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To: PapaNew

You go ahead and keep wishing that God is going to save America from the consequences of the wickedness that the country and society is practicing and imposing on everyone via force.

I do not subscribe to your belief that we can sin so that Grace may abound.

It’s going to be interesting to see how many Christians are going to hold onto their faith once their illusions of peace and prosperity are shattered. Personal experience tells me that most are going to fold like a cheap suit and surrender all for the promise of bread.


127 posted on 06/02/2014 5:25:47 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR
sin so that Grace may abound

Well, thank you, you've ascribed a pretty high honor to me because those were the very words accusers used against the preacher of grace himself, Paul the Apostle, so I'm in very good company. I must be doing something right.

What was Paul's (& my) answer to that accusation? Although when sin abounds grace does yet much more abound (Rom 5:20), how shall we who are dead to sin live any longer therein? (Rom 6:2). For sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under the law but under grace (Rom 6:14).

As for my faith, it is not in man, nor in man's country but it is in the God and Father of Jesus Christ who loved himself and gave himself for me. You should have been able to tell that I'm not saying with absolute certainly what is in America's future. I'm saying I have reason to believe what I hope for with America. However, my faith in God is certainly not based on what happens to America, it's based on God's unconditional and everlasting love for me based on the unchanging truth of what happened to Jesus.

136 posted on 06/02/2014 9:29:34 PM PDT by PapaNew
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