[boatbums]

you absurdly concluded that we can violate them.

You can keep up the charade of what you say I concluded in my comments, I will not try to enlighten you on my point any longer.

Anyone else STILL thinking I concluded we have free rein to disobey the ten commandments? For the record, I did not and I do not.

As to me setting aside the grace of God, you said: good works, a necessary divinely ordained part of grace. This indicates to me a complete imcomprehension of what "grace" means and a total disregard for Scriptural truths that clearly state we do not contribute anything to the sacrifice Christ made on our behalf. He paid the penalty for sin - completely - it is "blood that makes an atonement for the soul" not good works.

[Quix]

GIVEN THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE VATICAN RUBBER DICTIONARY,
OF COURSE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND "GRACE!"

Your standard dictionary probably includes the concepts that GRACE = GOD'S UNMERITED, UNEARNED, FREE-GIFTED, USUALLY FAITH FOSTERD--FAVOR, SALVATION!

SILLY!

Every rabid clique 2 year old knows that in the grand !!!!TRADITIONS!!!! of the rubber dictionaries, histories, 'Bibles,' math texts, 'logic' texts, of the Vatican rubber libraries . . .

GRACE MEANS:

SLAVISHLY AND MINDLESSLY FOLLOWING the bureaucratic magicsterical power-mongers through all the endless hoop jumping through the STATIONS OF THE CROSS; THE STATIONS OF THE WHITE HANKY; the genuflecting rituals; the rosary rituals; the crawling on broken glass to kiss marble statues' toes rituals; the worship of idols, icons, THE INSTITUTION AND PERSONAGES rituals; . . . [it's endless] . . .

THEN, IF ALLLLLLLLLLLL THAT IS 99.999999999% PURELY, FAITHFULLY WORKED OUT . . .

MAYBE one will have EARNED sufficient 'GRACE' to manage a big toe in PURGATORY! What joy!

/sat

[annalex]

we do not contribute anything to the sacrifice Christ made on our behalf

If we did not have to contribute anything ourselves, we all would be saved no matter what we do. But that is not what the gospel teaches.