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To: boatbums
"I simply cannot imagine going from having the assurance of my salvation back to a religion that only semi-promises God's grace will “help” to get me to heaven as long as I do my part and which really places the burden on me to merit salvation by doing works in order to keep that grace."

I suppose that there is an attractiveness for some to choose a belief system that permits one to declare oneself saved, put ones feet up, ignore the call to charity and beatitude, surrender to concupiscence, and coasting into heaven. After all, it permits one to repeatedly lie and misrepresent other believers and belief systems with absolutely no consequences. What a fool and dupe Mother Teresa was. [sarc]

131 posted on 05/06/2013 4:04:09 PM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave is a book, He left us a Church.)
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To: Natural Law

Well said, saidly it will be wasted on thsoe that need it most.


133 posted on 05/06/2013 6:28:46 PM PDT by verga (A nation divided by Zero!)
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To: Natural Law
I suppose that there is an attractiveness for some to choose a belief system that permits one to declare oneself saved, put ones feet up, ignore the call to charity and beatitude, surrender to concupiscence, and coasting into heaven. After all, it permits one to repeatedly lie and misrepresent other believers and belief systems with absolutely no consequences. What a fool and dupe Mother Teresa was. [sarc]

This so-called "belief system" you speak of is one that is foreign to me. No genuine Christian I have ever known imagines that they are saved so that they can ignore the commandments of Christ and live as he pleases nor have I ever heard any pastor preach such a Gospel. I suppose that some religious partisans think they must invent this bugaboo in order to present their own system as one that is far superior to all others. They repeatedly lie and misrepresent the faith of other believers in order to feel secure in their own. As Christians, we have the sacred Scriptures, that together with the guidance and teaching of the indwelling Holy Spirit allow us to know the truths God has revealed to us. This revelation and its truths are not the sole property of one religious tradition but it is given to the WHOLE Body of Christ so that we may believe in the only begotten Son of God and that we can know we have eternal life.

135 posted on 05/06/2013 9:20:41 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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