What happens when the Church is certain, but the believer isn’t?
Recently @RuslanKD had another discussion with an Oriental Orthodox apologist regarding justification, certainty, and assurance of salvation.
Tonight, on my show, I want to slow the whole thing down and see whether that pressure actually holds up.
7:30pm CST — 🔗 Below
The Gospel means good news.
And the only truly good news is this:
Christ Jesus did it ALL for us.
He lived the perfect life we couldn’t live.
He took the punishment we deserved.
He paid for our sins in full.
He rose again and secured our salvation.
There is no good news in a gospel that mixes grace with human performance because our performance will always fall short.
The Gospel isn’t Jesus did His part, now you do yours..
The Gospel is “It is finished”
Christ is enough.
His righteousness is enough.
His sacrifice is enough.
Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
Mormons are often very personally offended when Christians say that Mormonism isn’t Christian. This is dumb.
Joseph Smith’s first “encounter” with God involves God telling Smith that every creed Christians profess is an abomination to God.
Every creed.
That includes the Nicene Creed. They reject who God is, who Jesus is, the nature of salvation, the nature of exaltation, the clear teaching of Scripture, etc..
Mormonism rejects the very core of the Christian faith in all its essentials. Joseph Smith knew this but nowadays they are playing mind games with their own people and with real Christians.
Either THEY are Christians or WE are. It’s one or the other. Not both.
When asked “Will all be damned but Mormons?” Smith replied, “Yes, and a great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 119)
The Doctrine and Covenants (1:30) leaves no doubt to the Mormon teaching of exclusivity when it says the LDS Church is “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased ….”
Brigham Young, second only to Joseph Smith in Mormonism said…
“Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity” (Journal of Discourses 10:230).
“The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God” (Journal of Discourses 8:171).
I could easily give you pages of them saying they are the only true Christians and how we are all ignorant beasts and our doctrines are wrong. They knew at the time they had a different God, gospel, Scripture, and system of belief. But now it has become expedient to pretend otherwise while still preaching all those false and unchristian things.
Mormons, your leaders are gaslighting you and you are gaslighting us. You aren’t Christian but we want you to be. Flee from Mormonism. Flee from Joseph Smith.
@farmingandJesus Cult. All the founders were anti trinitarians and they've never renounced their anti-trinitarian roots. They uphold a false prophet. They don't believe atonement was finished at the cross. They say Satan is the scapegoat. They believe sunday worship is the mark of the beast.
@Canonandcreed @benjaminjozif I ask this as someone genuinely seeking to learn. I've been blessed by both your ministries C&C and AA. But seeing you say salvation isn't by faith alone confuses me. What is required for salvation? I thought faith was all we needed and bc we're saved good things flow from that?
The litmus test is pedophilia guys. Anybody who in any way is defending or covering for elite pedophiles is the enemy.
Don’t care your race, religion, or ethnicity. If you are with pedophiles, you are against me.
@SECPaulSAtkins@HesterPeirce So what's the explanation for why the SEC singled out XRP while giving other cryptos a free pass? What will be done to repair the massive damage done to investors by this unfair lawsuit?