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Redeeming Holy Days from pagan lies You might have heard the misinformation circulating from atheist's, non Christians & cult groups trying to wreck your faith  and deceive those who are looking into Christianity. This information will help you.  Resurrection Day is the day we celebrate Jesus resurrection from the dead, defeating death, and bringing salvation to all who obey the Gospel.  In earlier western countries the word Easter appeared. 👉  This  &  This will give some history on that, and refutes the pagan lies.  Resurrection Day is not pagan, and any argument about it having to do with Oster, Ishtar, or another deity is demonstrably false linguistically and chronologically.  Easter was celebrated centuries before any deity named Oster was ever even invented, the tradition of painting eggs comes from the Passover and Jesus’ blood covering sin, and even the name Easter itself is just the word for “Passover” translated into Middle Eng...

Why is America having a gun issue? Note: 84 million law abiding legal gun owners are not the problem. They do not misuse their weapons .  Answer: 1. Well, they threw Christ, God and the Bible out of schools in 50s and 60s, and those born from 2000 onward know hardly anything about God. Those who read and know the Bible from 1500s to 1990 didnt have these problems here. God and Christ were embedded into the daily culture and foundations. 2. Today MZ benefit from it but are clueless to the blessings they have because of it & our history . Today sin and self rule and liberal socialist teachers brainwash the students. They teach human life has no value, abort babies as if murder is birth control, hole up in bedroom being anti social and always on social media, and in recent times push lgbt like it is a goth fad of the 90s. 3. Latin American Gangs, drugs, illegals pouring in since 1990, and encouraged by democrats (for votes) since 2015. The USA is a melting pot of global countr...

March 2023 Transgender mass murderer Today we learned a 28 yr old white woman claiming to be a male, "transgender" mass murdered Christians, including very young children, at the Christian school he used to attend. He shot 152 times. Those believers who died entered heaven... but the woman was killed by police and sadly entered Hell. Also, it is important to note this was a hate crime: on Christians and God.  These people need to get mental and spiritual help; instead of coddling the lgbt+ community and acting like their lifestyle choices are normal, they need to be freed and returned to sanity thru the new nature, thru Christ, by the Holy Spirit. They need God.  I am saddened to find out the person who did this, had these issues and that while the parents were not approving of his transgenderism and hoped Christian education would help steer her back to living as a woman, it appears any efforts made failed to reached out to her to help her understan...

A church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, remains autonomous from the convention.  Each church directs its affairs apart from outside intervention, deciding for itself how to deal with all matters.  The Convention recognizes that in the New Testament there was no centralized ecclesiastical authority over the churches that forced the churches into any form of compliance. There was encouragement, exhortation, and admonition, but there was never enforcement. You become a Southern Baptist by uniting with a Southern Baptist church, (one in friendly cooperation with the general Southern Baptist enterprise of reaching the world for Christ). Southern Baptists have prepared a statement of generally held convictions called The Baptist Faith & Message . It serves as a guide to understanding who we are. And includes the Essentials of basic Biblical Christian beliefs, and touches on importance of all believers including women .  A New Testament church of the Lord ...

Human life God created humans in His image. God creates life.  A master craftsman at work shaping a work of art to which he gives life (1Co 15:45). 1:27 (cf. 1Ti 2:13). Cf. Ps 139:14.  God values human life.  Made humans from dirt, a man’s value is not in the physical components that form his body, but in the quality of life which forms his soul (see Job 33:4). Humans are to Love God and Love one another; fellow humans. Those who love do not murder. Murder is of the devil, and it is a sin unto death.  The first law God gave was to protect human life. Murdering a human is forbidden. Here also God set 1st justice system>> murder= Death Penalty. Aka Capital Punishment.  Verse 7 says why murder is not allowed. God said, "Execute anyone who murders another human, because murder ends the life of a living being made in the image of God." Only God can end the lifespan of a human, as their creator. If anyone else does it, it is evil, sinful, wickedness and the cri...

Q:  Why do we allow the majority of Sunday School teachers to be women (and lead/ oversee the next generation of men at an age when they are most impressionable)? A: Easy Answer.  1. This is a Church leadership issue with the Pastor and Elders/Decons. Go have a meeting with the men in the church and tell them to get to their act together; do their responsibility under Christ, in the Church, to be leading, teaching, making disciples, teaching the Word, and be disciplemakers. Theyre not doing it likely cuz * Theyre not saved.  *They dont know the Bible and just warm a pew. *Likely dont even read the Bible at home, nor lead their family under Christ (there).  *They arent qualified to do so; get them qualified. (Sunday School classes have a teachers guide, and require prep time, but note: those not right with God... wont volunteer. So assign the deacons/elders till you have capable born again men).  2. i dont know what churches you are talking about, but they should...

