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that article is a lot of crapola.
ANY Bible believer and Student of Scriptures knows this:
"FAITH cometh by HEARING (receiving) and Hearing by The WORD of GOD."
Faith and salvation is all of GRACE and GOD alone and nothing of man except that MAN must place his absolute trust and faith in the SAVIOR who shed DIVINE blood on a Cross and also SUBSTITUTED HIMSELF on that CROSS for all of mankind past, present, future.
It is true belief in Christ alone and acceptance of HIS substitionary death and shedding of HIS BLOOD that makes Salvation possible by complete faith of a believer, confessing with their MOUTH and believing in their Heart that Christ died for them and their sins and that HE ALONE is the only Savior of their eternal soul by HIS GRACE Through their FAITH in HIM
alone.
Do you know who MARTIN Luther is and was and what HE DID and WHY ?
As far as Salvation is concerned the Catholic CHurch is dead wrong. If that is what they are saying..
The BIBLE clearly states that "SALVATION is of THE JEWS. GOD promised Abraham that HE would be the Father of MANY nations. HOW so?
Because thru and by the faith of Abraham and passing that on to his people and children and it got passed on to to those apeople's friends and people who lived near them, and they passed it on, and they passed it on so the GOSPEL of SALVATION of GOD by grace thru faith was passed on to all who would hear and believe.
THAT is why GOD called Abraham the Father of MANY NATIONS. Christianity can be traced back to Abraham because HE Heard GOD and became Obedient unto Him unto Salvation.
The Muslims are direct descendants of ESAU.
I suggest people read their Bibles and learn these things.
Constantine became the first person to promote Himself to being a so called head of faith in the Catholic church which spent the next several centuries HUNTING and torturing and killing everyone who professed that Salvation is of Christ alone and faith in HIM. NOT the Catholic church..
They think they are the keepers of FAITH. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
So this is a BS answer.
YES, there is only ONE TRUE and living GOD.
Yes, the JEWS passed on FAITH IN GOD to all who would believe.
The JEWS rejected Christ as the Son of GOD. They are stuck under OLD TESTAMENT LAW.
Christ said HE was a NEW Testament and did away with the FIRST that HE might establish The Second covenant that is "for by GRACE are you saved thru faith and NOT of yourselves (works) lest any man should boast". No man has the ability to pardon and cleanse you from sin. ONLY the finished work of CHRIST and the Shed blood on the cross can thru faith and salvation thru HIM alone.
MAN can add nothingt to that including the Catholics.
Christ said simply and directly "COME UNTO ME and I will give you rest".
He DID NOT SAY come unto the catholic church so that some man can pretend to have power of forgiveness of sins. What an abomination. A slap in the face to GOD.
ONLY CHRIST can forgive sins. NO MAN. If that were not so why did CHRIST have to die and shed HOLY BLOOD on that Cross.
WHY did HE SAY "I go to prepare a place for you, and if I GO to prepare a place for you (heaven) I will come gain and receive you unto myself that where I AM there you may be also. "
WAS He telling a lie?
The OLD Covenant was done away with. According to the BIBLAE it says that "HE did away with the FIRST (covenant) that HE may establish the second".
THAT covenant is doing away with following rules and laws and having SALVATION to be one strictly FAITH in CHRIST'S atoning sacrificial work on the CROSS. Accepting HIM as LORD and AS SAVIOR.
Plus nothing and minus nothing.
THIS is the reason MARTIN LUTHER NAILED HIS PAPER rejecting the ways of the Catholic Church and went about making the BIBLE available to everyone so that we were no longer having to take some Priests word for what was in scriptures....
The Catholic Church did not like that one little bit because they just lost control over the people.
That institution has not been as pristine and forthcoming with the WORDS of CHRIST and are control freaks and teach a false doctrine.
NOBODY needs to come to some priest.. JESUS CHRIST said that HE is t he great HIGH PRIEST and inivites people everywhere to "COME UNTO ME and I (alone) WILL GIVE YOU REST"
The CAtholic Church wants to rule over you and keep you depending on them. Christ wants to set you free by GRACE thru FAITH in HIM. He said The TRUTH will SET YOU FREE..
SO, in closing, if you are wanting to under a slavery system and dependant on the same Church that tried to keep the BIBLE away from people and make them dependant upon some Catholic clergyman, I highly recommend that denomination that scripture calls The GREAT WHORE.
READ the SCRIPTURE for YOURSELF. WHY does the BIBLE say" For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord
You only need faith in Christ who loves us and gave HIMSELF and shed HIS blood for the remission of our sins.
BTW, this is the very reason that other denominations like the BAPTISTS started in the 1500's because the Scriptures should have been made available to everyone to read. The Catholic Church wanted power over people. and still does.
I'll end this here but NO, Mohammed is not the same as the one and only eternal GOD of Heaven, maker of Heaven, earth, and the entire universe.
JESUS said that HE taketh away the FIRST (covennat) that HE may establish the second". That second covenant is salvation changed from works based to salvation by GRACE through faith in HIM. No more animal sacrifices. HIS sacrifice is sufficient once for all people for all time..
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