Gal. 1:18
But even if we, or an angel out of Heaven, should announce a gospel to you beside what we preached to you, let him be accursed. 👊🏻Jn. 14:6 👊🏻
Scripture declares in Ephesians 2:1 that before an unbeliever is brought to faith in Jesus Christ, he is ‘dead in his trespasses and sins.’ The word “dead” in that text is the Greek adjective “nekros” (νεκρός), from which we get the English word ‘necropsy’, and translates to mean spiritually dead. This is important to note as no unbeliever, in and of himself, possesses the ability to come to saving faith in Christ. He is dead spiritually—dead. Not “broken,” not “weak,” but dead! His nature is utterly dead to the things of God and, therefore, must be vivified by God Himself by grace through faith, not by his own efforts (Ephesians 2:8-9). The unbeliever is not drowning in an ocean and stretches out his hand to grab the hand of Jesus, as has often been depicted. No, he is a spiritual corpse, rotting at the bottom of the ocean and must have life breathed into him by God Himself. As it is with a physically dead person, so it is with a spiritually dead person. No spiritually dead person can bring himself to life. God alone must do it, and only God can do it.
The hyper-Calvinist and the anti-Calvinist both pit Scripture against Scripture.
The question isn’t, do we believe in predestination or not (literally a biblical word, cf Rom. 8:29; Eph. 1:5)? Nor is the question do we believe in the will of man or not (literally a biblical term, cf Rom. 9:16; John 1:13)?
The question is, will we harmonize predestination and human responsibility because “All Scripture is inspired by God” (2 Tim 3:15)?
John MacArthur used to say, the problem with this issue is that people try to say it’s 50 percent God’s sovereignty and 50 percent man’s free will, and this makes half-truths of it all.
Man is 100 percent responsible for his sin before a holy God;
And God is 100 percent sovereign over all that He has made.
Anything less than this is biblical error.
Charles Spurgeon was once asked, “How does one reconcile human will with the doctrine of election” and his response was, “One need not reconcile friends.”
I asked grok what Charles Spurgeon thought of John Calvin (because I love Spurgeon and am curious) and love what Spurgeon had to say!
https://t.co/kw518VcbNd
Lol, they’re getting desperate.
The Catholic “Church” in the U.S. continues to lose more people than it gains through religious switching. Pew data shows about more than 8.4 leaving for every 1 gained. 30% of U.S. adults were raised Catholic, but only ~19% currently identify as such, converts make up a small share.
People are leaving this cult. Many of which are returning to Christ, some, due to trust damage incurred by the lies of this satanic institution, are leaving the faith altogether. They don’t create Christians, they run them off.
1 Cor. 15:51 & 52
Behold, I speak a mystery to you: we shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed.
In a moment, in a glance of an eye, at the last trumpet; for a trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed.
Quantum entanglement is one of nature’s most haunting mysteries proof that the universe might be more unified than we can imagine. When two particles are created together, they share a single quantum state. No matter how far apart they drift, even light-years away, a change in one instantly affects the other. To Einstein, this was impossible yet experiments continue to confirm it’s real.
This strange bond seems to ignore the speed limit of light, suggesting that at the deepest level, space and distance may be illusions. The universe behaves like one continuous fabric, not a collection of separate objects. Every flicker of energy and every act of observation is a thread tugging on that cosmic web.
Entanglement blurs the line between “here” and “there,” “you” and “me.” It whispers that perhaps everything from atoms to galaxies is already connected, sharing one hidden heartbeat through the quantum field.
Sources: NASA, CERN, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
Psalm 42:1-2
The Bolsheviks were militant atheists who smashed every religion. They shot priests and rabbis and seized churches and synagogues. Christians died by the millions because they were the huge majority of the population. Jews died too. The party was never Jewish. Lenin was Russian. Stalin was Georgian.