@branman65@BowsacNoodle@maija@Terry >Scripture clearly teaches not only a legal framework of salvation but teaches faith alone and not faith plus works(spiritual usury)
Perhaps this would help:
1 Corinthians 13:2 "And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."
James 2:14-17 "What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."
>ROC has a Stalinist problem, to put it bluntly.
In my opinion, ROC has a positive Christianity problem with bishops sympathetic (or some arguably coereced or bribed) through "tsar before pope". The tsar being the secular Federation government which selected apologies of the USSR to order to give a root of history for government dogma to motivate the masses. (Aka we can do anything because we beat the Nazis, ignore the bad parts though)
@comradepond@RangoDingbot The Roman Empire, Vikings, the Turkish Ottoman Caliphate, the Golden Horde, and many other conquerors battled in the crucible of Europe.
Why the Christians? Is it because White Christians are infamous for giving sympathetic ears and apologies to natives? Is it because they still live?
@deprecated_ii@shibao United States (Univac) Germany (Z1) United Kingdom (GEC) Israel (Intel) China (Xia 170) North Korea (military) South Korea (Samsung) India (TIFRAC) France (CII) Spain (Factor-P) Former Soviet States (MESM) Japan (ETL Mark 1)
LOVE, the natural, healthy kind, is indeed what makes the world go round, and is the most beautiful, holy miracle we ever see here on this earth. BUT WITHOUT A DEADLY HATE OF THAT WHICH THREATENS WHAT WE LOVE, LOVE IS AN EMPTY WORD, A CATCHWORD FOR HIPPIES, QUEERS, AND COWARDS.