... all! It is the ACTS/ACTIONS - ie WORKS, it took to obtain the promise/salvation! "What doth it profit, my brethern, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?" "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone" "and by works was faith made perfect" "For as the body without the spirit is ... dead, so faith without works is dead also." JAMES 2:14-26 GRACE is the path that leads to the door of salvation and ALL are welcome ... to travel it. (JOHN 3:16, ACTS 2:39) FAITH is walking the path, MANY will journey. (MATTHEW 22:14) When you reach the Door ......

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... My earliest recollection of hearing these things are from the Oklahoma City bombing. I think I was not even ten years old and I was hearing about whether or not this man should be killed. Ever since that time I have been trying to figure out if I think he should have died for the crime he committed. I am still unsure ... in, contradicts itself. Looking at real life cases, or movies, makes it somewhat hard to figure out what my views on capital punishment are. In the movie Dead Man Walking it was obvious that Matthew Poncelet committed the murder of the boy yet I still was not certain tha...

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