Faith cannot be measured by how strongly one believes nor by the amount or quality of one’s hope. If it could, faith would be nothing more than how you feel at a given moment. Faith, if you have it, is in your past. It’s not what you tried to do to escape a situation. Faith is what you did right when there was no escape. Having faith is not the means of getting away from something but the means to persevere with the Word of God, both testaments, and prayer as your anchor. When faith is no longer a means of escape, the unbelievable riches in faith, far exceeding money, make you immovable, a mountain inside. No one can take away what you said to Jesus, despite how you felt, when you were being crushed. And no one can take away the joy you have after the fact, knowing you weren’t alone and will never be.
First, Jesus says have faith. Then - after that, He says ask. He’s inviting us to trust him first in the dark places - where we need to know He’s with us. Faith requires a relationship. Anything less, like viewing faith as a means of escape, is like taking someone’s last name in marriage because they’re rich.
You can develop faith right now. Pour your heart out to God. That means saying all the things you don’t really want to say. Then, after that, choosing your path, like David did. Let him be your pattern:
My God, why have You forsaken Me? (This is a hard place)
Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning? (Note his embrace of just how bad it is. He’s not running away or minimizing it)
O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; And in the night season, and am not silent. (Note the details about how he feels both inside and out).
Then, after acknowledging where he is, how bad things feel, he chooses - despite his feelings, the truth he shall cling to - faith:
But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel…
Both David and Jesus followed this pattern because anything else, by nature, rejects an actual relationship with God. For context, our enemy would love nothing more for us than to think of faith and/or power as a means of escape, which is why Jesus, like us, was tempted the way He was in the desert.
TrackAIPAC is so transparently bullshit and the fact that you retards fall for it every single time is hilarious.
The left is Connie Chan when she was running against a Muslim socialist.
The right is their graphic now that she's running against a Jew.
@childofgod2026@LauraLoomer And for context, I’m guessing if (God forbid) a bad guy came to sneak in through a window in your home one night, instead of interceding for him, you’d call the police. Like a sane person. Praying that God can reach an enemy does not absolve you from doing justice.
Praying that God might reach into the darkness of your enemies and make their hearts new does not cancel out our command to do justice. And yes, doing justice and loving mercy absolutely requires force. A judge who has no force is not a judge, he only feigns justice to feed his worthless and despicable self-righteousness.
Point number three applies to nations that do not adhere to the Tanakh or the Talmud, making it irrelevant and therefore invalidating the three oaths altogether. This idea is nowhere in the Tanakh. It is a hotly debated and Talmudic view (minority view) and is in no way binding or considered law.
Not all Muslims are jihadists, but Muslims can't theologically disagree with jihadists.
The difference between "normal" Muslims and the jihadists is not a different interpretation of the faith.
Both sanctify the same man and the same book.
The difference is in the level of commitment, not in the underlying belief.
Think of it this way:
The overwhelming bulk of active missionary conversion in Christianity is done by one branch, evangelical, born-again Christianity, with Catholicism as the next largest share.
But while not every Christian or Catholic is a missionary, nearly all of them regard proselytization as an essential part of the faith.
They don't devote their own lives to the mission, yet they approve of it, and they support it wherever they can.
Jihad functions in Islam the way the Great Commission functions in Christianity.
Most Muslims won't carry it out personally, but they affirm it, they won't condemn it, and the doctrine itself sits at the center of the religion, not the fringe.
@Cernovich Does the spiritual part of being “spiritually American” pay taxes in spirit, too? Can it find a way to steal an actual American’s vote even though it’s in spirit? Are my taxes paying for that spirit’s healthcare?
You’re a snake, Cerno.
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Yes! We agree. He builds in the capacity to see and respond to His draw or calling. There’s no room for self-righteousness here. Everything comes from Him, including the freedom to choose when He calls. Otherwise, one has to rewrite and redefine every Biblical instance of words like believe, choose, follow, etc. to mean the opposite of what is written. Probably one of my favorite clarifying contexts is in Acts 17, God made the world, every nation, “so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us….”So lovely to see it spelled out plainly yet again, here through Paul.
No verse subjected to Calvinist commentary can unwrite, omit, or cancel out what’s been written somewhere else in the Bible. When trying to do so becomes one’s foundation for belief, of course they are going to produce contradictions and controversies.