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[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@learnpianoaus @JoshuaBarzon Do you have links to these various versions?

[Julie_married_to_Thomas_but_not_a_Thomist @gmk_julie]

Let's review. You might be in a cult if:

1. you cannot voice even the slightest disagreement or criticism of folks in your community without fear of public retaliation/humiliation 🚩

2. the teaching you’re receiving emphasizes physical appearance, clean eating and adherence to Old Testament law over the Gospel of Jesus Christ, fruit of the Holy Spirit, and apostolic admonitions to the church🚩

3. you're in a community with a clearly identifiable hierarchy of leaders but there's no way to determine how they came to hold those positions nor what would be required to dispose them and whose teachings are never questioned even if they change 🚩

4. your group claims to have a special revelation or insight into historical, current or future events as opposed to the limited or inaccurate consensus of everyone else and that insight consists of anything that is not explicitly stated in the Bible 🚩

5. common beliefs/doctrines/teachings held by your community change without any traceable open discussion/documentation, somehow everyone just shifts from believing one thing to believing another 🚩

6. respectfully disagreeing with the general consensus over matters that are adiaphora results in canceling, excommunication, shunning, mass ghosting, broken relationships, black listing etc... 🚩

7. you've been convinced that no one outside of your group has been doing this Biblical thing, that you are the first and only ones (at least in a long time) being obedient in a particular area 🚩

If a church, movement, organization, on-line community, network, or whatever form a group of people has taken on, possesses any number of these traits, there is a strong possibility what you are dealing with is a cult.

It may not have started out that way, it might not even be one yet, but it is likely on its way to becoming one. Cults tend to evolve as leaders become more and more sure of their position. Don't ignore the red flags.

[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@thisisfoster Turn your eyes upon Jesus...

[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@MichelleDLesley This is unkind, Ma'am.

[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@chukaobi @monlee_mane @Mohsule_ That's who He is. Take Him or leave Him. He owes no man any explanation for who He is.

He is the One who commands us to live in righteousness. He is also the One who predetermines and uses our unrighteousness (and righteousness) for His glory and the edification of His people.

[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@chukaobi @monlee_mane @Mohsule_ The Bible deals with your question in Romans 9: 18-22.

Implication: He had every reason to be angry at David or at us when we choose to sin. Though He had predetermined it, He did not override David to make it happen. David chose to act in wickedness.

[Gakeem Samuels @GakeemS]

False teachers - By Shai Linne

[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@tinobobotweets Amen

[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@SaintAwoleesu Happy birthday🤗

[Mrs. O 🌸 @Akustics]

Unless I’m reading into it, this question frames choice as if it undermines submission…as if the moment choice exists, rebellion is inevitable. True submission is a relational posture; deliberate, voluntary, and motivated by reverence for Christ and respect for one’s husband.

[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@BobTheBaptist Spurgeon

[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@SaintAwoleesu I think this guy is one of those weirdos who believe Africans have intellectual problems and so cannot believe.
I could be wrong. Check out his replies to the comments

[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@TheMuppetPastor One useful tool is to ask if the interpretation of the difficult passages corresponds with the easier ones.

[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@Ayo_Oyekan24 @SaintAwoleesu It is weird

[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@NWhite_GA The fullness of God dwells in Him bodily

[Mrs. O 🌸 @Akustics]

Let us not confuse income generation with productivity. A woman who manages the
home and children as her primary vocation is not “idle,” even if she does not earn an income.

[Andrew Mosman @LeftHandDagger]

To make a nation “Christian,” the State must compel conscience, but in doing so, it commits the chief sin against Christianity itself: violating the inalienable right to worship God freely.

If the State forces one to be a Christian, the State has not made a Christian but a hypocrite. For it is impossible to please God without faith. And whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

[Sonnet Harper @sonnetharper]

@ThomasWiEdwards @Joshua_M_Hump Close.
It is the Korean version of pop music.

[Sam @DrFeruke]

Study your Bible to learn what God said. Don't study your Bible to "find promises". When you study to learn what God actually said or what the text actually means, you will find promises there but you will also find all the other things God wants you to know.

If you keep studying the Bible, looking for things that look nice that you can appropriate and confess over yourself, you will find yourself confessing curses over yourself. Seriously. Here are examples.

You will find yourself confessing that you're the destructive army in the book of Joel that God was sending to judge Israel for its sins. You will call it "Joel's army" and be confessing on your head that you're an army of people (or apocalyptic locusts) that will find a land as beautiful as Eden and destroy till it's a desolate wilderness.

May you not be a destroyer in Jesus name.

If you don't exegete the Bible but rather eisegete, you will find yourself claiming "let the weak say I'm strong". You'll be confessing a statement that God is using to mock His enemies who want to fight against His judgement. You'll be claiming a statement that God is sarcastically telling rebellious nations to go and do their worst.

May you not be God's enemy claiming to be strong against Him in Jesus name.

God's word is a lamp in a dark place. Don't approach it with materialistic biases that will limit what you can receive or worse, make you receive judgement instead of blessing.

Approach it knowing that the eternal Spirit that moved men to say these words is your creator. ALL THAT HE HAS TO SAY MATTERS.

So go there to learn all that He has to say and not just what sounds good to your ears or what you think your problems are.

What you need may not be "promises" of material breakthrough. What you need may be correction to turn away from your sins, revelation about the Holiness and greatness and nature of God, understanding of the sovereignty of God and His intentionality, fear about coming judgement, enlightenment about His mercy and forgiveness of sins, reminder about His great power and so much more.

The Bible is so much more than a book of promises to sponsor narcissim. It's a compendium of ancient books to learn about God and His will for creation. Approach it as such and God will use it for you.

When reading the Bible just ask... "What does this text mean? What is God saying to us?"

Don't ask... "How does this text give me promotion in the office? How does it give me marriage? How does this text cure my sickness?"