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To: Mom MD
Your beef is with a very smart- and courageous- Protestant named Bonhoeffer. Which I'm sure he is as well.

Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjacks' wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown away at cut prices. Grace is represented as the Church's inexhaustible treasury, from which she showers blessings with generous hands, without asking questions or fixing limits. Grace without price; grace without cost! The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing. Since the cost was infinite, the possibilities of using and spending it are infinite. What would grace be if it were not cheap?...

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

57 posted on 03/31/2021 7:14:04 PM PDT by MurphsLaw (“But now if you have a purse, take it.. and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.“)
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To: MurphsLaw
A more convoluted way to push salvation by works I doubt you could find. If you could you'd probably swallow that one.

Do you really believe The Creator of the Universe needs or even desirtes your flesh works to put HIS LIFE in your human spirit? Is your Catholic Org god so weak that he would need your help? Does your Jesus only have insufficient worth to guarantee He has paid your penalty for sin? Pssst, there is no such thing as purgatory where you can pay for your sins with your flesh or anything else, but that only applies to those who are trusting in The Lord Christ to be their sufficient Savior.

Salvation comes by faith ALONE in Christ Alone. You cannot add and are not required to add anything to the work the Supreme Creator of the Universe has done on your behalf. You do not and will not deserve ANY glory for the salvation GOD gives to you by HIS GRACE.

62 posted on 03/31/2021 7:37:53 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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