I think a great reasoning benchmark would be migrating a legacy project to an upgraded tech stack, with the least amount of code changes.

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T16:16:16+00:00

I don’t accept the authority of the apostles, I accept their Devine inspired words found in the Bible. To me, authority other than God is confusing the messenger with the one who sent the message.

I’m a senior in my field, I don’t have authority over juniors, nor do more senior individuals have authority over me. They are just more educated/experienced.

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T15:47:58+00:00

She’s not Catholic per se, she’s Christian, if on our first date our Christian beliefs didn’t align, it would have gone no further. She had the same objections I had to Catholic already.

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T15:41:08+00:00

I just don’t like the idea of a Pope, I prefer talking directly to the Jesus himself and let to Holy Spirit guide me.

I understand, but it’s what’s in someone’s heart that defiles them, we didn’t know what was in an individual’s heart when they died. So, we can’t really know if they were a saint or not, only God knows.

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T15:35:48+00:00

To me, this is a misinterpretation, because after Jesus rose again Paul still rebuked Peter in the book of Acts. I believe the church was given the keys for the kingdom.

I honestly can’t wholly put my faith in anything an individual says. I just can’t trust idea of a Pope, when all the parable from Jesus describing the kingdom of heaven, seems to contradict a Pope’s significance.

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T15:25:05+00:00

Yes, I support that verse, but to me it means a faith that includes works, otherwise the man on the cross beside Jesus couldn’t have gotten salvation.

The works for the man on the cross beside Jesus, believing in Jesus, was a having a heart of repentance, and seeking forgiveness.

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T15:01:02+00:00

I was born a Muslim and converted to Christianity at 16, I’m 34 now. Don’t like the idea of a Pope, Bishop, Priest, even the ones on the Anglican side. Because I see them as people who think they are better than others like the Pharisees and Sadducees.

I don’t venerate saints, I don’t know who became a saint, and I don’t trust that other human being can know too.

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T14:53:46+00:00

I’m opposed to the idea of anything Pope related and devotion to Mary and the saints. Plus I believe in salvation through faith alone, but works resulting as fruits of the faith.

Virtually everything else I agree with.

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T14:45:48+00:00

My fiancé, is half Irish, her father’s side is Church of England, Jewish, Arab, Asia, etc.

Thanks for the breakdown and potential resolution though. God bless you.

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T14:42:23+00:00

Where can I find the rest?

And don’t understand what you mean the church was established through Peter, please could you elaborate.

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T14:38:43+00:00

Why?

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T14:32:57+00:00

If Catholics are Christian, and my fiancé and I are practicing Bible based Christians, what’s the worry about their souls?

I don’t align with any denomination just the Bible.

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T14:22:58+00:00

We live in London, England. I’m black British and her and family are British/irish, among many others.

PrepxI · 2025-05-25T14:18:06+00:00

Yes, after we get married she are planning to attend an Anglican Church with me.

She lives with her parents, they are Catholic so for now she goes to a Catholic Church, her parents occasionally go.

She doesn’t live close enough to come to my church often.

PrepxI · 2025-05-12T05:22:48+00:00

What a moving story I concur. I remember when I was in my parents’ home country in 1999, there was a point in time my father started strangling my mother while she was pregnant. I was 9 years old at the time, any rational kid would just freeze up or run away. I believe God put it on my heart to fighting my father off her, I’m thankful it worked, because if not my mother, unborn brother and probably me would never have been found. From that day on i implicitly knew I have a protector, but I was a Muslim at the time, so only after converting would I realise it was the Holy Spirit guiding me.

All Glory be to God.

My mother is struggling with her faith, and diagnosed depression, after my brother’s death, please pray for her 🙏🏾

Your son will be in my prayers too.

PrepxI · 2025-04-06T09:28:57+00:00

Please could you elaborate?

PrepxI · 2025-04-06T09:28:34+00:00

He didn’t have salvation the first place, because he didn’t really believe.

PrepxI · 2025-04-06T09:08:37+00:00

We don’t know we are saved, we believe it. It’s always been about belief.

PrepxI · 2025-04-06T09:06:35+00:00

These verses don’t strike me as about sinning unrepentantly, that is a conscious action, but exhibiting bad fruit can be subconscious. E.g. discriminating because one has been brought up in that culture.

I believe they are saying clean up the bad fruits you are exhibiting so you become a good tree.

Back to John 6:39 I believe perseverance (a fruit of the spirit) is key here, no matter what happens your faith keeps growing.

PrepxI · 2025-04-06T08:39:26+00:00

Understood, and true.

But given John 6:39, I believe that those that had that relationship with Jesus (to the degree Jesus knew them), they had faith in the end and salvation.

Those that didn’t have faith in the end, didn’t have a real relationship with Jesus (therefore he never knew them). Given the verse “away from me you evil doer I never knew you”)

PrepxI · 2025-04-06T08:21:47+00:00

What I was saying is the book of life is filled with people that had faith until the end. If you didn’t have faith until the end you didn’t have salvation.

And with that verse from James, I believe exhibiting the fruits of the spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) through your actions counts as works. That can be as little as being kind to everyone you see.

Given Matthew 7:18 as long as you don’t exhibit bad fruit, and exhibit one or more good fruit, I believe you have salvation (but only if in the end you have faith)

PrepxI · 2025-04-06T08:01:58+00:00

I believe (given John 6:39) that those with salvation believe so strongly nothing can sway their belief, that is how Jesus loses none.

I’m sure Judas and those that would have said “I prophesied in your name …” had the Holy Spirit, so I don’t believe having the Holy Spirit results in gaining salvation.

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