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To: Bella_Bru

What parts of it?

Oh, you mean the stuff about helping the poor? Yeah, that's a horrible thing to teach. We all know that the poor are poor because they aren't the "elect".



Helping the poor is very honorable. But we are not talking about that. We are talking about doctrine.

Ephesians 2:8,9 the Apostle Paul wrote:

"For BY GRACE ARE ye saved through FAITH; and that not of yourselves: it is the GIFT OF GOD.

NOT OF WORKS, lest any man should boast".


233 posted on 04/07/2005 10:55:50 AM PDT by Daisy4 (IN)
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To: Daisy4
NOT OF WORKS, lest any man should boast".

Dear, a comma does not wipe out the second half of the sentence. The fear of works was fear that people would be boastful of doing good and righteous acts.

Seems that the most boastful are the Protestants; boasting about how they don't do works so they won't boast.

255 posted on 04/07/2005 11:07:05 AM PDT by Bella_Bru (You're about as funny as a case sensitive search engine.)
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