There are 194 ways to be saved according to the Bible.
Christ isn't even mentioned in about 75% of them
Works are among them.
Psalm 62:12, Matthew 16:27, 25:34-46, 2 Corinthians 11:15, 1 Peter 1:17, James 2:14, 17, 20, 24, 26, Revelation 2:23, 20:12-13, 22:12
76 and 77 on the list just require being in the right family.
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Romans 5:18 and 11:32 implies that *everyone* will be saved.
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Naturally, it also says we have no choice,
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Hit and run is fun @JustAGuyFromMI hit and ran before I could show he was wrong.
17th–18th Century Roots: The concept appeared as early as 1615 by Johannes Kepler, using "Vulgaris Era" (Common Era). It wasn't until 1708 that it was sometimes interchangeably used with "Christian Era" or "Vulgar Era".
Google can be your friend.
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Let me tell you about a little old lady down in Macon, Georgia. Every single Sunday morning, without fail, she’d kneel by her bed, clasp her hands real tight, and pray with all her heart.
"Lord," she’d say, "I don’t ask for much. Just let me win the lottery this week. I could really use the money. Please, God, just this once… let me hit the jackpot."
And week after week, year after year, she kept right on praying. Ten years went by. Then fifteen. The lottery numbers came and went, but that winning ticket never found its way into her hands.
One particular Sunday, she was down on her knees again, pouring her soul into that same prayer: "Dear God, I’ve been faithful. I’ve been patient. Please… just let me win the lottery."
Suddenly, the room filled with a deep, thunderous voice that shook the windows.
"LADY…"
She looked up, eyes wide.
The voice boomed again, gentle but firm:
"…buy a ticket."
Four unpopular Biblical truths:
1. Being gay is sin
2. Abortion is murder
3. Hell is a real place
4. Loving Jesus means obeying Him
Do you agree with me?
If either of those kids do any of the following god says to kill em.
Kill the curious (1 Sam6:19-20)
Kill any child who hits a parent (Ex21:15)
Kill children who disobey parents (Dt21:20)
Kill disobedient children (Ex 21:17, Mk7:10)
Kill those who curse father or mother (Lev20:9)
@MikeFromHC@wendelltalks Imagine yourself seeing such an horrific scene then you go ahead pull your cell phone from your pocket and say let me take this nice shot and throw it to the world.
I would call you a sick person if you do.
How on earth do you believe this picture ? Ah
@LepcomD A loving God would not require anything to give me eternal life.
Perhaps your idea of what love is differs from mine.
You could also pray for me and prove that the words of Christ are true and that you are a believer.
Jesus promised.
@MikeFromHC Mr Atheist, Jesus Christ loves you. He wants to save you and give you eternal life. You must believe to be saved. It is not yet too late for you to turn back.
A wise man would turn back if he misses his steps. Prove to me you're a wise person
@NotEvolution1 Slavery is condoned by the Bible.
Rape in the Bible requires the *victim* be killed.
Drown babies? And everything else in the flood stories.
That would make god immoral.
@LepcomD@wendelltalks The difference between the man who stood by and watched it as opposed to the god that stood by and watched this is that the man committed suicide afterwards.
Munchausen by proxy to find your God
@MikeFromHC@wendelltalks You mean an actually human being, stood by the poor child and took the image to show it to the whole world. And you believe? Smh. You're so delusional to believe this image.
@ConcernedC4989@wendelltalks The image is it a child starving to death. The man who took the picture committed suicide. This question is not whether some imaginary God could stop it but why and allegedly omnipotent , omniscient, loving God would allow it to happen in the first place.
@MikeFromHC@wendelltalks Idioto. Your comment assumes that the situation in the image is caused by God (or cannot be prevented by God) therefore there is no God and the evidence in the cell is happenstance🤡🍌
@CBNNews Caesar was an accomplished author and historian; much of his life is known from his own accounts of his military campaigns.
"Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tries" is the famous opening line of Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico.
There's more evidence that Jesus existed than Julius Caesar. Does anyone doubt Caesar existed? As for the Scriptures, more ancient pages or fragments of the Bible have survived by far than any other book from antiquity.
As for the Resurrection, the Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 15 says doubters should go talk to the 500 eyewitnesses who saw Jesus post-Resurrection — and since most of them were likely still alive at the time, they could be located to attest to what they saw.
"You've got living history. You've got the people who were there to cross-check whatever message is being put out there. So, it's not as though these things could have been invented and no one would have challenged it. You've got this idea that 'there are witnesses; go investigate them.'"
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@darwintojesus Pascal's wager is rather inane. It among other things ignores the fact that there could be millions of alternatives just among the gods .