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Confession: I don’t want Trump to go to heaven
Hearing him admit that he might not be first in line at the pearly gates was surreal.
Was my father right to embrace predestination?
If we take the doctrine seriously, then we dare not draw the circle of salvation along religious lines. Or any lines at all.
by Matthew Myer Boulton
After the personal salvation gospel
The world won't be saved by my prayers or virtuous desires.
by Angela Denker