Seems like a long diatribe about something so simple as asking Jesus to come into your heart and be your savior. IMHO
It’s just expanding on this former thread — http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2444697/posts?page=1
Sorry it seems so ordinary to you. It’s very important to all Catholics.
You wrote:
“Seems like a long diatribe about something so simple as asking Jesus to come into your heart and be your savior.”
So, you think Jesus just asks for us to ask Him to come into our hearts as our Savior? No repentance is necessary? I guess we should just ignore those verses about obeying commandments while we’re at it?
“But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments” (Matthew 19:16-17).
Not what these hands have done,
Can save this guilty soul;
Not what this toiling flesh has borne,
Can make my spirit whole.
Refrain:
Thy work alone, my Saviour,
Can ease this weight of sin;
Thy blood alone, O Lamb of God,
Can give me peace within.
Not what I feel or do,
Can give me peace with God;
Not all my prayers, or sighs, or tears,
Can ease my awful load.
Thy love to me, O God,
Not mine, O Lord, to Thee,
Can rid me of this dark unrest,
And set my spirit free.
No other work save Thine,
No meaner blood, will do;
No strength, save that which is divine,
Can bear me safely through.
I praise the God of grace,
I trust His love and might;
He calls me His, I call Him mine;
My God, my joy, my light!
Give a Protestant a lesson, and he wants to know where is that in the Bible. Give him the Bible and he complains it’s too complicated.