One of the astonishing things about the Church Age --not the cath9olic church age, the Bride of Christ Church Age-- is the Truth that God has covered the Mercy Seat once, for all, forever.
What it means to be born into God's family, as the believers/faithers at Pentecost and in the house of Cornelius learned immediately, is that God IMMEDIATELY comes into the human spirit --heretofore dead to God, inherited that way from Adam.
The believers were Born From Above, and as Paul proclaims, suddenly dead to sin and death laws. Suddenly having the Holy Spirit of Promise in them, in a completely new alignment to God, as a family member, these people were new creations!
All of them at Pentecost and in Cornelius's house were no longer under the laws of sin and death that you feel you are striving against to obtain catholic salvation, eventually, after you trudge the salvation trail hallmarked by obedience to the sacraments and rites of an institution administrered by priests getting int he way of you and Christ having a one-on-one.
That freedom from the laws of sin and death is the wonderful Truth of the Gospel, that believers in Christ, those who walk Faithing on His Life in them to transform them, are in fact TRANSFORMED.
BY the Life of God in them, they put to death the tendencies to sin, so that day by day as the Spirit raises them up in the Way that they should go, they more and more exhibit the character of God in the life of the man or woman. Born from Above is not a decades long event, it is an immediate act of God's Spirit. Once born from above, the family members have direct access to the Lord From Heaven, with no need for meadiators or intermediaries.
The communion 'meal' of bread and wine puts us in REMEBRANCE of what Jesus Christ accomplished Once, for All, forever ont he Cross of Calvary.
I've been accused of just wanting to win an argument. Well, yes, the argument that one can work their way to salvation through obedience to Catholic sacraments and Catholic baptism and Catholic confessional, and Catholic body, blood, sou, and divinity consumption of Jesus (Who is in Heaven, not bowing to Catholic Priests whenever the priest commands), THAT argument is worth contending against. To contend is to seek victory over deception and false religion whichburbles up pride of self.
Meant to ping you ... have no ping list so it is from an old man’s memory
Morning Sis, meant to ping you. ‘Today is the day that the Lord hath made. Rejoice and be glad in it!’
Are you saying that one can be saved without loving God?