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To: annalex
2. Our salvation is not secure till we die and are judged on the entirety of our works (for example, a “goat” might repent, as you yourself note, or a “sheep” may fall into sin.

I agree you can find that in the scriptures...But it does not apply to Christians...We as Christians have been judged already and have been found to be just...

We have eternal life RIGHT NOW and we shall NOT fall into condemnation...

824 posted on 06/20/2010 12:22:30 AM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Iscool
.We as Christians have been judged already and have been found to be just... We have eternal life RIGHT NOW and we shall NOT fall into condemnation...

AMEN!!!

Rome conspires to erase all Christian particularism, making everything equally relative and therefore nothing definite nor true.

Scripture tells us our salvation is neither relative, haphazard nor uncertain...

"For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God." -- 1 Corinthians 1:18


"Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." -- Romans 3:24-28

By whose righteousness are men saved? Not by their own righteousness, but by the righteousness of Christ mercifully imputed to them. Since this is predicated on God's will, ordained from before the foundation of the world, we can be assured of His faithfulness to do what we cannot.

"Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it." -- 1 Thess. 5:24

825 posted on 06/20/2010 3:01:00 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Iscool
We as Christians have been judged already and have been found to be just

No, the scripture does not say that. It says that God knows how we shall be judged -- He knows His elect. He may even help His elect along and pass over the reprobates, the process knows as predestination. But the judgement, as Matthew 25 or Romans 2 indicate, happens after the works are done, -- or not done.

863 posted on 06/21/2010 5:48:49 AM PDT by annalex
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