Please ask your church as to how one enters our Father's Kingdom if not "fixed" or cleansed of sin. Didn't Jesus say that he frees us from sin?
I don't believe that one has to believe in the trinity to be a faithful follower of Christ. There is a lot of solid scriptural evidence to suggest that they are separate beings. With that said, it's probable that the nature of their relationship is beyond our ability to comprehend. Again, one doesn't need to pass a theology test to enter our Father's Kingdom. You sound like a religious legalist. The Pharisees and Saducees were like that.
No, I just tell the truth. Many of your leftist comrades believe that men can have babies and that it's wonderful for healthy women to abort their healthy offspring. They need the truth, as do you.
I believe that Jesus's sacrifice saves ALL beings from forever death. I believe that a genuine desire to follow Christ saves from an unpleasant but necessary after-death experience, aka "Hell", or the "Lake of Fire" or "Outer Darkness". I believe that righteous people go straight into our Father's Kingdom. I believe that others go elsewhere, temporarily, before being welcomed.
i dont need the bible to tell me how to be a good person. And by the actions of many self proclaimed christians, it doesnt seem the bible helps them either. the fact is there are other religions who are more christian than most christians
Read the Red Letters. Jesus didn't say "I am God, and you are not." He said "I am God, and so can you." He didn't want for others to follow him as the one Christ. He wanted for others to remember that they are themselves Christ, and for them to lead others to do the same. He didn't claim salvation was found in asking forgiveness of him. He claimed salvation was found in asking forgiveness of one's own self. Jesus saw in relationship. "Christianity" is the anti-Christ.
I'll tell you what they say. All your sins are sins against God and it is a debt to him that you can never repay so you deserve eternal death. But, Christ, who was without sin but died for our sins has stood in judgment in our place. So, God sees Jesus's perfection in place of our sin. We are perfected in the afterlife, but in this life we will always be sinners. If we could be fixed in this life, we wouldn't need Christ's sacrifice for our sin in the first place -- you would be trying to earn heaven on your own merit. Well, I'm not getting that truth because when you started spamming the board with a million new threads on whatever occurred to you each moment of the day, I put you on ignore to cut down the clutter and I read very little of what your post. I only see your posts on the rare occasion that I unhide ignored posters. I do like talking about christianity and it was genuinely interesting to read what you believe in this thread, but this will be more exception than the rule because you don't really observe etiquette and I'll have to keep you on ignore.
This is a good discussion, and thanks for bringing it. I believe the crux of being a Christian can be found in the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew Chapters 5 - 7. And it is distilled down in beautiful and simple terms with the golden rule of Matthew 7:12: "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." I wish our current so-called Christian administration would practice the central teachings of Christ, as found the Sermon on the Mount and the Golden Rule. The parable of the Good Samaritan would also be instructive. Instead, we have a President whose core belief system is the practice of idolatry. I wouldn't be surprised if one day a tech leader gives him a golden calf to worship.
The Bible is silent on whether abortion is a sin. It certainly doesn't provide any clues as to what week of pregnancy ensoulment occurs. Exodus 21:22-25 and Numbers 5: 11-31 would suggest that the fetus is not the same as a baby that has already been born. If ensoulment occurs at conception, then when we all get to heaven, there will be more souls there that either naturally or artificially aborted than were born. Doesn't sound quite fair to the people who were born and had to overcome their sinful nature to punch their ticket. And the practice of IVF would create multiple souls that go straight to heaven after the excess fertilized eggs are disposed. But getting back to the discussion of the core teachings Christ, do you agree with the position regarding the Christ's teaching regarding the love of others as stated by former atheist and recent Catholic convert J.D. Vance, or James Talarico? Keep in mind that J.D. Vance's position, which is at the beginning of the following clip, earned him a smackdown from the Pope:
