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To: cherry
imagine...thinking yourself sooo good that Jesus will take you right up to heaven....smacks of arrogance

Trusting the promises of God in inspired Scripture is never arrogance.

It is based on His merit, imputed at the cross, through His blood that paid the penalty for our sins, and on no merit of our own.

40 posted on 03/24/2017 7:41:32 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: aMorePerfectUnion; cherry

...”Trusting the promises of God in inspired Scripture is never arrogance. ....it is based on His merit, imputed at the cross, through His blood that paid the penalty for our sins, and on no merit of our own.”.....

You’re correct but I think sometimes people tend to lean too hard on their own understanding, especially when it would ‘conflict’ with their churches teachings or to question them....esepcially when they have veered from the Centrality Of Jesus Christ by adhereing to many “other’” requirements in their faith....

It is all, frankly, about the man Christ Jesus...and when he ceases to be central to a churches teachings with all kinds of other practices and adornments and such ...then the simplicity of faith alone in him is deminished and the truth is blurred .....which the ‘rapture” teaching would likely escape some as well.


65 posted on 03/25/2017 11:11:25 AM PDT by caww
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