So DSM, tell me more about this "once saved permanently saved" stuff

[Bonesaw]

Or when a highly trained and noble hearted EMT saves someone's very life and some god or other gets the credit.  I'd be disheartened by it.

[deadskinmask]

First of all, no one is good except the father. Mark 10:18

So you're not "good". Neither are any of us. However, the blood of Jesus washes your sins away and makes you worthy of forgiveness in God's eyes provided you

a) believe in him.
b) are truly sorry for those sins
c) the sin does not fall into the category of blasphemy against the holy spirit

So as we can see, effort, on going effort, is a perquisite to remaining "saved" or, as Jesus himself put it
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. math24:13-14

thats why the "good" was in quotation marks.... i know what i try to be.... and i know its a human term....

[Biggie Smiles]

Or when a highly trained and noble hearted EMT saves someone's very life and some god or other gets the credit.  I'd be disheartened by it.

I once had someone of ""faith"" sleeping on my couch when he fell on hard times. I always got a kick when he would repeat over and over God is good, and God provides

Now I'm not saying here that God isn't good and that he doesn't provide, but in this instance it is ME who's paying the mortgage around here Jack and it would be nice to get a little acknowledgement of that fact from time to time

[deadskinmask]

life happens to everybody.... to assign blame or give credit for everything that happens is ridiculous.... you can ask God to help or you can just manage the burden you have.... i thank God for the ability to deal with everything i have to deal with....

[Frood]

Catholics are the worst.

I was raised and educated in Catholic schools. Religions aren't much different from one another.

[Lokmar]

People made the choice to live in the world we live in today. Thats why the world is shit
People can accept or reject God. People can say they accepted Jesus but many He will tell "I knew you not"
None of this is rocket science if You've read the Bible.

Personally, I'm FAR FAR FAR more concern with morons air claiming that God made them gay than I am about religion taking over the world. If religion is what scares you in todays world, you got dropped on your head.

[Shen Li]

A religion thread eh. Not much of a b-day present.

[Reggie Essent]

A religion thread eh. Not much of a b-day present.

Did you have your mojitos, Shen?

[Shen Li]

Did you have your mojitos, Shen?

Does Moodock like giving head to East Indian cabbies. Fuck yeah, I had mojitos.

[Oliver the Second]

Always remember -

[Herman]

I went to a Ukrainian Orthodox church when I was a kid. We weren't really religious. It was a networking thing for Ukrainian speakers.

[deadskinmask]

Personally, I'm FAR FAR FAR more concern with morons air claiming that God made them gay than I am about religion taking over the world. If religion is what scares you in todays world, you got dropped on your head.

brilliant.... 

[Adolf Oliver Bush]

Any religion that contains instructions from its principle deity to go around chopping the tips of kids wieners needs to be treated with a healthy amount of scepticism.

[deadskinmask]

i'm circumsized.... i'm not jewish though.... its just more hygienic.... and my dick doesn't look like a snake caught in a turtleneck sweater....

[Lokmar]

Any religion that contains instructions from its principle deity to go around chopping the tips of kids wieners needs to be treated with a healthy amount of scepticism.

First time I jacked off, I was probably 12 or 13. I shot off so fukin hard and far, I was scared I'd need a fukin black light to clean up the jizz I shot off all over the place. Thought I'd take be a week to get it all. I'm sure it would have been sooooo much better if I still had my foreskin!!!!

Oh yea, and I needed a few minutes to unfold myself afterwards. It was like my body was trying to turn me into a folded up fukin lawn chair. No doubt if I still had a foreskin, my parents would have found me dead in that position!