God in schools?? In USA were all Christian from the beginning. Those who moved here assimilated and got Christian education. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were written at the time where the West was only Christian. Freedom of Religion was within Christianity, saying unlike UK & EU the govt couldn't impose Catholicism on us. This no religion view only happened when in 1954 a atheist parent sued and the Christian child was upset and embarrassed. The courts should've sided with Americas Christian heritage & precedent in schools from day 1 both for Christianity taught and prayer. It was the reason schools existed. Christianity and prayer shouldve remained in Schools. The precedent was already set since the beginning (pilgrims and since independence & Americas founding). After the atheist lawsuit, liberals and atheists kept suing bit by bit until they got the Bible, biblical teaching, God, Christianity and free speech out of the schools... and look what happened...

DID YOU KNOW?    What you look like doesnt really have to do with your identity.  Putting a wig & lipstick on a pig doesnt make the pig a human.  God designed your dna and sexual organs [in the womb] which determine your gender and identity.  God designed you with a certian identity 1. Human; made in the image of God 2. Dna shows your gender.  3. Sexual reproducer; based on your birth organs.  The failure of mental, spiritual, medical (and education system) industries has caused horrible mental, spiritual and physical long term damage for those who had a identity crisis, even the ones who made drastic unnatural changes. Surgery &/or make up, nor changing your name, pronouns &/or sexual organs will change anything. Except make you a Frankenstein, or Eunich, and it prevent you from fulfilling the biological role God gave you [reproducing]. Something Satan is happy about. He hates humans and goes to great lengths to cause damage and destructio...

Q: Thanks for chatting with me about God. I want "get back to religion". A: Thank you for your openness and interest in spiritual conversation. True saving faith comes as the result of believing on Jesus Christ, God’s Son, to solve your sin problem. It is trusting him. Joining a local church can be valid expressions of your new life, because the local congregation is actually for those who do follow Christ & worship God. But it is only useful to someone who is saved (born again). The church is meant to be where God's actual people gather to worship and serve Him. Others might go there to visit or think theyre accomplishing something by attending, but church doesnt save you, only Jesus can.  Remember, Religion cant help - only Christ can. So, I am hopeful you meant "Returning to Faith". Just remember, Christianity is not about religion, but is about becoming a follower of Christ.  Make sure you obey the Gospel today to get right with God and become born ...

Q: Cant we just live a sinful sinfilled life and get saved on our deathbed? A: When are you going to die? How long will you live? God never promised people a long life.  Reality says we dont die at 100 or 120. Babies, toddlers, kids, teens, college age, young adults, 30, 40, 50, 60 year olds all die. 160k a day and 67.1 million every year. Today it can be your day. Heart attack, car crash, random accident, sink hole, car crash, murder, or any countless ways. We need salvation today. Also, God has a limit to people refusing to obey the Gospel, and it can very well be well before "you" get old. It could be today or tomorrow. And it's too late for you.  This is the thing people need to understand. Today is the day of salvation. You could die in 5 minutes. If you play chicken with "Death" you are taking a huge gamble. Plus you miss out on the blessings, rewards, and what you can recieve in eternity, so why lose 90% of the opportunities and rewards by refusin...

Most people do not realize all they are missing out on by delaying this decision.   I hope you won't delay but pray to God today. Turn once and for all from sin, and turn to live godly, righteously- to become more and more like Christ, whom we follow. This ability is given to us when we turn to God for forgiveness, when we repent and trust that Jesus did all that was necessary to pay our debt to God for our sins against God. The ability to obey God & become one who follows God, comes by the power of the Holy Spirit; the moment he converts us, we are born again, and the Holy Spirit enters into the believer and seals us eternally [as redeemed and belonging to Jesus].  Most people, the unsaved, don't understand what they're missing out on as a believer. Besides Heaven, and the New Earth for eternity, a place where no sin exists nor will it ever enter existence again. It's pretty amazing at what we know about Heaven, as Scripture talks about Heaven 582 times.  Theyr...

👤Did you say ytd that you think there is some stuff in Gospel of John that was "wonky" or you "felt it wasnt clear about something"?  I am open to discuss it.  I know Scripture is all from God, and also that the Bible we have is what we see "in English", and also depending on the version read it may lead us to seek clariry; some things we might not grasp well, or connect it to Scripture overall.  🗣Reply: Thanks. Well in some places in NT, some areas talks only to Jews or Apostles, not to all believers, (and never to unbelievers). And in NT there were some issues cuz of mixed churches, so letters were written. I couldnt tell, but also just looking at this section in 1 John 1:3 makes it seem like legalism-obedience and  that could lead to false teaching.  It might confuse people because it seems to say "if you obey Gods commands you are saved." And, people might not ask a pastor, look at a study Bible, look it up online or ask a Christian friend...

