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To: A_perfect_lady; HiTech RedNeck; wastedyears
n other words, if wastedyears isn't feeling peace and joy right now, he has failed to seek God with an open enough heart. That's all you Christians on here are really saying to him. God is peace, but you have to do it right.

Indeed, there is right way of doing things, that is part of life, but unlike the "lucky chance" that science requires for creation without a Creator, the "right way" of salvation is quite simple, as it is more of a matter of the heart than requiring much of the head.

"18 The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." (Psalms 34:18)

"And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. " (Matthew 18:3)

But when you are raised under a form of religion, such as largely perfunctory professions or misguided zeal for a church, and see no transformative reality, then it can act like an inoculation that breeds cynicism against the possibility that the claims of Christ (which the dead church makes of none effect) are real.

Meanwhile, there are abundant testimonies present (you can watch a few here tonight) and past that testify to the transformative reality of the Lord Jesus, including more hymns about this kind of personal relationship than any faith, and that are an effect that corresponds to the words of the object of their faith.

274 posted on 05/19/2013 8:38:06 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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To: daniel1212
the "right way" of salvation is quite simple, as it is more of a matter of the heart than requiring much of the head.

If it were simple, no Bible study would be required.

280 posted on 05/19/2013 8:51:13 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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