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To: Dutchboy88
You contend the obedience to these creates righteousness.

Grace creates righteousness, obedience helps.

Once we are rescued, we have encouragements to do that which avoids more death: Love one another, forgive one another, rebuke one another.

Why, that could have been written by a Catholic. But how do you square that state of being "encouraged" with absence of free will on the part of the one doing the loving, the forgiving, etc.?

351 posted on 07/08/2009 5:10:45 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: annalex

Helps what? Create righteousness?

And, again, you are not reading my posts. The will to do whatever we might do toward obedience is managed there by God Himself. That is what the Scriptures tell us. We are moved, managed, by God. Our wills are in bondage to whatever He desires.

Your organization is at odds with this claim, since it is persuaded that Semi-Pelagiansim is true. That is heresy, but it hasn’t stopped them for 1500 years.

In reality, there is no free will.

Got to run for the evening.


352 posted on 07/08/2009 5:41:10 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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