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To: matthewrobertolson

No, but what is Grace as strictly defined by you, what IS it and how does it work?

(I could tell you what I think, and partially have in a previous answer-and IT is deceptively simple in all truth), but I want to hear your opinion?


9 posted on 09/06/2013 9:48:30 PM PDT by JSDude1 (Is John Boehner the Neville Chamberlain of American Politics?)
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To: JSDude1

We disagree on that. Christ fulfilled the Law and the Prophets by re-establishing the Law in its fullest, purest, most universal form. Also, His death brought redemption to humanity — freeing it from the debt it owed due to past sin — and offered past souls that couldn’t make it to Heaven a chance at salvation (see 1 Peter 3:18-20, also see http://catholicexchange.com/did-jesus-really-go-to-hell/). His death did not result in the gift of automatic salvation for all believers, as evidenced by Matthew 7:21, in which He reveals that not everyone who says to Him ‘Lord, Lord’ (which would require that they believe Him to be the Lord) will enter Heaven.

And as for your question about Grace, see the answer that I have already given; that is my definition.


10 posted on 09/06/2013 10:07:55 PM PDT by matthewrobertolson
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