I was repenting of my sins before I was saved. I was quitting substances, I was leaving people who pulled me into darkness, I was ceasing porn use, I was trying to be a better person to others, and guess what?
None of that could ever save me. Jesus Christ ✝️🩸alone saved me.
@_Navidson Salvation is received at the moment of belief in the Lord Jesus Christ's finished work. It's not a life long process, if it were, it would be meritorious. It's instant.
If you choose to respond to the free gift of grace after having received it with carnality, that's on you.
@GuyJackson777 So 'ought to', sounds like it's not required. So you would say people can be saved without repenting from sin? Sorry if I'm misunderstanding.
@_Navidson It's something every Christian ought to be doing to not diminish their testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. Lost people mock carnal Christians, see the Corinthians.
@_Navidson They will be ashamed at the judgement seat as they watch their life's works burn up in smoke. I'm also of the opinion that those who reap to the flesh will be rewarded in this life with the consequences of doing so.
@_Navidson No, and no amount of repentance of sin will save me, because it doesn't atone for sin, and it doesn't prove that I'm saved either.
Christ's shed blood applied to my account proves that I'm saved.
@DanielvsBabylon All you do with this is place a collar upon yourself and deem yourself the ordained clergy and call it Christianity.
God love and bless you. I'll pray for you.
We’re all priests and that guy in a collar doesn’t have anymore authority in Christ than you to baptize people, anoint them with oil, perform communion, hear confession, intercede on behalf of others. Most churches have adopted a Babylonian clergy system and call it Christianity
Protestantism gets a lot of hate on X. But the hymns of Protestantism are unmatched.
How can you sing, "It is Well" or "Amazing Grace" or "Rise My Soul the Lord is Risen" and not be moved?
These songs are infused with the Spirit of God.
Android just emailed me rejecting my app because it won't open and crashes. Here's a video of me opening it and it not crashing on my android.
Android folks I'm so sorry. But Google review is brutal.
@ChristySimm23@farmingandJesus Awesome. So let's both continue engaging with and seeking Christ to our best abilities, and encourage each other to do so, pray for each other, and wish each other the best.
Its easy as that. ✝️ God bless, gigi
@_Navidson@farmingandJesus I never called YOU Satanic. I said your church is! Because it is!
Learn to read so that you're not unwittingly bearing false witness.
@ChristySimm23@farmingandJesus Those through no fault of their own aren't withheld salvation. Whereas for pursuing Christ to my best ability, you call me satanic.
There's an imbalance if charity there. And I love the RCC for its charity there too.
Keep trying to win whatever this is to you. God bless.
@ChristySimm23@farmingandJesus We recognize your baptism, and you call us satanic. That's my point. The RCC fully recognizes that while wrong on some things, you're doing your best to seek Christ.
@ChristySimm23@farmingandJesus I know there's a difference. I didn't say they were the same. Look at the thread. RCC recognizes baptisms outside of the RCC. I never even mentioned salvation. You're projecting some enemy to argue with.
I'm not blaming you for anything. I'm making fun of your mental state.
Huge difference between baptism & salvation though it's not surprising you don't grasp that. Besides, the RCC only recognizes a Protestant's baptism in order for the Protestant to be brought into the Catholic Church.
And why are you blaming me for the satanic activity at the Vatican?
'The RCC recognizes your [salvation]' 🙃😂🙃😂
▫️"It is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff"
-Pope Boniface VIII
▫️"None of those existing outside the Catholic Church can have a share in life eternal; but that they will go into the eternal fire"
-Council of Florence
▫️The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1325): mandated that if anyone rejects even one dogma of the Catholic Church, they're completely severed from salvation.
▫️The 1992 Official Catechism of the Catholic Church: "the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation"
▫️Issued by the Vatican in 2000 (Dominus Iesus): "it must be firmly believed that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation." It says that even if a non-Catholic is somehow saved by God's mysterious grace, they are only saved by being implicitly linked to the Catholic Church.
@_Navidson@farmingandJesus "Neither of us knowingly closes our eyes to history, scripture, or cling to an apostate church."
YOU DO. Your eyes are wide shut! And you think the RCC recognizes my salvation? 😆😆😆