Q: Did the Reformation teach "Lordship Salvation." Does this doctrine essentially says you "get into salvation by grace, but you earn your keep through you works?" Is this idea just another variant of Roman Catholicism? I thought Salvation (justification & sanctification) are monergistic. A: no. No Lordship Salvation doesnt teach that. You greatly misunderstand.  First, Scripture doesnt say you keep salvation by works. You are eternally saved because  1. God has converted you;caused you to be born again;has given you a new nature, and the Holy Spirit dwells in you Permanently. 2. Their names are written in the Lambs book of life since before the world was created.  3. All who belong to Jesus are eternally His, and not one will be lost nor taken from him. One who is"born again" does works because : *God is in the redeemed person doing good works through the believer. *God has ordained the good works believers would do. *Works are a gift  *These good Wo...

This church has a pastor teacher who has faithfully taught Scripture properly for over 60 years, and 54 of them were at one church; something unheard of happening since Charles Spurgeon. God is with this man who has faithfully taught, historically, thru the original languages, in depth thru the Bible, verse by verse. We can all learn from him. And be blessed to learn under him, and the 40 other pastors at this church, (and the thousands of men taught under the Seminary, and Masters International who are pastors today, who have their sermons on church websites. At the university & seninary the last count was around 1,500 students in 2021). All coming out of the teaching from this Churches one initial ministry in the pulpit, in 1969.  Not to mention the 46 years (1977) the sermons aired on radio, in which countless millions worldwide have reached and educated in hundreds of countries, *and was one of the first of its kind, prior to the internet...

Question:  Didnt Jesus said not to stop non believers from using His name? These unbelievers seemed to cast demons out.  “John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him, for no one who does a mighty work in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. For the one who is not against us is for us. For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.” ‭‭Mark‬ ‭9‬:‭38‬-‭41‬ ‭ESV‬‬ And my understanding is those with self righteous hearts were never able to bear the fruit of the Spirit. But instead practiced lovelessness. I say that because we know Love fulfills the law. Lovelessness = lawlessness. Amswer Point one  Special Gifts- that was then. Not now. The only relevant part of that verse for today, on this topic, is... 1. "For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a ...

Charismatic claims to be delivered from possession  Question: Cecessionists believe tongues and prophecy faded with the apostles deaths, are you saying miracles and exorcism did too? Just clarifying because I came to Christ through deliverance from Demons back in 2013. Christian:  There are people who have encountered demon possession today. Even highly respected biblical preachers have. But it is a rare occurance.  Example 1 Example 2 Example 3  However, on the subject there are two points and a an exhortation that needs to be shared. 1. The removing of demons posessing someone in Jesus time, (like the mass numbers of healings and all the miracles), were to point to Him as God. That was the purpose. So what about the 12 Apostles? Well before he left to Heaven, Jesus gifted them with some temporary powers to prove to people that they were the ones who were with Jesus.  2. What about posession today?  There is not a lot of it. God isn't allowing it. He doesn...

The other links on main page will walk you through the errors of Charismaticism.  Danger/ Warning.... Charismatics do not do their acts by the power of the Holy Spirit. Of course you are free to believe those gifts could possibly maybe still be used by God, but it has never happened since the Apostles era. However, those today who claim they do and have them... hold to false beliefs and false teachings, are lying, and are a big part of their problem.  Satan and demons are liars and put a lying spirit into the ones who are children of the devil.  They are among those who will be told "depart from me" and they trust in their own righteousness, and have a prideful superiority complex. The impersonation of spiritual gifts that have not been seen in any legitimate fashion in 1900 years is not a part of that equation. Many would call charismatics heretics and even a cult.  You cannot receive God's gift nor fulfill your calling [purpose] in Christ... without first joining t...

Found in the wild: Christian response: This sounds charismatic. Theres several issues here >Spiritual gifts are only given to the believer for the edification of the body. >Gifts are still given today, but not the ceased ones.  >Those who are called are called to faith in Christ and faith is always accompanied by repentance. >And there is only ONE fruit of the Spirit. All thats listed in Gal. 5 is true characteristics of a saved person. They have spiritual life and that new nature. So they live those things out but do grow more in them as they mature in the Faith.  But let's look deeper: Charismatics do not do these acts by the power of the Holy Spirit. Of course you could be a cautious cintinuist and  believe those gifts could possibly maybe still be used by God, but only if you agree it has never happened since the Apostles era. Charismatics on the otherhand claim they do still exist and claim to have them hold to false beliefs and false teac...

