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To: Almagest

I preached it for thirty-seven years. Ran myself in circles just as you are doing to yourself.
 

 
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
 24.  Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
 25.  Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
 26.  Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air.
 27.  No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
 
Paul saw the problem that you describe, and took pains to avoid it.
 

 
To me, I see faulty logic in your conlusion.  Starting with THIS premise -
 
If you are in that group that says we can avoid sin entirely, but we "choose" to sin anyway --
 
you build on it to a conclusion: But it's your fault.
 
 
 
When I was born, I could not swim, but it was no more my 'fault' than my mother who bore me: it's just the way it is.
 
However, I learned to swim, thus 'saving myself' from the sentence of the water.
 
 
Because I have a 'sin nature' is also not my 'fault'; it's just the way it is.  But I CAN do something about it.
 
 
 
 
 
You are not completely doomed - there's a verse somewhere that says - "come to your senses".
 
It's my opinion that....
 
Ol' Hank wouldn't done it thataway!


1,184 posted on 05/17/2006 5:16:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie


Yeah, okay. I'm condemned. The beatings will soon commence. I better enjoy the time I have left. You seem to be enjoying my future prospects pretty much. I'm happy to help make you happy.

Preaching about Hell without being totally broken-hearted about those one is trying warn -- well, that just doesn't seem right to this old reprobate. But -- whatever.




1,187 posted on 05/17/2006 9:42:44 AM PDT by Almagest (Ptolemy was a creationist. This does prove creationism -- right?)
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