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To: Dr. Eckleburg
"Do you cooperate by your own ability or is it the Holy Spirit who enables your cooperation?"

I choose to cooperate. Had I not I would be like those unsaved who by their own choice and free will rejected salvation. God did not reject them.

Because we are human we are wounded by original sin and every hour of every day we are presented with the choice to either cooperate with Grace or with sin. Those who presume grace and deny the ability to sin are at the greatest risk.

CCC 2022 The divine initiative in the work of grace precedes, prepares, and elicits the free response of man.

Peace be with you.

164 posted on 05/06/2012 5:38:56 PM PDT by Natural Law (God, be merciful to me, the sinner!)
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To: Natural Law
Why do you "choose to cooperate" and your neighbor next door doesn't?

Are you more holy than your neighbor? Are you less fallen than your neighbor?

deny the ability to sin

Who does that? Protestants know all men sin every day, as Paul told us. If you deny that, the truth is not in you.

Our difference is that I have been forgiven, according to Christ, whereas RCs must pay for their sins every day just as soon as they leave the confessional and sin again.

Read your Bible and learn what God's free, unmerited grace actually means.

"Be not afraid; only believe." -- Mark 5:36

167 posted on 05/06/2012 6:34:01 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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