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[JB @jb_sulli]

Choice was there in the beginning. We could choose God's design, eating freely of all the trees but one, or choose our own wisdom confounded by our desires, I want to be like God and He's holding something back from me and I need to take it.

I don't believe you can lose your salvation like you lose your keys and the enemy cannot steal you away from Jesus. But, salvation isn't a ticket to heaven. It's a person. We are saved through faith in that person (Jesus). And you can walk away from that person. He has always given you free will and He has always respected our choice in that free will. He's not going to hold you hostage in heaven because someone got you to say a salvation prayer.

THE overwhelming feature of heaven will be God. He is the prize, the joy, who will fill us with song and wonder. He doesn't demand worship, He delights in blowing our minds so much that we can't help but cry out in praise.

Heaven is hell for those who reject God. We don't fully understand this because we're used to this world. Most Christians are Christians because they believe He's a good luck charm that will bring good luck, protection, and fortune in this world. They're still worshipping this world. He is so much more. You have one encounter with Him and every cell in your body will cry out "YES! IT'S HIM" or you will join with those in Revelation 6:16:

"They called to the mountains and the rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!'"

[Daniel Black🦎 @Dani_Activist]

I used to think Christians were naive. I thought faith in God was just an emotional crutch for people who could not handle reality.

Now I think the opposite.

The more seriously I looked at life, history, suffering, conscience, beauty, evil, and the limits of human reason, the less convincing atheism became.

Because everyone has faith. Everyone. The only real question is where that faith is placed.

In God, or in man.

I was taught that intelligence means distance from God. But what is so intelligent about believing that matter somehow produced mind, that chaos somehow produced order, that chemistry somehow produced conscience, and that human beings can ground morality by themselves while constantly contradicting even their own standards?

If we are only matter, then human dignity is just a useful story. Love is chemistry. Evil is preference. Sacrifice is irrational. Meaning is self invented. But almost no one actually lives that way. We all live as if truth matters, as if cruelty is really wrong, as if beauty means something, as if love is more than a chemical reaction, and as if justice should exist even when it costs us.

That is not nothing. That points beyond survival.

The Bible understood this long before modern people started pretending they had outgrown it.

Genesis grounds human dignity in the image of God. That means people are not valuable because they are productive, attractive, healthy, or useful. They are valuable because they bear His image.

John 1 does not begin with chaos. It begins with the Logos. Reason, order, meaning. Reality is not random noise. It is intelligible because it comes from a mind greater than ours.

Ecclesiastes says that pleasure, work, success, and achievement collapse into vanity when cut off from God. Anyone who has chased status, money, sex, or recognition long enough knows how true that is.

Romans 1 says creation points beyond itself. And it does. The order of the world, the mathematical beauty of reality, the existence of consciousness, the hunger for meaning, the presence of moral knowledge, these are not small things.

And history teaches the same lesson. The bloodiest experiments of the last century did not come from too much faith in God. They came from man trying to replace God with ideology, state, race, class, or power. When God is removed, something else always takes His place. Usually something crueler.

Christianity also does not begin with a vague spiritual feeling. It makes a historical claim. That Christ entered history, was crucified, and rose again. You can reject that claim, but it is not the same as saying faith is just blind comfort. Christianity stands or falls on what it says actually happened.

So no, I no longer think faith in God is stupid.

I think one of the most shallow ideas modern people were ever sold is that disbelief is automatically intelligent.

Sometimes disbelief is not depth. Sometimes it is pride.

And sometimes faith is not an escape from reality. It is what remains when you look at reality honestly enough and realize that man is not enough, matter is not enough, and this world cannot explain itself.

I used to think Christians were foolish.

Now I think many of them simply saw earlier what I was too proud to see.

[JB @jb_sulli]

Don't fall for the "duty" of being a Christian. Just fall in love with God. A pastor put it this way: When you get married, you can think about all the things you can't do and the limitations and duties... or you can just fall madly in love with your spouse and all those things aren't even a thought. Get hungry for a greater God than you have known before. Wake up each morning with the anticipation that He is going to show you more of who He is and how deeply He loves you. He won't disappoint. He wants the child of God He created to shine out of you. Not the old you. Not the lies, shame, fear, and guilt the enemy traps us into believing, but the YOU that He created.

Father God, be with Steph. Don't let her struggle with lies and weights of this world but lift her up as a father scoops up his little girl and throws her into the air to see her laugh with joy. You desire to see that spirit come alive within her. You are near and have never left her. Reveal to her what you want her to know. Speak your words of life over her and revive her spirit. He who the Son sets free is free indeed! He has come that we might have new life! Amen

[JB @jb_sulli]

@rawsalerts Do I like tragic news? Or dislike? I think you're screwed

[JB @jb_sulli]

@deaflibertarian You're not concerned that it says New "POS" on the packaging? 😆

[JB @jb_sulli]

@Engineers_View1 C

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

Unpopular opinion-

Trump voters, now is the time to walk the walk. This is the unity party- if you want to heal this country you need to show real love and compassion to liberals and democrats.

You need to talk to them, listen to them- prove to them that what the media said about Trump was lies- what they said about Trump supporters was lies. You can’t mock them for calling you garbage and then act like garbage because you won.

Their greatest success in Trump’s first term was creating TDS- it is up to every Trump supporter to live out the counter narrative to their lies.

Making America great again is inseparable from dismantling the divisive psyop that Trump supporters are mean, uninformed, Nazis.

Be the bigger person, build the bridge and welcome someone across.

Otherwise four years from now America is even more divided and even more in danger.

No excuses. 🇺🇸

[JB @jb_sulli]

@deaflibertarian Haha, our pastor carries on stage. Still a Marine and isn't going let his sheep get attacked without a fight.

[Ashley St. Clair @stclairashley]

This video asking black people in Harlem if they have ID will forever be one of the best reactions to the “voter ID is racist” nonsense

[JB @jb_sulli]

@MicrochipMakes @OSUengineering Nice! Might try making it. Really cool that they provide the instructions and BOM links

[Live Action @LiveAction]

Things pro-life pregnancy centers offer that Planned Parenthood won't:

Free prenatal care
Free diapers, clothing, & formula
Free adoption aid
Free long-term support
Free birth & parenting classes

Planned Parenthood hurts mothers & kills babies

Pregnancy centers care for both

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Chills! Powerful ad by @xx_xyathletics in honor of Real Womens Day tomorrow. 🔥🔥🔥

It's not hard to stand up for women and girls, so why won't @Nike just do it?

[JB @jb_sulli]

@rawsalerts And #Trump2024 has a flag

[JB @jb_sulli]

@rawsalerts I want to keep him in. He'll be a great candidate for running against Trump

[LibertyJ @LibertyJen]

Every last word of this:

[JB @jb_sulli]

@MarioNawfal Which will make it so no one "has" to own a car... leading to no one owning a car... leading to companies owning all means of travel. You will own nothing and be happy, right?

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Black and Hispanic students at @SuccessCharters outperform public school peers.

“That’s redefining American public education,” says the charter’s Chief Schooling Officer.

Here’s how they do it:

[JB @jb_sulli]

@pgoldenfishing @JohnBevere Mmm... great argument. Thanks for adding to the discussion

[JB @jb_sulli]

@RepThomasMassie Biden: hold my ice-cream cone

Biden is working on it. Just give him a couple weeks

[JB @jb_sulli]

@NickJFreitas The problem with that is, most people don't even look at the total taxes they paid. They just look for the refund/taxes still owed on top.