Even Jimmy Swaggert was crushed in his spirit when he realized that if he had God in him he would not have been comfy doing the things he did. Maybe, just maybe, Jimmy can be born again now that he has realized how lost he was while reveling in such sin. Kind of like Mormons, based on smithianism are not real Christians, just pretenders, they can be born again, but it will cause Mormonism to not taste so good anymore.
It amuses how the Self-proclaimed solechristians battle with the Mormons; it’s like the Islamic cults fighting each other.
There is far too much pride on these threads to qualify as Christian.
Billy Graham wrote: “Only God knows our hearts, and only He knows whether this person has sincerely put his faith in Christ as his Lord and Savior. Jesus warned, “Do not judge, or you too will be judged” (Matthew 7:1).”
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
a few of the mormon church’s articles of faith:
“We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.”
“We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.”
Instead of trysts, the missionaries talk to the bar girls and try -- usually unsuccessfully -- to lure them into Bible study. American missionaries' work is rarely criticized in Thailand and often praised, mostly because their schools, hospitals, orphanages and other facilities are open to everyone without obligation to convert.
Taking things out of context is a big mistake.
Then David was a 'pretend' believer when he sinned with Bathsheba.
in 1963, just a few days before I was due to ship back stateside from Bangkok, this Christian listened to the cab driver and did something almost similar.
Messed me up pretty good for about 20 years or so...