Yes.

You cannot say a single church is the real church anymore due to how many division we have now. But you can say that any Christian is a real Christian if they believe in Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior

Why cause Jesus told Peter to feed his sheep?

Dead saints can't help you, cuz they are dead.

@Froski oh you changed it from deus vult?

I change it every so often when people figure it out, but I don't say when.

Ah nice, a mysterious guy I see 😂

Just wanted to share the verse of the day for my Bible app

i knew an Orthodox Christian in high school

he was a pretty cool dude

while he and i disagreed on some religious stuff (i'm a Roman Catholic and he was an Orthodox Christian) we still got along well

another one of my good friends is Presbitarian and another friend is Mormon

they're pretty cool as well

Jesus was badass

Our Lord and Slayer

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dude that is kinda offensive

If Jesus had a sword nobody would've had balls to approach him

Thus the whole world would've been christian as he would have lived forever

Amen

😂

He didn't need a sword, He *is* the sword.

Sword of the spirit

According to revelation he will have a sword come out of his mouth

Just your friendly reminder that Jesus Christ is King.

Christmas is not in the bible. That word, and all the celebrations around that festival have nothing to do with God or Christ.
Prove me wrong from the bible.

From what I have gathered in my own time, Christmas is celebrated in the time of December due to the prevalence of "Pagan" religions celebrating the Winter Solstice. Christmas was incorporated into Christianity to introduce new converts to at least some sense of familiarity.

That being said, I don't find Christmas to be heretical as it doesn't transfer worship from God or Christ on to something material in nature.

It’s not in the Bible but Christians started it to celebrate the birth of Jesus. People will say something about the pagans starting it but that’s not really correct @derekmcquattie87

So yeah it’s not in the Bible, I don’t think anyone thinks it is honestly lol

And yes, our culture has taken it and made it about consumerism and family, not Jesus or God

Does God think it is heretical? This is a time people use to burn their babies alive to a pagan god

But That’s not what it’s been about for centuries and centuries though

Burn babies alive.... that's where the drummer boy comes from....

I think I need to clarify what I was saying in regards to the Pagan point. Jesus was believed to born in spring, due to the grazing time for sheep, Christians did not start celebrating Christmas because pagans celebrated the Soltice, December 25 was selected as the "official" date to celebrate it do to a vast number of Pagan converts.

I'll word this differently. Would jesus, a jew, keep a non Jewish festival?

Not saying we ask need to be Jews. Nothing against them.

All*

I'm not sure I understand your question. Could you clarify?

If jesus kept ther law of God, completely, and entirely. He was a jew, full on jew, kept the sabbath all of God's holy days. Would he ditch everything he did and toss that all in the trash to keep a pagan festival where people burned their babies alive to another fake god?

Thank you for the clarification. The matter on what the details of certain Pagans did on the Solstice is of little importance. The Church offered an opportunity for Pagans to keep a portion of there cultural inheritance as a deal for conversion, so long as those cultural celebrations did not stand as a rival to God. The sacrificual aspects are new to me. If you could point the cultures that did do that, I would be very grateful. A fair portion of Lutheran doctrine is derived from the regional, in this case German, culture. The same went for Scandinavian converts. On the Semitic part, I do not celebrate Passover. My ancestors are Germans and Celts, I have no cultural or ancestral ties to Israelites outside of faith. So long as a local cultural holiday does not Deify something that is not Good, it shouldn't be an issue, at least in my opinion.