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    Russia preparing for war

    God, even over the CCP and or the CCCP and any other group that is a target of conspiracy theorists.
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    Let's play Bible Trivia!

    Hopefully, you're not one of those that run after blood-moons. 🌕 🌗 🌘
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    Not By Works

    Only because Christ had grace enough to allow Him to. (btw, it's not a matter of low large our faith is but WHO it is in.)
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    Not By Works

    Putting this into the present tense, it's also a marvellous thing what Jesus is doing in and through us via the new birth. He continues to bear fruit in our lives... 2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things...
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    WHAT? NO THREAD ON BIDEN STEPPING DOWN?

    I don't understand why Trump's camp won't challenge the Left's move (e.g. having Kamala run) in court even up to SCOTUS, if needs be?
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    Not By Works

    That's nice and quaint but I believe God is the first mover in all simultaneous actions.. Genesis 1:1 NKJV In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
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    What if you die before water baptism?

    No. It was because of this statement ..."which is certainly more interesting than some average Christian guy with a basic Holy Spirit experience."
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    What if you die before water baptism?

    IOW, no discernment. lol
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    Not By Works

    Some have a name for that...Simultaneously justified and sinner...("Simul Justus et Peccator")
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    Not By Works

    I'm asking "Does acting responsible make us righteous" OR "Do we act righteous because Christ is actively working in us (sanctifying us)? It's really not a difficult question, more like Salvation 101.
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    What if you die before water baptism?

    IOW 'not interesting'
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    Not By Works

    It was simply a rhetorical question. Not inescapable but imperative. Let me ask again, "So acting responsible 'makes' us righteous?, or we act righteous because of Christ transforming us?"
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    Not By Works

    There is a righteousness before God (absolute) and only by the imputed righteousness of Christ through faith, and there is a righteousness before men (which is relative).
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    What if you die before water baptism?

    interesting
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    What if you die before water baptism?

    Not a biggie but my texts say 'in one place'. Acts 2:1 NKJV When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Acts 2:1 NET Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. Acts 2:1 ESV When the day of Pentecost arrived, they...
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    Not By Works

    So acting responsible 'makes' us righteous?, or we act righteous because of Christ transforming us?
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    Not By Works

    ok, that was confusing because they may 'now' think in 'Calvinistic' terms, but back in the times of the Council of Trent and the Reformation, it was anything but
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    Not By Works

    Wasn't Augustine 'Catholic'?
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    Not By Works

    Not really, since it has been ordained by God from the foundation of the world.
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    Not By Works

    Or 'ought' to do. Faith, repent, confess can be argued, are things that God works in His elect children.