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This illustrates how even the worst hater of Christ can be made to love and cherish him.

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Have you put the sermon into practice? Do you sell or give up your resources? Give a guy a dollar, and feed him for a day. Teach the Sermon, and feed him for a lifetime.

I preach the Sermon on the Mount as a career choice. If followed, it will provide an abundance of basic needs.

Many Protestants in the prosperous lands. What about the impoverished Catholic nations?

How loaded are the Pope and his enclave? Why are Catholic nations so poor? Protestant nations rolling in the dough?

Remember, Luther later backslid into his Darth Vader role. No doubt the truth went down with him.

They cannot answer this without exposing their Pelagianism. That's why it lingers on.

I'm quoting Luther. Regarding Romans 9:20-21, Luther wrote: “God will have all men to be saved” (1 Timothy 2:4), and he gave his Son for us men, and he created man for the sake of eternal life. And likewise: Everything is there for man’s sake and he is there for God’s sake in order that he may...

Luther, Lectures on Romans (1515-1516), from the scholia at Rom. 15:33 (“Now the God of peace be with you all,” LW 25:375–76): “The second argument [against predestination] is that ‘God desires all men to be saved’ (1 Tim. 2:4). . . . these verses must always be understood as pertaining to the...

Silent Night The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce of 1914 "Christians" stopped killing each other for a brief moment in time. https://time.com/3643889/christmas-truce-1914/

Here's the point you cannot escape. Pelagianism. People save themselves. Heresy. Notice the others won't touch this situation, It will confirm their Pelagianism too.

Complaining will not help. the Study of the subject, starting with Martin Luther, Lectures on Romans will.

But the other thief was not saved and you say Jesus paid for his sins, including unbelief. How can I be wrong and you deny it?

If Jesus paid for the sins of all as you say, why isn't the other thief saved? The sin of unbelief included.

It's all in how you look at it. God shows his Mercy by giving faith to those he saves. The faith tells them they are saved. But he glorifies his wrath against sin, punishing those he damned. They cannot believe,

If Jesus paid for the sins of all, both would be saved.

Do you think hearing the preached word creates faith in your heart? Paul says: “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV 1900) You say what...

But unless born again you cannot discern the truth. Hearing? You hear Honest Charlie's sales rap and buy his cars. But the gospel doesn't work this way. Unless born again you cannot see the King or the kingdom of God.

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” John 14:12 (KJV 1900) What are they? Are we doing them now? How do we explain this?