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The Catholic position is best summed up in John 3:16, if one has the proper, contextual understanding of the word "believe". "Believe", in context and in ancient Judaism, meant more than an intellectual assent. "To believe" also meant to obey, which is seen, in context, in Jn 3:36, 1 Jn 2:3ff, and 1 Jn 5:1ff.
[3] Bede: "He saith not, that all men should believe in him; for, cursed be the man that trusteth in man; (Jer. 17:5) but, that all men through him might believe; i. e. by his testimony believe in the Light." [3] Theophylact of Ohrid: " Though some however might not believe, he is not accountable for them. When a man shuts himself up in a dark ...
A significantly longer, extended revision of the creed, which contains twenty-five articles and is known as the Articles of Faith and Practice, is used by the Church of Christ (Temple Lot), [5] the Church of Christ (Fettingite), the Church of Christ with the Elijah Message [6] and the Church of Christ with the Elijah Message (Assured Way). [7]
Many Christians, most notably Catholics, believe that when God declares (imputes) a repentant person as righteous in Christ (justification) he also starts infusing that person with real righteousness (sanctification). This, therefore, means that person is now infused with the righteousness of Christ: Christ's righteousness is a present reality ...
Article II - Jesus Christ. We believe in Jesus Christ, truly God and truly man, in whom the divine and human natures are perfectly and inseparably united. He is the eternal Word made flesh, the only begotten Son of the Father, born of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit.
At 2 Tim 3:16 (NRSV), it is written: "All scripture is inspired by God [theopneustos] and is useful for teaching". [3]When Jerome translated the Greek text of the Bible into the language of the Vulgate, he translated the Greek theopneustos (θεόπνευστος [4]) of 2 Timothy 3:16 as divinitus inspirata ("divinely breathed into").
Theosis and divinization are distinguished from sanctification, "being made holy," which can also apply to objects; [22] and from apotheosis, also "divinization," lit. ' making divine '). Catholics believe faith which is active in charity and good works (fides caritate formata) can justify, or remove the burden of guilt in sin, from man ...
Through the atoning work of Jesus Christ alone, apart from individual works, and that Christ is the only mediator between God and man. [1] [2] It holds that salvation cannot be obtained without Christ. [1] [3] This is in opposition to Catholic doctrine which Mary, mother of Jesus is also mediator between God and humanity . [4]