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re: SEC score predictions this weekend?
Posted by PastorJ on 9/26/26 at 12:49 am to Tigers Win Again
Bama 37 USC 20
MSU 24 Mizzou 21
Florida 31 Ole Miss 30
LSU 31 Texas A&M 23
Georgia 34 Oklahoma 17
Texas 28 Tennessee 24
Kentucky 51 South Alabama 24
Auburn 31 Vanderbilt 17
Arkansas 24 Tulsa 23
MSU 24 Mizzou 21
Florida 31 Ole Miss 30
LSU 31 Texas A&M 23
Georgia 34 Oklahoma 17
Texas 28 Tennessee 24
Kentucky 51 South Alabama 24
Auburn 31 Vanderbilt 17
Arkansas 24 Tulsa 23
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is Christian white people have stopped having children because they're all fricking gay or a transgendered cat
Speak for yourself. I have 5 kiddos and doing my part to save the world. :lol:
But I understand what you mean. It's awful stuff nowadays.
Awwww yes! I am going to relive my childhood and switch it from color to black and white all day! :lol: Loved my Atari back in the day. Needs Pong and that Boxing game.
I am 49 years old. I remember as a kid hearing about Global cooling gonna kill us all by the 1990s. Then Global warming will kill us all by the 2000s. These doomsayers are like clockwork and never right.
re: The Bee never misses!
Posted by PastorJ on 9/25/26 at 5:58 pm to Hateradedrink
The Bee is on point more times than not. But sometimes they are awful. :lol:
re: Noah Rogers and the Offense
Posted by PastorJ on 9/25/26 at 5:57 pm to Diego Ricardo
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We went from one of the sorriest blocking TEs we’ve had in my memory to arguably the best I’ve seen since the early Saban era.
It was frustrating watch the lack of TE play recently. I have to say I am very impressed with what we have this season. Our TEs are ballers and I am glad to see play calls that utilize them. They can be big in tight games. Remember our TE bs Clemson? That was awesome!
re: A cool time-lapse video flying from Mississippi to Hawaii yesterday
Posted by PastorJ on 9/25/26 at 5:55 pm to LegendInMyMind
That is pretty cool indeed!
re: What brought you back to Louisiana ?
Posted by PastorJ on 9/25/26 at 5:54 pm to LivingstonLaw
I-20...it also took me right out too! :lol: Just kidding. I do like visiting your state, especially New Orleans. Not a drinker, but there is good food and beautiful architecture and history in Nawlins.
re: Iran bending the knee?
Posted by PastorJ on 9/25/26 at 4:43 pm to UptownJoeBrown
That evil Islamic regime needs to be toppled. The people of Iran would be free and the world would be safer.
A list of moral cowards.
Having him Rogers back certainly gives our offense more weapons. I am excited to see what he can do. Him, Coleman, Brooks will be a great 3 headed monster. I am impressed with out TEs as well. Should be great when this offense fires on all cylinders.
re: Talarico. The Apostle Peter wrote about him back around 65 AD
Posted by PastorJ on 9/25/26 at 2:49 am to biscuitsngravy
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And you consider yourself a pastor? Your comments are that of a beginner seminary student yet to grasp the fullness of the gospel of Jesus.
Ok. Feel better about yourself? I am actually a twice degreed pastor about to enter into a Ph.D program at a well known seminary. Not that it matters, don't let me get in the way you feeling superior and all. Go off, king. :bow:
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The fullness is not saved to heaven based on faith.
Oh boy, I just dealt with this nonsense in another thread. Are you two the same guy? :lol: I'll link my comments below. Like that other guy you are trying to reduce salvation to works based. For him it was keeping the law, for you it is in a liberal social gospel. Different methods, same heresy.
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Think what you want, be as anti-Gospel as you care to be. It's no skin off my nose. I am not really interested in endless debates with someone pushing heresy that has been rebutted and discredited time and time again. But you will not find much traction for Talarico in the Bible at all. On its face the things he says is foolishness. Reading him and your comments bring into mind Romans 1:22. With that I will observe Matthew 7:6 and practice Matthew 10:14
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It's widely known among most biblical scholars to be pseudepigrapha. He's right.
False. Some hold this erroneous view but by no means "most." Michael Kruger has a detailed defense of the authenticity of 2 Peter in the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. There are many such, in fact I posted a link above which you did not bother reading because if you did you would see why...
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It has a different style, it takes from the Epistle of Jude, meaning it was way too late. And the final nail is it refers to letters of Paul as "scripture" which didn't happen until after Peters death.
...is a false statement. Here is another good article on it, which I am sure you not read either.
