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To: verga
"Got it, God just imagines we did good works and that is enough for him."

Some are living in an alternate reality of their own construct in which love is never a governing Christian principle and the Second Greatest Commandment is not applicable to the elect.

In it, since God decided from before the beginning of time which of us is saved and which of us isn't, good works are superfluous for the saved and inefficacious for the damned. Those aided by the good works are irrelevant and those not are inconsequential.

We certainly see the effects of this mindset in the everyday conduct of those influenced by Calvin on these threads. We cannot educate anyone against their will. All we can hope to do is to, and all we need to do is present them with the examples of Christian love.

"We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister. - 1 John 4:19-21

Bless you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

320 posted on 06/07/2012 3:31:01 PM PDT by Natural Law (Jesus did not leave us a Bible, He left us a Church.)
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To: Natural Law

So your salvation is based on faith in Jesus and loving others with your good works, as well as baptism, confession, communion and mandatory sunday mass.


322 posted on 06/07/2012 4:13:14 PM PDT by bkaycee
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