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To: metmom
Got it, God just imagines we did good works and that is enough for him.

Seriously that is your best arguement?

317 posted on 06/07/2012 2:01:10 PM PDT by verga (Party like it is 1773)
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To: verga
No, it's not my best argument because that's not what I was saying at all. It's not my argument at all.

God told us in Scripture what He did. He's not imagining anything. He's CHOOSING to not remember our sins or credit them to our account.

When we repent and ask for forgiveness, God gives it to us. We die to self and become crucified in Christ, dead to sin, and are given new life in Christ. It is all IN Christ.

Colossians 3:3-4 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

If God is going to tell me He sees me with Christ's righteousness on me, I am not going to call Him a liar and tell Him he's wrong.

318 posted on 06/07/2012 3:16:13 PM 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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To: verga
"Got it, God just imagines we did good works and that is enough for him."

Some are living in an alternate reality of their own construct in which love is never a governing Christian principle and the Second Greatest Commandment is not applicable to the elect.

In it, since God decided from before the beginning of time which of us is saved and which of us isn't, good works are superfluous for the saved and inefficacious for the damned. Those aided by the good works are irrelevant and those not are inconsequential.

We certainly see the effects of this mindset in the everyday conduct of those influenced by Calvin on these threads. We cannot educate anyone against their will. All we can hope to do is to, and all we need to do is present them with the examples of Christian love.

"We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. - 1 John 4:19-21

Bless you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

320 posted on 06/07/2012 3:31:01 PM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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