Hello catholic, orthodox, and protestant niggers... I dare you to look up these verses... if you're not scared...

@Paultron@poa.st @CowboyManlet@poa.st

@SincereDeceit@poa.st @Paultron@poa.st kek

@Paultron@poa.st ppl with baptist beliefs existed before 1612 they just werent called baptists

@CowboyManlet@poa.st are you implying that man can knowingly and willingly sin and not restrain himself from sinning as long as he believes in Jesus?

@PraiseTheFiddle@poa.st Jesus said that whoever believes on Him has eternal life, was He lying when He said that? Was Paul lying to the prison guard when he told him that to be saved he had to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? Every man sins every day, no one can "restrain himself from sinning" and walk perfectly before God. Jesus died to save us from our sins, if we needed to not sin to be saved then no one would be saved

@CowboyManlet@poa.st more like orthoDORKS

@CowboyManlet@poa.st Explain the Parable of the Talents, in your own words.

@hourmutt@poa.st burying the talent represents not having faith, this is why when the master returns he tells the wicked servant that he should have at least given it to the money changers to collect it with usury. The parable ends with "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath," meaning that unto those with faith more shall be given and those without the foundation of faith will have even their spirit destroyed

@CowboyManlet@poa.st If your faith is mere knowledge that Jesus is the True Christ, then such a "faith" even the demons have.

@nugger@poa.st faith is trust Demons dont trust in Christ as their saviour, but the saved amongst men do

@CowboyManlet@poa.st exactly. It isn't mere knowledge, but a will to action. The same way that for example love is not a fuzzy feeling that you can "fall out of", but rather a will to act for the good of another. Works then are an outward manifestation of faithfulness, rather than rituals that pile created grace into your grace piggybank until you have enough to pay the entrance fee at the pearly gates. If you have faith, you'll do works. However God wills you to, and therefore -- however you can/know how. If you have no faith and do works, you do them unto condemnation. For reputation or self esteem -- unto vainglory. For "chicken soup for the soul"-type therapeutic feel-good or out of obligation/cultural mores -- unto blasphemy by making light of God.

@CowboyManlet@poa.st how can you not act in accordance with your faith if you truly believe, short of being literally incapable of it? The crippled mute laid in his bed, taken care of by his family cannot do acts of mercy because he really can't act at all, but if he believes he is saved. But if he were fit, he would act in faith and love because he believes.

@nugger@poa.st did you miss the part where it says that he believes on Him who JUSTIFIES the UNGODLY? Salvation is by GRACE through FAITH, all that is required for eternal life is to trust in Christ