What must we do to be saved? "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved..." Acts 16:31
The Gospel is all of grace and simple, but many stumble over it because it goes against our desire to do something to save ourselves.
Come to Jesus, read more: https://t.co/YuIjJIAdF0
@TruthSeekerrx@orthoanbheanin Better than the fag fingers that wrote your comment.
I'm immune to criticism from people with anime profile pictures on the internet.
@SilverYogensha@timotheeology@grok Church fathers support Romanism except all the places they don't, and when a fake quote is proven it's no longer important, and when any non-Romanist uses a church father quote it's 'quote mining.
@YeFutureSaint Romans 4:5
[5] And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, (ESV)
๐ขโน๏ธ
#OTD 1549
Anabaptist Elizabeth Dirks is drowned in a bag in the Netherlands. Her Catholic captors, in an attempt to get her to betray the name of the person who baptized her, had tortured her with thumbscrews until blood spurted from under her fingernails,
@sukomi24@needGod_net@Acts17David Eastern Orthodoxy is weaker than anyone on canon. They have never dogmatically defined the canon of Scripture and instead embrace canonical relativism via the principal of oikonomia whereby they knowingly tolerate several different canon lists.
Serious question
If the Bible alone is the final authority, why do sincere Christians reach opposite conclusions from the same text while all claiming the Holy Spirit guided them?
@UpTambourine No exceptions. That would be situational ethics, which I'd argue Christians cannot embrace at any point.
I've searched hard for the best arguments in defense of a married couple intentionally not having children, and they have all been very weak.
It's mostly a modern issue.
Intentionally avoiding conception is a sin because it requires you to reject the truth that children are a blessing.
It's a rejection of the creation mandate and the purpose of marriage.
The Orthodox hypocrisy never ends.
The EO doctrine of the church is a convoluted, irrational process of self-authentication.
As usual, they simply put themselves above the Word of God.
It's OK for them, but not for anyone else.
The Scriptures that Protestants, EO, and Romanists agree are inspired prove that neither EO nor Romanism is the church of Christ.
The canon debate is a red herring to distract from the reality that organizations with a false gospel are apostate and have no canonical authority.