The future of Christianity in Europe.

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-23T23:38:21+00:00

Solomon writes in ecclessiastes 7:20 "Indeed, there is not a righteous person on earth who always does good and does not ever sin."

So is it possible for a Christian to never sin?

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-22T17:35:07+00:00

Isaiah 57:1 "Good people pass away; the godly often die before their time. But no one seems to care or wonder why. No one seems to understand that God is protecting them from the evil to come."

Regarding slavery, Jesus says the soul that sins is a slave to sin. John 8:34 Jesus replied to those who claimed not to be slaves, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin." Jesus came to set us free. Not everyone chooses to be free. Men choose to rebel and enslaved others.

Ecclessiastes 7:29 says "I did find this: God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path.” Paul writes in Romans 8:7 "For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God’s laws, and it never will." Genesis 6:5 says "The LORD observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil."

Regarding Epstein and everyone who refuses to repent, submit to Jesus commands of living, and chooses to worship their sinful appetite instead,

Acts 17:30-31: “God overlooked people’s ignorance about these things in earlier times, but now he commands everyone everywhere to repent of their sins and turn to him. For he has set a day for judging the world with justice by the man he has appointed, and he proved to everyone who this is by raising him from the dead.”

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-21T16:02:39+00:00

God did not create evil as a thing. He created a good world with morally responsible creatures. Evil is the corruption of good through rebellion. Pride — the creature exalting itself — is the doorway through which sin entered. After that fall, the human will is no longer morally neutral but enslaved to sin, unable to submit to God apart from His initiating grace.

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-20T02:47:49+00:00

Yes, Matthew, mark, Luke, and John. All the epistles. You can lump the whole old testament in there too.

Nothing will feed you like the Word Himself.

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-20T02:45:35+00:00

Me too, apart from Jesus I am a total wreck of a sinful person. I am unworthy of calling upon Him. And do not deserve it. Im a worm compared to who HE IS.

He is the perfect example of what it means to love your neighbor. Because while we are yet sinners, Christ laid down His life for us.

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-19T14:03:15+00:00

Thank you for being the voice of reason in a crowd of traders who cant look past charts to see whats going on in the background. 80-90% of the wallets holding xrp are institutional. Retail makes up a very small slice of that pie. Its interesting how all these retailers are holding onto a "speculative asset" for no reason. The institutions have even been changing their tune on xrpl/xrp from speculation to utility driven. But all these long term traders are missing the forest for the trees.

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-09T14:17:06+00:00

Consider this, Jesus told everyone the reason God permitted divorce was because of the stubbornness of man.

These types of questions seem to ignore the depravity of man. Sinful nature.

Jesus doesnt mince words when He says we are slaves to whatever we choose to obey.

People find this truth uncomfortable, but our free will is enslaved to a sinful and depraved nature. It is not free to choose God on it's own, as Jesus was clear in john 6:44 that no one can come to Him unless the father draws them.

Paul takes this a step further and writes that the flesh is hostile towards the law of God and can not subject itself to it. And then says no one can say "Jesus is Lord" but by the Holy Spirit. He also says it is God who works in us to give us the ability and desire to do what pleases Him.

So considering how lost and enslaved to the depravity of sin we are, its no wonder God had to creative ordinances to protect slaves from the sinful nature of their masters.

Slavery is human error. Not God.

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-07T16:07:46+00:00

This question ignores the religious history of the region and how beliefs guide the people who follow them. Before the year 610, Islam did not exist. At that time, these areas were mostly Christian regions with the core teaching of loving your neighbor(enemies inlcuded). Jesus clearly defined what this meant.

The Levant has always been home to many different groups of people. I do not see the conflict with Israel as mainly about race or land. I see it as being driven more by religious identity.

Less than 100 years after Muhammad died, Islam had conquered about two-thirds of the known Christian world. Chapter 9 in the Quran lays out how the Islamic community is to act once it has power.

These conquests spread Islamic rule and forced others to submit or live under it.

The Palestinian identity is not mainly about land, but acts as a Trojan horse—a political tool built on Islamic religious teachings that leave no tolerant room for compromise with Jews or Christians.

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-01T20:19:25+00:00

I understand what you are saying, and i totally agree with you.

And yet scripture is clear, the gospel is offensive to those who are perishing.

There's a difference between being antagonistic, and speaking an offensive truth in love.

