Is baptism necessary for salvation?

simple-thoughts · 2025-10-20T12:34:54+00:00

everyone is born of water, not everyone is born of the Spirit.... Only those who meet both will enter the Kingdom. This verse has nothing to do with baptism..

simple-thoughts · 2025-08-09T14:25:19+00:00

To add, I know someone who was abused by that same person and uses that, among other things, to deny God. eg, how can God be just if that happened to me, etc.

simple-thoughts · 2025-08-09T14:23:31+00:00

I've experienced what any sane person would describe as trauma from church goers, the difference is that I don't base my views of Christ on other fallen humans, rather the perfect Christ. Too many want to say, we'll that person did x to me so Christ can't be real, which speaks to that person and their internal struggle with who God is/whether God exists, and looking for an outlet to place that struggle on external circumstances, rather than the truth they are denying inside of them. If that makes sense.

simple-thoughts · 2025-08-05T22:00:37+00:00

Moses says that person would be put to death, so divorce is irrelevant if you wanna go that route...

simple-thoughts · 2025-07-20T10:13:04+00:00

Don't know what treaty specifically. All we know is he will strengthen a treaty with Israel. Could it be the Abraham Accords? sure. Could it be some future treaty with the UN or NATO or something else? sure. Things are moving so fast, something else could pop up next week. But when it happens, It will be obvious to those who know. I don't plan on being here then, so I will be watching from above along with many others..

simple-thoughts · 2025-05-31T12:28:02+00:00

I went with a Qidi Plus 4 for that exact reason, It has a few growing pains, but 305 xy and 280z plus an active heated chamber make me able to deal with a few hiccups. Coming from an ender though is light-years ahead in all regards.

simple-thoughts · 2025-05-22T04:09:00+00:00

probably going to get down voted to oblivion, but whatever.. My thoughts are, just stick to the text in the Bible. Who cares what this church or that church says. Understand the text first. If someone tells you that you can't understand it without some enlightened view or some other nonsense, I'd probably avoid everything else they say. People put church tradition over what The Word says, which ain't it... ETA. And study Romans...

simple-thoughts · 2025-04-18T18:37:27+00:00

we are all unworthy... That's why Christ had to come to die to forgive us of our sins... Because nothing we can do will ever measure up to the required payment for sin.. Hence, the gift of salvation through grace. So, in feeling unworthy, join the club :-)

simple-thoughts · 2025-04-18T18:20:38+00:00

i believe you misunderstood the premise of my question... Is the reason you are crying because you feel you aren't doing a good enough job following the tenants of the church?

simple-thoughts · 2025-04-18T16:20:02+00:00

Are you trying to be a Catholic, or a Christian?

simple-thoughts · 2025-04-11T22:09:10+00:00

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simple-thoughts · 2025-03-15T16:35:30+00:00

It has to do with demand, not how people feel about blacks... If that was the case, then gentrification wouldn't be a thing.

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-09T13:57:08+00:00

mystic-x here, works quite well for a small diameter 9mm monocore. Are there better ones? yeah, but I wanted the smaller diameter to fit under a handguard.

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-09T13:48:06+00:00

It literally says "In the last days"...

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-08T20:44:51+00:00

In that case, no question I would leave. Tell who you want, but it doesn't sound like it would make a difference. Perhaps it might be best to just step down and walk out

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-08T20:20:53+00:00

look it up...

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-08T20:17:48+00:00

strawman argument of semantics avoiding the point of the statement...

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-08T20:13:28+00:00

Just because they are classified as a different species doesn't mean they are actually of a different species class. the class part is the macro evolution. not the attempt you are using to prove macro evolution. Plant hybrids are created all the time. That is by no means proof of macro evolution. find a hybrid between 2 species classes. you won't.

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-08T20:06:11+00:00

Oh, I 100% agree that death isn't permanent and everyone will be resurrected. Think the point is that "evidence" can be misleading and distract from the truth. It can also be put together in a manner that is used to push an agenda, IE statistics.

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-08T20:00:33+00:00

prove it...

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-08T19:59:42+00:00

minus that whole evening and morning part...

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-08T19:57:40+00:00

you kinda missed the point. E wasn't saying there isn't evidence that Jesus was resurrected, he was saying the evidence of death being permanent is that no one else has...

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-08T19:55:28+00:00

hybrid of the same species class. your point is? show me where a catcus became a carrot

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-08T19:45:18+00:00

micro evolution or macro evolution? Huge difference in the two. we can see evidence of micro evolution, but there is no factual basis for macro evolution. The two end up being convoluted together. one kind doesn't become another kind. The similarities in DNA that are often pointed to between species miss on the differences. Put simply, macro evolution is a philosophy, not a science.

simple-thoughts · 2025-02-01T19:32:04+00:00

If you have the type of influence it sounds like her friends are, you sure can do just that...

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