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To: boatbums; OLD REGGIE; metmom
the verses [Titus 3:3-8] certainly do not say that we are saved by "excelling in good works".

It does not say we are saved by faith alone either. It says that we are saved by God's sovereing grace and not by works of justice. It then urges you to "excel in good works". Note, by the way, how instead of faith it speaks of another virtue, "hope". So much for your once-saved-always-saved-works-don't-matter fantasy.

6,668 posted on 01/04/2011 7:42:11 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex
So much for your once-saved-always-saved-works-don't-matter fantasy.

It seems your responses are getting more shrill with each post. If you are upset, maybe you need to take a break.

Would you please point me to any post that I or any other person has posted that says once-saved-always-saved-works-don't-matter, because I would have never said that. Of course works matter, just not in the way you fantasize they do. They will never save you. Only faith in Jesus Christ as Savior brings eternal life in heaven. Our works result from a heart that is changed by that very faith and the new nature that is born within us compels us to do works that are pleasing to God. It is pure folly to think that our meager efforts have any part in the righteousness God has imparted to us in Christ Jesus - folly, fantasy and fatal, forever!

6,688 posted on 01/04/2011 10:28:04 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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