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To: yldstrk; Alex Murphy; bkaycee; blue-duncan; boatbums; caww; count-your-change; CynicalBear; ...
God didn't *do* this to His child.

Jesus took it on Himself.

John 10:18 No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”

This (the crucifixion) is what it took to pay for your sin and mine. It shows us the ugliness of sin and the seriousness with which it is treated by God.

That is why no amount of good works a person can do can ever begin to pay for our sin. Our sin is far more heinous than we can ever imagine and to think that our pitiful little deeds that we call good works can appease God's wrath and judgment of sin is an affront to God and Jesus and what He endured so many years ago. Adding them to the finished work of Christ on the cross, thinking that they will somehow contribute to our salvation, diminishes what Christ endures on our behalf out of love for us.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

This is why born again believers do not consider works necessary to attain salvation and this is why (out of gratitude) we do good works after we're saved.

19 posted on 04/18/2014 2:14:18 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: metmom
>>This is why born again believers do not consider works necessary to attain salvation and this is why (out of gratitude) we do good works after we're saved.<<

The carnal mind will never understand that statement.

22 posted on 04/18/2014 4:05:31 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ)
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