Scotth1960
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Friends, Here is a point well-said by someone:
"In sum, our salvation is a result of man's identification with Christ through faith. Through faith, man enters into the life of Christ, which is the life of God, lives through the grace of the Holy Spirit in the fullness of the body of the Church. Through the grace of the Holy Spirit, man receives power to grow morally and spiritually into the perfect image of Christ. Through freely and personally responding to God's offer of salvation, each one of us can be delivered from the bondage of evil, sin and death. And through the life of the Church, we may therefore enter into communion with God the Father, through God the Son, and in God the Holy Spirit. Through the divine economy of salvation, revealed in the Holy Scriptures of the Church and passed on to all generations in her holy tradition, each one of us may become a partaker of the divine nature, a participant in the glorious energies of the Holy Trinity, a living icon of God!"
[page 274: Cronk, George. (1990). The Message of the Bible: An Orthodox Christian Perspective. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press.].
God save us all, all of us here and throughout the whole wide earth. Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and unto the ages of ages Amen. Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy, Lord bless you all. In Erie PA Scott R. Harrington
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"In sum, our salvation is a result of man's identification with Christ through faith. Through faith, man enters into the life of Christ, which is the life of God, lives through the grace of the Holy Spirit in the fullness of the body of the Church. Through the grace of the Holy Spirit, man receives power to grow morally and spiritually into the perfect image of Christ. Through freely and personally responding to God's offer of salvation, each one of us can be delivered from the bondage of evil, sin and death. And through the life of the Church, we may therefore enter into communion with God the Father, through God the Son, and in God the Holy Spirit. Through the divine economy of salvation, revealed in the Holy Scriptures of the Church and passed on to all generations in her holy tradition, each one of us may become a partaker of the divine nature, a participant in the glorious energies of the Holy Trinity, a living icon of God!"
[page 274: Cronk, George. (1990). The Message of the Bible: An Orthodox Christian Perspective. Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press.].
God save us all, all of us here and throughout the whole wide earth. Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever and unto the ages of ages Amen. Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy, Lord bless you all. In Erie PA Scott R. Harrington
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