You know what Muslims, Mormons, and Jews say to me constantly?
“You don't follow Jesus. You follow Paul.”
Bro... you don't understand how Christianity works.
You do NOT need Paul to believe Jesus is the Messiah.
If Paul disappeared tomorrow, Christianity would still stand.
Why?
Because the Torah and the prophets already did the heavy lifting.
Genesis: sin enters the world.
Exodus and Leviticus: blood, atonement, and substitution.
Passover: the spotless lamb.
Isaiah: the suffering servant.
Daniel: the Messiah.
That's not Paul.
That's Moses, David, Isaiah, Daniel, and the entire prophetic story.
Paul didn't invent Jesus.
Paul looked at the Scriptures and realized:
This was ALWAYS about Him.
And Paul wasn't some random guy making up theology.
He was a Pharisee trained in the law.
So when he preached, what did he quote?
The Old Testament.
Over.
And over.
And over.
His argument was simple:
If the Scriptures are true, Jesus Christ is unavoidable.
So saying Christians follow Paul instead of Jesus is like saying you follow the referee instead of the rulebook.
Paul isn't the point.
He's pointing you to the point.
Don't like Paul?
Fine.
Read Isaiah 53 without him.
Read Psalm 22 without him.
Read Daniel 9 without him.
You'll still end up staring directly at Jesus.
Christianity isn't built on Paul.
It's built on the Messiah the Scriptures were already pointing to.
And once I finally read Paul charitably...
Bro.
The man was an absolute SAVAGE for the faith.
Follow this account for more Christian apologetics, Muslim evangelism, and the biblical truth that led me from Islam to Jesus.
I still can't get over how good this is. Conservatives have always stuck with the "It doesn't work" argument against Leftism while pointing to their charts and graphs, hoping people will follow along.
But THIS is the argument to make. 👇Leftism is ugly. It's repulsive. It's disgusting. It's lame. It's immoral. It's boring. It's depressing.
This isn't a fight between two competing economic models, one of which happens to work better. This is a fight between beauty and ugliness. Building and destruction. Thankfulness and resentment. Love and hate. Greatness and cowardice. Good and evil.
One day people will look back at this brilliant speech by @StephenM and see it was a turning point. Only America has the will to restore beauty and order and normalcy, and if it happens it will be thanks to statesmen like this
A college economics professor stated that he had once failed an entire class. That class insisted that socialism is functional and that no one should be poor and no one rich, that everyone is equal...
The teacher told them, "OK, we will do an experiment on socialism in this group.
All grades will be averaged, and everyone will get the same grade, so no one will fail and no one will get a 10."
After the first test, the grades were added up and divided by the number of students, and everyone got an 8.
The students who studied intensively were upset, but those who studied less were overjoyed.
As the second test approached, the students who had studied a little learned even less, and those who had studied more intensively told themselves that they also wanted a "handout", so they also studied less.
The average of the second test was 6.
When the third test was given, the average score was 4. To the great surprise of all the students, they all failed.
The teacher told them that socialism will eventually fail because when half the population sees that they cannot work, because the other half will take care of them, and when the half that worked realizes that there is no point in working anymore, because others are the beneficiaries of their labor, then that is the end of any nation
The story may be a fable not a fact but the moral is real
Get it?
OBAMA MADE AMERICANS BUY HEALTH INSURANCE, OR YOU PAID A FINE!
BIDEN MADE YOU TAKE A SHOT, OR YOU LOST YOUR JOB!!
TELL ME AGAIN, HOW TRUMP IS A FASCIST DICTATOR??
@BasedMikeLee There is a Christian doctrine and a Mormon doctrine and the two are not compatible in anyway. Only the Bible is the Word of God, so He gets to decide who is a Christian. READ the BIBLE!
@BasedMikeLee The Bible is the ETERNAL Word of God! According to Mormonism, supposedly, the angel Moroni gave golden plates to Joseph Smith, which became the Book of Mormon.
Since angels are lower than God, why read the book of Mormon rather than the Bible?
California
Before 2016 law changes: Elections resolved on election night or within days. Republicans won seats, held seats, results were stable.
2016: Democrats pass ballot harvesting and universal mail ballot laws. Signed by Democratic governor.
2018 onward: Every close race follows the same script. Republican leads on election night. Slow count begins. Lead shrinks daily. Republican loses weeks later.
Seven House seats in 2018 alone. All the same pattern. All in one direction. Never reversed.
Since 2018, there hasn’t been one single race where the slow counting of votes didn’t take away a Republican victory by the end.