Trinity believers

People can believe whatever they want. 

Still...

JoshN

@joshnaa2gez

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6h

Trinity believing Christians… Is it at all possible, in your mind, that the Trinity doctrine was the Christian attempt to call Jesus “God” while also making sense of the fact that he prayed to God, while also trying to remain monotheistic? Because that’s how it looks from the outside… I can imagine a Rabbi talking to a Christian in like 200 AD… Rabbi: “So, you believe Jesus was God, but also that the Father is God? And you believe the Holy Spirit is God? Christian: “Yes.” Rabbi: “So, you’re a polytheist, just like the pagans you converted.” Christian: “No no no… we believe in one God.” Rabbi: “But you believe in three.” Christians: “No, three persons, one God.” Rabbi: “That doesn’t make sense. What is God then?” Christian: “You’d have to read some of the pagan philosophy our converts brought with them from Athens. It won’t make anymore sense but you’ll feel really smart explaining it to people.”

Regret for waiting to join

 

Torvics Aus (Victor)

@SenorVito9

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19h

My greatest regret is not joining the church in my youth and not being able to raise my children in the church environment from day one and not having the blessings of the church and the wisdom of the church and education of the church help guide me through my twenties thirties and now my 40s.

I regret the time I wasted in evangelical movements, clapping my hands and wearing baseball caps in church but learning nothing absorbing nothing growing in no way shape or form.

I was there for The vibes and the spiritual sugar Rush and I really tried. I dedicated myself. I read the Bible I engaged and every time I ask questions they were a little bit deeper or that would poke through the shallow Waters that is the evangelical movement they were just unable to answer them.

They'd be like just read the Bible. It simply didn't work, I needed more.

I met Missionaries when I was in my early twenties way back then, and I thought I knew it all and didn't need them and was quite mean to them.

In hindsight, I wish I had stopped and listened. My life would have changed completely.

To anyone who reads this and thinks, even a bit, thinking about Jesus Christ and thinking about joining the church and thinking about meeting missionaries, I strongly deeply encourage you to do so.

It is truly my greatest regret and I did join earlier/ younger.

I would have had more time to do so much more. Learn so much more and to be honest made fewer mistakes.

Now I feel like I have to spend the rest of my life playing catch up.

God is merciful and forgiving but I will not forgive myself for letting such a brilliant opportunity pass. But I thank God for the opportunity to repent and to change and to learn and to grow. Thank you heavenly father.

I say this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen

Charlie Kirk on America

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuKliLSgORY

Two final thoughts. 

26:18

First of which, as I mentioned, younger people are coming our way. 

And the second of

which, we are up against a force of darkness that in the end we know we win.

In the end, we know that light conquers darkness. We know that Christ conquers Satan. In the end, we know that good will conquer evil. 

However, as it says in the scriptures, Psalm 97:10, "Let those of you who love God, we all love God, hate evil." That is in the command form. That means you can't just sit idly by and say, "Charlie, I'm not getting involved in any of this stuff cuz Jesus is coming next Thursday and I'm getting raptured."

26:52

Really? Then wire me all your money. Oh, you don't actually believe it. You're using it as an excuse.

Eschatology is fun. You could talk about it. Yay. And you could pray for it. You see, some people are pre-trip, some people are post-trip. I'm pantrip. It's all going to pan out in the end. Okay? 

I'm on the welcoming committee, not the planning committee. I'm more what I'm doing now more so than what I'm doing in heaven. 

God has a great plan for all of us. I'm sure we're going to see the activity list and we'll be blown away. Everybody, he cares about what we do here. And far too often, people get so focused on next life, I'm going to get raptured up, Charlie. It's not falling apart. It's falling together. I've heard all the oneliners. And I roll my eyes and I say, "While you are next life focused as you should be, you never ever ever could show me a scripture where God tells you not to care about this life. 

He calls you to care for the children, to clothe the to clothe the poor, to feed the hungry. He cares you to fight the injustice, to to go up against evil, to educate your children."

27:48

You see, far too often we've allowed the overemphasis on end times eschatology, which I'm all for. You guys can talk about it all the time and it's an important conversation. 

But never once should you allow it to make you paralyzed, afraid or inactive. In fact, that is the enemy using scripture and contorting it. 

Remember when Jesus was tempted in the garden? It wasn't that Satan... Satan did not quote Buddhism when he was talking to Jesus. He quoted scripture back to Jesus, but he changed a couple parts of it. 

Satan knows the Bible. He knows verses and he'll use it against you. 

We as Christians are a sleeping giant. We've been too polite. We've been... Don't try to be more Christlike than Jesus.

28:32

Not once did Jesus tell you to be nice. But he did tell you to tell the truth. 

We should tell truth and love. We should care for those and love God and love people. But Jesus hated evil. You know why? Because Jesus conquered evil on the cross. We should, we must know what evil is. We can only know what evil is if we know what good is because it's transcended above us. And if Christians wake up, if pastors go alongside, if we go and every one of our spheres of influence in our into our churches, into our schools, into the streets, into our businesses, on social media, and we realize this nation founded as a Christian nation has been given a new birth of freedom by the grace of God on July 13th when Donald Trump could have had his brains blown out. But by this couple millimeters, we have a nation and a republic. 

It should invigorate you and fire you up to go out from this place and to save this nation for righteous and just purposes. Thank you guys so much.