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To: NYer

It’s my understanding no one is worthy. We are only able to enter heaven because we’ve accepted Jesus’ sacrifice.

God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21).


5 posted on 11/01/2008 4:18:35 PM PDT by chickpundit (Palin '12)
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To: chickpundit; gedeon3
Scripture from the Greek Septuagint, the Old Testament of Christ, the Evangelists and Paul, and of the councils of Hippo and Carthage, affirm purgatory.

2 Mc 12:42-46
Turning to supplication, they prayed that the sinful deed might be fully blotted out. The noble Judas warned the soldiers to keep themselves free from sin, for they had seen with their own eyes what had happened because of the sin of those who had fallen. He then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead in view; for if he were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would have been useless and foolish to pray for them in death. But if he did this with a view to the splendid reward that awaits those who had gone to rest in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Thus he made atonement for the dead that they might be freed from this sin.

8 posted on 11/01/2008 5:06:37 PM PDT by NYer ("Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ." - St. Jerome)
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