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Recent content by fhansen

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    The Guiltless Life

    Ok, and Scripture informs us that we must participate in the appropriation of that holiness if we expect to see God. He doesn't just make us into a Christian automaton IOW.
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    The Guiltless Life

    Yes, He wants us holy, in word and deed. And yet He doesn't demand perfect holiness in this life but that is certainly the path He wants us on, not taking our forgiveness for granted. Yes, "concupiscence" is not removed from our reality here. We must still struggle against the temptations to...
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    The Guiltless Life

    That’s a bit of an odd statement since the growth God wants is in our holiness. And sin is sin, of the devil, anti-love, while righteousness is doing right as John affirms in his letters. Believers are not immune from intentional sin, not until and unless they’re “perfected in love” which won’t...
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    Are We Sinners or Overcomers?

    Yes, we’re meant to overcome, by the grace and power of the Holy Spirit. But to do so we must acknowledge that we’re sinners. And that tension, that back and forth dynamic or struggle is life-long as we, hopefully, grow in holiness, nearer and nearer to the image of God. Meanwhile some...
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    Inside the Atonement: What Christ Actually Did on the Cross

    This is good. If anything the cross is "no more" than full-blown proof that God has always loved man, and far beyond our immediate comprehension. That was Him on the cross after all. Now, the legal necessity of satisfying justice for the offense of sin also seems to be relevant-and Scriptural...
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    Inside the Atonement: What Christ Actually Did on the Cross

    That's interesting. The gospel appeals to us, because something in us is the obstacle to begin with. An ancient teaching maintains that, at the Fall, man became divided in some manner from God, from his fellow man, from the rest of creation, and from and within himself. What will tear down that...
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    God requires sinless perfection to enter His kingdom

    I’m not sure either LOL
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    God requires sinless perfection to enter His kingdom

    Well, Jesus established a church, to carry on His work, and without which which Chrsitianity would've most likley ended up as a minor footnote in history, at best.
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    God requires sinless perfection to enter His kingdom

    All right, thank you. I wasn't meaning to be contentious-but I probably tend to get defensive on the forums.. If you read Catholic teachings, in the catechism and Vatican 2 documents for example, you'll find that the church teaches that people can be and are saved outside of the Catholic Church...
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    God requires sinless perfection to enter His kingdom

    At one time there was one church for all practical purposes comprised of the eastern and western (Catholic) churches-and that's where and how people heard the Good News and within which they lived it out. It was all a universal, catholic, church. My love for the church is in the teachings-the...
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    God requires sinless perfection to enter His kingdom

    For myself it's just a matter of what God desires in order to see us as His children-and to remain in that state, that state of justice. The sacraments are simply vehicles towards that end, that have served well because by them the simplest and most illiterate folk down through the centuries...
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    God requires sinless perfection to enter His kingdom

    Well, if the adversary has that much control then even the unlying non-hypocrite is probably fake. The question remains, why would we have any success at all just because our eyes are opened, since/if the adversary still has control?
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    God requires sinless perfection to enter His kingdom

    But if we remain sinners, why would anyone change at all after regeneration?
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    Can you have justice without judgment?

    Justice often means righting wrongs, striving against injustices done to others.
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    God requires sinless perfection to enter His kingdom

    And, with that humility, ‘if we confess our sins He'll purify us from all unrighteousness’, 1 John 1. It may be a struggle, and an ongoing one, but He didn't come and do all that He did just so we could remain in our sins, but to deliver us from them. Sin is death.