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> Stephen M. Adams wrote:
>> "Streamer" writes:
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>> >
>> >Do you mean faith comes from works, and works comes from grace?
>>
>> God gives grace which enables us to believe and follow God, if we
> accept
>> it.
>>
> That grace doesn't merely "enable" but rather constrains us. Faith is
> the instramental causation, not the efficient causation nor the
> material causation.
>
> Also, to press this further, then one must of a necessity come to some
> sort of conclusion involving some sort of realization of there being
> mortal sins and venial sins. But even the RC position doesn't declare
> that mortal sin actually casts the once regenerate back into a state of
> being unregenerate.
>

Can you define mortal & venial sins? What are they? And who said there's
mortal & venial sins?

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> "gilgames" wrote in message
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>> <<
>> There are several reasons for Christendom's reluctance to admit that at
>> least some, if not all of the "NT" was originally written in Hebrew. As
>> the original Hebrew Christians died off, the church became more Greek
>> than Hebrew. Gradually, the love that Christ taught was abandoned in
>> favor of a rabid hatred of Jews, and all things Hebrew. Jews wrote
>> God's Name in Hebrew, even in the LXX, and it wasn't Iesous/Yehoshua, so
>> that Name had to go.
>> >>
>>
>> Just as an addendum, a Jew, Franz Werfel (Barbara, better knows for the
>> Forty Days of Musa Dagh and Harken the Word, the story of Jeremiah)
>> wrote that the name Jehosua is the tertagrammaton with an 's' (cross in
>> the cursive) at the middle.
>
> There are various pronunciations. Interestingly, in the LXX, Joshua's
> name
> is spelled "Iesous".
>
>>
>> IMHO the original Matthew (the logia = oracles) was written in Hebrew in
>> 36 AD when according to the Act of Apostles all the Apostles were
>> whipped, (Act 5:40) and had to flee (Act 8:1). Matthew remembered
>> Jeremiah who went home and God commanded him (Jer. 30.2) to write down
>> the Words He told through Jeremiah. Matthew did the same: wanted to
>> write Bible, wrote down Gods word through Jesus. This Logia could be
>> around 600 verses.
>>
>> The r