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To: colorcountry

It’s not a matter of being on to something or not, it’s a matter of stating the obvious.

If I gave you a cube of gold and told you that it was 100% pure gold with no contaminants, none at all, but you found out that it contained 5% other metals, would it be %100 pure gold? How about 1% other metals or even 0.00000005% other metals or if it contained 1 atom of another metal, is it really pure gold like I said it was? No.

Either our salvation depends totally 100% on grace or it doesn’t. If I have to do something, no matter what it is and no matter how minuscule it might be, then it isn’t 100% grace.


619 posted on 03/22/2010 8:14:47 AM PDT by urroner
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To: urroner

It is 100% dependent upon Grace.


620 posted on 03/22/2010 8:22:07 AM PDT by colorcountry (A faith without truth is not true faith.)
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To: urroner

You can’t or won’t even explain works for the dead. Now you have a hard time understanding the concept of 100%.

Either God is in control, or man is.

I’ll give you a hint......God is.


621 posted on 03/22/2010 8:41:54 AM PDT by colorcountry (A faith without truth is not true faith.)
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To: urroner; colorcountry
Either our salvation depends totally 100% on grace or it doesn’t.

Urroner, the Greek word for grace just means gift.

Now I don't know about the Mormon culture, but in the Christian culture if you receive a gift from someone, it doesn't go down as: "Well, let's see, I held out my hands to receive the gift...that's gotta be at least a .2% 'contribution' to it...and then I unwrapped it! Boy, that has to be at least a whopping 1% 'contribution'!"

Sorry. Doesn't work that way. The giver is the 100%. The receiver was 100% enriched by the gift.

633 posted on 03/22/2010 4:19:04 PM PDT by Colofornian (If you're not going to drink the coffee, at least wake up and smell it.)
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