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To: maryz
So am I to conclude that if you love neither God nor your neighbor nor have faith even the size of the mustard seed, you’re OK with God?

Only if you have the secret Reformed decoder ring, the Reformed passwords, the Reformed handshakes, the Reformed assurance of salvation and the Reformed sneer at the reprobates and the 'gentiles'. Hmm they are sounding more and more like Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and Brigham Young and Sidney Rigdon. Only the Reformed, the OSAS crowd and the Mormons have imposed their will upon God for their own salvation.

8,846 posted on 10/05/2010 3:22:29 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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Only if you have the secret Reformed decoder ring, the Reformed passwords, the Reformed handshakes, the Reformed assurance of salvation and the Reformed sneer at the reprobates and the 'gentiles'. Hmm they are sounding more and more like Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery and Brigham Young and Sidney Rigdon. Only the Reformed, the OSAS crowd and the Mormons have imposed their will upon God for their own salvation

Do either of you have a mirror? Because these words of yours do not sound like the love your neighbor type. Since I got lumped in with the "Reformed" crowd - yes, I admit I'm a OSAS (GASP!!!)- let me proclaim that I love others and treat them the way I would want to be. I try very, very hard to even love people the way Christ loves them. I do not sneer at unbelievers, I do not curse them or try to belittle them, I do not boast of my perfection because however much good I might have within me, it is all from the grace of God and not a drop is self-fabricated.

We "Protestants", "Reformers" or whatever else label you prefer do not impose our will upon God for their own salvation and that statement itself makes no sense whatsoever. I am pretty sure, after all these posts, that you really don't believe it's true either but are trying to make a point.

As we near 9000+ posts on a thread with dubious beginnings, why don't we close up shop and start over on a more civil one. This one has only become a chopping block for one against another of those who both claim to be "ones of Christ's". Can we no longer act that way or have all the bridges been burned?

8,928 posted on 10/05/2010 9:57:44 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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