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"No soldier should be honored for doing what is expected." ~ John-117

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[corvusherpestidae]

Please pray for the victims of an accident, one person was paralyzed, others have been injured and others have perished

[graywalf]

the snoofing

[uhmnohoney-deactivated20210204]

Cate Blanchett though. 

[allthatcold]

get yourself someone who can do both

[what-a-catch]

@gwen-no-fear

[gokuma]

You could do the same with Lee Pace

[write-like-an-american]

What I’m getting from this is that Marvel turns elves Goth

[cakeisnotpie]

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[animentality]

[pillarofawesome]

Did Rease use an ai image to protest ai?

[thememedaddy]

[recess-is-in]

get a load of this guy who's never met a chicken.

[dittography-direwolf]

[disgruntledexplainer]

[catholicapothecary]

i’m putting together a team

[pillarofawesome]

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[miamaimania]

In Bloom: Melodi Meadows, a vision of floral elegance captured through Asher Moss’s lens

[pillarofawesome]

@sayonaramisa

[kidnapbaits]

wwyd if you were like cooking and eating a person for sex reasons and it was a super intimate act of love and totally giving themsleves to be utterly consumed by you and then you totally fucked up cooking them like you burnt their meat super bad and just fucked up the recipe and now they taste like absolute shit and like you cant do it again theyre dead and eaten you can only kill and eat them once and now you ruined that oppurtunity and they gave you everything for that. this isnt like a metaphor or anything i just think thatd be fucked up

[hydra-keeper]

Der Kannibale von Rotenburg

[pillarofawesome]

I had forgotten Armin Meiwes until this very moment.

Crazy

[scarabesque-returns]

Very relevant to what I survived. Father De Young is well aware of the reality.

[pillarofawesome]

If William Schnoebelen's testimony is to be believed, there's a lot of freaky stuff out there.

Dark forces that barely need to hide themselves from individual people, because they know few if any would ever believe what the individuals reported.

[quasi-normalcy]

*elaborate Magical Girl transformation sequence when a pawn turns into a queen*

[deep-state-partisan]

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

Wait... Do kids today just graverob randomly?

Back in my day, we researched, sometimes had an inside man at the mortuary, and knew exactly what we were going after.

[pillarofawesome]

Having a guy in the hospital was even better sometime.

Best time to burgle is while the cadaver's still warm.

[woshibai]

聊天 Chatting

[pillarofawesome]

Now that's what I call a Fireside Cha-- *poison dart to the neck*

[jesusisgodintheflesh]

Jesus is The Everlasting Father

[darnitjack]

I'm not sure point 4 is Biblical, given some other Scripture passages such as "He who shall endure to the end shall be saved" and I also think it's important that Jesus is distinct from God the Father.

Not a bad summary tho.

[pillarofawesome]

What are your thoughts on John 6:37, Romans 8:38-39, and 1 John 2:19?

Those are among the verses I was shown in favor of the argument.

[darnitjack]

Re: Romans 8- I think there is a difference between God extending Himself to humanity, and each person accepting that love.

For example: we know that "God does not wish for any to perish but that all should come to repentance" but we also believe that "the way is narrow and few there are who find it."

Sin is resistance to God's Grace, and limits it's effects in our lives and on our souls.

The Psalmist says (forgive me for forgetting the exact quote) the prayer of the righteous goes unheard, but also that "a broken and contrite heart you will not spurn"

Re: John 6 and 1st John:

I think John 20 should also be included here. Jesus washing Peter's feet also comes to mind. God has provided a way for believers to return to him that is distinct from baptism, where we enter the Faith.

I think Salvation is more than a binary in/out, on/off decision. Throughout Scripture belief is key, but is always paired with repentance. Micah's "Not all of Israel is Israel" and the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats come to mind. (To a lesser extent the Parable of the Wedding Feast as well) James outright states "Faith without works is dead"

I think it is dangerous to tell believers that their actions are irrelevant once Saved and do not place danger on their immortal soul.

[pillarofawesome]

I agree. That's why I'm not saying that. But let's also remember that it is God's actions that are salvific, not ours, "lest we should boast." Titus 3:5 is another point about this.

Not all of Israel being Israel was the point God was making with the old covenant. Being pure by association with the covenant people, and maintaining that purity through sacrifice didn't work. It proved that only God can save us, and He did so with the new covenant (Hebrews 7:26-28, Jeremiah 31:31-34).

Faith without works is dead. Not only is a tree known by its fruit, but love is more than just a feeling. A husband who loves his wife does so much more than just say so once on their wedding day. It's acted out throughout the marriage. So much more so with belief in God.

And when it's not us who lives, but Christ who lives in us (Galatians 2:20), God makes sure that our faith and subsequent works are pleasing to Him (Hebrews 11:6, 13:20-21)

[darnitjack]

I would agree with that.

To clarify: it seems like you're saying that people who stop showing the fruits of Salvation have not accepted Christ.

How do you make sense of cases where people (so far as we can tell) genuinely believe and show real signs of repentance, but stop after some time and return to their former ways?

[pillarofawesome]

Seed thrown among weeds and thorns? Wolves in sheep's clothing? Perhaps people who knew God, but didn't glorify Him, and whose thinking became futile (Romans 1:21-22)? Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit (though I've heard interpretations that only the pharisees ever did that)?

"As far as we can tell" is a key qualifier, I think. Ultimately, it is God who knows our hearts, not ourselves. And there is not one unsaved person who has any excuse for the state of their soul. God gives every chance, and damnation is the result of our rebellion, not God's rejection. He has said as much over and over again.

[darnitjack]

Again, I agree with you, but I'm not sure that's "Once Saved, Always Saved", especially if falling away from God means you weren't Saved in the 1st place. By that argument, we would need to be Saved over and over again, in hopes that one of them is real. No rededication or confession, just straight up starting over.

I also agree that it's not our place to judge another person's place with God.

[pillarofawesome]

We can always pray for a progidal son's return. When he did so in the parable, he didn't go through some ritual or legislative process to become a son again, did he?

The Father welcomed him home immediately.