Posted by Dinah on July 18, 2006, at 19:04:16
In reply to thanks for your input, posted by runner01girl on July 15, 2006, at 16:07:32
You know, I have a running battle about faith with a few of my fellow churchgoers.
To me, faith is a work. In fact it's more work than mere good deeds. And if one is to believe that one can't get to heaven by one's own works, I've always thought that included faith. I don't think I could faith hard enough to get into heaven.
Not that I believe in a literal heaven, but you get my point.
I rely on the grace of a loving God. Because I fall short of the mark rather frequently both in faith and in traditional good deeds. But through God, all things are possible.
I figure that God has what happens to me after death worked out, and I don't really need to worry about it. So many things appear on the surface to be horrible, yet really aren't. They're just part of God's plan. So most likely death is just another of them. It's just a passage that we don't know enough about. And whatever happens afterward - *whatever* - will be good and just right, because that's the way God works.
So if you don't feel like you can rely on yourself to be good enough, can you rely on God's grace?
With the usual caveats, I must confess that these are my ideas and my ideas alone, not many even agree with me, and they are no more likely or less likely to be technically correct than anyone else's ideas. And that's ok.
poster:Dinah
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