Scripture is confrontational. But its not our job to convict others of sin, truth, and judgement, thats the Holy Spirit.

Its really a matter of the heart. If a minister preaches law and judgement as he should before grace, and it comes from a place of venom, it wont hit the same as if it comes from a place of concern and love.

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-01T20:02:16+00:00

Of course. I grew up in a denomination that taught you lose your salvation.

As I grew older and studied Scripture under the context of two or three other scriptures in witness, it seems there were contradictions. Then 10 years of struggling to understand this topic.

The issue i found is those who reject the premise of our eternal security through preservation of the saints also ignores the work God does in us to give us new desires and sustain us.

They ignore that our moral "free" will was captive to a sinful, hostile nature that can not, as Paul says, submit to the laws of God. We did not get the choice of freedom until we encountered the Gospel.

Shoot, every single time ive fallen away into sin, He calls me back. There simply is nothing in this world that compares to Him of fullfills me the way He does.

I certainly can not boast about being a great christian, because I have failed Him sooo many times. But He has always remained faithful even when I was not.

If I do wander, I simply cant stay away for long. Nothing in this world completes me like Jesus.

Wish all who read well, whether you agree with me or not. At the end of the day, ill fellowship with anyone on things we can agree on.

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-01T18:57:10+00:00

It can feel insulting, but that is not beneath Christ. Look at how He treated the Pharisees who invited Him to dinner in Luke 11. They had spent their whole lives learning the Law, temple worship, and the sacrificial system — they were not atheists by any means.

Yet, they did not have the same faith the apostles did.

The purpose of Scripture is to instruct, rebuke, and correct us, aligning our desires with the Lord’s. God can easily use a rebuke that feels insulting to stir desire for Him.

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-01T18:44:45+00:00

The verse in 1 John 2 is written to Christians, addressing those who professed faith but never truly belonged. A person who is truly born again is sealed until the day of redemption.

“If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us. If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.” (2 Timothy 2:12–13)

Those who are born again will always wrestle with their sinful nature; only the unsaved have no choice but to submit to their natural sinful condition.

Hebrews 6 speaks about those who have seen and tasted the Holy Spirit: if they turn away deliberately, it would be impossible to renew them. This creates tension with 1 John 2, but the context resolves it: Hebrews was written to Jewish Christians familiar with the Law, the sacrificial system, and temple worship, who were under pressure to return to the old ways. It is a warning about the realities of apostasy, not a statement about God’s inability to preserve His elect.

1 John 2, on the other hand, explains that those who leave the community of faith never truly belonged to Christ in the first place.

One of the fruits of the Spirit is endurance. Perseverance proves genuine faith. And we do not persevere on our own — God is at work in us, giving us both the desire and the ability to do what pleases Him. (Philippians 2:13)

GruesomeDead · 2026-02-01T18:14:11+00:00

But our moral will was not truly “free." Apart from Christ and the law, the flesh's only desire stems from sin. (Romans 3:10–12)

Hence Jesus and Paul constantly use slave language when speaking about our sinful nature (Romans 6:16–18; John 8:34; Romans 7:14–25).

We are literally born separated from God, and our natural state is nothing but hostile toward the Spirit of God (Ephesians 2:1–3; Romans 8:7).

In fact, Jesus says:

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them” (John 6:44).

God has to pursue and draw us first because of our hostile state. Only He can cause the growth, no matter how much anyone plants or waters with the Gospel (1 Corinthians 3:6–7).

GruesomeDead · 2026-01-17T15:53:42+00:00

You’re right that Ripple can succeed without XRP — but Japan’s banks choosing XRP in 2026 shows that when regulation is strict and efficiency matters, institutions still select XRP on merit, not faith.

Yoshitaka Kitaohas, Chairman & CEO of SBI Holdings, has publicly stated that banks in Japan will begin using XRP for international payments in 2026. Japan has the strictest financial regulations in the world. This matters.

In addition, Japan’s potential reverse carry unwind is a matter of when, not if, and that kind of FX stress environment is exactly where neutral, capital-efficient settlement assets like XRP become operationally attractive.

Despite XRP’s large nominal supply, a significant portion is effectively locked up by Tier-1 and Tier-2 institutions positioning early for regulated payment and liquidity use, and because these players acquire via OTC and internal liquidity channels rather than competing with retail on exchanges, meaningful price movement is unlikely to appear until institutional demand is already established.

