MDMD(3)--Just a thought

Juan Cires Martinez jcm at mat.upm.es
Fri Jul 11 11:22:24 CDT 1997


Catherine P. said:

> It doesn't.  However, one of the principle tenets of Christ's teachings
> in the New Testament is that man/woman cannot be saved by good works or
> behavior, only by repentant faith, which leads to God's mercy, which
> (Julie Andrew's voice/everybody now:) 'will bring us back to mu'

To "A Masque of Mercy", by Robert Frost, (published by Henry Holt),
in which God comes to Job on a deserted island to thank him, the
liberator of God, from having to reward good and bad actions with
salvation/condemnation.

All from memory, without my book at hand, Juan.



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