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To: P-Marlowe
It is clear from scripture that the only thing that could be is "CHRIST IN US."

Point of order: We are in Christ (Ro 8:1; 12:5; I Cor 1:2, 30; II Cor 1:21; 5:17; Gal 3:28; Eph 2:10; Col 1:28; Phm 23; I Pet 5:14).

43 posted on 02/08/2005 9:19:18 AM PST by ksen ("He that knows nothing will believe anything." - Thomas Fuller)
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To: ksen; P-Marlowe
You and I are saved not only because of God's concern for us but chiefly and ultimately for God's total determination to honor his obedient Son. We are the love gifts that the Father gives to the Son so that the Son, who lived a life of perfect obedience and died on the cross, will see the travail of his soul and be satisfied. That's the main reason I think God has saved you: to honor Jesus.

Ephesians 1:3-6 (New King James Version)
3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
4just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
5having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,
6to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

RC has made it perfectly clear, just as Paul does.

44 posted on 02/08/2005 9:21:47 AM PST by suzyjaruki (No pain, no gain - on the road to spiritual maturity)
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To: ksen
Point of order: We are in Christ

Point of order: We are conformed to the image of Christ.

48 posted on 02/08/2005 10:08:03 AM PST by P-Marlowe
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