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- Embed this notice@BowsacNoodle it is not because I disagree with them, I am irrelevant in the picture, it is because these churches are exactly what is described. In the woes to the pharisees for being hypocrites for instance when Christ says they slam the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people's faces yet cannot enter themselves and try to stop anyone else from trying that seems strangely comparable to rome claiming that salvation is only found through their church and their belief system. They call the early theologians 'father' specifically to set them apart when we know God shows no favoritism and there are none righteous on the earth, all have turned away, there are none who understand
Faith is the belief, from the heart, that Christ Jesus both true man and true God, sent from the Father to save mankind from our sins by dying in our place on the cross, His once for all sacrifice. That it is by grace of the Father that we have this faith, it is not of ourselves, that Jesus counts us righteous by the shedding of His blood, by the witness of the Holy Spirit we are justified before the Father and our sins remembered no more
"Practice" I would state has nothing to do with it for the fruit of our salvation is shown much as the fruit of unbelief in shown in those who pay lip service but whose hearts are far from the Lord. My issue is with these churches and false teachings for doubtless there are Christians who sit in the pews who put their faith and trust only in the Lord Jesus Christ, but there are many who do not and trust in merited salvation in the confessional with "degrees of sin" or that Mary is inherent to your salvation or you must pray to the saints or purgatory and all the extrabiblical nonsense. If I have love for humanity then I want them to be united with Christ, and not believing in a false gospel. The judaizers who likely followed Paul's footsteps to the church of galatia preached to them all the same but also that they must do works and that Paul's apostolic authority was less than the others as he was a latecomer. That's where the danger lies, in those who present a new gospel, pretending to speak for God as though His crosswork was incomplete, the Holy Spirit is not strong enough to transform the hearts of believers, and the Father's love based on condition
Whether or not I can communicate well, that's on me, but my mission is to let God speak through me of His Word. That's always the issue, everything is to God's glory for it's His work and righteousness as we have none of our own. We are the Body and all works God prepared beforehand for us to walk in, nothing is from us, we can't even reason our salvation, it is only by His grace that we know Him to be the Son of God and our Savior
I don't mean to misrepresent what you say but it sounds a bit to me like a 'fundamentals of faith' argument which the big problem is satan also believes that "Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died on the cross for the salvation of mankind. He rose again and conquered death.", but what he wants it to mean is Christ died not in place of mankind but so that we foolishly try to make up for sin as atonement, which we never can, and that Jesus only conquered death in personal terms than for all of us who have eternal life in Him