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J. Clarke wrote:
> In article <89781c2f-f4f5-4bcb-94cb-a5f48e...@googlegroups.com>, rick.c...@gmail.com says...
> > Christian churches teach salvation through the atoning blood sacrifice
> > made by Jesus Christ at Calvary. They teach that we cannot save ourselves
> > by good works and deeds.
>
> So why do you preach at everybody? Is this not an attempt at "good
> works and deeds"?

Christians are commanded to teach others (Matthew 28:18+).  For
those who are saved, who have been forgiven for their sin, they will
labor for the Lord.  These are all "good works," but they are not "unto"
salvation, but are rather "the result of' salvation.

Our "good works" won't save us, but everyone who is born again will
have good works (assuming they remain alive long enough, and don't
do something like receive Christ's forgiveness in their dying moments).

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Why do I "preach at everybody?"  Because people are amazing and so
beautiful, and because eternity lasts forever.  There's no coming back
from that.  It is an end of you, filled with unending torment, the
deemed confinement for an eternal being of grand form and power
(you) who has rejected truth, and embraced lies, in a universe built and
founded upon truth.

Jesus restores us to that which God intended before sin entered in
and destroyed everything.  We are created beings made in His image
and likeness.  He has an eternal purpose for us, but until we acknowledge
our sin, our guilt, our shame, voluntarily, and ask forgiveness, and really
mean it because we truly repent, we remain under condemnation.

I don't want anyone to remain under condemnation, because of what it
means in eternity.  I want everyone to enter Heaven and live and thrive
and shine on and on forever, in a body like the angels, young, fit, strong,
beautiful, and without limitation.  The Bible actually calls it, "a
glorified body."  And it is our permanent home.

We only exist here as we do, in aging decrepit bodies, because of sin.
Jesus takes away sin, preparing the way to eternity.

It is important because of what it means to each of us individually.

Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin
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Robert Spanjaard

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Religious evangelism in comp.lang.c... again... Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap@arumes.com> - 2016-12-21 16:26 +0100
  Re: Religious evangelism in comp.lang.c... again... "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-21 07:29 -0800
    Re: Religious evangelism in comp.lang.c... again... Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap@arumes.com> - 2016-12-21 16:43 +0100
    Re: Religious evangelism in comp.lang.c... again... gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-12-21 16:06 +0000
    Re: Religious evangelism in comp.lang.c... again... Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2016-12-21 10:18 -0600
      Re: Religious evangelism in comp.lang.c... again... "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-21 08:45 -0800
  Re: Religious evangelism in comp.lang.c... again... Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-21 09:22 -0800
    Re: Religious evangelism in comp.lang.c... again... Robert Spanjaard <spamtrap@arumes.com> - 2016-12-21 18:26 +0100
      Re: Religious evangelism in comp.lang.c... again... Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-21 17:49 +0000
        Re: Religious evangelism in comp.lang.c... again... Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-12-21 10:05 -0800
          Re: Religious evangelism in comp.lang.c... again... Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-12-21 18:33 +0000

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