Jesus didn’t come to earth to save us by showing us how to be good people. He came to earth to die for us as a propitiatory sacrifice because there is no one good, no not one
We believe Mary’s alive in heaven. We just don’t believe she operates in the roles you’ve assigned to her. If you’ll only accept that she’s alive if she hears prayers and appears to people, then yeah, your logic mandates she’s dead if those aspects aren’t true. That’s you, not us
The floodwaters were the instrument of judgment, not salvation. Noah and his family were saved because they were in the ark. The ark had one door, and Jesus said, “I am the door.”
The picture is clear that salvation is found in Christ alone, the one who saves His people from judgment
@det4187 Purgatory isn’t Biblical. Our walk with Christ on earth is when our sanctification happens, and every verse used in support of purgatory has been taken out of context.
The app my company uses for payroll has to be at least 40% of God’s plan to refine me by fire, because whoever coded this abomination must be genetically related to Satan.
@FiorilloRalph The issue is, when you compare these apparitions to the Bible, they don’t prove to be of God. And the Bible also makes it clear that signs and wonders are a purview of false prophets as well. The existence of a miracle doesn’t mean it’s from God.
@ScubaDocJMP There’s definitely divergence in opinion over specifics, but I’m not sure who’s out there denying the resurrection happens at all. I think if they’re saying she’s permanently dead, they’re not following Jesus.
Rev 12 is Israel, not Mary. It mirrors Joseph’s dream.
This whole discourse has lost sight of the original dilemma on both sides. It wasn’t man vs wild bear. It was man vs trained bear.
Because then the response is, “Well, yeah, but the bear’s trained.”
To which you’d say, “Well, yeah. Why isn’t the man trained?”
You do not understand bears.
The sharpest knife you own *might* slice through the skin of a fresh salmon in one go. Maybe.
A bear merely grasps the thing and rips its skin off easier than you can open an envelope.
By the time a bear is within mace range, you are dead. Mace will not stop its attack. It will not scare it off. It might stop it from eating you after you are dead.
Bear Spray is approximately twice as strong and sprays three times as far; it doesn’t scare a bear off because it hurts, it scares a bear off because it burns its nose with stink.
Empty bear spray cans are a frequent find at the scene of bear mauling deaths.
Any woman that insists on “the bear” is a colossal retard and it’s not questionable. She is a woman in a bubble without the slightest idea of what real danger looks like.
You have *no idea* what these animals can do to a human being. Unless you’re carrying 12-gauge slugs, not even a firearm is an absolute guarantee to stop a pissed off bear. And I highly doubt it, because a 12-gauge slug would probably dislocate the average woman’s shoulder, if she even could fire the thing properly.
I’ve spoken to women who have encountered bears on trails. They have admitted that it was the most terrifying experience of their lives. One of them, an otherwise reasonable woman, pulled out her wallet thinking to bribe the thing—she was in that much of a panic.
Fortunately, a random man with bear spray and Desert Eagle was nearby to save her life.
You are a colossally stupid specimen worthy of being included in a museum explaining why women suddenly had their voting rights stripped in the late 21st Century.
My coworker was lecturing her boyfriend on the phone about trans people, and I really don’t want to know why I heard her say, “We can do all kinds of things. We can have sex with sheep if we want.”
Y’all, pray for me this month of June 😅 😓
@itisjustbill There are many modern-day Pharisees—Protestant too—who are the same, even regarding the New Testament. They could probably lap most believers in scholarship and head knowledge. But their fruit gives them away.
The theology Jesus taught “required” the Pharisees’ theology to be wrong. It “required” hundreds of years of the chosen people having gone astray. This is one of those arguments that sounds compelling until you examine the precedent in the Bible.
@itisjustbill They are an example of how “well” an unsaved person can know the Bible. They meditated on it, formed their lives around it, and believed they valued it above all else. But their response to Jesus exemplifies the exact limit of secular understanding vs faith.
@itisjustbill@jmwc3 I think because the Sadducees and Pharisees were the right and left arms of the law. They formed a unit—religious law and secular law—and found common ground in their use/perversion of tradition to oppose Jesus.
@itisjustbill@zeroruck So the issue here is that they actually did have an understanding that He was who He said He was. It’s just that He wasn’t who they wanted Him to be, so they rejected Him.
They had good theology, which is why they knew His claims were legit and hated Him for it.
@itisjustbill@ScubaDocJMP Tradition is for sure important. We Protestants actually don’t denigrate that. What the Pharisees did was add to and twist tradition in a way that disobeyed the authority of the Torah, like when Jesus pointed out their loophole where they avoided taking care of their parents.