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To: kosta50; caww

you're right, Faith is a grace. When St. Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, Jesus declared to him that this revelation did not come "from flesh and blood", but from "my Father who is in heaven"

Faith is a gift of God, a supernatural virtue infused by him. "Before this faith can be exercised, man must have the grace of God to move and assist him; he must have the interior helps of the Holy Spirit, who moves the heart and converts it to God, who opens the eyes of the mind and 'makes it easy for all to accept and believe the truth.'"

but, in faith, the human intellect and will co-operate with divine grace. As Thomas Aquinas wrote: "Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace."

2,010 posted on 01/30/2011 1:12:46 AM PST by Cronos

To: Cronos; caww; Dr. Eckleburg

Faith is a grace

Which means no man can cause another man to lose it. Therefore, opinions expressed by me on this forum are incapable of causing anyone to lose his or her faith.

2,019 posted on 01/30/2011 1:23:34 AM PST by kosta50 (Pagan prayer to Mithra: "give me over to immortal birth so that I may be born again")

but, in faith, the human intellect and will co-operate with divine grace

That is a semi-to-full Pelagian heresy.

2,023 posted on 01/30/2011 1:30:09 AM PST by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)

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