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To: tantiboh

Yes, Satan is in church every time the doors open, too. You are inferring that God would align His Grace with a religion that teaches its adherents to ‘do all that they can do’ to be worthy to receive salvation in the future where/when. The New Testament —except for the small missuse of James’s letter written to Jews in James’s effort to keep Christianity as a sect of Judaism— teaches that Salvation is immediate, that the Holy Spirit comes in to cleanse then dwell in the spirit of the faither in Christ ... salvation is not some event in the future if you ‘do all that you can do to be worthy, to earn the grace’.


163 posted on 01/09/2008 5:19:55 PM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN

We’ve fought many battles over this one, MHG. We’re not going to resolve it today.

Tell you what: I’ll have faith, and believe, and do good works. You have faith and believe. If you’re right, we’re both filled with the Holy Spirit, we’re both cleansed, and we’re both saved. Meanwhile, I’ll have a happier life.


164 posted on 01/09/2008 5:32:40 PM PST by tantiboh
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