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To: annalex
Re: 195:

A moment's honest reflection will show you that you cannot be born again of the spirit when you are six weeks old. What do you think salvation consists of? A magical state of worthiness, conferred through others in infant baptism? It is something the individual human being must experience and take part in, the pivotal and defining moment of a person's life.

Re: 197:

There is, of course, backsliding, and your eternal salvation can be lost if you throw it away, after being saved, in this fashion and never return to the Lord. On this issue we seem to be a bit closer than on what it means to be born again.

Yet it's always a good idea to remember that he is omniscient, his mind is not completely knowable to us, and his mercy is greater than our mercy. So we ought not to judge others, as it says, especially with arbitrary rules and schedules.

201 posted on 05/06/2008 6:26:22 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand
you cannot be born again of the spirit when you are six weeks old.

Why? Is Spirit not God?

So we ought not to judge others, as it says, especially with arbitrary rules and schedules

No, of course not. We should obey the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

I belong to his church in the right meaning of the word.

The Church of Darwin?

205 posted on 05/06/2008 7:23:49 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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