Re: Purgatory?

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 07:40:26 -0700, "Iconoclast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

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>"Joseph Geloso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 20:15:52 -0700, "Iconoclast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
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>> >"Joseph Geloso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 07:20:16 -0700, "Iconoclast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> wrote:
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>> >> >Faith is an attribute, not a church or belief system.
>> >>
>> >> Faith is a virtue, one of the three theological virtues of Faith,
>> >> Hope, and Charity.
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>> >Do you have clue what you wrote?
>> >
>> >Faith is given by God.
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>> All virtue is given by God, and Faith is one of the virtues. A virtue
>> that a person possesses could be said to be an attribute, so that a
>> faithful person is said to have the attribute of faith, or perhaps
>> fidelity would be a better choice.
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>> >You don't grow it.
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>> God will increase your faith if you ask Him to.
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>> >You don't produce it.
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>> God produces it in the soul.
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>> >It is one OF THE three attributes.
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>> It can be said to be an attribute, as above, but fidelity would
>> probably be a better choice of words. Faith is one of the seven
>> principal virtues, of which the first three are called the Theological
>> Virtues, namely, Faith, Hope, and Charity. The remaining four virtues
>> are called the Cardinal Virtues of Temperance, Justice, Prudence, and
>> Fortitude. All these virtues can be cultivated and increased in the
>> soul, by their exercise, and by prayer.
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>Who said?

I did. Just above. How bad is *your* memory??

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>The ONLY productive attribute in scripture is Faith.

Show the Scripture that calls Faith "an attribute." Then show the
Scripture that calls it the "ONLY productive attribute."

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>I'm not interested in pedantic Catholic semantics.  It is man made and
>obscures truth.

Assuming you mean to confine truth to that which is explicitly in the
Scriptures, I'm waiting to see what you claim is there.