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To: MarkBsnr
Excellent references and synthesis on "who goes to heaven," Mark.

The Paulines have yet to discover the truth that they too will be judged according to their deeds and that no amount of faith and self-righteousness they impute will save them.

But, more likely than not, they will continue to live in their self-delusion that they were 'saved" when they cried "Jesus, Jesus!"

They will continue their selective theology of reading that which suits their "dont-worry-be-happy" religion, convinced that all their wrongs are not their deeds that await judgment and that no matter what they do they are guided by the "indwelling spirit."

By excluding themselves from the rest of the humanity, as a (s)elect elite, they will no doubt continue to sin boldly and think nothing of it as long as they call on Jesus' name.

6,159 posted on 09/13/2007 11:49:55 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50

Your haughtiness is such a clear exposition of the spirit that remains within you.


6,161 posted on 09/13/2007 11:54:56 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support. Defend life support for others in the womb.)
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To: kosta50

A little essay that I found:

In the early church we find fundamental forms of heresy which reappear with various modifications almost every subsequent period. The judaizing tendency, the heretical counterpart of Jewish Messianic Christianity, so insists on the unity of Christianity with Judaism as to sink the former to the level of the latter and make the gospel merely a perfected law. The Paganizing or Gnostic heresy exaggerates the Pauline view of the distinction of Christianity from Judaism, Christianity from its historical basis, resolves the real humanity of the Savior into a Docetistic illusion. Heresy disturbed the unity of doctrine and of fellowship in the early church, which was therefore forced to exclude those holding false doctrine from its communion. Once excluded, the heretics formed societies of their own. This was the case with the Novations, Gnostics, Donatists, etc., and many of the modern denominations of our day.


6,171 posted on 09/13/2007 2:25:01 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.)
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