Post AkvvmUxHzDDi3PbruK by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
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(DIR) Post #Akvankhwo2VSA6BsWW by SuperSnekFriend@poa.st
2024-08-13T15:10:20.630947Z
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"Let us rather offend those men who are foolish, and inconsiderate, and lifted up, and who glory in the pride of their speech, than offend God." (Clement of Rome, First Clement, 21) Thinking of this recently.
(DIR) Post #AkvauFXx3qxxXnc5OS by CozyLife@poa.st
2024-08-13T15:11:23.173908Z
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@SuperSnekFriend Hello SnekFriend, I hope you're doing alright. 🫂 💚
(DIR) Post #AkvavfXzsPI4TQJMgK by SuperSnekFriend@poa.st
2024-08-13T15:11:46.398204Z
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@SuperLutheran @Myles @BowsacNoodle
(DIR) Post #Akvaze4nHth54NY1xI by SuperSnekFriend@poa.st
2024-08-13T15:12:29.460218Z
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@CozyLife I have been. The pain is still as low as yesterday, which has been a kind relief from the Lord. :ina_blessed:
(DIR) Post #Akvb4dyT5upYCWyM8O by CozyLife@poa.st
2024-08-13T15:13:13.824035Z
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@SuperSnekFriend That is awesome SnekFriend, i am happy to hear that. 😀 💚
(DIR) Post #Akvfx6ocTmen6Xamqu by Myles@poa.st
2024-08-13T16:04:59.011201Z
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@SuperSnekFriend @BowsacNoodle @SuperLutheran That tracks
(DIR) Post #AkvhyZyVkZiNjt31lY by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T16:30:43.904714Z
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@SuperSnekFriend @Myles @SuperLutheran I dig it! It's hard in practice, because sometimes it does mean offending people who you like but have an obvious problem they're willfully blind towards. It happens all the time on fedi with people throwing accusations of Pharisee towards those who get "preachy" about someone's favorite pet sin. I am a sinner. I'm not better than anyone else. Yet if I remind a friend that unrepentant sinful behavior (e.g. celebration of cranking one's hog to hentai) should not be celebrated, I'm suddenly called an e-trad and fake Christian only concerned with trying to lord authority over others. I'm not even throwing stones, but I think people shouldn't abuse Christian freedom as a license to sin. I've struggled with porno, which is why I rebuke it.
(DIR) Post #AkvjK3gOamiFuaNe8e by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T16:44:46.789174Z
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[Rom 6:15-18 KJV] 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? 17 But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
(DIR) Post #AkvjUSagq8Oe3ffhIG by MK2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com
2024-08-13T16:47:27.761137Z
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@SuperSnekFriend who's this for?
(DIR) Post #AkvjiS7zMFBkg0v248 by SuperSnekFriend@poa.st
2024-08-13T16:50:13.719468Z
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@MK2boogaloo For any Christian to ponder about. I saw the quotation, which happened a few minutes after I told off a manosphere guy to stop loving the "sexual redpill" because it is not wisdom from God and because his beliefs caused him to intrude in a light-hearted thread to act like an ass.
(DIR) Post #AkvkHCUpT3KOKcAgiW by TrueMasterCole@poa.st
2024-08-13T16:56:30.683490Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend
(DIR) Post #AkvmmtkAvMFNLYakJE by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:24:38.624726Z
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@bobbala @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend Yeah see I read this and it literally reinforces my view that we're not under the law and are to be free from the bondage of sin and its consequences in Christ. I don't see this as "hey you're free from sin, so now you're free TO SIN!"
(DIR) Post #Akvn32f9X00RdqwMxE by DrRyanSkelton@mugicha.club
2024-08-13T17:27:33.737226Z
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@SuperSnekFriend yes I will say nigger
(DIR) Post #AkvnFiULqkOSpxvqF6 by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:29:51.211191Z
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@bobbala @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend This was the view I took when I was an evangelical too. I'm going to ask some of my Protestant friends and a pastor I know how they interpret this.
(DIR) Post #AkvoYnRfkECpfOLBUO by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T17:37:52.409616Z
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Before you were saved, everything you did was sin. Kissing your mom goodnight was sin.[Isa 64:6 KJV] 6 But we are all as an unclean [thing], and all OUR RIGHTEOUSNESSES [are] as FILTHY RAGS; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.Can we agree on that much?
(DIR) Post #AkvoYoij0JRNcZKJhw by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:44:30.376535Z
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@bobbala @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend >Kissing your mom goodnight was sin.No, I don't agree. A single sin was enough for deserved damnation, and I had committed plenty of them. Not every action was a sin when I was not saved, but no amount of my own good could atone for the sins I did commit.
(DIR) Post #Akvos35zmUJvhvNjTE by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T17:47:01.533950Z
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Isaiah is wrong then? Some of our righteousness are pretty good?[Isa 64:6 KJV] 6 But we are all as an unclean [thing], and ALL OUR RIGHTEOUSNESSES [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
(DIR) Post #Akvos40MOvPIWjkkKG by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:47:59.213463Z
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@bobbala @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend I wish you were in front of me so you could look me in the eyes when you respond with such bad faith interpretations of the things I'm saying.
(DIR) Post #AkvoyEaNyRCZ55XuVs by brokeassredneck@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:40:39.617953Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend /Bonk
(DIR) Post #AkvoyFhVpQUqXTt7GC by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T17:43:01.052651Z
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Mom gives you $1 to put in the offering. Are you doing it because you love the Lord? Or you don't want to look bad?
(DIR) Post #AkvozrrDRtg1AXCHGi by givenup@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:49:24.146699Z
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@BowsacNoodle @bobbala @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend i made apple pie filling.
(DIR) Post #Akvp7I88AKWygCeHUu by brokeassredneck@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:45:20.185954Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend the church (if not greedy/fancy) depends on donations .. consider it almost like clubhouse dues..in no way will i ever set foot inside some fancy expensive "church", again
(DIR) Post #Akvp7J0itMCRPWBsae by brokeassredneck@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:46:53.347567Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend so , if the church feels like a good place , it is in fact , for the Lord
(DIR) Post #Akvp7K2B5QxQaJsYUq by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T17:48:08.248125Z
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My point is are you loving your neighbors or serving your pride?
(DIR) Post #Akvp7L05Ugsba7uOsS by brokeassredneck@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:49:22.907840Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend i really like most of my neighbors , and will absolutely do what i can to help those i like
(DIR) Post #Akvp7lKXbGgnF5g6Mq by brokeassredneck@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:50:42.616021Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend im still somewhat a heathen , but im always trying to improve .. that is all God wants from us
(DIR) Post #Akvpi0hbvNGrLKkkmu by SuperSnekFriend@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:57:22.701208Z
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@BowsacNoodle @bobbala @Myles @SuperLutheran I get what Bobbala is saying, though I think needs to be re-worded for this conversation.The point of passages like the Isaiah filthy rags one is that before Christ, we sin because of who we are. What would otherwise be civically good and righteous acts are counted as sin because they were done by children of wrath (Eph 2:3), those who were not doing it in Christ nor for the glory of God, which can be as simple as emulating Christ or simply thanking the Lord (Colossians 3:17).Hence, why no man, outside of Christ, can point at a relatively good and beautiful thought, word, or act and try to gain or demand some kind of exculpatory judgement from God. Only Christ can atone and allow for the total and eternal pardoning of sins and resulting praiseworthiness of a Christian's good deeds.
(DIR) Post #AkvrMBlCKZHpAy9ZOi by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T17:55:15.848317Z
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But what are your motives? Do you let them know who to thank?I'm not saying you're a bad guy. I'm just saying you are or were a sinner.Just because you don't kill someone doesn't mean you wouldn't if you didn't fear the consequences. Or even worse! People would look at you like you were a bad person.
(DIR) Post #AkvrMCsgAErgeSf3hI by brokeassredneck@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:57:50.974471Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend were / are a sinner , and always will be to some degree .. mere humans are incapable of being free of sin .. this is so basic , i even know it
(DIR) Post #AkvrMDrIWrM1gT1TBQ by brokeassredneck@poa.st
2024-08-13T17:59:45.593638Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend i truly hope im making sense .. im a lil bit stoned
(DIR) Post #AkvrMEaJpTMnw65QMC by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:04:04.937704Z
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What I was getting at with Bow is that we are born slaves to sin. As soon as you are saved, you become the servant of righteousness. You're not obligated to fulfil the Law. You're able to love your neighbor and love the Lord.You can write that check anonymous. It's for His Glory, not your pride.
(DIR) Post #AkvrMF0YFwLnFSMNFI by brokeassredneck@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:05:49.258793Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend i deeply dislike one neighbor , and cant let go of it .. he is a skeezy grifter .. and an all around shitty "person"
(DIR) Post #AkvrMFRUdltwb0xtEu by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:06:54.574947Z
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LOL Your learning about forgiveness. You can't forgive nice people.
