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To: annalex

Of course it is inaccurate. I said that the Law and the “requirements” for righteousness are there to teach you about your depravity and inability.

Once we are rescued, we have encouragements to do that which avoids more death: Love one another, forgive one another, rebuke one another.

What is quite different about our views on this is:
You contend the obedience to these creates righteousness.
We contend that the righteousness granted to us
creates the interest in doing these.

Obedience that we display, the success to which we may rise is all a product of God working in us to WILL and to DO His good pleasure. You see this as human response worthy of reward for your cooperation. Catch the difference?


350 posted on 07/08/2009 4:45:59 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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To: Dutchboy88
You contend the obedience to these creates righteousness.

Grace creates righteousness, obedience helps.

Once we are rescued, we have encouragements to do that which avoids more death: Love one another, forgive one another, rebuke one another.

Why, that could have been written by a Catholic. But how do you square that state of being "encouraged" with absence of free will on the part of the one doing the loving, the forgiving, etc.?

351 posted on 07/08/2009 5:10:45 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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