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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: pleasing God
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Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 18:56:10 EST
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> Christians accept that they cannot please God by what they do here on earth.
> The law is just too hard for mortal man to obey.  But, even in failure,
> Christians are assured of God's love and forgiveness.

That's not what everybody believes.  If I remember _Pilgrim's Progress_
rightly, Bunyan has Moses ("the law") beat Christian up, and then Jesus
comes along and tells Moses to lay off; "the law" is no longer to be
used to damn all sinners.  A modern charismatic would say that God
always loves you and is pleased with you, even when your sins displease
him.

This may be only a semantic distinction.  It seems strange to write of
"failure" when one is assured of God's love.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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