To: arrogantduck; biblewonk
So, the thief on the cross got special treatment?
Ping.
2 posted on
03/23/2005 6:42:09 AM PST by
newgeezer
(Drivers wanted. Automatics are for weenies.)
To: newgeezer
The thief was saved because the it was before the day of pentecost
16 posted on
03/23/2005 7:17:22 AM PST by
arrogantduck
(advocate for the ignorant)
To: newgeezer
So, the thief on the cross got special treatment? This particular debate seems always to degenerate into a shouting match about the "proper form" of baptism. Somebody on a thread last summer actually declared (with great sadness) that if a guy's little toe somehow remained dry in the process, that he'd end up going to hell.
I agree with your take on it.... If the Gospels tell us anything, it's that salvation is a matter of what happens inside, and not a strict adherence to precise (and Pharisaical) rules for every element of salvation.
87 posted on
03/23/2005 8:32:45 AM PST by
r9etb
To: newgeezer
The thief on the cross pre-dated the Christian age.
108 posted on
03/23/2005 8:56:19 AM PST by
Sloth
(I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
To: newgeezer
So, the thief on the cross got special treatment?The thief is a "litmus test" of what's required for salvation.
126 posted on
03/23/2005 9:28:43 AM PST by
Terabitten
(A quick reminder to the liberals. The election in Iraq was done NOT IN YOUR NAME.)
To: newgeezer
So, the thief on the cross got special treatment?The thief was under the old law. Anyway, Jesus - being God - can do whatever he wants in the way of forgiving sins. What he asks us to do to be forgiven is another matter.
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