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To: ohioWfan
You know, it never ceases to amaze me how often we miss the entire point of Christianity.

Christ names our sin and convicts us of it. But his blood covers the consequences and price of our sin, thus giving us the chance to accept that gift.

Without Christ, our sin kills us. With Christ, we are forgiven and given another opportunity.

Without love and forgiveness, our judgment is nothing but a clanging bell. (To paraphrase, of course.) This concept is often as mischaracterized by the right as it is by the left.
387 posted on 11/22/2005 2:08:19 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: pollyannaish
The comparison with the Pharisees may be overused, but in this case it is entirely accurate.

Bound by the law, but having no understanding of grace. And grace is what it's all about.

I have found that whenever I see myself as morally superior because of what I have or haven't done, that I am most guilty of sin.

As you so eloquently stated, it is only through the blood of Jesus that ANY of us are cleansed. That's why we are to focus on keeping ourselves pure, and not running around condemning others..........especially those whose hearts we do not know whom we only have read about on the Internet.

May God be with this little girl.

398 posted on 11/22/2005 2:19:17 PM PST by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraq War VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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