In a message dated 1/16/2005 7:29:08 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL
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If we keep God's commandments as far as we understand them, and live each day
as if there will be no tomorrow, we will have no problems when we are called up
to meet our maker. This will be true whether we are LDS, evangelical
Protestant, Catholic, Jew, Muslim, or whatever.
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his
friends. Ye are my friends, if you do whatsoever I command you."
John 15: 13-14
BlaineRB
Blaine -- is one complimentary to the other (paragraph, above)?
John
BLAINE: Yes, definitely! I think the passage is saying that Jesus Christ laid
down his life for his friends--and that to do so is apparently the limit of any
man's love, including His own. Therefore, if we are to be his friends, and
qualify for his redemption, we must keep his commandments. Anyone who does
this within the parameters of his understanding, I believe will qualify as a
"Friend" of Jesus, and therefore will be among those sanctified by his
redeeming blood, through the ministrations of the Holy Spirit. Case in point:
Cornelius, the Gentile Centurion, who kept the commandments insofar as he
understood them, and was therefore accounted worthy, as one whom God cleansed
through the ministrations of the Holy Spirit. Acts Ch 10
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