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Posted on 04/25/2006 6:19:21 PM PDT by Full Court
You're really enjoying yourself aren't you.
She said she wasn't. Why is that so bad?
You are being unfairly diced but I think that you need to read James 2:14-20 before you discount the value of works with regard to faith when it comes to salvation.
This is a dangerous mystical non-Christian religion. Its denial of the Trinity and the Holy Spirit, the vicarious atonement, and rejection of Acts and the Pauline epistles clearly set it outside of Christian orthodoxy.
Resources: http://www.swedenborg.org/
What kind of work can I do to earn my salvation?
Well, Good night. Time for me to circle the wagons.
Please add me to your ping list for any future threads. They're big fun.
You don't earn your salvation. Nevertheless, as James clearly says, one cannot set back and say I have faith. True faith is demonstrated by the works that you do.
Uh she said it or Brother Rightous Preacher said it for her? Never mind the woman is no longer alive to defend herself. I see where some of the rumors of her came from and the half truths of it.
Yep, that's a quote from the carm.org website.
Thank you so very much for that insightful excerpt, dear brother in Christ!
Thank you so very much for the encouragements and the walk down memory lane!
"Argue the issues all you want - do not make it personal."
Show me how it's personal to ask somebody to back their blanket statements with facts and demonstrations.
If you want me to sign-off FR, I will do so. But I believe your statement is not warranted nor does it fit with the stated purpose of Free Republic.
Let me know if you want me to go.
However, on all Religion Forum threads - and most especially toxic threads such as this one - it is necessary to keep the debate on the issues and not the posters, individually - and especially not their motives.
Threads that turn personal easily spiral into flame wars, etc.
Excellent. Thanks for the ping!
Well, then what do you make of this statement,
Television interview of Billy Graham by Robert Schuller. Part 1, an approximately 7-minute-long broadcast in Southern California on Saturday, May 31, 1997. The following is an exact transcript* of an excerpt close to the end of this broadcast.
Schuller: Tell me, what do you think is the future of Christianity?
Graham: Well, Christianity and being a true believer--you know, I think there's the Body of Christ. This comes from all the Christian groups around the world, outside the Christian groups. I think everybody that loves Christ, or knows Christ, whether they're conscious of it or not, they're members of the Body of Christ. And I don't think that we're going to see a great sweeping revival, that will turn the whole world to Christ at any time. I think James answered that, the Apostle James in the first council in Jerusalem, when he said that God's purpose for this age is to call out a people for His name. And that's what God is doing today, He's calling people out of the world for His name, whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world or the non-believing world, they are members of the Body of Christ because they've been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus but they know in their hearts that they need something that they don't have, and they turn to the only light that they have, and I think that they are saved, and that they're going to be with us in heaven.
Schuller: What, what I hear you saying that it's possible for Jesus Christ to come into human hearts and soul and life, even if they've been born in darkness and have never had exposure to the Bible. Is that a correct interpretation of what you're saying?
Graham: Yes, it is, because I believe that. I've met people in various parts of the world in tribal situations, that they have never seen a Bible or heard about a Bible, and never heard of Jesus, but they've believed in their hearts that there was a God, and they've tried to live a life that was quite apart from the surrounding community in which they lived.
http://www.fundamentalbiblechurch.org/Foundation/fbcbill1.htm
So very true, Ramius.
Beautiful! Thank you!
1000 posts.
Maybe we should lock this thread
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