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To: kosta50; stripes1776; Forest Keeper; jo kus; Kolokotronis
Trying to wiggle out if it now, hey?

God always makes the first move....Contrary to Scripture, your theology claims that we can not reject God.

He did not stomp on His enemies and razed cities to the ground. No, He taught that we should love our enemies and that we should not resist the evil one.


3,267 posted on 03/06/2006 4:59:45 AM PST by HarleyD ("Man's steps are ordained by the Lord, How then can man understand his way?" Prov 20:24)
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To: HarleyD
We feel that if God gives you faith then you have FAITH. You don't have a semi, quasi, maybe it's here-maybe not faith. You have faith. A rather novel if not antiquated concept.

Then which Protestants teach about "saving faith"? Apparently, some do not have "saving faith".

Paul in 1 Cor 13:3 talks about faith as measurable, as well, or at least in varying degrees - when he writes that faith ENOUGH to move mountains. This tells us that there is faith NOT ENOUGH to move mountains. Jesus ALSO tells the Apostles that they have insufficient faith, esp. in Mark's Gospel. People cry to Jesus "Lord, increase my faith".

It seems that faith is not either "ON" full blast, OR "OFF" nothing at all. Faith is a virtue that is present in various degrees in individuals, based on that person's sanctification and openness to God's graces.

Regards

3,276 posted on 03/06/2006 8:27:56 AM PST by jo kus (I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore CHOOSE life - Deut 30:19)
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