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Here is a link to the aforementioned work by Kruger that you won't read either:
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Here is part 2.
You are still making forgiveness something we earn by our works (correcting ourselves you call it.) This is not Biblical and it is not the Gospel. Jesus never taught this at all. Jesus did say "“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). The way isn't some system or 12 step program to correct yourself, the way is Christ Himself.
Jesus taught forgiveness is something that God by His grace grants to those who repent and come to Him. Luke 18 we see the ole tax collector didn't first "correct his sins" then get forgiveness. The tax guy cried out “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” and this is why Jesus said the man “went down to his house justified” (Luke 18:13–14). If our forgiveness depended on "fixing yourself" then we are without hope and without salvation because no one can or will reach sinless perfection on their own. Ever. You have zero Biblical support for your anti-Gospel ideology.
You have a major problem and a fatal flaw in your argument here. You are attributing the sacrifice nature of Jesus's death to Paul, but Jesus Himself taught it. The Lord said “The Son of Man came…to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45), and when He instituted the Lord's Supper, Jesus said, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins” (Matthew 26:28). So for you to say this sacrificial ideal is only original with Paul is nonsense and of course false.
Jesus never said “Understand better and fix yourself.” He said, “Whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16), and “Whoever believes has eternal life” (John 6:47). Your thoughts here are a lot of things, but Biblically correct is no one of those things. I will pray for you. I do hope you discover salvation that is only through faith in Christ. You are trying to strain out a gnat while swallowing a camel. (Matthew 23:24) You are certainly on the road of the Judaizers, the first generation church rebuked them then and it still holds now.
It's 2:15 AM...boy time got away! :lol: I got a long weekend and lot of miles to drive this weekend. I may revisit this or may not. I am pretty sure you will just rehash what as already been dealt with. Hope you have a good weekend, and Roll Tide! Hope Bama whips the Gamecocks tomorrow!
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The path/way is a real thing. It's to follow the commandments(or the understanding behind them to be more exact). Every choice you make decides that path. People make mistakes, people sin without realizing(most often through government, just as those who killed Jesus).
You are forgiven for your sins when you fix them
You are still making forgiveness something we earn by our works (correcting ourselves you call it.) This is not Biblical and it is not the Gospel. Jesus never taught this at all. Jesus did say "“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). The way isn't some system or 12 step program to correct yourself, the way is Christ Himself.
Jesus taught forgiveness is something that God by His grace grants to those who repent and come to Him. Luke 18 we see the ole tax collector didn't first "correct his sins" then get forgiveness. The tax guy cried out “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” and this is why Jesus said the man “went down to his house justified” (Luke 18:13–14). If our forgiveness depended on "fixing yourself" then we are without hope and without salvation because no one can or will reach sinless perfection on their own. Ever. You have zero Biblical support for your anti-Gospel ideology.
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If I come up short isn't going to be fixed because I failed to believe in a blood sacrifice. And if I am only saved by the death of truth, the death of the way and the death of the light, then it's because I am the lie, my way is incorrect and I run to the darkness because I fear the light. Then I deserve the 2nd death. I don't want to be saved by those things.
I will never follow Paul, I do not call myself a Christian because I reject it's very foundation of the blood sacrifice and the creation of an idol, which is in itself against the commandments.
Which commandment is impossible to keep? Especially if you have understanding that comes from God, as Jesus actually talks about?
You have a major problem and a fatal flaw in your argument here. You are attributing the sacrifice nature of Jesus's death to Paul, but Jesus Himself taught it. The Lord said “The Son of Man came…to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45), and when He instituted the Lord's Supper, Jesus said, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins” (Matthew 26:28). So for you to say this sacrificial ideal is only original with Paul is nonsense and of course false.
Jesus never said “Understand better and fix yourself.” He said, “Whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16), and “Whoever believes has eternal life” (John 6:47). Your thoughts here are a lot of things, but Biblically correct is no one of those things. I will pray for you. I do hope you discover salvation that is only through faith in Christ. You are trying to strain out a gnat while swallowing a camel. (Matthew 23:24) You are certainly on the road of the Judaizers, the first generation church rebuked them then and it still holds now.
It's 2:15 AM...boy time got away! :lol: I got a long weekend and lot of miles to drive this weekend. I may revisit this or may not. I am pretty sure you will just rehash what as already been dealt with. Hope you have a good weekend, and Roll Tide! Hope Bama whips the Gamecocks tomorrow!
I had to make two posts to reply because I exceeded the limit in making this one long post. Here is part 1.
