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When you say "different traditions" do you mean within Christendom? Or with faiths outside of Christendom?
Weather app that does not spy you for graphene, does it exist? nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka
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Breezy Weather. Excellent app.
Saleable across both time and space
Absolute scarcity
Authenticity easily verified / unforgeable
Instant to near-instant settlement
You can't zap gold
Peter Schiff in disbelief
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Glad you are here
Fountain is great
Welcome to #nostr
Contributing to network decentralisation, even in a small way, helps make the protocol more resilient, and it is another layer of redundancy for your own posts.
I'd be delighted if half the people I know cared to have even 100 sats...
#fountain is great. Cannot connect your own wallet though, as far as I know.
God made our bodies, the second person the the Trinity took on flesh and dwelt among us, died bodily for our sins, and rose bodily. God the Spirit lives within those who believe (our bodies are now his temple). He has stipulations around how we use these bodies he made. We take communion bodily. And ultimately we will be resurrected with new bodies that will never die again, in the same fashion as our Lord. So yeah, the body is very crucial in connecting us to the divine :)
Also, re: the point about no one teaching eternal security/preservation of the saints prior to the Reformation. I'm not well versed in Augustine but he wrote on it. See Treatise on the Gift of Perserverence, IX.
We have to ask who is ultimately sovereign. If God wants you saved, can you stop Him? If yes, YOU are ultimately sovereign in that matter. If no, then He is indeed sovereign. And it's clear from scripture that He knows his own sheep and "no one [including us] can take them out of my hand."
We are indeed presented with a choice, we are not automatons, but in our state of sin we will only ever chose sin. Grace provides us with the choice not to sin. “We love him because he first loved us”. We are “saved by grace through faith” and this is the “free gift of God”. He knows his sheep and he will “keep” them to the end.
It's in light of that belief that we then approach individual passages like Heb. 6 and ask "what does 'have tasted' mean? Firstly, it doesn't mean full, saving faith. It means those who have experienced and seen aspects of the visible church but not themselves truly entered in. It also means literally tasted, as in communion. Further, when contextualized, the specific audience/recipients of the letter were of the generation that crucified the Christ and were forgiven for it. To reject him again and return to the old covenant is tantamount to crucifying him again (striking the Rock twice, as Moses typologically shows us). Hebrews divorced from its first century context and the coming destruction in 70AD has a face value reading of being universally applied and presents all kinds of wild implications.
I enjoy these debates and discussions and enjoy learning from and being sharpened by my brothers, especially those in other traditions. That said, it seems to me that this particular discussion comes down to fundamental differences in Roman Catholic and Protestant soteriology and I don’t think that either of us will budge much because of a Nostr thread.
It presupposes the permanence of salvation, or eternal security, which is not something suggested by the Scriptures, nor the writings of the early Church.
It was not suggested in Scripture that Judas did not truly believe, but that is rather a reading into the Scriptures based on those preconceived notions.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/can-salvation-be-lost
You are right, the Bible doesn't suggest eternal security...it explicitly states it haha. Here are merely a few examples:
John 6:37
"All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out."
John 6:39-40
"And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of hall that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
John 6:47
"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And rI will raise him up on the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets, s‘And they will all be taught by God.’ uEveryone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— 46 not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life."
Romans 8:38-39
"For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 11:29
"For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. "
Ephesians 1:12-14
"In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee4 of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory."
2 Corinthians 1:22
"And who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee."
Philippians 1:6
"And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ."
Again I also point you to the Canons of Dort which addresses this soteriological issue.
Thanks for sharing the article. I will read it when I have a availability and try to respond further.