It is also apparent that this same attitude is involved in the very subject of this thread - that of grace, faith and the satisfaction for sin that our Creator has given us as his most amazing gift. Some people bask in their own merit, goodness and works and presume they are adequate to earn them their ultimate goal - dwelling with the Creator for eternity. In a pretended humility, some will admit that they may come short of absolute holiness, so to not appear boastful or proud, they will express hope in an intermediate sphere where slight faults and missed opportunities to do good are washed from their souls and then they can proceed to the goal knowing they have earned it ever so much.
I pity the shock and anguish they will experience when they discover - too late - that God did not accept their merits, efforts, works, deeds, but a full and unhindered surrender to HIS holiness and perfection that he freely gives to us when we rest and trust in his mercy and grace to redeem us. They will be astonished when they finally understand that this grace of God that was not only sufficient to save them to the uttermost but was also what would take hold within them to do the works - the ones he REALLY wanted - that accomplished his will upon the earth and would draw the unsaved to him, as well. I continue to pray for those for whom it is not too late.
Oh, what an arrogant, self-satisfied, smarmy post! Look in the mirror!
Odd, I detect no pity. I do, however, see a purplish tinge of self-satisfied anti-Catholic bigot. "How sad! You're going to hell. Oh well, we warned you!" Pride and arrogance are not going to convince anyone that you have the Holy Spirit within.
They may not know they are in error. Look at my last two posts (675 & 680). The version they use is not like any other version I can find. Is it because the scripture their church has them use is doctored? It looks like it to me.
Thank you so very much for your beautiful testimony, dear sister in Christ!