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To: metmom
And this is the loving Father of the Bible, according to Catholicism? One who makes His followers beg and grovel, and live in fear and apprehension that after doing all that, they still won't be sure about where they end up and have to wait until they die to find out?

Yeah, yeah, it's all about you and your telling Jesus of your own salvation, despite Scripture, and redacting much of it.

2,463 posted on 11/16/2011 4:29:24 PM PST 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; metmom

****And this is the loving Father of the Bible, according to Catholicism? One who makes His followers beg and grovel, and live in fear and apprehension that after doing all that, they still won’t be sure about where they end up and have to wait until they die to find out?****

Catholics do not grovel in fear, nor do we do works so that God can chalk up our “good works” column and then compare it to our “bad Christian” column.

A Catholic does good out of love and gratitude for the grace God has given us, we do this freely, as God has done so freely for us.

The point of “good works” and going to Mass and making confession is so we “remain in Him” and thus “He will remain in us”.

People fall away when they do not keep themselves close to Jesus through prayer and doing what He commanded. That is how people feel comfortable enough in their sin to call good evil and evil good believing that by merely professing or confessing a belief in Jesus they are saved.

I do not beg and grovel and live in fear. I live to remain in grace by following Christ and doing as He commanded.


2,515 posted on 11/17/2011 8:17:21 AM PST by Jvette
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