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To: Natural Law

Whatever it is you’re talking about is unscriptural. There is no “new” revelation from Jesus. You are adding to the Word of God (just like Catholics do), and you are dead wrong in your statements.

Our salvation is by grace alone, through faith in Jesus, and that faith comes from the Lord opening our minds to understand and receive the Word of God. Salvation is a gift of God.

Good works will follow living with the Spirit of Christ in you, but those works do not, never could, “earn” your salvation.

Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”


17 posted on 05/23/2011 6:10:10 AM PDT by WXRGina
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To: WXRGina

Well said.


19 posted on 05/23/2011 7:07:14 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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To: WXRGina
"There is no “new” revelation from Jesus. You are adding to the Word of God (just like Catholics do)..."

It is you who are subtracting from the Word of God (just like Calvinists do). Jesus entire life and every word He spoke was a new revelation because Jesus is the Word incarnate.

I've incessantly heard the Paulian heresy preached by Calvinists that Jesus was a minor player sent only for the Jews and that the true revealer of the Word is Paul, and reject it. As a Christian I see Paul as a follower of Jesus tasked only with spreading and clarifying the message revealed within the Synoptic Gospels.

20 posted on 05/23/2011 9:02:40 AM PDT by Natural Law (Maybe the rapture really did happen and NOBODY made the cut!)
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To: WXRGina
WXRGina -- now we need to hold to the beliefs IN the Word of God

Like the Trinity, Baptism for the Remission of Sins and the True Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Lutherans, traditional Anglicans and Methodists believe in these. Do you? These are all Biblically sound beliefs that were practised right from the New Testament times, through the Early Christians through right until recently. Do you believe in these?

36 posted on 05/24/2011 2:16:52 AM PDT by Cronos (Libspeak: "Yes there is proof. And no, for the sake of privacy I am not posting it here.")
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To: WXRGina

?Our salvation is by grace alone, through faith in Jesus, and that faith comes from the Lord opening our minds to understand and receive the Word of God. Salvation is a gift of God.”

“Good works will follow living with the Spirit of Christ in you, but those works do not, never could, “earn” your salvation.”

“Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.””

Amen and if anyone preaches any other gospel, it is a false one.


162 posted on 05/28/2011 2:32:33 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Eccl 10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.)
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