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To: Dr. Eckleburg
"Without God’s free grace, no man wins the race or even wants to win it."

Grace is a gift freely given and there is sufficient Grace that all might be saved, yet all are not saved. But Grace, like sin requires cooperation to be effective. That is the purpose behind the free will and the knowledge of the difference good and evil given us by God. It is what makes us in His image and what differentiates us from the soul-less animals. Unlike sin, which often requires we do nothing at all to cooperate with it, Grace requires an affirmative act of the will. Foreknowledge is not predestination.

Read the Bible, all of it. Perhaps your Salvation will be found in part, in the missing seven books. Peace be with you.

153 posted on 05/06/2012 4:40:39 PM PDT by Natural Law (God, be merciful to me, the sinner!)
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To: Natural Law
Cooperation

Do you cooperate by your own ability or is it the Holy Spirit who enables your cooperation?

158 posted on 05/06/2012 5:14:55 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (i don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Natural Law
Protestants agree with the Jews regarding the Old Testament. It is Rome who grievously erred by inserting seven non-canon books into their Bibles -- all the better to justify its pagan left-overs like praying to dead people and elevating a women above Christ and bartering God's free grace.

Scam.

162 posted on 05/06/2012 5:37:34 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (i don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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