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To: bkaycee
Wouldnt it be easier if the Saints could notify us of our status daily?

Of course it would be; this is why veneration of saints is practically speaking necessary for salvation, for when you model your life after a saint your fortitude increases and you are better able to resists lower passions that lead to sin.

884 posted on 09/05/2013 6:12:55 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: annalex; bkaycee
Of course it would be; this is why veneration of saints is practically speaking necessary for salvation, for when you model your life after a saint your fortitude increases and you are better able to resists lower passions that lead to sin.

Hebrews 12:1-2 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Psalm 119:11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

Even if we sin ..... Romans 8:1-4 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

889 posted on 09/05/2013 8:22:42 PM PDT by metmom ( For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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