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To: HarleyD
St. Augustine

‘He was handed over for our offenses, and he rose again for our justification.’ What does this mean, ‘for our justification?’ So that He might justify us; so that he might make us just. You will be a work of God, not only because you are a man, but also because you are just. For it is better that you be just than that you be a man. If God made you a man, and you made yourself just, something you were doing would be better than what God did. But God made you without any cooperation on your part. For you did not lend your consent so that God could make you. How could you have consented when you did not exist? But He who made you without your consent does not justify you without your consent. He made you without your knowledge but He does not justify you without your willing it.

*Augustine was a Christian Catholic.

Get your own saints and leave ours alone. Stop trying to expropriate our Saints. It ain't working

84 posted on 01/20/2006 5:37:40 AM PST by bornacatholic
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To: bornacatholic
Get your own saints and leave ours alone.

OK....

Is that better?
85 posted on 01/20/2006 5:53:56 AM PST by HarleyD ("Man's steps are ordained by the Lord, How then can man understand his way?" Prov 20:24)
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