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To: jimbo807

I’m afraid you may be right. It goes along with the “all sins are equal” idea that is prevalent in Christianity today. All sins do separate us from God, none are righteous. We all need Christ to redeem us and cleanse our sin. But it is silly to say all sins are equal in the eyes of God. If that were true then why did He write Leviticus and Dueteronomy? Why have different punishments depending on the sin? Yes all sin damns us to hell, but they are not all equal

Saying we are all Duggars is the same thing. Christ’s power of redemption is real and anyone can be cleansed from their sin, but it’s not necessarily true that all who claim to be saved have submitted fully to Christ. Neither is it true that all experience a sudden and complete healing from their sinful desires. Sometimes a person’s belief in Christ’s ability to redeem and change a heart is becomes a belief in the person claiming their heart is changed. I saw it in our pastor with a rather dangerous sex offender he was working with and who was attending our church. In his mind, people not trusting that man became people who didn’t believe in the power of Christ. It turned out that our pastor had fallen for this guy’s lies hook, line and sinker. He was not a changed man, just a deceptive one.


29 posted on 05/27/2015 7:33:29 AM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: NorthstarMom

I’ll take Mother Theresa over them any day of the week. That woman lived it.


31 posted on 05/27/2015 7:36:37 AM PDT by jimbo807
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