[alpha-8-25-02]

HAVE A GRACE FILLED WEEKEND!

[Moderate right-winger]

too many traditional dogmatic Catholics aim to impose their narrow-minded beliefs on the rest of us. These are supposed to be enlightened times.

[TXnMA]

Thank you! Bookmarked for serious study...

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

Excellent, excellent read! I most especially like the following sentence;

"Most people say that they want the Kingdom, but they love the kingdoms of this world too much to take the Kingdom of Heaven."

[AlbionGirl]

***Since I wrote this almost a year ago, I have concluded that there are far fewer true Christians than I first thought, and far more 'ecclesiastical athiests' (or counterfeit 'christians') than I ever imagined. Truly, few there are that are truly saved***

He's probably right about the number of true believers. I also think there are really very few true atheists, but the ones that exist probably people the Church by a greater percentage.

It might even be likely that the atheist who shakes his fists at God in anger is closer to salvation than the 'Christian' who is just going through the motions, and really has a completely agnostic mind and heart. The atheist who feels compelled to constantly shake his fists at God believes with everything he's got, that God exists, it's just on the negative end of it. How you get to such a person, is a job only for God, and some of His greatest advocates have come from that camp, Alister McGrath, C.S. Lewis, etc.

[P-Marlowe]

Since I wrote this almost a year ago, I have concluded that there are far fewer true Christians than I first thought, and far more 'ecclesiastical athiests' (or counterfeit 'christians') than I ever imagined. Truly, few there are that are truly saved.

I suspect there will be a lot more people saved than you can imagine. I think it is pretentious to think that you are "truly saved" while others (who to you may appear more sinful than you) are not saved. Your salvation is not based on what you do, but on what God did for you.

[blue-duncan]

"The false “Free Will” gospel has many adherents and many missionaries, most of whom will never question themselves or even stop to think that they are creating children that are TWICE the children of hell than they themselves are"

Would someone please explain how one can create "children that are TWICE the children of hell than they themselves are" if regeneration is an action of God in His elect while they are dead in trespasses in sin and unable to ask for regeneration, which, as he says, precedes conversion.

Either all that the Father has given to Christ will come to Him in spite of the halting message preached by ernest believers or their salvation is dependant on the effectiveness of our message and delivery.