From: psyrobtw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Robert Weiss)
Subject: Re: Disillusioned Protestant Finds Christ
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In article <1qmhp7$33t@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, cj195@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John W. Redelfs) writes...
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>In a previous article, tom@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Tom Albrecht) says:
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>>In article <1qb726$j9d@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu< cj195@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John W. Redelfs) writes:
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>><I learned that God loves his children who have never heard of him and has a
>><plan for redeeming them too, even those who have died without a knowledge
>><of Christ.  I learned that a man cannot frustrate justice by repenting on
>><his death bed because repentance is more than a feeling of remorse.  It
>><requires faith in Christ proven by following him, by keeping his
>><commandments.  Such cannot be accomplished on ones deathbed.
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>>So Jesus must have lied to the thief on the cross.
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>Paradise and salvation are not the same thing.  Salvation is better.  Refer
>to John 14:2.

	I don't see the effort to equate salvation with paradise. 

	Rather, I see implied the fact that only those who are saved 
may enter paradise.

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Robert Weiss
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