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To: samiam1972

Let me just ask you this then and we can end the debate:

1) Are you going to Heaven?
2) Why?


52 posted on 10/01/2009 7:59:09 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: Scythian

1.) I certainly hope so!
2.) Salvation does not come directly from faith alone or works alone. It is directly from God’s GRACE alone. Not from man. We can only receive it and not reject it.

I baptize my babies as soon as I can so they can begin right away to receive God’s grace. As they grow, they go through the other Sacraments as their faith builds. The more Grace they receive, the stronger their faith AND works. It’s God given, not man made. It seems as if you are saying that unless man has faith(man made) God cannot give him graces. Seems a little backwards to me!

If we reject God’s graces then we risk losing salvation. Any opportunity for my child to have God’s graces poured onto him, I will surely let that happen.


58 posted on 10/01/2009 8:23:55 AM PDT by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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