On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 02:43:03 -0700, "Frank"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Much of the world rightly believes that Christ   
   >is God, the Son of God.   
   >   
   >And some of those rightly believe that Christ   
   >himself is our Salvation.   
   >   
   >But the world,   
   >including its denominations today,   
   >stops short of what it   
   >must believe to have eternal life,   
   >namely, what Christ reveals in his Gospel,   
   >the real Gospel, that he is our Righteous Substitute,   
   >or as Christ showed Luther:   
   >Christ is the righteousness of God for us:   
   >   
   >For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ:   
   >for it is the power of God unto salvation   
   >to every one that believeth;   
   >to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.   
   >For therein is the righteousness of God revealed   
   >from faith to faith:  as it is written,   
   >The just shall live by faith.   
   >(Romans 1:16-17 KJV)   
   >   
   >Christ ever regards himself as our Righteous Substitute   
   >the moment that he gives us faith to trust him   
   >to take our place to give us eternal life.   
   >   
   >Only when a person really believes that Christ   
   >is their Righteous Substitute, will that person   
   >be able to no longer trust in   
   >their own "righteousness" for salvation,   
   >and rather trust Christ to be their entire   
   >righteousness for salvation.   
   >   
   >Otherwise, people will just continue   
   >to trust in their own efforts for salvation,   
   >especially in their repentance.   
   >   
   >Anyone who trusts in their repentance   
   >for salvation, cannot trust Christ for salvation   
   >because they are trusting in themselves.   
   >   
   >Unless Christ gives people the faith   
   >to trust him to be their Righteous Substitute,   
   >people just cannot believe that Christ would ever   
   >save anyone who has not repented;   
   >but Christ is sovereign and if he wants   
   >to save a Paul who is on his way   
   >to destroy Christians,   
   >that is the business of Christ and not ours.   
   >   
   >Are we then to preach against repentance?   
   >Of course not.   
   >We are to preach against trusting in   
   >repentance for salvation.   
   >Why should we do that?   
   >Because generation after generation   
   >is going to the abyss,   
   >and will keep doing so   
   >unless Christ by his Gospel gives people   
   >faith to stop trusting in self for salvation,   
   >and rather start trusting Christ   
   >to be their Righteous Substitute   
   >so he gives them eternal life.   
   >   
   >--   
   >http://roines.home.mindspring.com   
      
      
   You got to be a real idiot to believe this bullshit.  Jesus Christ   
   never was anything more than a lying fucking mentally unstable Jew who   
   thought he was God due to his mental illness.  That's why they hung   
   him on a cross.  Today he would be locked behind bars if he were   
   alive.  Rather than pray to Jesus, pray to any celebrity in Hollywood,   
   you have a much better chance of getting a little of their money.   
   Jesus Christ was mentally ill.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)