Ahhhh the ole "But Paul" line. I am sure I am about to read a ton of unbiblical, gnostic inspired, pseudo-philosophical nonsense. You will pretend that Paul didn't get the Gospel from Jesus and that some how Paul was not in association with the other apostles. You will go down the road of the Judaizers. Let's see how right I am.
Oh boy you are going down that road. You are trying to create a division between Jesus and Paul that the New Testament doesn't support or teach at all, you show a massive misunderstanding. Jesus taught against meaningless professions of faith and hypocrisy, He said those who love Him would keep His commandment, but you assume this means sinners can earn salvation by keeping the Law and that is not what Jesus taught, at all. You are already way outside Biblical teachings so I can only imagine the "interesting stuff" you say next.
Spend time reading John 3 and understand what love of Jesus means and also what He meant to the young rich ruler. You have no clue. It boils down to you want a works based salvation based on yourself because you are pridefully suppressing the truth in order to deify yourself in the end.
However, Christ taught eternal life is gained only through faith in Him. Jesus is very clear on this in John 3:16: "“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Do you see what the Lord did not say? He did not say "Whoever keeps the commandments perfectly shall have eternal life." Again, you have zero Biblical basis for your claims.
Jesus continues in John 3:18: "“He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already.” Again, the line in the sand here is faith in Jesus not commandment keeping. Jesus clarifies even more in John 5:24: “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” Jesus no where says the person can receive eternal life by showing him/herself obedient enough. It is by believing in Jesus (faith) that one passes from death to life.
Jesus was asked in John 6:28: “What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?” If eternal life were possible by keeping the commandments this would have been the prime time for Jesus to say that. However, He does not say that. Jesus replied: “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” (John 6:29) You have zero basis for your ideology.
Later in the chapter we read these sayings of Jesus: “Every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life.” (John 6:40)
And again: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”(John 6:47) You position of salvation by keeping the commandments is impossible to maintain in light of the biblical texts.
I can go on a lot more on this path but this will suffice. Now that your error has been dealt with, let's move on.
You are incorrect. Jesus did indeed teach that man is not able to meet God's holy standard on his own based on his own works or keeping commandments as you call it. The rich young ruler (from here own RYR) laid claim to his salvation by keeping the commandments Jesus exposed this and pretty much equated it with idolatry (worshipping the commandment themselves which is what you are very close to doing yourself.)
At hearing this his disciples were astounded that keeping the Law was not able to impute salvation. They asked Jesus "Who then can be saved?" Jesus answered them by saying “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:25–26) Here, Jesus Himself is calling salvation by human ability and works impossible. Jesus then give the standard which is far more than rule keeping. He says anger is akin to murder, lust is akin to adultery and to love our enemies.
At this point you have failed to keep the commandments yourself. You failed because Jesus said the standard is “You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48). With one sin that you have committed you are no longer able to say you are keeping the law. Your whole argument is destroyed by not on the words of Jesus, but by your own sin.
The question isn't "can we avoid breaking a command for a while?" The question is "can we prefect keep the commandments in totality and never fail in any degree?" The answer is no. If that is your hope then you have built your house on shifting sand. This is why Jesus told Nicodemus not to work on keeping the commandments better, but rather “whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Our standing before God rests in Christ and not any self-proclaimed righteousness of our own. If that is your position you will find it woefully lacking.
How New Age guru of you. But even your statement still makes salvation rest on yourself and your works in "fixing your sins." That is Biblical nonsense. Jesus did not say fix your sins to become worthy of eternal life. The Lord said “Whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16), and “Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life” (John 5:24).
Sanctification and growth matter but they are the fruit of salvation and not the case of salvation. You have the horse way ahead of the cart and you have zero Biblical basis for such a statement that flies in the face of the words of Jesus. Christianity is not about "fixing yourself." Such is impossible in light of the holy standard of perfection required by a holy and wholly perfect God. Christianity is about being reconciled to God through Christ by faith and being transformed by Him. You have spewed nothing but outdated heresy that has been debunked for a long long time.
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You are a follower of Paul and you view it all through the lens of Paul.
Ahhhh the ole "But Paul" line. I am sure I am about to read a ton of unbiblical, gnostic inspired, pseudo-philosophical nonsense. You will pretend that Paul didn't get the Gospel from Jesus and that some how Paul was not in association with the other apostles. You will go down the road of the Judaizers. Let's see how right I am.
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He's a false prophet.
Oh boy you are going down that road. You are trying to create a division between Jesus and Paul that the New Testament doesn't support or teach at all, you show a massive misunderstanding. Jesus taught against meaningless professions of faith and hypocrisy, He said those who love Him would keep His commandment, but you assume this means sinners can earn salvation by keeping the Law and that is not what Jesus taught, at all. You are already way outside Biblical teachings so I can only imagine the "interesting stuff" you say next.
