[klossg]

It is difficult to imagine how much guilt this has released me from.

There's a lot of money to be made and power to be got in uncertainty.

they are constantly buffeted by bad doctrine, always uncertain of their own salvation.

Are you guys implying anything? ~{:)

If you reply directly to posts you do not agree with, rather than holding your own back patting session we might get somewhere. But, it is good to know that you all are going to heaven even if you commit 5000 mortal sins between now and death. Why bother having Christ judge you, anyway. You are saved. : ) Why not walk in now ... commit suicide or invite death with unsafe activities. :9)

[blue-duncan]

"rather than holding your own back patting session we might get somewhere"

Come on, I don't see any Neener/Calvinist caucus threads in the forum, but I sure see a lot of Roman Catholic caucus threads here.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Why bother having Christ judge you, anyway.

We have been judged. We now stand acquitted before God by the obedience and justification of Jesus Christ upon the cross.

How you miss this after reading Scripture is one of life's greatest puzzles.

" but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." -- 1 Corinthians 6:11

"And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God, unto our fathers" -- Acts 26:6

"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it." -- 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

At our death, God will immediately embrace us because our salvation has been accomplished by Christ alone. And all our works will be judged according to Christ's work within us because "faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it."

[HarleyD]

If you reply directly to posts you do not agree with, rather than holding your own back patting session we might get somewhere.

As many of our Catholic friends here will attest to, I rarely, if ever, am accused of holding back anything. Catholicism started to take a doctrinal turn for the worst around 600 AD and finally corrupted itself with its humanistic ideals by 1200 AD. IF it is still a Christian religion, it is on life support and in great need of an infusion of TRUE Augustinian doctrine. It doesn't need anymore "miracles" of Mary; rather it needs a doctrinal miracle. Does that help?

But, it is good to know that you all are going to heaven even if you commit 5000 mortal sins between now and death.

Those who have been slaved to sin and mercifully set free from our bondage do not wish to return to our bondage. It is as Peter (your first Pope) stated when asked by our Lord Jesus, "Do you also wish to go away." Peter answered what every true Christian would answer, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life." (John 6:68)