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That We Might Be Justified By His Grace
SANCTIFICATION & JUSTIFICATION But when the kindness and generous love of God our savior appeared,not because of any righteous deeds we had done but because of his mercy,he saved us through the bath of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,whom he richly poured out on us through Jesus Christ our savior, so thatwe might…
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Let Every One of You Be Baptized
INFANT BAPTISM Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christfor the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to youand to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as…
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There Is No Partiality with God
SALVATION … There is no partiality with God. Judgment by the Interior Law. All who sin outside the law will also perish without reference to it, and all who sin under the law will be judged in accordance with it. For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight…
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By Water and Blood
THE INCARNATION This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one that testifies, for the Spirit is the truth. There are three that testify: the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three…
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Baptized for the Dead
PURGATORY When everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself will also besubjected to the one who subjected everything to him, so that God maybe all in all. Otherwise, what will people accomplish by having themselvesbaptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why arethey having themselves baptized for…
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Guilty of an Everlasting Sin
BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT Summoning them, he began to speak to them in parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against…
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The Two Shall Become One
THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY MATRIMONY Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept, took one of his ribs and closed up its…
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A Chosen Race, A Royal Priesthood, A Holy Nation
THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people,in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of himwho called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.1 Peter 2, 9 1 Peter Chapter 1 is set against the backdrop of the early Christian community…
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Children of God
DIVINE ADOPTION See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are.The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed. We do…
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You Are the Body of Christ
THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to…
Scriptural & Traditional Catholicism
Being Catholic 