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To: JMJ333
An indulgence is is a removal of all or some of the punishment due to already forgiven sin because of the performance of a good deed or the saying of a prayer.

This doesn't make sense. If the sin is "already forgiven," there can be no punishment to remove! That's the very definition of forgiveness. The idea of What you have done here is put a "spin" on it in order to defend this evil and corrupt practice. And you say nothing about the exchange of MONEY(!) for these indulgences. In Luther's day, they were sold for money!! Peter said, "and your money perish with you" to the man who would purchase his way to heaven.

Furthermore, if "good deeds" could gain forgiveness, then there would be no need for Jesus Christ to die on that cross. It was the ONLY WAY! If there was another way, do you think God would have sent His Son? His death was the ONLY WAY that God could wipe away sin. It is blasphemous to suggest even remotely that there is any other way.

128 posted on 06/05/2002 7:21:11 AM PDT by exmarine
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To: exmarine
I understand quite well that Protestants don't believe in purgatory. I do, because I believe that we go through a cleansing process before entering heaven. So, when I say the ommitance of punishment for already forgiven sin, I am saying it in context of purgatory. Regards.
129 posted on 06/05/2002 7:30:27 AM PDT by JMJ333
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