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To: Egon
No, I got the point.

The other point is that the prophetic Scriptures, along with all the rest of the Bible, are equally important. What is in the Bible was all put there by God, and He put it there for a reason.

The events surrounding the return of Jesus Christ are not something to take lightly. Those left behind after Jesus takes His Bride will experience horrific judgments, and billions on this planet will die as a result of those judgments. And the vast majority of those billions will spend an eternity in hell, separated from God for all eternity; a place described by God as one of "weeping and gnashing of teeth", a place of "outer darkness", a place of "torments", and a place of "everlasting destruction".

The prophetic Scriptures have the power to save human beings from a fate in this place.

It certainly isn't "fluff".

203 posted on 03/23/2011 2:45:12 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

I certainly wasn’t calling every part of the Bible that wasn’t John 3:16 “fluff”, although I can certainly see why you could take it that way.

What I was saying is that the key concept is: we are saved through the grace of Jesus, if we accept that gift.

Every other point is secondary.

I disagree that prophetic scriptures have the power to save. Only a personal relationship with Jesus does. Without that personal relationship, one will not understand nor believe the prophetic scriptures.

For believers to get into dogmatic shoving matches over concepts that are secondary to salvation, and become myopically focused on minutiae is what I’m calling “fluff”.


207 posted on 03/23/2011 4:40:25 AM PDT by Egon (The difference between Theory and Practice: In Theory, there is no difference.)
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