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To: metmom
what good works can be found that are not in the Law?

Already posted once. I even remember you responding something not worthy of comment.

Let us then, as is becoming, as at all times, yet especially in the days of the feast, be not hearers only, but doers of the commandments of our Saviour; that having imitated the behaviour of the saints, we may enter together into the joy of our Lord which is in heaven, which is not transitory, but truly abides; of which evil doers having deprived themselves, there remains to them as the fruit of their ways, sorrow and affliction, and groaning with torments. Let a man see what these become like, that they bear not the likeness of the conversation of the saints, nor of that right understanding, by which man at the beginning was rational, and in the image of God. (St. Athanasius, Letters, 2 )

Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience: Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also. But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection: And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful. (Colossians 3:12-15)


1,236 posted on 09/12/2013 6:56:17 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex
Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience: Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also. But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection: And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful. (Colossians 3:12-15)

Paul is speaking to new Christians who have been saved by faith alone...He is encouraging the saints to be involved with good works after the fact...

Col 3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Col 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

That's one of the tactics of your religion...It's not done out of ignorance...Pull a single verse (or part of one) out of its context and try to build a new, unbiblical doctrine out of it...

There is no faith + works for salvation in that verse...

1,292 posted on 09/12/2013 10:45:32 PM PDT by Iscool
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