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Faith, Justification, and Salvation (Rom. 10:8-17)

'But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we preach), (9) for, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (10) For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved. (11) For the scripture says, “No one who believes in him will be put to shame.” (12) For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all, enriching all who call upon him. (13) For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (14) But how can they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? (15) And how can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring [the] good news!” (16) But not everyone has heeded the good new

Trinity Sunday

Trinity Sunday is celebrated on the first Sunday after Pentecost when Christians celebrate the mystery of the Holy Trinity, one God in three persons. In scripture, God reveals himself in three persons: God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Our prayers are offered to the Father, through Jesus the Son, in the power of the Holy Spirit. The term Trinity is used to  to signify the central doctrine of the Christian religion that in the unity of the Godhead  there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, these Three Persons being truly distinct one from another.  T he Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God.  In this Trinity of Persons the Son is begotten of the Father by an eternal generation, and the Holy Spirit proceeds by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son. Yet, notwithstanding this difference as to origin, the Persons are co-eternal and co-equal: all alike are uncreated and