For example, from your post 58, "You can keep your filthy state sponsored religion, and I’ll stick with the Gospel."
Really? According to the Gospel, God wants no one to perish and all to repent, and the Church of that Gospel was able to grow even under Nero's persecution.
But the god you worship is unable to overcome Putin and build a church in Russia, and needs you to tell him/her who he/she's capable of saving. And you're still doing it. "But until someone is there preaching Christ and Him crucified, as opposed to purely cultural and nationalistic messages, I cannot call it Christian." No thank you. I'll stay with the true God who can build a Church in the Roman Empire, Russia, China, or anywhere else where people gather and call His name.
“Really? According to the Gospel, God wants no one to perish and all to repent, and the Church of that Gospel was able to grow even under Nero’s persecution.”
You aren’t even debating with me. You’re debating someone else and are just quoting me, as if I said something about repentance or whatnot. I never denied any of these things, you just keep asserting them for who knows what reason.
“But the god you worship is unable to overcome Putin and build a church in Russia, and needs you to tell him/her who he/she’s capable of saving.”
Keep in mind you are agreeing with Kremlin Propagandists that Russia will be the center of world Christianity, even though, as the other poster pointed out, Orthodoxy in Russia is more of an attribute (as I have also noticed) than it is an actual faith, with many of the “faithful” unlikely to even believe that there is a God to begin with.
This has nothing to do with God not having power to save His own in Russia. We can say this of any country that doesn’t have some government sponsored religion making the claim. It just has everything to do with a false Nationalistic Gospel being promoted by Putin and the ROC.
So you can keep bothering me about how I’m against the working of God, or repentence, or whatnot, but it has nothing whatever to do with anything I have said. You’re just ranting with self-righteous fury over something I have never disputed.