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To: ecomcon

I have wondered about that, not just her. I think of the thief on the cross that repented. Does Christ visit some people at their dying moment to give them a last choice.

Muslims in the middle East have found Jesus in their dreams.


63 posted on 09/18/2020 4:39:42 PM PDT by Cold Heart (Portland Voted for IT)
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To: Cold Heart

[[I have wondered about that, not just her. I think of the thief on the cross that repented. Does Christ visit some people at their dying moment to give them a last choice.]]

Some perhaps- others have hardened their own hearts far beyond redemption, and some have committed apostasy and can never be saved-


447 posted on 09/18/2020 8:40:11 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Cold Heart

The parable of the workmen seems to say yes.

Matthew 20 1“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius1 a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 4 and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ 5 So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. 6 And gabout the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ 7 They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’ 8 And hwhen evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his iforeman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ 9 And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. 10 Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. 11 And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, 12 saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and jthe scorching heat.’ 13 But he replied to one of them, k‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? 14 Take lwhat belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. 15 mAm I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or ndo you begrudge my generosity?’2 16 So othe last will be first, and the first last.”


471 posted on 09/19/2020 4:45:00 AM PDT by Gamecock ("O God, break the teeth in their mouths." - Psalm 58:6)
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