(November 22, 2009 at 10:54 am)chatpilot Wrote: Good questions there Pope, when I was a believer I personally believed that salvation was a gift from god and therefore given to us by faith. But upon your confession of faith on that salvation your acts had to reflect your faith.
That is to my mind one of the more reasonable positions - insofar as any of this stuff can be called reasonable. Martin Luther believed pretty much the same.
What I am trying to show, though, is that there is no such thing as a standard christianity, and that the differences aren't small but absolutely fundamental.
Only sheep need a shepherd.
