(October 13, 2015 at 10:37 am)Kingpin Wrote:(October 13, 2015 at 10:31 am)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: Catholicism had given me the impression that God supposedly keeps a record. You go into the confessional and trade your sins for prayers, right? Like a divine debt collectors office?
This is one of the many issues I have with Catholicism. Treating God as a "forgiveness ATM" makes it completely meaningless. There is no score or tally. The work was finished, completed. All have been forgiven. All one has to do is believe and accept it. That's the nutshell of Grace in the judeo-Christian view.
If I may not all have been forgiven, only those who accept what Christ did and who He is. I agree there is no score or tally, but records are keep, not for God but for us.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
