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To: MarkBsnr

I know she was unsaved when she said she loved all religions and had the Hindus pray to their god when they were dying.. unless God did a mighty act this lady was lost


6,611 posted on 09/21/2010 6:08:02 PM PDT by RnMomof7 (........Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. Mat 22:29 )
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To: RnMomof7
I know she was unsaved when she said she loved all religions and had the Hindus pray to their god when they were dying.. unless God did a mighty act this lady was lost

Such arrogance. Such pride. Scripture tells us that it is not for you to judge; it is only for God. And God in return will Judge you, me and every person. All such boasting of things that one has no knowledge of either for one's self or for others is boastful and arrogant. And that is evil.

James 4: 1 1 Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Is it not from your passions 2 that make war within your members? 2 You covet but do not possess. You kill and envy but you cannot obtain; you fight and wage war. You do not possess because you do not ask. 3 You ask but do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4 Adulterers! 3 Do you not know that to be a lover of the world means enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a lover of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks without meaning when it says, "The spirit that he has made to dwell in us tends toward jealousy"? 4 6 But he bestows a greater grace; therefore, it says: "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble." 5

7 So submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you of two minds. 9 Begin to lament, to mourn, to weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into dejection. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you. 11 Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. Whoever speaks evil of a brother or judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. 6 If you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

12 There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save or to destroy. Who then are you to judge your neighbor?

13 7 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we shall go into such and such a town, spend a year there doing business, and make a profit"-- 14 you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. 8 You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears. 15 Instead you should say, "If the Lord wills it, 9 we shall live to do this or that."

16 But now you are boasting in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin. 10

Every man must ask what it is that He asks us to do. And Mother Teresa did what He asked far better than I would ever even dream of hoping to do...

6,615 posted on 09/21/2010 6:19:56 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Caholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: RnMomof7

“...unless God did a mighty act this lady was lost”

I believe that God was doing a mighty act all along.

“I know she was unsaved”......

We can’t know whether anyone is saved or unsaved—from one minute to the next. That knowledge is not given to us. And praise God for that—or our behavior would be even worse than it already is.


6,623 posted on 09/21/2010 10:26:03 PM PDT by Running On Empty ((The three sorriest words: "It's too late"))
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To: RnMomof7; HarleyD
unless God did a mighty act this lady was lost

God did a mighty act in her life! Though this discussion does suggest the question of why love of neighbor (certainly important as the second great commandment) is so curiously lacking in Calvinism, at best reduced to "charitable works", in HarleyD's phrase?

Maybe tangentially related (or maybe not), but I am curious as to how you interpret the verse:

And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.

6,665 posted on 09/22/2010 2:43:35 AM PDT by maryz
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