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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (37134)	5/1/2004 9:57:23 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

1: O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? 2: Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith? 3: Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh? Galatians 3 Has the salvation of Christ by faith become the salvation of race and Ziochristian trickery? Stan's salvation by "ethnos" is nothing but salvation by race.

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (37134)	5/1/2004 12:38:32 PM
From: Greg or e	Respond to of 39621

"Ziochristians demand justification by the law and race rather than justification by faith." Justification is Sola Gratia (By Grace alone), Sola Fide (by Faith alone) in Christ alone to the glory of God alone. How do we know? By Sola Scriptura (The Bible as the ultimate authority for faith and practice) That is the Gospel I hold. Rome has a different Gospel. Which Gospel do you hold? Council of Trent CANON IX.-If any one saith, that by faith alone the impious is justified; in such wise as to mean, that nothing else is required to co-operate in order to the obtaining the grace of Justification, and that it is not in any way necessary, that he be prepared and disposed by the movement of his own will; let him be anathema. CANON X.-If any one saith, that men are just without the justice of Christ, whereby He merited for us to be justified; or that it is by that justice itself that they are formally just; let him be anathema. CANON XI.-If any one saith, that men are justified, either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ, or by the sole remission of sins, to the exclusion of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, and is inherent in them; or even that the grace, whereby we are justified, is only the favour of God; let him be anathema. CANON XII.-If any one saith, that justifying faith is nothing else but confidence in the divine mercy which remits sins for Christ's sake; or, that this confidence alone is that whereby we are justified; let him be anathema. "It was this conflict with the medieval message that occasioned the fivefold "only" in the slogans quoted above. Salvation, said the Reformers, is by faith (man's total trust) only, without our being obliged to work for it; it is by grace (God's free favor) only, without our having to earn or deserve it first; it is by Christ the God-man only, without there being need or room for any other mediatoral agent, whether priest, saint, or virgin; it is by Scripture only, without regard to such unbiblical and unfounded extras as the doctrines of purgatory and of pilgrimages, the relic-cult and papal indulgences as devices for shortening one's stay there; and praise for salvation is due to God only, without any credit for his acceptance of us being taken to ourselves. The Reformers made these points against unreformed Rome, but they were well aware that in making them they were fighting over again Paul's battle in Romans and Galatians against works, and in Colossians against unauthentic traditions, and the battle fought in Hebrews against trust in any priesthood or mediation other than that of Christ. And (note again!) they were equally well aware that the gospel of the five "onlies" would always be contrary to natural human thinking, upsetting to natural human pride, and an object of hostility to Satan, so that destructive interpretations of justification by faith in terms of justification by works (as by the Judaizers of Paul's day, and the Pelagians of Augustine's, and the Church of Rome both before and after the Reformation" (J.I. Packer) the-highway.com