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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: A question for Paul and others
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Date: Sat, 10-Nov-84 21:11:08 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 10 21:11:08 1984
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> A man who has sinned his whole life can be saved at the
> last minute by accepting Christ and trusting in his mercy.
 
> Doesn't this imply that a Christian never really needs to do
> anything good and is free to be as evil as he feels, as long
> as he repents before dying?

Good question.  My personal feeling is that such a plan of repentance
is such a bald-faced attempt to avoid one's obligations that it's hard
to see how it could ever be legitimate.

Charley Wingate   umcp-cs!mangoe