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To: Buggman

What you "believe" is not the issue. Truth is the issue. You either accept Him or reject Him. If you reject His will in matters like this, or any matter, then you reject Him.


168 posted on 08/12/2004 1:25:36 PM PDT by johnb2004
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To: johnb2004
No, I accept Jesus Christ wholeheartedly. I accept His whole Word, both in letter and (more importantly) in its Spirit. I also accept His grace, His gift of salvation, which can be received by nothing more or less than faith, even as Abraham accepted God's promises by faith in Gen. 15 (see Paul's entire discourse on Abraham in Romans).

What I reject are two thousand years of the traditions of men piled on by a hierarchy in Rome which annul the Word of God. Christ came to save us from the yoke of the world and the pharisees, not to create a new legalistic religion that can't show the grace to allow a young girl who can't digest wheat to have another grain instead.

177 posted on 08/12/2004 1:32:46 PM PDT by Buggman ("You can't tell a deaf Chinaman anything by whispering in French." --Protagoras)
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