Downeast Community Resources

Free web sites offered for Hancock County non-profit organizations. Check site for details. Part of EllsworthMe.org.

Downeast Maine Web Ring

Features over 30 websites located in the downeast region of the state.

DowneastMaine.com

Directory of arts, business, news, recreation, education, government and health for the region.

EllsworthMe.Org

Ellsworth. Downeast community resource links, also offers organizations space for their websites.

Gateway to Downeast: Ellsworth Maine

Local news, classified ads, vacation rentals, calendar, editorials, obits, photo gallery, guide and links. Site affiliated with the Ellsworth American newspaper.

Gateway to Downeast: Ellsworth Maine

Local news, classified ads, vacation rentals, calendar, editorials, obits, photo gallery, guide and links. Site affiliated with the Ellsworth American newspaper.

Out and About in Downeast Maine

On line ezine which previews maps, business links and advertising in the Ellsworth, Bar Harbor, downeast area of Maine.

Washington County Maine Area

History, profile and map of Downeast Maine, where the fields can turn to blue during blueberry season.

"Bart Goddard" wrote in message
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> After all this, you still don't understand enough of your
> opponents' doctrine to realize that our assertion is
> that it is as hard for an unregenerate person to believe
> in God as it is for him to fly to the moon (or to ride
> his camel through the eye of a needle.)

Ah! The light dawns!

God says it is easy! But you say it is not really very hard,
but impossible!

Hard like ascending up to heaven and bringing Christ down
Romans 10:6 "But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise,
Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring
Christ down from above:)"

Or hard like descending into hell and bringing Christ up:

Romans 10:7 "Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up
Christ again from the dead.)"

So the Apostle Paul contrasts these impossible things and says,

8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy
heart: that is, the word of faith, WHICH WE PREACH; 9 That if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that
God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the
heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation.

This is the gospel I preach, the gospel that Paul Preached!
Paul contrasts your impossible "faith" with something that is
in reach of EVERYONE! You make man run from God, by
your fantastic requirements. You have God "justifying" the regenerate,
the man who is already a child of God!

But God says the very opposite!

God justifies the ungodly, not the regenerate.

Romans 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth
the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

So, yet again, God tells us that saving faith is "working NOT"!
But you say that this saving faith which is counted for righteousness
is WORKS!

Revelation 22:17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears
say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and WHOEVER WISHES, let him
take the free gift of the water of life.

The true gospel of the true church and the true Holy Spirit say the above!

What say ye?

I say that the unregenerate, the ungodly, the unloving, man can respond
to God's call, and then God changes him, and makes him his son, and
empowers him to love God, and desire to please Him.

Gary



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