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 %PREOCCUPATION MEANS SALVATION FAITH WORKS RITUALS+971215                                                                     
 %BELIEFS DOCTRINE DOGMA CONFESSIONS SIN EVIL GRACE 971215             
                                                                                                                               
     Many  religious  leaders are preoccupied with  issues               
of:                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
          CONTROL             &        SALVATION:                                                           
                                                                                                                               
1.  Who should control?       1.  Who should save? 2.  Who                                                           
should be controlled?  2.  Who should be saved? 3.  Who is                                                           
being controlled?   3.  Who is being saved?  4.  Who is to                                                           
be  controlled?     4.  Who  is to be saved?   5.  How  to                                               
control   people?         5.  How  to  attain   salvation?                                               
6.  Good personal controls?   6.  Good personal salvation?                                                           
7.  Evil personal controls?   7.  Evil personal salvation?                                       
8.  Conformity by controls?   8.  Salvation by conformity?            
9.  Conformity to standards?  9.  Standards for salvation?            
10. Communal  controls?          10. Communal   salvation?                                                           
11. Personal righteousness?   11. Righteous relationships?       
12. Controls by punishments?   12. Salvation or Damnation?                                                           
13. Controls by alienation?   13. Salvation by Love?                                        
                                                                                                                               
     Religious  leaders have often been disturbed by  each                                                                     
other's  ways  of responding to  the  questions  suggested      
above  ---and  personal and communal integrity  have  been                                                                
compromised  by  how  they have responded to each  other's                                  
contentious ways of  dealing with each other.    What  are      
their fruits and what is their witness?                                                                                        
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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