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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Do you think that was a valid promise from God?

Sure, as long as we want to be with Him. He won't keep those who don't want Him. Forced love is no love, Dr. E. Do you understand that?

4,256 posted on 08/26/2007 5:49:39 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
Forced love is no love, Dr. E. Do you understand that?

That's Hallmark, not Scripture, Kosta.

Did God force Himself" on Paul?

At least four times in the New Testament Paul declares himself to be...

"Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God" (2 CORINTHIANS 1:1; EPHESIANS 1:1; COLOSSIANS 1:1; 2 TIMOTHY 1:1.)

Why would you want to claim for yourself what is rightly God's going?

"Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen." -- Ephesians 3:20-21


"I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me." -- Psalm 57:2

You're missing the point of it all, I'm afraid. Christ fully accomplished what we could never do, even in small part -- He paid for every one of our sins in full for all time.

"But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God...

Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin." -- Hebrews 10:12;18


4,272 posted on 08/26/2007 11:44:11 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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