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Re: Essential Goal of Christianity???
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Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind
who is talking about manually producing good works as a means of salvation? i said the essence of christianity is to produce the love nature of christ in us. obviously if i said the love nature of christ, i am referring to the biblical definition of love.it is also evident that people like ghandhi, martin luther king, dorothy day and mother teresa expressed the biblical definition of love and that they did it as an expression of the spirit of God that is resident in every human because god is resident in every human and because god is love therefore those people expressed the spirit of god without ever having been baptized in jesus name or spoken in tongues. good works as an expression of god's spirit of love residing in you does save you according to matthew 25 and 1cor 13.
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So you believe all human beings are already filled with God's Spirit?
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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