(DIR) Post #AkvrMFs52vAVvTP7gG by brokeassredneck@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:08:47.243324Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend i prefer to surround myself with people i have no need to forgive ...
(DIR) Post #AkvrMGUMkZnFqDJhM8 by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:10:35.415690Z
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I remember asking God how I could bless someone who's cursing me. Nobody was really messing with me. I got along. Don't ask for that opportunity!
(DIR) Post #AkvrQ7DHB98IEQ9vOq by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:16:33.290274Z
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@bobbala @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend @brokeassredneck Was this shortly before you joined fedi by chance? :angrylaugh: kidding brother
(DIR) Post #Akvs7ytTTHTBAfoWAK by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:00:00.646079Z
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God wants you to trust Him. He doesn't want your best. He wants you to believe that He loves you enough to die for your sins. We love Him because He first loved us. His Death, Burial and Resurrection is proof of that love. If that isn't sufficient, what else can He do.The only thing left undone is for us to believe.
(DIR) Post #Akvs804r4SAQqG97Xk by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:24:28.788164Z
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@bobbala @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend @brokeassredneck >He doesn't want your best. I can't get behind this. The idea that anyone should have any involvement, ANYTHING AT ALL, is anathema to so many people that you adopt the position of doing nothing and believing that superior to trying. Insanity to me. Incomprehensible.
(DIR) Post #Akvsn9z58ru3RN4Xqq by doctorsex@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:27:59.996953Z
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If that were the case he wouldn't repeatedly ask us to try our best.
(DIR) Post #AkvsoX8EZ6jHWN0YPw by brokeassredneck@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:03:39.221285Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend i have never Not believed in Godhave been pissed at Him a few times , ill admit
(DIR) Post #AkvtXU8cXi1dGdciS8 by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:31:26.204168Z
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We contribute nothing but our faith to be saved.But being saved isn't the finish. It the start of our race. We have plenty to do. We're not saved just so you can go to Heaven.Until He saves us, we can't accomplish anything. Now that you are saved, right now, there is much you can do.[Eph 2:10 KJV] 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus UNTO GOOD WORKS, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
(DIR) Post #AkvtXVEgSeTAfjT4Xg by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:40:17.712048Z
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@bobbala @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend @brokeassredneck Why would you assume a Christian saying "God wants us to try our best" is referring to earning salvation? Nobody believes that. I hate the assumption. It's insulting.
(DIR) Post #Akvtb3GkNmq95q7pIm by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:32:15.966243Z
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For example? What verse are we talking?
(DIR) Post #Akvtb4i51eIXYtvAXo by doctorsex@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:36:10.012717Z
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Are we not asked to feed the hungry? To care for the poor? Are we not also called to repentance?
(DIR) Post #AkvtgsiuVKrs7j4uoq by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:41:59.657385Z
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@doctorsex @bobbala @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend @brokeassredneck "The poor you will always have with you", so therefore don't bother helping them 🙄 (this is a joke, for anyone casually observing).
(DIR) Post #Akvu3pbKHNK56HTS3k by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:42:18.030927Z
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Yes. I'm all for you doing good works. Fellowship is great. They have nothing to do with Him saving us.While we were still sinners, He loved us. He went to the Cross. Now you can believe He died for our sins. He was buried. He rose again. That's all you can do to be saved.Now that you do believe, you are saved, you can do those good works, where before you were just tooting your own horn. Look at me! Without faith, it is impossible to please God. You have faith! Glorify God.
(DIR) Post #Akvu3qAQAtOar7tTlI by AmonMaritza@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:44:56.414227Z
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The parable of the talents.
(DIR) Post #Akvu9tUwhddEvNNfJg by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:47:14.270629Z
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@AmonMaritza @bobbala @doctorsex @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend @brokeassredneck Lamp stands (don't hide them).Lamps (keep them lit)."pickup your cross and follow Me."etc.
(DIR) Post #AkvuBn6vQEWzh339G4 by doctorsex@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:44:51.634890Z
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>Yes. I'm all for you doing good works. Fellowship is great. You literally asked where God asks us to "do our best". I think you painted yourself into a corner and are having more trouble getting out of it than you thought you would.>They have nothing to do with Him saving us.Never said it did. But we're still called to do them. To that end it's clearly important to him in some capacity.
