<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danldo@gmail.com">danldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Matthew Weber <<a href="mailto:palaeologos@gmail.com">palaeologos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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A bunch of good stuff with which I take mild exception only to this<br>
one paragraph.<br>
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> Grace in the Christian sense doesn't seem to have existed before Christ's<br>
> passion and resurrection. The Torah seems to embody an accountant's<br>
> approach to morality, with each transgression appearing in the debit column<br>
> and requiring the sacrifice of a corresponding asset. In comparison, the<br>
> sacrifice of Christ is a general debt amnesty, a super-Jubilee if you will.<br>
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</div>1) Grace existed before Christ's passion and resurrection, but it did<br>
so as a result of Christ's passion and resurrection. Grace always<br>
already can be extended to the "virtuous pagan" as well as people like<br>
Moses, Elijah, etc.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>To be sure, they weren't punished, but they weren't redeemed either--at least not until the Harrowing of Hell, no?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
2) I'm of Jewish descent, and if I were a practicing Jew (rather than<br>
a rather poorly practicing Catholic) I would take strong offense at<br>
your characterization of the Torah. That is a Christian's view of the<br>
Torah, but not a Jew's.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Not since the end of the Second Temple, certainly. Point taken.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
3) Your soteriology is one common model but not the only one.<br>
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<div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>Sure--there are at least 3 other models that I can think of in the Cappadocian Fathers, but PSA is the most commonly encountered one in the West. And since I was writing a short response rather than a book... :)<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matt +<br><br>Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.<br> Sextus Propertius (54 B.C.-A.D. 2), Elegies, II, i, 46<br><br>