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To: churchillbuff

Satan's religions appeal to the mind of man, but not the Mind of God. Purgatory is a slap in the face to Jesus who paid in full for the sins of those whose trust is in Him.


40 posted on 03/09/2006 4:00:19 AM PST by RoadTest ("- - a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people." - Richard Henry Lee, 1786)
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To: RoadTest
Satan's religions appeal to the mind of man, but not the Mind of God. Purgatory is a slap in the face to Jesus who paid in full for the sins of those whose trust is in Him.

So you believe that these two people would be treated exactly the same:

1) A Mother Theresa type - spends their entire life helping others, sacrificing themselves for others, never hurting anyone and believes that Jesus is their saviour. This person dies and goes straight to heaven.
2) Adolph Hitler, seconds before his death, expresses his beleif that Jesus is his saviour. He dies and goes straight to heaven.

You really believe there is no difference between these two and they will both go directly to heaven.

Then why on earth should anyone be good? Why not be selfish and live only for pleasure - as long as you get "saved" ten seconds before you die?

That makes no sense to me at all.

"What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?"

"If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead."

Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works, and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness"; and he was called the friend of God."

"You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone."

"And in the same way was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead."

So, how many times does the bible have to tell you - faith itself is not enough?

52 posted on 03/09/2006 6:24:29 AM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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