(DIR) Post #AkvuPitfsxJ0g9UlYe by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:48:16.575758Z
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So you're born again, set free, totally forgiven! Amen When you fail and you do, God took you and loved you that way before the foundation of the world.
(DIR) Post #AkvuPjTTjpwgTCFMMi by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:50:05.872930Z
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@bobbala @doctorsex @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend @brokeassredneck None of this has been about never failing or out own righteousness. It is about getting up when you fall, and trusting in Christ.
(DIR) Post #AkvuQaIfKlmuJ0ayMy by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:50:15.313172Z
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@bobbala @doctorsex @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend @brokeassredneck None of this has been about never failing or our own righteousness. It is about getting up when you fall, and trusting in Christ.
(DIR) Post #AkvuUCWZfo0hj0pF9E by brokeassredneck@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:49:29.491270Z
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@bobbala @doctorsex @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend i feel some subversive side talking comin in hot
(DIR) Post #AkvurzP86ZTTz3gcpE by SuperSnekFriend@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:55:12.361258Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @brokeassredneck To say that the moral Law of God cannot and will not have any more justificatory purpose after Christ nor needs to have one for the person justified by Christ, and then transfer that truth to all of God's obligations and duties and all other good effects of the Law is a gross misunderstanding of the Covenant of Grace.You are saved from God's eternal warth, but if you practice gross sins or fail to practice goodness, God will punish you on Earth for your own good, the good of others, and for the honor of His kingdom and the Gospel, like what He did to those who abused Communion at Corinth (1 Cor. 17-32).God still demands righteousness, but it is not to justify yourself thus saving yourself, but both out of duty to the one is called "the Lord" (Luke 17:10, John 14:15) and out of love for that salvation Christ alone brings (2 Cor. 9:7, Philp 2:12).
(DIR) Post #AkvuyFng3feYZY9hxI by SuperLutheran@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:51:38.137998Z
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@SuperSnekFriend I figure that offending people just comes with the territory of living the Christian life.
(DIR) Post #Akvv0295nS8wnp1Mbg by SuperSnekFriend@poa.st
2024-08-13T18:56:39.705305Z
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@SuperLutheran Jesus would know. :meguminpensive:
(DIR) Post #AkvvmUxHzDDi3PbruK by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:49:56.923528Z
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Everyone forgets step #1 Deny self. You have to leave behind self-righteousness before you can depend on His Righteousness.
(DIR) Post #AkvvmVfbKSfKGqLFya by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T19:05:24.995408Z
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@bobbala @AmonMaritza @doctorsex @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend @brokeassredneck In my opening statement, I specified my own failings three times.>I am a sinner. >I'm not better than anyone else. >I've struggled with porno, which is why I rebuke it.Still, the antinomianism comes up in defense of peoples' favorite pet sin. Maybe it's not going to be received by anyone reading this right now, but I pray they see it eventually.
(DIR) Post #AkvvswgRo1QBn0o4Bs by AmonMaritza@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T18:49:02.880232Z
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I’ve heard the Protestant argument that good works are a product of faith and no works/bad works are evidence of faithlessness. I can see unity there.
(DIR) Post #AkvvvkBcj69XtniuIq by AmonMaritza@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T19:06:51.149362Z
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Oh man. I must have come up with every excuse to goon.
(DIR) Post #Akvw0ZeLKTmofSSZ4y by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T19:07:57.801129Z
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@AmonMaritza @bobbala @doctorsex @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend @brokeassredneck Never goon.
(DIR) Post #AkvwC3FTcaxBeWIlAe by AmonMaritza@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T19:09:22.664575Z
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I know, but sometimes I want to.
(DIR) Post #AkvwFU70CVjfpuyV28 by bobbala@nicecrew.digital
2024-08-13T19:00:28.875162Z
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He'll chasten you. He won't abandon or unborn you.
(DIR) Post #AkvwLqc9RylBMcZwHo by SuperSnekFriend@poa.st
2024-08-13T19:11:48.499362Z
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@bobbala @BowsacNoodle @Myles @SuperLutheran @brokeassredneck >He won't abandon or unborn you.Blessed! Thank You Jesus! :praying: Still, I think you might be missing the thing we're trying to clarify with these posts.
(DIR) Post #AkvwfWFItDO1z3Gv3I by BowsacNoodle@poa.st
2024-08-13T19:15:21.838391Z
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@AmonMaritza @bobbala @doctorsex @Myles @SuperLutheran @SuperSnekFriend @brokeassredneck I understand friend. James 4:7 is one I quite like.>Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.