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To: Kolokotronis; jo kus
HD, I assume you believe everyone would "choose" heaven. I think you're right.

On the contrary. That is not what the book of Romans states. Man left to his devices will choose evil.

679 posted on 01/08/2006 5:27:54 PM PST by HarleyD ("Command what you will and give what you command." - Augustine's Prayer)
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To: HarleyD

HD, that's just the point. Everyone if asked will say they want to go to heaven. Its quite another matter to so die to the self that one attains, by the power of the Holy Spirit, such a likeness to Christ that one may fulfill his created purpose of spending eternity with our Triune God. +Paul's point is that absent the uncreated energies of God imparted to us through the Holy Spirit by reason of the Incarnation, we will sin just as Adam did. But because of Christ's destruction of the bonds of death which held men since The Fall, we once again have the possibility to become "like gods".


681 posted on 01/08/2006 6:16:14 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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