WITHOUT CHARITY (AND LOVE), THERE'S NO SALVATION
(ANG WALANG KAWANGGAWA AY WALANG KALIGTASAN)
Charity is the virtue which we love God above all other things through spiritual love to others for own soul/ spirit's salvation and perfection. For it is written, Faith Without Works Is Dead
"What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? James 2: 14
Salvation is defined as deliverance of soul/ spirit from the state of emotional suffering in spirits' world. The soul/ spirit being saved from the so called second death, as punishment of sin committed while in the material body, also, salvation from physical life’s misery.
Notes:
(From Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia)
Charity- Originally in Latin the word caritas meant preciousness, dearness, high price.
In Christian theology, caritas became the standard Latin translation for the Greek word agapē, meaning an unlimited loving-kindness to all others, such as the love of God.
This much wider concept is the meaning of the word charity in the Christian triplet "faith, hope and charity", as used by the Douay-Rheims and the King James Version of the Bible in their translation of St Paul's Letter to the Corinthians. However the English word more generally used for this concept, both before and since (and by the "King James" Bible at other passages), is the more direct love.
In Christian theology charity, or love (agapē), means an unlimited loving-kindness toward all others. The term should not be confused with the more restricted modern use of the word charity to mean benevolent giving.
Note that the King James Version uses both the words charity and love to translate the idea of caritas / ἀγάπη: sometimes it uses one, then sometimes the other, for the same concept.
Charity at work- (according to the Holy Scriptures)- “But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, [4] that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.” Matthew 6: 3-4
Other Charity acts/ works:
"But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins." 2 Peter 1: 5-9Most other English translations, both before and since, do not; instead throughout they use the same more direct English word love, so that the unity of the teaching should not be in doubt. Love can have other meanings in English, but as used in the New Testament it almost always refers to the virtue of caritas.
'ANG WALANG KAWANGGAWA (AT PAG-IBIG) AY WALANG KALIGTASAN'
Kawanggawa- kawan ng gawa, bukal sa pusong pagtulong o paggawa sa kapwa ng walang anomang ganting hinihintay.
(AT PAG-IBIG)- Ayon sa Espiritu hindi lahat ng paggawa ay nagiging karapatdapat sa harapan ng Panginoong Dios, may mga gumagawa ng dahil sa pansariling hangarin, (pakitang tao o bilang pagpapakilala lamang ng sarili), at may mga gawang may naghihintay ng kagantihan, kaya gaano man kaliit ang mabuting magagawa sa kapwa na galing sa puso at kalooban ay siyang nagiging karapatdapat at siyang tinatapatan ng Dios.
Bakit 'Ang walang kawanggawa (at pag-ibig) ay walang kaligtasan?
Ayon sa Banal na Espiritu nasa gawa ng tao ang batayan ng kahahantungan ng kanyang kaluluwa o espiritu, gaya ng nasulat:
“Sapagka’t tayong lahat ay kinakailangang mahayag sa harapan ng hukuman ni Cristo; upang tumanggap ang bawa’t isa ng mga bagay na ginawa sa pamamagitan ng katawan, ayon sa ginawa niya, maging mabuti at masama. 2 Corinto 5: 10;
“Narito, ako’y madaling pumaparito; at ang aking ganting-pala ay nasa akin, upang bigyan ng kagantihan ang bawa’t isa ayon sa kaniyang gawa.” Apo 22: 12
(ANG WALANG KAWANGGAWA AY WALANG KALIGTASAN)
Charity is the virtue which we love God above all other things through spiritual love to others for own soul/ spirit's salvation and perfection. For it is written, Faith Without Works Is Dead
"What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? James 2: 14
Salvation is defined as deliverance of soul/ spirit from the state of emotional suffering in spirits' world. The soul/ spirit being saved from the so called second death, as punishment of sin committed while in the material body, also, salvation from physical life’s misery.
Notes:
(From Wikipedia, the Encyclopedia)
Charity- Originally in Latin the word caritas meant preciousness, dearness, high price.
In Christian theology, caritas became the standard Latin translation for the Greek word agapē, meaning an unlimited loving-kindness to all others, such as the love of God.
This much wider concept is the meaning of the word charity in the Christian triplet "faith, hope and charity", as used by the Douay-Rheims and the King James Version of the Bible in their translation of St Paul's Letter to the Corinthians. However the English word more generally used for this concept, both before and since (and by the "King James" Bible at other passages), is the more direct love.
In Christian theology charity, or love (agapē), means an unlimited loving-kindness toward all others. The term should not be confused with the more restricted modern use of the word charity to mean benevolent giving.
Note that the King James Version uses both the words charity and love to translate the idea of caritas / ἀγάπη: sometimes it uses one, then sometimes the other, for the same concept.
Charity at work- (according to the Holy Scriptures)- “But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, [4] that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.” Matthew 6: 3-4
Other Charity acts/ works:
"But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins." 2 Peter 1: 5-9Most other English translations, both before and since, do not; instead throughout they use the same more direct English word love, so that the unity of the teaching should not be in doubt. Love can have other meanings in English, but as used in the New Testament it almost always refers to the virtue of caritas.
'ANG WALANG KAWANGGAWA (AT PAG-IBIG) AY WALANG KALIGTASAN'
Kawanggawa- kawan ng gawa, bukal sa pusong pagtulong o paggawa sa kapwa ng walang anomang ganting hinihintay.
(AT PAG-IBIG)- Ayon sa Espiritu hindi lahat ng paggawa ay nagiging karapatdapat sa harapan ng Panginoong Dios, may mga gumagawa ng dahil sa pansariling hangarin, (pakitang tao o bilang pagpapakilala lamang ng sarili), at may mga gawang may naghihintay ng kagantihan, kaya gaano man kaliit ang mabuting magagawa sa kapwa na galing sa puso at kalooban ay siyang nagiging karapatdapat at siyang tinatapatan ng Dios.
Bakit 'Ang walang kawanggawa (at pag-ibig) ay walang kaligtasan?
Ayon sa Banal na Espiritu nasa gawa ng tao ang batayan ng kahahantungan ng kanyang kaluluwa o espiritu, gaya ng nasulat:
“Sapagka’t tayong lahat ay kinakailangang mahayag sa harapan ng hukuman ni Cristo; upang tumanggap ang bawa’t isa ng mga bagay na ginawa sa pamamagitan ng katawan, ayon sa ginawa niya, maging mabuti at masama. 2 Corinto 5: 10;
“Narito, ako’y madaling pumaparito; at ang aking ganting-pala ay nasa akin, upang bigyan ng kagantihan ang bawa’t isa ayon sa kaniyang gawa.” Apo 22: 12