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To: HarleyD; annalex; Forest Keeper; stfassisi; aruanan
There is no hope for those outside Christ. Rom 1:20-21

Your verses are completely off the mark, HD. They do not show that there is no hope outside of Christ.

God must give them a new heart and a new mind to walk in His wa

Christ says that He will heal our hearts, not give us new ones. He came to restore, not to re-create. You need to read the New Testament if you consider yourself a Christian. Is Ezekiel right and Christ is wrong?

It is nice to teach that non-believers can believe what they want and still get to heaven but that was not the belief of the early church

Then the early Church did not believe that with God everything is possible. I doubt that. Invincible ignorance is not a sin.

5,260 posted on 04/30/2008 8:25:24 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodox is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; HarleyD; annalex; stfassisi; aruanan; Dr. Eckleburg
Christ says that He will heal our hearts, not give us new ones. He came to restore, not to re-create. You need to read the New Testament if you consider yourself a Christian. Is Ezekiel right and Christ is wrong?

Where does the Bible say that He will heal a heart INSTEAD OF giving a new one for salvation purposes? Ezekiel 36 is talking about God transforming a non-believer into a believer. And while God certainly heals hearts, He heals believing hearts. We still go astray from time to time as believers and need healing, but that is very different from being transformed from completely lost to completely saved.

5,297 posted on 05/03/2008 2:00:45 AM PDT by Forest Keeper (It is a joy to me to know that God had my number, before He created numbers.)
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