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To: redleghunter; metmom

Did you simply mean the perfect acceptable sacrifice?

I find few here at FR to be interested in the true substance of the Gospels. Most are looking for “grace” to be doing the job that Yeshua said obedience would do.

Understanding of grace is totally lacking here, and expectations WRT grace are stretched well beyond the breaking point. “Easy Believism” is the commonly applied term, but that lacks sufficient definition to be used descriptively.


109 posted on 01/24/2014 9:02:30 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

In God’s brilliance, His solution for salvation is indeed easy. Nothing could be easier. Simply exercise faith alone in Him alone, in all things, and we continue to walk through faith in Him.

It only becomes difficult when we make it difficult, by trying to do His work for Him, instead of allowing His Providence to guide us along His Plan. Our scarred soul keeps confusing the knowledge of good and evil ever since the fall in the Garden with His Plan.

His Plan naturally allows us to perform divine good works through faith in Him, while we are in fellowship with Him, but whenever we perform good works on our own independent of faith in Him, no matter how good the work may seem, it still amounts as a counterfeit substitute for our life through faith in Christ, resulting in good for nothingness, never to receive any future reward by His Standards.

Adversity is inevitable. Stress is optional through faith in Christ.


115 posted on 01/24/2014 10:47:45 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Yes, the Gospels must be seen in the light of the cross and resurrection.


183 posted on 01/24/2014 9:32:50 PM PST by redleghunter
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