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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

“God created us to live forever in His paradise if we only accept His free gift of Grace.”

But why is accepting that gift of grace so important to him? Sounds rather petty, after all we’re all his children whom he says he loves, no?

Why doesn’t he dispense with grace and just let us all enter his paradise, after all we’re all his creation? He could easily do that if he wanted, couldn’t he?


39 posted on 05/02/2022 9:55:35 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: aquila48

God is only the father of those who have been born again (John 3). You are born again by grace THROUGH FAITH (Ephesians 2:8-9), which requires a decision on your part to turn from your present course, I.e., “repent”.*

“For you are the children of your father the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
John 8:44

* https://www.gotquestions.org/how-to-repent.html


47 posted on 05/02/2022 10:20:42 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: aquila48

Those who have not accepted His grace would be instantly destroyed in His presence... that’s the purpose of the grace, that we might live.

Sinful/evil humans can’t live in the presence of God anymore than darkness can remain in the presence of light.


54 posted on 05/02/2022 10:56:51 AM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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