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To: Polycarp
If you died this very instant, would there be sins on your soul you have never repented and never confessed to the Lord (hint: the answer is yes for most all of us)

Absolutely not for I talk to my Father constantly plus today is the Sabbath and we have spent time together. There is no dung heap come before the Lord. There is only a new creature and, in spite of what the Calvinists are muttering about me, His grace is sufficient for me. It covers all my sins.

115 posted on 07/28/2002 9:11:26 PM PDT by JesseShurun
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To: JesseShurun
It covers all my sins.

Your sins are only covered? Mine are gone, not just covered over like a layer of white snow over a dungheap.

117 posted on 07/28/2002 9:17:14 PM PDT by Polycarp
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To: JesseShurun
Absolutely not for I talk to my Father constantly plus today is the Sabbath and we have spent time together.

Praise God. Excellent. I know many protestants who have been convinced that sin no longer matters because they cannot lose their salvation.

So after their first repentance and first conversion they have hardly ever examined their conscience and confessed to God any subsequent sins. How do they suppose these sins will be forgiven?

In the First Letter of St. John (5:17), we read, "...All wrongdoing is sin, but not all sin is deadly." The notion of a "deadly" or mortal sin is found in other parts of sacred Scripture as well. For instance, St. Paul in Galatians (5:19-21) asserted, "It is obvious what proceeds from the flesh: lewd conduct, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, bickering, jealousy, outbursts of rage, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, orgies and the like. I warn you, as I have warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!" (Cf. Rom 1:28-32; 1 Cor 6:9-10; Eph 4:3-8) Therefore, sacred Scripture explicitly identifies certain sins which kill the grace of God in our soul and deprive a person of eternal salvation.

120 posted on 07/28/2002 9:24:53 PM PDT by Polycarp
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To: JesseShurun
"His grace is sufficient for me. It covers all my sins."

Oh it is the old dung heap covered in snow analogy. Here's the Catholic one. A sinful soul is like a silver plate covered with tarnish. God does not simply cover the tarnished plate with a cloth. He removes the tarnish, cleans it all off, and washes the soul so clean of sin that when he looks at the polished plate the only thing he sees is his own reflection.

126 posted on 07/28/2002 9:40:13 PM PDT by Theresa
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