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This "fall" (piptō) means to "commit apostasy" [341] and corresponds to the use of "fall" (piptō) "in 1 Cor 10:12, another passage that uses the example of the wilderness generation's defection to warn believers." [342] In both passages "the audience is warned against committing apostasy and falling into eschatological [i.e., future and final ...
[a] The Apology of the Augsburg Confession states that the remembrance of the saints has three parts: thanksgiving to God, the strengthening our faith, and the imitation of the saints' holy living. [b] [3] As a result, the Lutheran reformers retained a robust calendar of saints to be commemorated throughout the year.
Perseverance of the saints, also known as preservation of the saints, is a Calvinist doctrine asserting that the elect will persevere in faith and ultimately achieve salvation. This concept was initially developed by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century, based on the idea of predestination by predeterminism .
All Saints' Day is dedicated to the saints of the church, who are in heaven. All Souls Day is set aside for those who have died, but have yet to attain heaven. All three are being marked on Nov. 1 ...
Matthew 27:52 is the fifty-second verse of the twenty-seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.This verse describes some of the events that occurred upon death of Jesus, particularly the report that tombs broke open and the saints inside were resurrected.
The text also makes no note of why there is a two-day delay between the opening of the tombs upon Jesus' death and the saints' appearance in the city only after Jesus' resurrection. If these events only happen two days hence, why are they mentioned here and not with the miraculous events of the resurrection in Matthew 28:2 ?
In the Church of England it is called The Commemoration of the Faithful Departed and is an optional celebration; Anglicans view All Souls' Day as an extension of the observance of All Saints' Day and it serves to "remember those who have died", in connection with the theological doctrines of the resurrection of the body and the Communion of Saints.
Acta Sanctorum, January volume, published in 1643. Acta Sanctorum (Acts of the Saints) is an encyclopedic text in 68 folio volumes of documents examining the lives of Christian saints, in essence a critical hagiography, organised by the saints' feast days.