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To: kosta50; blue-duncan; suzyjaruki; irishtenor; Forest Keeper
Why should anyone give account of his or her salvation when we didn't earn it and we can't purchase it?

Let's refer to that big book of God's word again and find the answer...

"For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God." -- 1 Peter 2:15-16

"For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." -- 1 Corinthians 6:20

"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." -- 1 Corinthians 10:31

And these things we do because it is by and for and through the will of God.

"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." -- Philippians 2:13

5,605 posted on 09/06/2007 11:54:26 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
"For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God."
-- 1 Peter 2:15-16

Precious instruction. Food for my thirsty soul. Thank you.

5,609 posted on 09/07/2007 1:18:26 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; blue-duncan; suzyjaruki; irishtenor; Forest Keeper
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." -- Philippians 2:13

So, what are they accounting for? None of your verse answers why we account for our salvation if we are not instruments of it. None.

It's all automated in the Reformed theology; man is a rag doll dragged around at God's will. Some are discarded, some are saved. Rag dolls give no account of their fate.

5,623 posted on 09/07/2007 8:26:06 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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