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thegreenleavesofspring:

thegreenleavesofspring:

Anyway it’s not the role of any human being to declare whether another person is or isn’t a Christian or not - we are to judge by fruits alone - and if we think someone is not, we’re to pray for God to guide them to Him, not go around telling them “hey by the way I’ve decided you’re not a Christian”.

To repeat: IF YOU THINK A PROFESSING CHRISTIAN IS NOT A REAL CHRISTIAN THEN YOU PRAY FOR THEM, YOU DON’T SHAKE A FINGER IN THEIR FACE.

Because it bears repeating:

IF YOU THINK SOMEONE IS “NOT A REAL CHRISTIAN” YOU ***P R A Y F O R T H E M*** YOU DO NOT GO AROUND SAYING “YOU’RE NOT A REAL CHRISTIAN”

That’s not your place to decide. =) Hope this helps!

#i agree with the sentiment but i do think there is a time and a place for calling people out on their bad fruits#or especially false teachings when they are actively spreading harmful teachings#generally better to address concerns privately unless they are causing issues publically#like prosperity gospel preachers. calling them out on their unchristian behavior is good actually. but yea#the focus should never be in asserting they arent christian. cuz we cant know anyones state of salvation for certain

That’s fruits, and teachers, neither of which were the inspiration for this post.

Yeah i figured, hence why i put my thoughts in the tags and not a reblog

actualized-animal:

taylor swift’s work wouldn’t be nearly as insufferable if she wasn’t constantly trying to present herself as some sort of tortured underdog. like, okay, she has endured hardships, and a lot of people, especially white men, are shitty towards her for purely misogynistic reasons. that sucks, i agree. but she’s never been an underdog before. she was born to well-off parents who did everything they could to start her music career when she was barely even a teenager, an opportunity that lots of people would kill for. now she’s extremely famous and wealthy, and everything she releases is destined to sell millions of copies and receive glowing reviews in nearly every publication. she is not an underdog, and i have trouble believing she’s particularly “tortured.” she’s not even an alcoholic, despite claiming to be one on the opening track of her new album! people like to defend her lyrics by saying she’s just playing a character, which i don’t believe for a second, but even if she was, i don’t think i want to listen to someone like swift play the character of a tortured underdog, not when there’s so many musicians out there who are actually tortured underdogs. it comes across as hollow. “you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me,” sung by one of the wealthiest, most famous, most critically acclaimed musicians in the world, who was born to loving parents who personally helped her start her career, who once said she’d never been to therapy because she “just feels very sane.” if you’re going to play a character, maybe pick one who we’re not supposed to pity.

thedickcavettshow:

I can’t do that post that’s like “why did you start following prev” bc I truly do not remember why I started following any of you guys. It’s probably just because we were brothers in a past life

recoiloperated:

recoiloperated:

wrenchinator-central:

recoiloperated:

animeandcatholicism:

she-is-amused:

rabbits-of-negative-euphoria:

rabbits-of-negative-euphoria:

if they don’t affirm the Nicene Creed, they are not Christians. if they claim to be Christians but they don’t affirm the Nicene Creed, they are 9 times out of 10 a cult.

Christians who know or are friends with LDS folks hate to bring this up because LDS folks are truly some of the nicest people you will ever meet and they often share so many of our closest values, but LDS are not Christians, they are Mormons.

Jesus is God.

LDS,JW,Unitarians and SDA are all not Christians due to their denial of the Trinity.

Mormonism has its closest parallels to Islam in a way but more or less it’s simply not Christian.

Like- 99% of Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox doctrine is the same. We essentially disagree on:

What/who a Saint is,

Who is it appropriate to pray to,

And how to take communion.

The last time I was in a Catholic church even some of the worship songs were the same.

The biggest differences I noticed the one time I went to mass were communion, the odd blend of traditional worship in a not-so traditional building (usually with protestant churches you’ll get traditional church-traditional service, vice versa, or traditional church-contemporary service. Not the other way around), and the short sermon. It was like 5 minutes long, preacher was wrapping up right when most protestant pastors would be gearing up.

Otherwise, more similar than different. Almost like a certain enemy wants us to be at each other’s throats instead of working together to further the kingdom of God.

Yeah, purgatory too. The closest Protestants come to that is the martyrs rest.

You’ll notice I did a funny thing with Catholic in one of my replies.

There’s a notable difference between Catholics and catholic.

Capital C Catholics are Roman Catholics typically.

Lowercase c catholics are any Christians who hold to the Nicene creed.

So, us - as filthy prots, are catholic.

(Translator’s note: catholic means universal)

holyloved:

mostly-funnytwittertweets:

@christ-chan-official

thegreenleavesofspring:

Anyway it’s not the role of any human being to declare whether another person is or isn’t a Christian or not - we are to judge by fruits alone - and if we think someone is not, we’re to pray for God to guide them to Him, not go around telling them “hey by the way I’ve decided you’re not a Christian”.

To repeat: IF YOU THINK A PROFESSING CHRISTIAN IS NOT A REAL CHRISTIAN THEN YOU PRAY FOR THEM, YOU DON’T SHAKE A FINGER IN THEIR FACE.

Because it bears repeating:

IF YOU THINK SOMEONE IS “NOT A REAL CHRISTIAN” YOU ***P R A Y F O R T H E M*** YOU DO NOT GO AROUND SAYING “YOU’RE NOT A REAL CHRISTIAN”

That’s not your place to decide. =) Hope this helps!