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Jesus repeatedly says over and over if you love him, if you believe in him, you will keep the commandments.
Spend time reading John 3 and understand what love of Jesus means and also what He meant to the young rich ruler. You have no clue. It boils down to you want a works based salvation based on yourself because you are pridefully suppressing the truth in order to deify yourself in the end.
However, Christ taught eternal life is gained only through faith in Him. Jesus is very clear on this in John 3:16: "“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Do you see what the Lord did not say? He did not say "Whoever keeps the commandments perfectly shall have eternal life." Again, you have zero Biblical basis for your claims.
Jesus continues in John 3:18: "“He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already.” Again, the line in the sand here is faith in Jesus not commandment keeping. Jesus clarifies even more in John 5:24: “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” Jesus no where says the person can receive eternal life by showing him/herself obedient enough. It is by believing in Jesus (faith) that one passes from death to life.
Jesus was asked in John 6:28: “What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?” If eternal life were possible by keeping the commandments this would have been the prime time for Jesus to say that. However, He does not say that. Jesus replied: “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” (John 6:29) You have zero basis for your ideology.
Later in the chapter we read these sayings of Jesus: “Every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life.” (John 6:40)
And again: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”(John 6:47) You position of salvation by keeping the commandments is impossible to maintain in light of the biblical texts.
I can go on a lot more on this path but this will suffice. Now that your error has been dealt with, let's move on.
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Only Paul calls it impossible, Jesus does not. Name the commandment that is impossible for man to keep.
You are incorrect. Jesus did indeed teach that man is not able to meet God's holy standard on his own based on his own works or keeping commandments as you call it. The rich young ruler (from here own RYR) laid claim to his salvation by keeping the commandments Jesus exposed this and pretty much equated it with idolatry (worshipping the commandment themselves which is what you are very close to doing yourself.)
At hearing this his disciples were astounded that keeping the Law was not able to impute salvation. They asked Jesus "Who then can be saved?" Jesus answered them by saying “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible” (Matthew 19:25–26) Here, Jesus Himself is calling salvation by human ability and works impossible. Jesus then give the standard which is far more than rule keeping. He says anger is akin to murder, lust is akin to adultery and to love our enemies.
At this point you have failed to keep the commandments yourself. You failed because Jesus said the standard is “You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48). With one sin that you have committed you are no longer able to say you are keeping the law. Your whole argument is destroyed by not on the words of Jesus, but by your own sin.
The question isn't "can we avoid breaking a command for a while?" The question is "can we prefect keep the commandments in totality and never fail in any degree?" The answer is no. If that is your hope then you have built your house on shifting sand. This is why Jesus told Nicodemus not to work on keeping the commandments better, but rather “whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Our standing before God rests in Christ and not any self-proclaimed righteousness of our own. If that is your position you will find it woefully lacking.
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It's about gaining understanding, learning and fixing your sins so that you can be someone who is fit for life in heaven.
How New Age guru of you. But even your statement still makes salvation rest on yourself and your works in "fixing your sins." That is Biblical nonsense. Jesus did not say fix your sins to become worthy of eternal life. The Lord said “Whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16), and “Whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life” (John 5:24).
Sanctification and growth matter but they are the fruit of salvation and not the case of salvation. You have the horse way ahead of the cart and you have zero Biblical basis for such a statement that flies in the face of the words of Jesus. Christianity is not about "fixing yourself." Such is impossible in light of the holy standard of perfection required by a holy and wholly perfect God. Christianity is about being reconciled to God through Christ by faith and being transformed by Him. You have spewed nothing but outdated heresy that has been debunked for a long long time.
re: Talarico. The Apostle Peter wrote about him back around 65 AD
Posted by PastorJ on 9/24/26 at 9:18 pm to Squirrelmeister
2 Peter is widely accepted as authentic based on textual evidence and the tradition of the early church. I am sure you will find some saying it a late date but they are in error and it is not pseudepigrapha. It was written around 64-68 AD.
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Within 2 Peter itself there is strong evidence for authorship by the apostle Peter. In 2 Peter 1:1 the author claims to be “Simeon Peter . . . apostle of Jesus Christ.” Moreover, he claims to have been an eyewitness of the transfiguration (2 Pet. 1:16–18; cf. Matt. 17:1–8), an event where Peter is featured prominently in the Gospel accounts. If someone other than Peter wrote the letter under his name, as some scholars have claimed, it would be a case of deliberate deception, especially given the author’s claims to have witnessed the transfiguration. But there is no historical evidence in support of such a theory. Furthermore, writing in another person’s name was condemned among early Christians
Some have suggested that the literary style of 2 Peter, which differs from that of 1 Peter, indicates an author other than Peter. But Peter may have used a secretary to help write this second letter, which would not affect the genuineness of his authorship if he ultimately approved what was written.
