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@ofsaintthomas Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to me, I turn 17 years old. While it is 1h 30m early from April 17 at 12:00 am in my timezone, I figured I might as well announce it before I get lazy later.

The Lutherans are welcome to become biblical at anytime.

@ChristianPunsOG I'd take Van Til and spend the remaining $13 on Bahnsen to explain what Van Til said.

This one is a doozy!

@The_Idol_Killer @_jonbowlin Can you read more than the first four words of the verse? It says they have become worthless.

@_jonbowlin Turned aside ≠ born guilty & less than frogs. Note just before that it says "as it is written..." a reference to Psalm 14 which speaks of unbelieving fools who went astray & waged war against God's people.

We are not worthless. We are loved, called to cease our rebellion & come home to the Father who loves us & is quick to forgive & restore. Jesus incarnated, assuming our nature to heal & redeem His imagebearers, destroying the works of the devil. Calvinism is anti-Biblical

@seinjewCrypto @NeverteIImeodd Like this one? “When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let the slave go free because of his eye. If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let the slave go free because of his tooth." - Exodus 21:26–27

@agaphto @NeverteIImeodd God wrote specific laws on how to beat and own your slaves exodus 21

In an Asian family, after the father suffered a stroke, they reported their only son to the police for constantly beating his mother and father, as they had raised a cruel demon instead of a child.

@ShaneRaynor Interesting. What do you mean by an initiatory regenerative work?

@agaphto Yes, being born of water and born of the Spirit are linked, but are not one and the same. In infants, baptism is an initiatory regenerative work but doesn’t complete regeneration or salvation.

John Wesley did (and Methodism today does) teach baptismal regeneration with some qualifications. Methodists view baptism as a sacrament, not an ordinance. It has spiritual benefits; it's not just a symbol. But baptism is not sufficient for salvation. Infants and small children who are baptized must accept Christ personally later. Repentance and new birth are essential.

@eXcaliber42O @NeverteIImeodd Tell us, why aren't you surprised?

@agaphto @NeverteIImeodd South Africa..why I'm not surprised by this pathetic post.

@seinjewCrypto @NeverteIImeodd God is One who frees His people from slavery, so it's not something we should be advocating for - “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery." - Ex 20:2. Regardless, the law does not allow for inhumane treatment of slaves.

@agaphto @NeverteIImeodd Maybe we can even start up slavery again and beat them too

@SpeedWatkins @TheRigLib @AlwaysWrightDM According to whom? The Bible clearly teaches original sin. "Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me." -Psalm 51:5

@TheRigLib @AlwaysWrightDM A child is not capable of evil at all. They do not have evil in them nor have they inherited what anyone else deserves e.g. punishment or debt. Be serious.

But this is clearly not true. At least all the children would be left. No child is evil. Let's be serious.

@MethodMinistry Is that a spelling error or a different view on the atonement?

Univeisal Atonement is true. You can by faith in Christ be forgiven TODAY.

@MementoMori_JMJ @ZacharyDavid97 @TheCatholicEngr Then just read the whole chapters for those verses. That would be even better.

@agaphto @ZacharyDavid97 @TheCatholicEngr No thanks. I don't need your chopped-up version of the Bible where you pick and choose only those verses that suit your heresy. You can keep your heresy, I'll stick with doing the will of God and keeping the commandments.

>"I'm a Catholic" >Goes to Mass once a year Be for real right now I don't know who needs to hear this but weekly Mass isn't optional

Absolutely, I'm not denying that Jesus commanded us to do good works. But that's not the basis of our salvation. Otherwise, why would James ask the question, "Can that faith save him?" (James 2:14). And Jesus speaks about what we are to do: believe. "Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” - John 6:28–29 For all those who truly come to Christ there is security, not a fragile salvation. How can we speak of losing salvation when Jesus clearly says He will not lose any that come to Him? It is an insult to the Lord to think that. "And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day." - John 6:39

@agaphto @ZacharyDavid97 @TheCatholicEngr Is it a work to Love? Or Keep the Commandments because we love God? Even the demons believe and tremble. Jesus commanded us to DO certain things, and this includes the works of keeping the commandments.

How amazing is Christ's love for His people. Let's hold fast to the Gospel and never lose sight of Christ's endless love and sufficient sacrifice. "For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." - Romans 5:6–8

@ZacharyDavid97 @TheCatholicEngr You're depending on your works for salvation but I'm the heretic? Ironic. Just read the Scriptures. I pray you come to Christ and trust in Him, not in your own fragile works.

@agaphto @TheCatholicEngr Begone heretic

Classic Romanists getting around the second commandment by just ignoring it. "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God" - Exodus 20:4–5

That's why you need the Biblical understanding of salvation. Not the distorted Roman one. Salvation is not dependent on your works and your ability to keep the law - that's why it's called good news. It's the most amazing news when we realise that Christ saves us completely and it's not up to us. Our salvation is not fragile because He is not fragile. "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand." - John 10:27–29

@TheCatholicEngr I get that but it makes salvation feel so fragile I can lose it in an instant doing anything

“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven." - Matthew 5:17–19

Who is required to keep Torah?