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To: demkicker
I find this kind of shocking and amazing. Do you think you can just do whatever you like whenever you like even though you know it is wrong and then later say, "Sorry," to God and it is all better? If that's really the way you think, I'm doubtful of the intensity of your devotion. I'll refer you to Romans 6, here's the first little bit:

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? . . . In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

Paul didn't say, "Well, I'll just ask for forgiveness later." He exclaimed, "What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?"

546 posted on 06/27/2006 3:48:20 AM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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To: ahayes
For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

What Christian hypocrites miss is the fact that good works are the fruits of faith. Those that are truely reborn have a desire in their hearts to do good works, and good works are the embodiment of faith. Works are faith; there is no divide.

566 posted on 06/27/2006 10:08:49 AM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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