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To: metmom
Your error lies in the continued assertion that Scriptural references to works are not referring to Mosaic Law, but to the conduct, those spiritual and corporal works of mercy Jesus commanded us to do.

New Testament works are not some mindless or heartless act ritually performed to demonstrate obedience, they are evidence of cooperation with grace and of faith and they confer further grace. Faith itself is a work because it is awillful act.

If the only evidence of your conversion is your own proclamation that you are saved then grace is probably running a deficit in you.

312 posted on 04/22/2012 8:04:51 AM PDT by Natural Law (The Pearly Gates are really a servants entrance.)
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To: Natural Law
Your error lies in the continued assertion that Scriptural references to works are not referring to Mosaic Law, but to the conduct, those spiritual and corporal works of mercy Jesus commanded us to do.

Jesus set the bar even higher that just outward keeping of the Law, demanding a right heart attitude.

If the Mosaic Law didn't save because men couldn't keep it, what kind of Jesus do you preach who would make it even more impossible for men to be saved by works and then demand that we do it?

322 posted on 04/22/2012 8:25:44 AM PDT by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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