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Posted on 03/06/2022 11:16:06 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
You are correct sir. When I was a Catholic, I had no assurance of salvation or anything. That didn’t sit well with me. I couldn’t see waiting till I assumed room temperature, to see if I made it to Heaven, since I couldn’t do anything about it at that time. That’s primarily why I left. I wanted OSAS. 😀🤗😊
No one knows for sure at what point any of them were saved OSAS. It’s possible, each apostle came to saving faith, at different times, during the ministry of Jesus. I doubt if they all came to saving faith at the exact same second. It’s possible, Peter experienced saving faith, when he said, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God, or maybe it was before that. No one knows, and what’s more, I don’t care when it happened. Just that it DID happen, sometime in his life. He didn’t wait till he croaked, to see if he made it. Neither should you bro. Anyone who waits till they die to see if they merited Heaven, is a fool. Don’t be that way bro.
The spirit in that moment is cleansed by His blood and separated from the sin-0laden soul, otherwise identified as the behavior mechanism of mind, emotions and will. We inherited that from Adam, along with a fallen nature. There is no more secure place than in the hands of The Almighty as He honors the work of Jesus on our behalf.
Mea culpa: that lengthy essay was written by metmom. She made such a thorough case I just copied it and re-issued it. I failed to include the attribution when I failed to post the entire essay as it appeared a few months ago. Notice the interrupted sentence at the end? Mea culpa
Kerping ... I apologize for leaving off the attribution. And thank you so much for the work you put in to compose that wonderfully thorough post to ADSUM.
No problem.
R. G. (Rudolph G.) Bachertz learned broom making when he apprenticed in the trade at age 12. He worked with his brother C.M (Charles M.) Bachertz for over 30 years, and then for two decades on his own, in a broom factory on West Liberty Street.
Working by himself, he could make two dozen brooms an hour. Broom corn could now be purchased locally, although prices were rising, and maple handles were harder to find. He had made brooms for 58 years, he said, working six days a week, Sunday through Friday, as he was a Seventh Day Adventist.
“Making brooms is my vocation, my hobby, and my recreation,” he said.
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W. K. Kellogg made corn brooms and innovated corn flakes.
The Kellogg family were all Seventh Day Adventists.
This is the same experience I've had on FR!!
What I've been told the RCC is like, is sure different than the evidence I can find out elsewhere - mostly from the RCC's own writings!
I wonder...
...does this extend to churches as well?
I see.
The Millennium Beast
It’s really so simple but they make it so complicated. Jesus paid the price for us!
See the latest evidence: reply 1671
It was a direct answer to a direct question...
John 6:24-40 24 Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus. 25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” 26 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. 27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.” 28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” 29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” 30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’[c]” 32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” 34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.” 35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” |
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Obviously, I am not going back to read over 1,600 posts, but I am not sure I recall any posts about Mary. There may have been a few, I just can’t recall for sure. 😀😂😊
Don’t feel bad bro. I am an ex Catholic, and what I see on FR, is different than the Catholicism I grew up with. 😀🤗😃😄🤣
You have imagined soemthing not in evidence. Even in Abraham’s day people got saved, they just spent the centuries in Sheol until the Blood of the perfect atonement sacrifice was shed to cleanse the spirit of the effects of a sin nature. What I did write is that the work of the Holy Spirit to ABIDE in the born again spirit started at Pentecost.
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