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Elsie in post #1290: "And Mary is surely dead."

Elsie in post #1291: "You can pray (to Mary) that my lack of respect for your chosen religion's teachings about her will not affect my relationship with GOD."

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Well, Elsie, if you don't believe Jesus Christ, I'm sure you certainly won't believe me about that either.

However, let me remind you once again of what Jesus Christ plainly said:

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"But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him."
Luke 20:37-38
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And as for that second request you made there, I will actually pray that your lack of respect for the Church founded by Jesus Christ (and for His Church's teachings) will RADICALLY affect your relationship with God, and that no matter what it takes, He will eventually convince you of ALL the truths He entrusted to His Church, and completely forgive you for your temporary rejection of those truths.

We can all be thankful that God is very forgiving and compassionate. (Jesus Christ even forgave those disrespectful, snarky ignoramuses who sneeringly mocked him on the cross, perversely deriding and reviling him, and Jesus actually prayed for them, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

1,371 posted on 10/13/2014 4:16:31 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)

Tell me what the Greek word ekklesia means.

1,378 posted on 10/13/2014 5:02:29 PM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus info)

I will actually pray that your lack of respect for the Church founded by Jesus Christ ...

Perhaps it's not so much the "church" that I 'disrespect'; but some of it's arrogant members than continue to proclaim that Salvation is ONLY thru OUR church and other clearly unbiblical staements.

The ones who are MORE than ready castigate Luther and then poo-poo their infamous popes as being merely men.

1,454 posted on 10/14/2014 3:46:22 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Well, Elsie, if you don't believe Jesus Christ, I'm sure you certainly won't believe me about that either.

Oh??

John 6:28-29

Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

I think that your chosen religion has ADDED a bit to Chirst's words.

1,455 posted on 10/14/2014 3:48:40 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him."

Do the lurkers a favor and please tell them what your church's official teaching is on the phrase, found in the bible, The Dead in Christ.

1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

1,456 posted on 10/14/2014 3:56:31 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

...He will eventually convince you of ALL the truths He entrusted to His Church, and completely forgive you for your temporary rejection of those truths.

Whoo!

I was being to worry!

1,457 posted on 10/14/2014 3:57:47 AM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)

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