Re: Purgatory?

"Chunky Salsa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Iconoclast wrote:
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> > ";o)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:45:23 -0700, "Iconoclast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>wrote the following funny stuff in Usenet News'Froups! :
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> >>
> >>>":+D >" <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:34:13 -0700, "Iconoclast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>wrote the following funny stuff in Usenet News'Froups! :
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> >>>>>Neither does the American Baptist or the Conservative Baptist.
> >>>>>There is no "The" Baptist Faith.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>You're entitled to your opinion...
> >>>
> >>>If you think it exists, what is its name and where is it?
> >>>
> >>>Do you actually think that American, Conservative and Southern Baptists
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> > have
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> >>>much more in common than a name?
> >>>
> >>
> >>Faith is faith. Our Church has faith, and we often refer to our
> >>beliefs AS The Baptist Faith.
> >>
> >>simple.
> >
> >
> > The ONLY true faith is that which is given as in Eph 2:8.
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> That's not a definition.
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> I prefer the definition in Hebrews 11:1 and the the examples
> given in the rest of that chapter.
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> <snip>

YES
Without faith (which is imbued by God) NONE of those things in Hebrews would
have occurred.
Without faith you can do nothing.
God gives faith AS IS given according to Eph 2:8.
Those men in Hebrews were picked by God and given faith by God.