of the idea of mediarrix, and the role we all have ini redemption of others
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          Lumen gentium 62Vatican II Documents
          62. This maternity of Mary in the order of grace began with the consent which she gave in faith at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, and lasts until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this salvific duty, but by her constant intercession continued to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation.15* By her maternal charity, she cares for the brethren of her Son, who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers and
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          1. Danger
            We have to be careful with this statement, for taking it out of context, and using an evangelcial defition of faith (that is cognizent will which is generated in the intellect,) we approach a form of gnosticism. Faith and trust in God is based in the heart/soul, rathern than the reason, and is the work of the Holy Spirit

            1. Without Christ doesn't mean we cannot do it ever. See Ephesians 2:10

              1. There is a fallacy here. To be clothed with love is not a matter of man's love, but of Christ's love for us. Paul also talks of being clothed with Christ, which I believe means the same thing as the Colossians passage here. I do agree with the concept, that man's love for one another cannot justify us, I would also say it is impossible. Save for being clothed with Christ, clothed in His love, immersed in it. That is what we have faith in, God's love for us, that is what drove Him to the cross, the idea of saving His beloved. And that is the love which creates the relationship based on faith, on trust.

                1. Fortress Lutheran Library Expansion Bundle (30 vols.)
                  www.logos.com

                  1. I have an idea for a practical use of this group. Let the groups be used to give resources for theological work, minstry but also missions. One project could be to make available Logos packages for ministers, students or leaders in countries like Madagascar, Ethiopia. These are countries with very many students, but few resources and few theological books available. Maybe someone can done packages ? (Let the ownership of laptops be a separate matter, it is easier.)

                    1. Absolutely!

                    2. I like that - my mission in in South Sudan...

                    3. Yes