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Holy Steps that don't give grace - at all!

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Imagine a door. A door that only opens once or maybe twice in a lifetime. The door has incredible powers. It has the ability to cleanse you. It has the ability to pardon and cast your sin as far as the east is from the west. In fact, there isn’t just one of them, there are four, and they are opened only once every 25 years in the city of Rome . Since you were a kid you were told that these doors had the ability to cleanse you from every sin you have ever committed, as long as you walked through them. I wish this were a fairytale. Millions of Roman Catholic around the world will be heading to Rome this year, thinking that there they will be able to be absolved of all their sins. That by getting on a plane, and by saying a few prayers that their actions will assuage the wrath of God. Have you ever seen a desperate person lost in false religion? Desperately trying to earn their way to heaven? I can still picture the crying lady, crawling on her knees as it was yesterday. Tears filled...