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Give your burdens to Jesus Christ.

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"....I don't remember the film either, but I remember the feeling". My fav films ever:

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

The story in the Bible that rattled me before I converted to Christianity from Islam:

The two thieves crucified next to Jesus. I never knew about them. Bro. They’re the whole Gospel in one scene.

Two men. Same sin. Same cross. Same dying breath. Same distance from Jesus — mere feet away on either side.

One mocks Him. One turns to Him and says, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

And Jesus tells the second man: “Today you will be with Me in paradise.” Luke 23:43.

That man did ZERO good works. He couldn’t. His hands were nailed down. He never prayed five times. Never fasted. Never gave to the poor. Never got baptized. He had nothing to offer but a dying glance toward Jesus.

And Jesus saved him... on the spot.

In Islam, that man was doomed. No time to balance the scale. No deeds to weigh. Game over. A horrible life with a horrible punishment ahead.

I wonder if that would be me…

Yet in the Gospel, that man was in paradise the same day — because salvation was never about his works. It was about WHO he turned to in his last moment.

Two criminals. Same cross. One simple difference: which one turned to Jesus.

That’s why the Gospel is offensive.

And Jesus asks everyone: who do you say I am?

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

Christianity has the harshest verdict on human nature of any religion on earth. It also has the most extravagant grace of any religion on earth. That is not coincidental.

Every other religion does one of two things. It sets a bar you can clear; works, rituals, devotion, and moral accumulation, with a path to standing before your god with something to show.

Or it dissolves guilt altogether, telling you the self is an illusion, that sin is merely ignorance, that enlightenment is just a reframe. Human religion, across every culture and every century, moves in one of these two directions. Earn your way in, or talk your way out.

Christianity does neither. It does something no human committee would or could design.

The Sermon on the Mount is not mere moral teaching, it is an intense prosecution. Jesus does not merely raise the behavioral bar, but He relocates it to the interior, where nobody can hide. The Pharisees; the most disciplined religious performers in the ancient world, could clear the behavioral bar. They could not touch the heart bar. Nobody back then could and nobody since has.

Anger is murder, lust is essentially adultery. When Jesus finished speaking in Matthew 5, no one in that crowd was still standing, all their defenses collapsed. That does not look like religion, it resembles a courtroom. And the verdict is an emphatic GUILTY, without exception.

Now watch what happens next.

The same God who delivers that verdict does not simply show mercy. A judge who acquits a criminal is merciful. What Christianity offers is not acquittal. The criminal does not simply walk free. He moves into the judge’s house, he gets the last name and he receives an enormous inheritance. Romans 8:17 says we are heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ. Not pardoned, or tolerated but adopted and entitled to the full inheritance of the eternal Son.

People underestimate what that inheritance means because they think in earthly categories. The richest human who has ever lived will die, and his estate will eventually dissolve. What Romans 8 describes is something creation itself is groaning in anticipation of; the full revelation of the glory of the sons of God. You are not inheriting assets. You are inheriting glory. The shared, eternal glory of the Son of God.

No human religious imagination arrives here. The gap is too wide. The indictment is too severe and the grace is too extravagant, and they are too precisely proportional to each other to have been invented. The depth of the hole and the height of the rescue match exactly. That kind of architecture does not come from a fleshly committee.

The most devastating indictment in the history of religion. The most generous verdict in the history of religion. Both in the same book, both from the same God. The paradox is not a contradiction. It is in my opinion, comprehensive proof of the substance and the veracity of this beautiful faith.

[AI @nonewthing]

God is the greatest scapegoat. Hence Christianity is true.

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@OriginsJuega How is that an insult when you having pride is objectively true, if you have some self-awareness you would realize it too

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Bro the moment Jesus took on the flesh and stepped into the world, all your accusations, all humanity's accusations against God got debunked & refuted. He proved that he's not a distant God who only judges & punishes and sits on a throne. Instead, He became one of us and breathed

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@churchtalkative If he so desires that, why give children cancer? Why punish people for not believing? He regretted making us wiping children, babies and land animals as collateral damage with the flood? He put in the law to stone women whom don’t bleed the first time, about 50% only do. SYBAU

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@OriginsJuega Look how superficial you sound, I was talking about the worshippers of knowledge, you never look inward, always focused only on surface-level things, I imagine that's how you studied The Bible too

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@OriginsJuega Resorting to swearing, using the n word(idc if you're African-American), calling Jesus names was fine by you but when I say you got pride, I'm attacking you, okay man

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@OriginsJuega ignoring millions of evidences, knowledge has always been the enemy of life since the beginning of time as written in The Bible. God bless and have a nice day❤️

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@OriginsJuega Don't try to gaslight me, I didn't agree with any of your views or claims, it would take days to argue with you, and I promise you, you wont break my faith in Christ, nobody will, ever. You're finding every detailed reason to deny God and feed your ego and pride while happily

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@OriginsJuega a human life without a human father is not a logical contradiction. Accusing God of r*ping Mary is just blasphemous and devilish. Also Mary gave God her permission in the Gospel of Luke "Let it be to me according to your word."

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@OriginsJuega more nuanced ways than you're presenting. Claiming the virgin birth is biologically impossible doesn't refute Christianity. The Bible explicitly describes it as a miracle. A miracle is not limited by ordinary biological processes. If God created the universe, creating

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@OriginsJuega Nothing can break my faith in Christ. I hope you find your way back home too https://t.co/NMlfkACOiJ

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@OriginsJuega So you're saying if Jesus is Joseph's son, He's under Jeconiah's curse. If He's not Joseph's son, He isn't Davidic? The virgin birth solves that easily. Jesus receives legal royal status through Joseph while not being Joseph's biological descendant & Mary is biologically Davidic

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@OriginsJuega He also has Davidic blood descent biologically. If you're a jew waiting for your Messiah, good luck in the social media era bro

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@OriginsJuega So you're saying if Jesus is Joseph's son, He's under Jeconiah's curse. If He's not Joseph's son, He isn't Davidic? The virgin birth solves that easily. Jesus receives legal royal status through Joseph while not being Joseph's biological descendant & Mary is biologically Davidic

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@OriginsJuega descent from David. Therefore Jesus satisfies both the legal and physical aspects of the Davidic promise.

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@OriginsJuega Bro read The Bible carefully, both Joseph and Mary are descendants of David. In ancient Jewish culture, legal sonship mattered. Joseph legally accepted and named Jesus, giving Him Davidic royal status. At the same time, Mary was also descended from David, giving Jesus biological

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@OriginsJuega according to The Bible? Also kids go to Heaven when they die.

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@OriginsJuega If you read my original post carefully, u wouldn't ask me this question again. God knew people like you would blame Him for suffering so He suffered Himself. And cancer is a consequence of sin of mankind. Did God create cancer in the beginning