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Salvation has 100% to do with whether or not the person has been chosen of the elect and been given saving grace

All this time, you've been a crypto-Calvinist!?!?!?!?!

3,414 posted on 03/10/2006 12:00:26 AM PST by Rytwyng ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche......"Oh, yeah? Wait 3 days!!!" -- God)

I wrote : Salvation has 100% to do with whether or not the person has been chosen of the elect and been given saving grace

you replied : All this time, you've been a crypto-Calvinist!?!?!?!?!

LOL!!! perish the thought! Catholics do believe in predestination of the elect - that God will inevitably steer His chosen back to Him. However, we do believe that the elect freely have chosen God, as well. We don't believe in fate or that God is a puppet master of men. Also, we do not believe that God actively predestines the reprobate - which says that God creates men so that He can send them to hell, regardless of their actions.

Regards

3,422 posted on 03/10/2006 4:50:09 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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