I see there is a huge market of different dictionaries. I am looking
for a good one, not a simple cheap one. What do you recommend?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0840775598/qid=1128346049/s
r=8-2/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-1180370-7764911?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

This one looks cheap


John

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John 14:6 ¶ Jesus answered, ³I am the way and
the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through me.
AIM-Crucifyself03

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The idea of original sin has surfaced in a number of posts. It is
helpful to remember that the idea of original sin has been variously
interpreted. Two things are important: what was lost and what was
transmitted.

Several important Christian philosophers and theologians such as
Aquinas have asserted that what was lost was basically infused
self-control and what was transmitted was the need to learn
self-control.

(1) Prior to the fall, Aquinas says man possessed three things:

(a) an ordinary human nature, consisting of the potentialities for
body and soul, intellect and free-will;

(b) certain 'preternatural' gifts, consisting of the complete
actualization of all human potentials and the freedom from disease,
suffering and death. Man's reason perfectly ruled his passions. Each
was properly ordered and proportioned to the other. The name for this
relationship between reason and passion is 'original justice', because
it describes the 'fitting' relationship of reason and passion. It is
occasionally called 'moral integrity' because reason and passion are
properly integrated when reason rules passion. Reason is this context
is not understood narrowly as a sterile form of intellectuality, but
broadly as a form of common sense that integrates all the spiritual,
intellectual, and emotional aspects of a human being.

(c) certain 'supernatural' gifts, consisting of a knowledge of God's
essence.

(2) If man had continued in obedience, these gifts would have been
made part of his human nature. If he did not, they would not. After
the fall, man lost two out of the three things. He lost his
preternatural and supernatural gifts, but retained his ordinary human
nature. The name for these two types of gifts was sanctifying grace.
It was called 'sanctifying' because it made man ready for heaven. All
that was needed was obedience. Original sin is the loss of these
gifts. The essence of original sin is the loss of that original
justice.

(3) The transmission of origi