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To: GuavaCheesePuff

His soul is dead. Could Christ yet revive it? That’s a question whose answer is in the secret realms that only God knows, until and unless it is revealed.

Not for me to begrudge it to happen while he is still on the earth, if it is to happen at all. A lot of us carry around the idea that Christianity is a merit system. Well it is, but it is a merit-of-God system. Not a personal-merit system. The merit that saved believers carry is vicarious, and it by necessity entails the washing away of sin, sometimes of humanly obvious great and multifarious sin.


5 posted on 08/06/2018 3:33:19 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
His soul is dead. Could Christ yet revive it?

Might he experience genuine repentance? I suppose it’s possible, but I couldn’t care less whether he does or not. He needs to die for his crimes.

12 posted on 08/06/2018 3:53:43 PM PDT by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.")
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To: HiTech RedNeck

He did many, many things up until that point which were basically crying out for help - including calling the authorities himself once - and they did nothing - apparently several dozen times. If they had done something, all of these lives would have been saved - including his own. It is so infuriating to think about.


27 posted on 08/06/2018 8:03:27 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’m one of those that believes that, short of blaspheming the Holy Spirit, Christ can/will redeem any who go to Him.


30 posted on 08/07/2018 3:14:38 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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