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To: ealgeone
Will a believer in Christ intentionally conduct their life in such a manner as you describe?

No.

One may backslide and fall into sin on occasion but there's this to remember.

The Holy Spirit calls Lot *righteous Lot*.

Now that's hardly a term I would use to describe Lot's life, but God sees the heart.

And according to Catholic theology, King David was in deep trouble, and yet God called him a man after God's own heart.

I would say that the only two men who lived lives that would qualify as *good enough* would be Joseph and Daniel.

Moses was a friend of God and failed God numerous times. Same with avid.

God doesn't use or want only perfect people. He gets the glory our of transforming imperfect people and He knows that the process is not always going to go smoothly.

He doesn't throw us under the bus the minute we slip up.

When I was Catholic I never realize how much of a works based salvation they teach, but my goodness, there's no room for error in Catholicism without risking your salvation.

It's horrendous.

431 posted on 06/02/2019 8:30:12 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
I would say that the only two men who lived lives that would qualify as *good enough* would be Joseph and Daniel.

Maybe Elijah, Enoch and Methuselah, but the truth is, they fell short of the glory of God too, just like all of us. They needed to be saved by grace through faith, just like all of us. 👍😁😆🇵🇭 Old Testament saints were saved EXACTLY like New Testament saints are. By faith. There is no difference.

450 posted on 06/02/2019 10:49:52 PM PDT by Mark17 (With Jesus, there is more wealth in my soul, than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold.)
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