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You better hope dcon does not see that you said good works are involved in sanctification or he will rip you a new one. He did that to me.

Philippians 1:6 6 And I am sure that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. I see this verse quoted a lot on this thread. I hope someone can interpret it for me. I assume Paul is speaking to believers. What is a saved person lacking that God...

What are some of the faith alone denominations and what are some of the works-salvationist denominations?

So you would agree with MailmanDan that when Peter says they escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ these are not saved individuals. I posed this question to gotquestions.org and they said the only way to escape the defilements of the...

So when 2 Pet 2:20 says they escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ they have only received an outward cleansing. They remain corrupt on the inside? Could you do a word study on the Greek word for knowledge here. I am of the belief that...

2 Pet 2:20-22 says you can escape the defilements of the world and then it says you can again become entangled in them again and this condition is worse than if you had never believed in the first place.

All this disorder was not God's original plan. Adam was to tend the Garden of Eden in peace and harmony. But his sin brought disorder to the universe. God did not abandon Adam. He promised a redeemer. The merits earned by this redeemer were sufficient to restore the universe back to its...

Is it possible for someone to escape the defilements of the world without true saving faith in Jesus Christ?

God predestines the elect but he does not predestine the reprobate. That would make God the author of sin. For example it was Judas' fault and not God's that he went to hell.

Could we discuss this a little further? These errors in the ante-nicene fathers. Were they Catholic errors or something nobody believes today? Could you provide some references?

If a man falls into a pit and another man comes along and pulls him out he is the savior of the man. If a woman comes along and he guides her around the pit he is her savior also. The same with Mary. God looked forward to the merits of Christ and applied them to Mary at her conception thus...

Not sure what you mean.

I think he talking about them after they have again been enslaved by sin.

But it says they escaped (past tense) the defilements of the world through the knowledge of Jesus Christ. How can you escape sin without true faith in Christ?

I understand your confusion. I would ask you to give it one more try by reading "Biblical Defense of Catholicism" by Dave Armstrong. He is a convert to Catholicism. You can get it at Amazon.

My disdain for OSAS is based on 2 Pet 2:20-22. Perhaps you could go through word by word and explain it to me.

Who else would they be?

We do not know for sure if Mary died or not. If she died she did not rot in a tomb but was immediately reunited with her soul and taken to heaven. Since she was sinless she did not have to die but she may have asked God to let her suffer death so that she could offer up her suffering to God...

I agree that it is a false religion. But they worship the God of Abraham so they are not completely bad but they are very bad in my opinion. The statement in Lumen Gentium I think was a political overture to the muslim world to start a dialogue and maybe get better treatment of Christians in...

Rev 5:8-9 8 And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints; 9 and they sang a new song, saying, The 24 elder I think you would...