Progressive Assertion: Jesus wore a dress and told stories so doesnt that mean men in drag can too, and it is equally the same?  What they really mean: Christian response: This is not equivenent at all to men in drag.  It is a failed attempt by progressives to dupe people.  Progressives really need to read the Bible and look at history, because every objection they have, (like atheists), fails.  This sign makes an attempt to align Jesus with the sinful lifestyle choice of a transgender identity. And it fails. Jesus never claimed to be a female, nor a man in drag. Culturally the robe Jesus wore was masculine.  Progressives, gaslight, twist, lie and decieve, just as their Father the devil does, and has done since Eden. This is nothing new.  OP is wrapped up in a delusion that he understands the Bible better than 2,000 years of Christians who read, study it and know actual history 🙄. Jesus taught children (young...

A list of compiled answers from GTY  Questions volume 1  Some answers by category and question. *no nothing of that website, so avoid other areas of it. Incl Q&A #s 7-19, 57-75  Specific Questions and Answers, by Q&A number #3  #57 GTY blog answers   More Q&A by pastors at Grace  Additional JMac Q& A 

What do they believe? What you need to know. Hollywood and Faith  Kelsey Grammer  The Duggars  Schwarzenegger

In a interview Grammer opened up about his faith, noting he has had difficulties in life, but Jesus has made the difference. He left a false Christianity for Protestantism. There had times where he rejected the faith, then wrestled with it, and had even wondered where is God in certian situations. He found answers, came to terms with other parts (in faith & life), and in the end found peace in Jesus.  You might be somewhere on the path he was on and looking for answers. This can help.  What is the Gospel ? Wrestling with questions?    Related topics Investigate Christianity  Is extrordinary evidence needed Deconstruction or Reformation Resources for new believers Hashtag Hollywood   About the  Jesus Revolution

Q: People have their beliefs, but the constant preaching irritates those who don’t believe in Christ, just dont force your beliefs on the rest of us. A: It seems there must be something important about Christianity then, if the people who follow it have a message of importance that they share. In America there's never anyone forcing a belief. The Christian cares (& practices "loving one another", but we cant love if we dont share the truth and gospel), and so the believer tries to find a way to have a good conversation with you, or try to reason with you about God, and at that time you might not be interested, or have never had your questions answered sufficiently for God, Jesus, Christianity or the Bible to make sense.  Today you can find out what the gospel actually is, and get some answers taken care of. You can also investigate further, all at the below links.  Then the next time a born again Christian wants to talk about God, or you do, you can engage having g...

Persecuted Christians Q: Are there anyone persecuted for their faith?  A: Many are spoken badly of and treated badly in America today by those who hate God. (1) Were you aware that theres more Christians persecuted today than all of the times past? Theres currently 100k being persecuted in 41 muslim countries alone.   Freedom of faith began in America, and most countries (with other religions) have not caught up to that yet. Even in UK and EU Christians are ("now") persecuted for simply upholding beliefs in the Bible (teachings of God) that those countries always upheld.  If you are in America, you are living in the one country that has freedom of beliefs. And was built into the constitution and is at the foundation of the country. Other peoples are not blessed as we are.  What is the Gospel How to get right with God Investigate Christianity Find Answers  Resources for new believers Why are there people hating others  Lgbt+ persecutes Christians

Q: Religion gives people a code of conduct and helps them get through tough times.  A: However, for Christianity it means something much more. *God converts a person giving them spiritual life and a new nature; they now love God, and righteousness, and turn from sin & hate it now.  * God comes to live in the human body (as a temple), abd enables us to live rightly and guides our daily walk, including our thoughts. *God has given us peace thru Jesus, and regardless of what happens in this life, we will live in a better place for eternity; a good & sin free place. Do you have that peace & salvation? You can  today .  Related resources New Believer Resources Frequent Answers

What is the difference between faith and "religion"?  Religion is a man made system that attempts to bribe a god to get into heaven.  Faith, in the sense of Christianity, is different. It is based on God's grace, and salvation/entrance to Heaven is freely given to all who come to God by the way he made possible; thru Jesus.  Faith in this case simply means trusting in the Savior who payed the cost on our behalf, so we could go to heaven freely (and have a relationship with God). Why does a price need to be paid ? What is the Gospel ? Related resources The original Faith Frequent Answers New Believer Resources Life with God