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To: topcat54

I've known, over the decades,

quite a number of pontificating RELIGIOUS types who were habitually asserting at loud volume and in frequent heralded declarations that

THE OTHER FELLOW

must go and sin no more . . .

while carefully hiding, side stepping and wholesale avoiding the fact that they'd rarely to never been able to avoid repeating a sin more than once.

I realize that Hollanders repeatedly seem to construe themselves to be possibly even closer to God than Moses and St Paul in their capacities to avoid sinning the same sin a 2nd time, ever. Alas, in my human frailty, I find myself more than a little skeptical about the veracity of such constructions on reality.

But, hey, IF the Hollanders have a corner on the market of such righteousness, sanctification and tidy boxed pristine loftiness--perhaps they'd be willing to share their secrets with us more common and flawed mortals.

But then, wouldn't that be getting back into the WORKS BASED; TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL; pull one's self into Godliness by one's bootstraps sort of RELIGION?

How does one sort it all out?


89 posted on 09/14/2006 7:34:46 PM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: Quix
I've known, over the decades, quite a number of pontificating RELIGIOUS types who were habitually asserting at loud volume and in frequent heralded declarations that THE OTHER FELLOW must go and sin no more . . .

Can you show the post where someone said THE OTHER FELLOW must go and sin no more?

Of course you can't. No one said any such thing.

It's really cute how some folks like to point their fingers at others and tell them not to point fingers.

95 posted on 09/14/2006 7:53:46 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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