People from my old Baptist church when I needed guidance vs my priest when I confess the horrible deeds that I have done

“For adults possessing the use of reason, Christ's merit and satisfaction are not applied that is, they do not receive the benefit of Christ's merit except through true repentance, living faith, and effective love.” -Leblanc, On The Remission of Sin

I was just thinking how glad i am to believe in historic Christianity unlike many modern evangelicals; this section of scripture immediately came to mind: “The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are….” 😂

Guys, am I based?

“For the Word, realizing that in no other way would the corruption of human beings be undone except, simply, by dying, yet being immortal and the Son of the Father the Word was not able to die, for this reason he takes to himself a body capable of death, in order that it,

“It is a property of God not to be seen, but to be known by his works.” -St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation

“For just as he is in creation, yet in no way partakes of creation, but rather everything partakes of his power, so also while using the body as an instrument, he partook of none of the bodies properties, but rather himself sanctified the body.” St. Athanasius, On the

That quote has always made me deeply uncomfortable on an intuitive level…

I am happy to inform you that we are bringing Anglican monks back! Pray for the church to receive even more religious vocations! I am now Br. Anson-Marie - :)

“We must thoroughly quench the darts of the devil and beat them off by continual reading of the divine Scriptures.” -St. John Chrysostom, On Wealth and Poverty

No!!!

Krisper in his work on merit straight up says Calvin denied that Christian’s have an obligation to do good works 😭🙏🏼

The pope affirming a basic tenet of Christianity, papists: look how based and trad he is!!!

Guys, will it ever end?

First time reading Scott R. Swain!

Are swains arguments for the processions from the economic missions in his chapter against warfield meant to be fittingness arguments or deductive? If the prior, then they are good. If the latter, not so much.

Nature is not secular. It is not indifferent to God. Natural revelation/law reveals the true and living God and his requirements for us. Grace perfects nature by teaching us how we may be united to him, not that he exists or that we have duties to him. We already know those.