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To: terycarl; smvoice; metmom
OSAS.....O.K.....I guess that there is no need now for all this church sturr....what's the point of keeping holy the sabbath if we are all already saved....feeding the poor....humbug, I am saved, why give my money to some derelict??? Don't steal, why not, you have some neat stuff that I'd like to own and I'm saved so sin is of no consequence to me...Heaven is just waiting for me to get there....

TC....dude....there's isn't a Christian who believes this. I don't know any believer in my circle who has this attitude. In fact it's the opposite. We know we can't do enough on behalf of the Kingdom. Yet at the same time we know any "deed" we do is insufficient for salvation.

As Christians, we are to bear the fruits of the Spirit as noted in Galatians.

We are guided by the Holy Spirit in these matters.

To reverse your logic, is the unsaved person who does "good" things such as feeding the poor, giving money to the derelict, etc.....does that get them into Heaven?

It's the same line of reasoning with baptism.

What is baptism without faith? It is someone getting wet...that's all.

Apart from faith all we do is a waste.

With faith we are being obedient to God and doing those things He wants us to do.

Is our salvation a license to sin? Good grief no!

1,411 posted on 05/09/2015 6:25:35 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

It’s really not so hard. Christians aren’t saved by their acts; the Holy Spirit calls them to act because they are saved.

In the same manner, He called them to salvation, through no merit of their own.


1,412 posted on 05/09/2015 6:40:08 AM PDT by antidisestablishment (#Draw, Mohammed!)
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To: ealgeone

Seems like they’re in a position where they can’t say they agree, because that would mean admitting we are correct.

And we all know that no non-Catholic is ever right about anything...... /s


1,413 posted on 05/09/2015 6:59:27 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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