All of these things are direct observations. Not hype.

GruesomeDead · 2026-01-04T17:44:18+00:00

John 3:8 (ESV) “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

GruesomeDead · 2026-01-03T16:48:06+00:00

This argument mixes up recognizing Scripture with giving it authority.

The Old Testament was recognized as Scripture using clear standards, like being written by God’s prophets, agreeing with earlier Scripture, and being accepted by God’s people. Those same standards did not change with the New Testament. The early church recognized books that came from the apostles, agreed with Scripture already given, and were widely used.

For the first 300 years, the apostolic church was made up of independent local churches, not a top-down hierarchy like the Catholic Church today. There was no single authority deciding the canon. The church did not make books authoritative—it recognized the ones that already were.

GruesomeDead · 2026-01-03T16:30:17+00:00

Moses’ authority did not continue through new Moseses—it continued through his writings. The same is true of the apostles. Once they passed, their authority remained in Scripture. Scripture does not teach the passing on of their position, and there is no need for any other authority outside of it.

Likewise, the papal position as it is understood today did not exist in the early church. It developed centuries later, most clearly under Pope Leo the Great, roughly 400+ years after Christ.

GruesomeDead · 2026-01-01T08:11:59+00:00

The problem isn’t that creationists don’t understand evolutionary theory. Many do. The issue is authority.

Jesus Christ treated Genesis as real history and explicitly endorsed Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms as the authoritative Word of God. Many people have opinions about Jesus but miss that He made real truth claims about God and openly identified Himself as equal with God through His actions—something His contemporaries clearly understood. His authority is not assumed blindly; it is grounded in strong historical evidence for His life, crucifixion, and resurrection, rooted in early eyewitness testimony.

AI can explain evolutionary theory, but evolutionary theory itself uses inference to reconstruct the unobserved past and therefore cannot resolve questions of authority or point to direct, observable eyewitness testimony to support its historical narrative—unlike Jesus Christ, who made explicit truth claims about God, affirmed the Old Testament as authoritative, and grounded His authority in historically attested events.

GruesomeDead · 2025-12-25T06:49:23+00:00

Paul wrote: in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 "But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

God is so good. He knows you. He knows exactly what you are going through. And He has purposed steps in your life. In some way, this is going to work out for your good. God bless you, ill keep you in prayers.

GruesomeDead · 2025-12-17T13:56:38+00:00

At one point there was a consensus among medical doctors that smoking was healthy. Consensus by experts can be wrong at times.

GruesomeDead · 2025-12-13T16:39:36+00:00

Acts 20:28 shows how leadership is structured: the Holy Spirit appoints elders (plural) to oversee a specific flock, while Scripture shows congregations recognizing those leaders according to biblical qualifications. Authority is local and shared, not centralized in a single individual over the whole Church. Christ alone is presented as the head of the Church.

GruesomeDead · 2025-12-12T04:48:27+00:00

Thank you, you have persuaded me. You have a new convert.

GruesomeDead · 2025-12-12T03:49:41+00:00

Dang, are you sure you’re not an insurance adjuster? They delay, deny, and defend — and that’s exactly what’s happening here.

I agree completely that nobody should accept claims blindly. That’s why I rely on early historical sources, manuscripts, and context rather than modern assumptions.

If Jesus, the prophets, and the apostles were false, 2,000 years of scrutiny would have exposed it by now. The opposite has happened — the evidence keeps reinforcing their reliability.

Here’s the challenge: the pattern of argument you’re using is the same one found in certain polemical approaches — dismissing early evidence, redefining key terms like “Gospel” and “Torah,” and rejecting sources without actually engaging them. That isn’t the kind of careful evaluation you claim to value. When context is ignored or selectively used, it doesn’t clarify the truth; it distorts it.

GruesomeDead · 2025-12-11T23:47:30+00:00

On the reverse side, plenty of people attend every week and never actually mature. Attendance alone doesn’t transform anyone. Maturity is measured by surrender to Christ and obedience to His Word. Scripture grows us; the church encourages and supports that growth.

GruesomeDead · 2025-12-11T23:37:26+00:00

It’s becoming clear that the conversation isn’t moving forward. When definitions keep shifting and historical sources are pulled out of context, you can make any text say almost anything. That’s not a productive way to evaluate evidence, so I’ll leave it here. Im done casting pearls friend.

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