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Originally Posted by shazeep
"What remits sins?"
"A good deed covers many sins."
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"love covers all sin
Proverbs 10:12"
I personally believe the love referred to, is when Christ died for all of us. I don't think anyone here will disagree with you on the importance of love, but we must understand who's love. Without God there is no love. Scripture says if we love him we will keep his commandments. This isn't about being legalistic and earning our salvation, but it is about a love for God that causes us to want to know him and obey him.
In those cases where someone truly has never heard the truth; I would never condemn them to hell, but it is God who they will stand before. I would hate to stand before God having rejected God's word for some deeper enlightenment I received from my human comprehension about man's love.
When I stand before God I want to have adhered to God's word and also taught others to as well. Any deeper illumination than the word reveals is not for us, but for God. The scripture is our roadmap to a relationship to God and to salvation. It is not our own love that we need, but the love of God shone into our lives. Therefore it isn't our works that saves us, but the love and mercy of God that brings about obedience and good outward works in our lives.
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