Posted on 08/11/2025 12:07:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
They forgot to mention a large Faraday cage to store electrical appliances safe from solar or nuclear EMP.
Grace is conditional, not automatic.
She’s got the right dynamic for the new frontier.
L
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.”
– Ephesians 2:8-9
“He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.”
– Titus 3:5
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
– John 3:16
I don't see any conditional clauses.
Repentence and belief are conditions. Everyone is not automatically saved.
Read those passages. They contain no conditionals. Even the Faith is a Gift of the Holy Spirit.
So everyone is going to heaven?
Anyone who believes that Jesus Christ died for them.
Correct. And faith IS a gift of the Holy Spirit. But an individual still has to choose to
believe. It’s a bit of a paradox - gets into stuff like predestination vs. free will. I’m
going to leave it at that.
I think we would get along famously.
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