Orthodox view on Sola Fide: Salvation through Faith alone w/ Fr. Patrick Ramsey

I hope you all find this edifying, as I did. Fr. Patrick Ramsey is a real gentleman and we are truly blessed to hear him discuss the Orthodox view on Sola Fide: Salvation through Faith alone.
May our Risen Lord Bless you today and always.
Amen, Come Lord Jesus

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[sinfulyetsaved]

This should not even be up for debate. Does the work end just because to get married? Do you stop growing interpersonally once you tie the knot? And if one stops growing or becomes abusive or an adulterous will he/she not lose the marriage and it end in divorce? Did not Christ describe himself as the groom and his church the bride? Yet how could we think salvation is any different? Does our repentance stop at our conversion? And if we backslide is it not comparable to adultery? While salvation is a gift and we can’t save ourselves we certainly can reject the gift. Just as we can reject the responsibilities of marriage.

[dave]

As I have shown, the concepts of Justification by Faith alone are absolutely abundant in the early fathers, even as early as Clement of Rome in the first century. Rome and the East may not hold to these views, but Sola Fide clearly existed since the beginning with St. Paul's writings. Regards, and God bless ✝️

[dave]

Real quick...

Even the Roman Catholic writer Joseph A. Fitzmyer is honest enough to clarify, "...[T]wo of the points that Luther made in his defense of the added adverb were that it was demanded by the context and that sola was used in the theological tradition before him." Fitzmyer lists the following in support of Luther's translation: John Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria, Origen, Hillary, Basil, Ambrosiaster, Bernard, Theophylact, Theodoret, Thomas Aquinas, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Marius Victorinus, and Augustine.

God bless ✝️

[dave]

Also consider a Lutheran view on the necessity of the presence of God work and charity in the Christian life; from the Lutheran Confessions:

"It is written in the prophet, Jer. 31:33: I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts. And in Rom. 3:31, Paul says: Do we, then, make void the Law through faith? God forbid! Yea, we establish the Law. And Christ says, Matt. 19:17: If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. Likewise, 1 Cor. 13:3: If I have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 3] These and similar sentences testify that the Law ought to be begun in us, and be kept by us more and more [that we are to keep the Law when we have been justified by faith, and thus increase more and more in the Spirit]. Moreover, we speak not of ceremonies, but of that Law which gives commandment concerning the movements of the heart, namely, the Decalog. 4] Because, indeed, faith brings the Holy Ghost, and produces in hearts a new life, it is necessary that it should produce spiritual movements in hearts. And what these movements are, the prophet, Jer. 31:33 shows, when he says: I will put My Law into their inward parts, and write it in their hearts. Therefore, when we have been justified by faith and regenerated, we begin to fear and love God, to pray to Him, to expect from Him aid, to give thanks and praise Him, and to obey Him in afflictions. We begin also to love our neighbors, because our hearts have spiritual and holy movements [there is now, through the Spirit of Christ a new heart, mind, and spirit within]."