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To: faucetman
Possible. I just wonder how someone can go from having an assurance of their salvation - because they believed they were saved by the grace of God through faith - to a religion that can, at best, only offer a "hope" that salvation will be their end game if they have done everything they are supposed to? I actually have asked a few that question and the best I can get back is, "I guess I never thought of it that way.". That amazes me!

When I first understood the gospel (by reading John 10:27-30, actually) and the Holy Spirit opened my spiritual eyes and heart to receive God's grace, I knew immediately that this was the truth and I had had not been told it before. The idea that I would go ever back to Catholicism is foreign to me. I can't imagine any reason why I would ever want to. I know I have eternal life in Christ and I need never fear being cast out, lost or plucked from His hands.

94 posted on 05/31/2014 8:42:39 PM PDT by boatbums (Proud member of the Free Republic Bible Thumpers Brigade.)
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To: boatbums
I know I have eternal life in Christ and I need never fear being cast out, lost or plucked from His hands.

"For we must all be manifested before the judgement seat of Christ, that every one may receive the proper things of the body, according as he hath done, whether it be good or evil."

103 posted on 05/31/2014 9:07:53 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: boatbums

I don’t think you can predict the future. Yours included.


118 posted on 05/31/2014 10:12:30 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: boatbums

“The idea that I would go ever back to Catholicism is foreign to me. I can’t imagine any reason why I would ever want to.”

You didn’t just leave a church or change religions.

You left the Eucharist. You left Jesus.

For what? grape juice and crackers, or grape juice and white bread?

Or did you become Mormon and leave the Eucharist for water and Wonder bread?

It amazes me that any Catholic could leave Jesus for any reason. And when you left the Eucharist you left Jesus.

You and God will be having quite the conversation.


124 posted on 06/01/2014 5:23:54 AM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a wit)
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