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Rather, it comes from and is created by the Holy Spirit, wherever it pleases, when we hear the Gospel or the words of Christ. Sixth, such faith is a divine gift which we cannot earn with works or merit nor create of our own accord.

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Without this faith no deed, social status, or religious order, etc., can free us from our sins. Fifth, we believe that we are saved from this sin and all other sin and eternal death if we believe in the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who died for us.

Without him we would have been lost for eternity and excluded from God’s kingdom and salvation. It is so egregious that all of humanity would be damned had not Jesus Christ come to help with his life and death.

Fourth, we believe that we are born with and inherited original sin from Adam.

Third, that very same Son of God and Mary, one in body, Jesus Christ, was crucified for us, died and was buried, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, sits to the right of God, Lord of all creation, and will judge the living and the dead.

He was perfect in body and soul, and like other men but utterly free of sin.

Second, we believe that neither the Father nor the Holy Spirit, but rather the Son of God the Father became man through the agency of the Holy Spirit without male seed and born of the immaculate Virgin Mary.

, that this God is one in being and nature in the three persons of the Trinity, namely the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, etc, as resolved at the Nicene Council and sung and read in the Nicene Creed by the Christian Church throughout the entire world.

First, that we both sides unanimously believe and hold that there is one single, correct, natural God, Creator of all living things.

You can read each of the 15 points below. To Luther’s surprise, Zwingli and the rest all agreed to sign the statement. Luther prepared a 15-point statement with Philip intervening on the 15th article to make it more ecumenical while remaining acceptable to Luther. Toward that end, he commissioned Luther to write a statement of shared belief that the other attendees would review and, if they agreed, sign. Philip thought it ought to be possible, but Luther strongly opposed such an arrangement, saying that the Lutherans had deeply Christian reason to not practice such fellowship with the Swiss and South Germans.Īt that point, a despairing Philip made one final effort to ensure that something was accomplished by the gathering. On the morning of day four, the attendees gathered briefly in small groups to discuss if some sort of arrangement in which altar and church fellowship could be allowed, despite differences on the Eucharist. A Brief Summary of Day 4 (October 4) of the Marburg Colloquy In this final post, we’re going to recap what the final day of the colloquy and then discuss the colloquy’s importance within the larger story of the Reformation.

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