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You don’t seem to believe Islam is the religion of peace? Maybe you are affected by global warming?

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A. The communist Pope.

B. The syncretist Pope.

C. The devils' Pope.

D. All of the above.

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Pope Francis is a false teacher! Catholicism is a false religion based on works salvation. There is only one way to God and that it through His Son Jesus Christ. Not Jesus Christ plus works! Salvation is a gift from God. It can’t be earned!!

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Sep 13Liked by Mark Marshall

Satan is a fallen angel. Satan proved that his faith was baseless when he rebelled against God. He was prideful and wanted to be like God. In the book of James 2:19, where is says even the demons believe that God is one and tremble, did not act on their faith by a change of behavior. James is writing to believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. These believers were justified before God (declared righteous), when they believed in the Lord Jesus Christ. Proof of their justification was how they treated others. They were not only already justified before God, but they were justified in the sight of others through their good works. In order to be saved one must repent of their unbelief, be born again by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ. When this happens they will become a new creation in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit comes to reside within the believer. Through the Holy Spirit’s power in us we are to walk in that newness of life. Ephesians 2:10 says, “We (believers) are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

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Sep 13Liked by Mark Marshall

Even Satan himself believes Jesus Christ is The Son of God, but he's not going to heaven.

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You are mischaracterizing the Catholic faith. No properly catechized Catholic believes salvation is earned. What Catholics believe is that to love God is to do his will. Faith alone will not save you. “…thy will be done…” is a core to the Lord’s Prayer, not optional.

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Plus there's James 2:14-18, which just happens to be today's 2nd Reading:

What good is it, my brothers and sisters,

if someone says he has faith but does not have works?

Can that faith save him?

If a brother or sister has nothing to wear

and has no food for the day,

and one of you says to them,

"Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well, "

but you do not give them the necessities of the body,

what good is it?

So also faith of itself,

if it does not have works, is dead.

Indeed someone might say,

"You have faith and I have works."

Demonstrate your faith to me without works,

and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works.

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3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love

5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,

6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

8 which He lavished on us. In all wisdom and insight

9 He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him

10 with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him

11 also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,

12 to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory.

13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,

14 who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory. (Ephesians 1:3-14 NASB)

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Sin doesn’t cut off grace. It breaks fellowship with the Lord, but God in His grace tells us that if we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin (1John1:9).

When a person is born again, he or she receives new life in Christ. God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2Corinthians 5:21). Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ are covered in His righteousness and that is how God sees us. In these mortal bodies we will never be perfect. We cannot keep the law perfectly (James 2:10). That is why we need to be covered in Christ’s righteousness.

Believer’s are God’s children sealed with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our guarantee that we belong to God. Now, the devil can cause me to stumble if I am not walking by the power of the Holy Spirit, but He can’t snatch me out of my Father’s hand. Also, if I am truly a child of God and I walk away from God, as my Father He will discipline me to draw me back (see Hebrews 12:4-11).

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Okay, so in Ephesians 2:8-9 it says “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

This verse tells us that we are saved by faith alone. It’s a gift from God. It is not of works. The thief on the cross died before he had a chance to do good works, but Jesus told him “today you will be with me in Paradise.” The only thing the thief did was believe who Jesus said He was.

What about Abraham? His faith was accounted to him as righteousness even before the law was given.

Works follow salvation. They are proof not to God, but to others that we are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I never once gave my children a gift, and then told them they had to work in order to keep their gift. That wouldn’t be a gift.

We do the works out of a thankful heart because of what Christ has done for us. The works that we do here on earth will earn us rewards from our Heavenly Father to be given at the judgment seat of Christ.

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Grace is indeed a gift but sin (our use of free will that God will never take away) cuts off grace because we are no longer in right relationship with God. If we die in a state of mortal sin (intentional rejection of God’s will), we have at that very moment a stronger relationship with the Devil than we do with Christ.

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“He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them,

"Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself,

take up his cross, and follow me.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it,

but whoever loses his life for my sake

and that of the gospel will save it."

Mark 8:35

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