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To: Dr. Eckleburg
How many times on FR have Calvinists declared to me that they are exempt from Judgement?

Zero times. Christians are judged according to Christ within them.

That is not what I have posted scores of times to you, all with Scriptural proofs. Kosta has also done a stellar job in posting proofs to you. All men, Christian and non Christian are Judged. That is Scripture, not the fairy tale fantasies of men that came out of the Reformation.

Read your Bible. Learn the truth.

I have and I have. Yet that is not because of you. I do not take or eschew action at the bidding of the likes of you.

Does God justify the Godly or the ungodly?

All men, even the Reformed elite, fall short of the example of Jesus. Therefore all men are ungodly; yet Jesus tells us to strive, struggle and persevere. Be perfect, as your Father in Heaven is perfect.

7,328 posted on 09/28/2010 5:36:44 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: MarkBsnr
All men, Christian and non Christian are Judged. That is Scripture.

And for the umpteenth time, Protestants agree with that statement.

Our difference with Rome is that while Rome believes men are judged according to their own good works (thus RCs can say with certainty Mother Teresa is saved by her charity even though she did not believe in Jesus Christ,) Protestants believe we are judged according to Christ's righteousness, mercifully imputed to us by God's grace through faith.

Feel free to stand before God clothed in your own good works. Seems pretty risky to me. I'll trust Christ to plead my case before God by His saving work on the cross which covers my sins and has redeemed by soul.

"...how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." -- 1 Thess. 1:9-10


"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him" -- Romans 5:8-9

How did Christ deliver us from the wrath of God? By His good example? No. By Christ paying for our sins and marking us "redeemed" even though we still sin every day. Therefore our righteousness doesn't save us. His righteousness saves us which is how God will judge us. By Christ within us.

Hear what Paul says Christians are judged by...

"And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith" -- Phil 3:9

Christ says He is enough for us.

How do Roman Catholics trust Christ's word never to let them go if they believe their own righteousness will save them?

Real security and trust in God brings with it confidence that Christ will absolutely do what He said He would do -- save His sheep.

"But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand." -- John 10:26-29


7,350 posted on 09/28/2010 6:49:44 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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