Man, Faith and God

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But if Christ has two natures, does this mean that he is also two people? No, it does not. Christ remains one person. There is only one Christ. The church has historically stated this truth in this way: Christ has two natures united in one person forever. Second, having this richer understanding of the incarnation of God the Son should greatly enhance our worship. We will have great marvel and gladness at the fact that the eternal Person of God the Son became man forever. Our recognition of Christ’s worth will be heightened. And our faith in him will be strengthened by having this deeper understanding of who he is. By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. Baptism is an outward act to symbolize a changed life and profession of faith. Scripture tells us in Acts 2:41 "Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day." and in Acts 22:16: "And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.’"Here we need to make a distinction. The act of baptism itself does not save someone. It's merely symbolic to represent the death to self (being put in the water) and being resurrected in Christ (being pulled up to the surface). See Ephesians 2:8-9 on what is necessary for salvation. (excerpt by Hope Bolinger, What is a Profession of Faith?) 'Walk by Faith, Not by Sight' Bible Meaning My friends, what good is it to say you have faith, when you don't do anything to show you really do have faith? Can this kind of faith save you?

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One sees greatness in power and control and the right to exercise violence when one is in the right, and is depicted predominantly in male terms. Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.As the scales drop and man sees the activity of the truths of life in service to the Truth, he understands and is enlightened to an even greater and inexhaustible awareness of his own humanity, of God, their relationship and the great circle of being flowing from and returning to God. In this enlightenment, this immeasurable precision of clarity, man, according to his free will, becomes liberated from private fantasies, the peer pressure of popular trends, the pull of the world, and the enticement to sin. In seeing the analogy of faith, the radical indivisibility of truth, the person is called to more profoundly assimilate and integrate himself and his life into this Reality, which is God. My friends, what good is it for one of you to say that you have faith if your actions do not prove it? Can that faith save you? The first truth we need to understand is that Jesus is one Person who has two natures: a divine nature and a human nature. In other words, Jesus is both God and man. We will look at each nature accordingly. Jesus Is God

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Just as a body can be dead or living, a dead faith (without works) and a living faith (with works) cannot coexist in the same person. The dead faith is a sign of an unchanged, spiritually dead heart. Faith without works is dead because it does not reveal the transforming work of the Holy Spirit manifested in the fruit of righteousness in a person’s life ( Ephesians 5:8-10; Philippians 1:9-11). (excerpt by Joel Ryan, "What Does James 2:26 Mean by 'Faith Without Works is Dead'?") Key Bible Verses about Faith At the end of prayers, the words, “In the name of Jesus” may be spoken, written, or thought. With those words, we are asking Jesus to intercede on our behalf. (excerpt by Melissa Henderson, What Does it Mean to Have Faith in Jesus?) What is a Profession of Faith?

Compelled by wonder in desiring answers to his questions, as well as meaning and purpose in his life, man is led through creation, history and tradition to reach the full act of faith, the existence of lived adoration. Jesus Christ, the pre-eminent bearer of revelation, as the Incarnate Logos, is the mediator and benefactor of man, giving human Utterance to the Word of God. Man is summoned into the cloud of unknowing in, with and through the corpus of this Utterance. The truth of God is found primarily in His very being. Christ is not simply one among many material objects of faith, credere Deo, but, in his humanity, is the locus in which the Formal Object – God Himself – is encountered. The whole of revelation converges in Christ and has its definitive truth only in Him.

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What use is it, my brethren, if a man says he has faith, but he has no works? Can that faith save him? What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? We saw earlier that each Person of the Trinity is fully God. The three Persons of the Trinity are not each one-third of God, but are each all of God. Thus, Jesus is fully God since he is God the Son incarnate. Which means that everything that is essential to being God is true of Jesus. Jesus is not part of God or one-third of God. Rather, he is fully God. “For in him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form” (Colossians 2:9). Jesus Is Fully ManThe person must allow his faults, weaknesses, and sins to be the very path that God uses to transform him. If man steps onto the wrong path, which seeks to convince him that he must work to remove and leave these undesirable elements behind, he does not let God work and seeks to redeem himself (like Pelagius). If he steps onto another misleading path, which convinces him that these are not important or superfluous to the “real” him, and he ignores them and tries to believe in God, he will not be given passage because he does not want redemption at all, except maybe from the hazards of this world (like Confucius or the Buddha). Faith is the result of teaching ( Romans 10:14-17). Knowledge is an essential element in all faith and is sometimes spoken of as an equivalent to faith ( John 10:38; 1 John 2:3). Yet the two are distinguished in this respect, that faith includes in its assent, which is an act of the will in addition to the act of the understanding. Assent to the truth is the essence of faith, and the ultimate ground on which our assent to any revealed truth rests is the veracity of God. But what exactly do we mean when we say that God the Son became man? We certainly do not mean that he turned into a man in the sense that he stopped being God and started being man. Jesus did not give up any of his divinity in the incarnation, as is evident from the verses we saw earlier. Rather, as one early theologian put it, “Remaining what he was, he became what he was not.” Christ “was not now God minus some elements of his deity, but God plus all that he had made his own by taking manhood to himself.” 3 Thus, Jesus did not give up any of his divine attributes at the incarnation. He remained in full possession of all of them. For if he were to ever give up any of his divine attributes, he would cease being God. The person receives faith only to the extent that he accepts it and is open to it. Faith is the “primordial choice” that man makes as to what degree he will open himself to the divine mystery and, in it, understand and approach life, the world, man and history. When fully lived, faith becomes not only a fact but an occurrence. It embraces the entire person and each of his acts is marked by an understanding of God’s activity, not only always and everywhere but particularly here and now. But where does such faith come from? In this post, we’ll explore the source of faith and how we can obtain it. Where does faith come from?

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What use is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? The world today supports people who seek truth and who explore for answers to their questions; however, it shames those who claim to have found the truth and silences those who want to share the truth they have discovered with others. Further, the world permits lies to be presented as truth and half-truths to be argued as fullness. Truly, we live in an age of self-imposed untouchable truth, of lies and half-truths, of answerable questions left unanswered, and of supposed tolerant people who are viciously intolerant to assertions of truth. Where are we to go from here? Is there a direction beyond the counsel of this world and its fallenness? This engagement by man can be seen as a process that consists of three concentric and complementary circles. The first and most universal of these circles is the experiencing by the person of existence itself. God as Creator can use anything to instill this wonder and call man to Himself. It would be disastrous to attempt to limit God only to the supernatural or merely to the miraculous. The work of God is as large as creation itself and uses this creation as a sacramental, by which man can recognize, know and praise God. Nature, other persons, poetry, art and music, plays and film, are all avenues of this first circle of wonder calling man to faith in the living God.

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Strong's 4982: To save, heal, preserve, rescue. From a primary sos; to save, i.e. Deliver or protect. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him? Likewise, at Jesus’s baptism we see the Father affirming, “You are my beloved Son, in You I am well pleased” (Luke 3:22). He did not say, “You are me, and with myself I am well pleased.” Rather, the Father affirmed that Jesus is the Son, his Son, and that Jesus is well pleasing to him. In this same verse we also see that the Holy Spirit is distinct from the Father and the Son, for the Holy Spirit is present in “bodily form like a dove.” God, because he is love in his inner life, processes love within himself. The activity between the Persons is one that is Love and that shares Life. The Father begets the Son and the Love between the two is the Holy Spirit. This co-activity, this inter-subjectivity, is the mark of the movement within God, and the exemplar to all creation of its own nature and final destiny.