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To: WVKayaker
With that statement, it is clear to me that you really don't accept the salvation message that is defined by Paul. There is absolutely nothing you can do that will earn you a crown.

I'm glad your clarity is not that of Paul and Christ. Apparently you have not clarified the doctrines of salvation and sanctification enough to become a judge of it, with your decision final. Christ will judge the conduct of people according to their works, and there will be a differentiation of rewards. Insert here the accounting for the talents apportioned. I'll let Him worry about the crown business.

As a follower, he's given me some things to do with expectations to follow through. One of them is to straighten my act up. If not, I will receive chastsement. As far as denying His rules for the game, failure when it is ones duty and He gives the power, will put one in the penalty box. Confession and repentance are something to think about. He chooses who reigns with Him. There'll be some tears over this.

529 posted on 08/10/2013 7:49:53 AM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: imardmd1
One of them is to straighten my act up.

In the Book of 2 Samuel 11: 1 ff, we have the story of David and Bathsheba. David was the king. She was wife of Uriah, the Hittite, a soldier in David's armies. David was smitten of her and slept (fornicated) with her, whereby she became pregnant. David placed Uriah at the battle front where he surely would die, and did.

God chose David. God knew David's heart, and life, if you believe in God's eternity. In Acts 13:22, Paul quotes God: 2... God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’

Did David do everything God wanted him to do? David lost that son, but do you think God was in error?

In several of your posts, you have hinted that I may not know God. I have news for you. He is my Father, Brother, and Redeemer.

You set yourself as a judge, but you can't even properly divine the Word. You claim scholarship, but cannot even read plain words.

Please know that I will pray for the scales to come off your eyes! Satan has set a trap, and it seems to me that you have stepped right into it. "Pride goeth before a fall", ya' know! Wine can only make you stumble...

539 posted on 08/10/2013 2:46:05 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("Our nation endures and our government... has not perished from the earth."-Sarah Palin 7/1/13)
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