Tim Williamson

Christian. Husband. Father. Submariner.

[Tim Williamson @timwmson]

@GeoffKlein3 It is the inward disposition of trust, given as a gift by God, that serves as the instrumental cause of our Justification (the Grace of God being the efficient cause). Works flow naturally like rays radiating from the sun.

[Tim Williamson @timwmson]

@GeoffKlein3 Trust produces action, but is not the same thing as action.

Good works necessarily follow faith, but are not faith in and of themselves.

“Faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the Word of Christ”

“Without faith it is impossible to please God”

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@truth32935 @LizzieMarbach @GeoffKlein3 I heard there were special requirements and that there are no women allowed (I think). Would not be much fun for the Mrs. and my daughter. 😂

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@truth32935 @LizzieMarbach @GeoffKlein3 No time for Athos on this trip unfortunately. We are visiting the monasteries at Meteora tomorrow.

We hiked to Great Meteora today and visited. It was really fun and it’s beautiful.

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@GermanCarranza3 @RomanosOrthodox It’s a covenant renewal meal. A sign, meant to signify ongoing union with Christ in the New Covenant that strengthens and encourages us spiritually when we take it by faith. It is a reminder of Christ’s promises and an opportunity to receive them again afresh with thanksgiving.

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This poor woman (and likely many more like her) is afraid that God is going to punish (sorry, “purify”) her for not be reverent enough to a piece of bread.

Remind me of how the “gospel” of the RCC is good news again? Just enough grace to get you in, but not keep you in.

[Uche is a girl @UcheMaryOkoli]

A Friar went to purgatory after he had died.
Not because he stole, lied, or anything at all.
But because he did not show reverence to Jesus, who is in the terbanacle!

Do you know how crazy that is???

His exact words to St. Padre Pio 👇👇

"I passed many times in front of the Tabernacle without making the proper reverence. For this sin, I am in Purgatory.”
- Friar in Purgatory to St. Padre Pio

Nothing unclean can enter Heaven, and even the tiniest sin or just lack of reverence for Jesus in the Eucharist can cost you your soul.

You are alive this minute. Reading this!

This is an opportunity for you and I to do better so we don't end up in purgatory or worse case scenario, hell!

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@Xtopher_Uzo Question: if our sins are forgiven, the record of them is expunged, and we been purified by God through Christ’s work…

What further cleansing is required? How can the writer to the Hebrews exhort us to “draw near with full assurance” if we aren’t fit to be in God’s presence?

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@Xtopher_Uzo let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.

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@truth32935 @LizzieMarbach @GeoffKlein3 And in no way am I passing judgement on anyone’s soul. But it is noticeable how much is attributed to the intercession of Christians who have long since gone to be with the Lord.

And then there is tollbooth theology…

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@truth32935 @LizzieMarbach @GeoffKlein3 There are other things too. Like boxes placed by the roadside all over the country where strangers place items to seek help from saints.

I feel like it’s one thing to pray in a liturgical context (not that I agree with it), but this is something on a different level.

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@truth32935 @LizzieMarbach I would say Paul is the most explicit in his language, but we get the point from others as well particularly showing Jesus as the fulfillment of the OT sacrificial system.

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@truth32935 @LizzieMarbach I hear you, but the text is the text. If Paul is not intentionally employing these ideas and terms to drive home there is a substantial legal aspect to the atonement, I’ve yet to hear a compelling case explaining why not.

He’s building principally on the legal aspects of the OT

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@truth32935 @LizzieMarbach There is a lot of what I would characterize as superstition amongst lay (maybe nominal?) Greek EO. I don’t suspect that the clergy are largely teaching this, but it is there nonetheless.

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@truth32935 @LizzieMarbach As long as Paul uses legal language and imagery (mostly from the OT), we’re not going to “unsee” the legal paradigm.

That’s not all that happens in salvation, but it is an essential part.

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@DF_UniatePapist I recommend you read James on taming the tongue. Every idle word will come under judgement.

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@truth32935 @LizzieMarbach All of our traditions can go off the rails. That’s not a knock against any one of them in their best expression.

The three main branches agree on more than they disagree, but the disagreements are enough to warrant separating for sake of conscience.

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@truth32935 @LizzieMarbach Even during the Reformation, there were the Anabaptists (“enthusiasts”) whom both the Lutherans and Reformed denounced because they rejected all authority, including Sola Scriptura.