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Originally Posted by Digging4Truth
The most interesting point in your post ILG is this..
If I...
- Felt that this was some work that I must fulfill to be saved.
- Felt that this made me superior to another.
Then on both points... I would be in sin. What a cruel irony huh?
Even in doing right we must be careful of our spirit lest we do right in the wrong spirit.
More than all I strive to do or not do... Lord help my purpose & the spirit in which i live my convictions be as pleasing as any of the actions. |
Right. That is a cruel irony. The reasons that I left off doing these things is that I started doing them for the right reasons....that I was doing it to please God because it seemed like a
better way. Not the
only way. What happened over the course of the first 16 years in the UPC for me
was that I became utterly confused about this. NO ONE would call a spade a spade and say some were doing these things out of legalism or in order to be or stay saved. This really messed me up. And when I finally figured out the truth....that these things would save no one and made no one superior to another, it was such a RELIEF and also such a SHOCK that those who were teaching me supposedly in the ways of righteousness led me down a wrong path, I realized that the politics of the UPC as a pastor's wife would also require me to not call a spade a spade because even though some do these things out of living a better way much UPC teaching is legalism and/ or salvation based on standards that I realized I did not want to participate in such.
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