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To: terycarl
ABSOLUTELY merciful....kept me out of hell for my shortcomings but required me to purge myself of that evil by awaiting a guaranteed presence in Heaven until I had done so.

Chapter and verse that explains how God demands we purge ourselves from evil, as if we are even capable of it?

Besides, doesn't your God forgive? Mine does. He doesn't hold my sin to my account but shows me true mercy by forgiving me and crediting to my account all the righteousness of Christ Himself.

That gives me the privilege of not only avoiding hell, but going straight to heaven without any further effort on my part, which can't pay for my sins anyway.

2,562 posted on 10/19/2014 7:02:31 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
That gives me the privilege of not only avoiding hell, but going straight to heaven without any further effort on my part, which can't pay for my sins anyway.

straight to heaven....if you are six years old and baptized, I guess it is possible....other than that I wouldn't count on it too much. I realize that Christ died for our sins, but He expected us to knock off the sinning....we didn't and I believe that we have some responsibility for not having done so.If not, then we could do anything we pleased, after all Christ died for our sins so let's take advantage of that and have a ball...I don't think it works that way, neither do any Catholics.

2,568 posted on 10/19/2014 7:18:50 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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