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To: terycarl
so, no matter what we do, how evil we are, how degenerate our lives, how many people we molest, how we steal, pillage ,etc etc...we die and go straight to Heaven....good luck with that theory.

Past tense. No matter what we've done.

No redeemed believer will continue to live like that.

For one thing, they have a new nature that finds sin revolting.

For another, God will not let someone continue to live like that.

That kind of thinking reveals the appalling lack of understanding on the part of Catholics as to what the new birth is all about and what having a new nature and the Spirit of God living within one, is like.

It's clear evidence that the person who thinks like that has never experienced the new birth otherwise they would know that someone born again does not, and could not think that way.

The born again believer has the mind of Christ, has been given a new heart and new mind that does NOT think that way.

2,816 posted on 10/21/2014 6:04:16 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
>>It's clear evidence that the person who thinks like that has never experienced the new birth otherwise they would know that someone born again does not, and could not think that way.<<

They do expose the condition of their soul don't they.

2,841 posted on 10/21/2014 7:03:13 AM PDT by CynicalBear (For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus)
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