holyfool@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> "We say that every good thing, which by God's providence befalls us, is
> an operation of the Grace which worketh in us all things, as the apostle
> says, 'But all these worketh that one and the self same Spirit dividing
> to every man severally as He will.'
Yes and when there are a bad things, such as a child borne mentally
incapacitated, or crippled, or blind, or lame, or when a fetus arrives
grossly deformed, so gross the parents never even get to see it, then we
keep our heads down and say nothing, so words about 'gods' then.
> If we ask, if the supply of good
> things which thus comes to the saints has its origin in the Holy Spirit
> alone, we are on the other hand guided by Scripture to the belief that
> of the supply of the good things which are wrought in us through the
> Holy Spirit, the Originator and Cause is the Only-begotten God; for we
> are taught by Holy Scripture that 'All things were made by Him,' and 'by
> Him consist.'"
Which, of course is a lie and a distortion perpetrated by man and by man
alone
>
>
> St. Basil the Great.
>
> "In God is my salvation and my glory; The rock of my strength, And my
> refuge, is in God." Psalm 62:7
>
> Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.
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