Scholars have also questioned Petrine authorship of 2 Peter because of the similarities between chapter 2 of this letter and the book of Jude. But this is not a problem for apostolic authorship, since Peter may have included in his letter elements from Jude that he thought would be helpful for his readers. It also could have worked the other way, with Jude using Peter’s letter as his source. The parallels are close but almost never exact, so it is difficult to sort out the relationship between 2 Peter and Jude with any degree of certainty.
It is reasonable in light of all the evidence, and clearly supported by the claims of the letter itself, to conclude that the apostle Peter wrote 2 Peter.
Date
Peter probably wrote this letter from Rome not too long before his martyrdom, sometime during A.D. 64–67. Elements within the letter lead many scholars to conclude that Peter wrote during a time of persecution by Rome (perhaps during the persecution by Nero, who died in A.D. 68), while Peter himself was in a Roman prison awaiting imminent execution (cf. 2 Pet. 1:12–15). The dating of the letter, then, depends largely on the dating of Peter’s death.
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Jesus was quite clear that salvation is through Him and not in keeping the commandments or the Law, He is the fulfillment of the commandments and Law. Now, He said the 2 greatest items are loving God and loving your neighbors and that the Law and prophets flow from those two. But, had keeping the commandments alone brought salvation, Jesus would not have had to die. Salvation through Christ produces fruit which is manifest in believers, but do not mistake that fruit of the path of salvation.
His talk with Nicodemous (someone pious in the Law and the commandments) is very instructive. As was His talk with the rich young man who claimed to have kept all the commandments himself, Jesus showed him the flaw in that. Paul also talked about the impossibility of perfectly keeping the commandments. We simply cannot do so and the Law highlights our sins and the impossibility of ourselves meetings God's holy standard of perfection. One sin forever bars you from the standard of God's perfection. That is why faith in Christ is so important. Only He was perfectly righteous and through faith in Him HIS righteousness is imputed to us. It is through His righteousness and not our own that we have standing before God.
If you ever sinned in any degree you already failed in keeping the Law or the commandments. Through Christ all was kept perfectly by Him and it is faith in him and not things we do that brings salvation. As Isaiah wrote, all of our righteousness is as filthy rags (to show how unclean we are in and of ourselves the rags spoken of here were the rags women sat on during their period.) If you are basing your salvation on your actions and works alone you will be found lacking. Grace of God through faith in Christ is a marvelous thing.
His talk with Nicodemous (someone pious in the Law and the commandments) is very instructive. As was His talk with the rich young man who claimed to have kept all the commandments himself, Jesus showed him the flaw in that. Paul also talked about the impossibility of perfectly keeping the commandments. We simply cannot do so and the Law highlights our sins and the impossibility of ourselves meetings God's holy standard of perfection. One sin forever bars you from the standard of God's perfection. That is why faith in Christ is so important. Only He was perfectly righteous and through faith in Him HIS righteousness is imputed to us. It is through His righteousness and not our own that we have standing before God.
If you ever sinned in any degree you already failed in keeping the Law or the commandments. Through Christ all was kept perfectly by Him and it is faith in him and not things we do that brings salvation. As Isaiah wrote, all of our righteousness is as filthy rags (to show how unclean we are in and of ourselves the rags spoken of here were the rags women sat on during their period.) If you are basing your salvation on your actions and works alone you will be found lacking. Grace of God through faith in Christ is a marvelous thing.
re: Talarico’s Pastor Says Jesus Didn’t Die For Sins, Slanders Virgin Mary
Posted by PastorJ on 9/24/26 at 7:55 pm to Love me some Les
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The ECLA Lutherans.
A vile lot!
re: Quick check in: If you voted for Trump in 2024, will you vote Republican in midterms?
Posted by PastorJ on 9/24/26 at 7:53 pm to IvoryBillMatt
I am not happy about some things Trump and the Republicans have and have not done, but my displeasure on a few thing won't entice me to commit societal suicide by voting for Democrats.
re: Trump thinks it's weird.
Posted by PastorJ on 9/24/26 at 7:50 pm to wackatimesthree
I couldn't care less if he cares about me or not, the success of my country is not dependent upon my feelings or emotions. I care about his policies and I believe he has done a much better job than Hillary or Kamala would have.
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