Vibe Coding Until We Donate $1,000,000
The journey starts here ๐๏ธ
Starting tomorrow I will be live streaming development progress as we approach June launch.
Before God also has its eyes on...
> Delivering 100,000 meals
> Supplying 1,000,000 litres of water
> Sheltering 1,000 homeless
That is our 1st milestone of success.
Before God is not going to just be the most value driven, practical and genuine app in its goal to help Christians live more faithfully obedient lives...
...it will have a signficant impact on the world.
Here's to the future!
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Two spiritual forces are at war, for your soul.
Yes, you are that important.
One fills you with everything that fades.
One asks only for your heart โ and never lets go.
Faithful obedience is simply refusing to let go of Jesus and continuing to grow with him.
Amen if you're still holding on ๐
1. The Greek word for "Knowledge" here is superficial.
Peter uses the Greek word epignosis, while this can mean deep knowledge, in the context of the New Testament, it often refers to a precise, intellectual understanding of facts.
These people clearly understood the data of the Gospel.
They learned the moral teachings of Jesus and applied them to their lives. However, having a correct mental map of the Gospel is not the same as saving faith.
As James 2:19 famously notes...
"Even the demons believe - and shudder."
They had Christ in their heads, but not in their hearts.
2. Escaping pollution is Reformation, not Regeneration.
There is a massive theological difference between cleaning up your life (reformation) and being born again (regeneration).
What they did: They used Christian teachings to escape the pollutions (external, messy sins) of the world.
What they lacked: They never escaped the power or guilt of sin.
People do this all the time without being saved.
For example, someone might join a strict religious group, stop gambling, stop cheating, and start feeding the poor because they respect the teachings of Jesus.
They have "escaped" the world's obvious pollutions through Christian knowledge, but their heart remains unchanged.
3. Jesus addressed this exact scenario.
Look at Matthew 7:21-23.
Jesus explicitly warns that on Judgment Day, there will be people who call Him "Lord, Lord," and who even did miracles and cast out demons in His name (which requires using "the knowledge of the Lord").
Yet, Jesus will say to them: "I never knew you; depart from me."
He does not say, "I used to know you, but you lost it."
He says he never knew them.
These people experienced a moral cleanup by hanging around Christians and learning Christian rules, but Peterโs pig metaphor in verse 22 proves their internal DNA was still "unclean."
Chapter 2 is entirely about false teachers who smuggled themselves into the church. Peter is warning that these hypocrites have a "head knowledge" of Jesus, but they never truly surrendered to Him. Like Judas, they walked with believers and looked the part for a while, but their ultimate departure simply proved they were never truly part of the flock to begin with (just like 1 John 2:19 says: "They went out from us, but they were not of us").