Oddbean

It is only through faith in Jesus Christ alone that you are saved. No works, no practices. Christ came into this world to save all sinners, His work is complete. You will know He is true and put your faith in Him by the Grace of the Holy Spirit It is never you, you are sinful, fallen, graceless, unrighteous. It is only through Jesus Christ that you be made whole again, truly in God's image as when He created Adam and Eve. Every one of us inherit sin as we are born from sinful creatures. You can NEVER make up for the sins you've committed and will commit. Jesus' sacrifice means nothing if you believe you can pay for your sins, for you truly cannot know the scope and weight of your sins. Even the "smallest" sin has enormous unforeseen and long consequences. We deal with the consequences of a fallen world, as people cry out as to why God would allow horrible things to happen as though these weren't the actions of our fathers that have impacted us to this very day https://cawfee.club/media/f18fb3381bb86e962eddf888491224509326b6ea9eca2df78fbc0bb1517b962d.png https://cawfee.club/media/eb49fc0976496e7a84928675a1c29c0bc6e899735fdf46ffb2b09136e659e1fb.png

@08e1ed04 It's really annoying when anyone tries to declare who is or isn't Christian based on shit Martin Luther made up 1500 years into Christianity. "Faith without works is dead." "Produce good fruit as evidence of your repentance." Obviously nobody can "earn" salvation, but God still expects us to do good works as proof of our faith.

>It is only through faith in Jesus Christ alone that you are saved Except if you're Catholic or Orthodox. Then no matter how much faith in Christ you have, you're not saved because... reasons. > No works, no practices. Except for all the verses saying otherwise, but sure, whatever. >12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. Revelation 22:12 Protestants have quite the conundrum. Christ came to save, but according to protestants, He timed it wrong because a millennium and half passed of souls perishing before Luther & Calvin came to say, "Ackshually..." For all their, "I'm a bible believing Christian" talk, they don't actually read it. Most don't even got to Church, sure why would you? Believe Christ saves - except satan & demons, they believe but aren't saved - and that's it, church isn't necessary, reading scripture isn't even necessary, nothing is except belief. just ignore the fact satan believes, how'd that work out for him? satan didn't fall for lack of belief, he fell for lack of obedience. The protestants that do go to "church" just have the same handful of verses taken out of context read to them then recycled again. original new agers. basically, leave anyway you want, just profess Christ and you're aces... which Jesus literally rebuked.