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To: P-Marlowe; Rodney King; Frumanchu
You EARNED your salvation by accepting Christ????

This is where Calvinists goes off into imaginative LaLa Land. To say that believing is "a work" is ridiculous because the entire New Testament differentiates between the two. Paul in Romans 4:5 writes:

"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness".

---worketh not, but believeth ---

Believing is not a work ---- nor is receiving ---- either scripturally or in the real world.

140 posted on 05/28/2007 4:13:10 AM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip; P-Marlowe; Rodney King; Frumanchu
"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness".

Where precisely does your faith come from? Answer that question honestly and you'll end up in La-La Land.

141 posted on 05/28/2007 5:45:36 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: Uncle Chip
This is where Calvinists goes off into imaginative LaLa Land.

Really?

Are you claiming that you EARNED your salvation by believing?

143 posted on 05/28/2007 7:04:37 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Uncle Chip
Believing is not a work ---- nor is receiving ---- either scripturally or in the real world.

Do believing and receiving involve a function of the will?

Is belief something you do? Is receiving something you do?

151 posted on 05/28/2007 7:56:55 AM PDT by Frumanchu (Jerry Falwell: Now a Calvinist in Glory)
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To: Uncle Chip
Believing is not a work ---- nor is receiving ---- either scripturally or in the real world.

Lucifer BELIEVES in God, yet he is fallen. Belief without love of the Lord is nothing at all.

160 posted on 05/28/2007 9:09:14 AM PDT by tioga (Fred Thompson for President.)
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