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Pa Pa
He grew up in a very good Christian home, so it was a Calvinist home. His father we called Pa Pa which is why my grandchildren call me Pa Pa. My Pa Pa when we lived close to him would come over apologizing all the time. Even when my bio-father lived at home we read out loud the Bible almost every night. Some of the few times we went to his home after my parents divorced we did the same thing. He finally called my mother many years later to apologize, but had no desire to apologize to his three children. Of course at that time he called from Texas, because if he came back to Georgia he would be arrested for not paying child support. He called to tell my mother he was saved, but felt no need to make res***ution for anything. Tell me Jim, you just say you are sorry to God and he requires nothing of you; right? I had to forgive him because God commands it and warns that if I did not in me lies the greater sin...in short God does require us to do his will to be "saved". If you think otherwise, you are lying to others and yourself. True we may fall short, but if we are moving forward and seeking to do his will, his atonement will fill the gaps. If we think "well I said I'm sorry to God, now I can do as I like...you are lost. Jim; "Come unto Christ and be perfected in him". Please! You were not chosen from the beginning while others were ****ed...all can choose to come unto him. As Christ said, "I was lifted up that I might draw ALL men unto me".