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By Clash, October 16, 2008 at 9:32 pm Link to this comment

Grace is not earned, paid for, or taken it is simply given.

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By kath cantarella, October 15, 2008 at 3:49 pm Link to this comment
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Get someone to claim responsibility for your own sins, and then kill him? Absolve humanity of its sins by sacrificing the goat or burning the witch?

Doesn’t that go to the core of our essential problem? We all seem to want absolution without actually doing the work to get there.

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