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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans; Errant; redleghunter; roamer_1; All

Here it is for you, blind man:

Grace is an undeserved opportunity to have your past sins deleted if you simply confess them, repent of them, and endure in Yehova’s commandments to the end.

That is what Yeshua asked of us and if you believe in him, that is what you will endeavor to do for the rest of your life. That is what is called belief.
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61 posted on 03/02/2014 8:58:20 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor; CynicalBear; Errant; metmom; All
Grace is an undeserved opportunity to have your past sins deleted if you simply confess them, repent of them, and endure in Yehova’s commandments to the end.

IOW, you make grace dependent on works, which is wholly rejected by the scripture.

Rom 9:16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Rom_4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

Rom 11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

Rom 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

Grace is grace because it is gratuitous, absolutely not dependent on the works of any one, but, actually, given despite their works, according to the purpose of God's will:

"For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son. And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy." (Rom 9:9-16)

Works are merely the result of salvation, and not its cause. It is the grace of God which is the cause of salvation, and cannot be revoked, so that all those to whom it is given, never fall away: Joh_15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Joh_6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

66 posted on 03/02/2014 9:07:46 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: editor-surveyor

“Grace is an undeserved opportunity to have your past sins deleted if you simply confess them, repent of them, and endure in Yehova’s commandments to the end.”

Very poor definition of grace.


76 posted on 03/03/2014 8:14:35 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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