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Old 01-06-2014, 09:30 AM   #5
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Default Re: My Journey to the Local Church, and beyond...

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I, too, had the idea that perhaps when Paul wrote in Romans seven about "The things that I don't want to do, I still do" he wasn't speaking hypothetically, but from real [post-conversion] experience. Perhaps.
Also this view casts the following Romans 8 quotes from Paul more in the "grace" category than the "works" one:

"What shall then separate us from the love of God?" and "Who then accuses us when God has chosen us for His own?"

Etc etc. Paul, even, could fail. God would not fail. God had chosen Paul and God's mercy endures forever.
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