Jesus on faith

Then Jesus said to Peter, "Faith illuminates the soul. What good is a soul without faith? Quick are the Sadducees in denying the resurrection of the body, because they have lost their souls. Resurrection of a soul happens because of faith. You of little faith, how easily do you deny resurrection? If you had faith, you would not have lost your soul. Dead souls are awakened through faith. It is faith that restores their soul, even after they've lost it, so I give Sadducees and people who are like them hope when they have none. I AM the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die. I am the cornerstone and bread of life."  Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed." This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve, "THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE VERY CORNER stone," and, "A STONE OF STUMBLING FOR THE DAMNED AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE TO THE HYPOCRITES"; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed. And God said to Job, "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Where were you when i created your soul? Tell Me, if you have understanding, Who set its measurements? Since you know. Or who stretched the line on it? "On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, and created you out of one soul, my spirit?" Then Jesus said, "Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. There are many souls that subsist without faith. Those that attain faith then hold onto it are the ones deserving salvation. What is a man that loses his soul and has no faith? That man is worthy of damnation."

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