#1 || 10·01·30··10:56 || rebecca

I saw that earlier and thought "wow"! I guess that's what "faith working in love" is.

#2 || 10·01·30··11:39 || Bryan Cross

It is a good thing that in the Protestant Bible Jesus doesn't say anything about the Publican beating his chest, or refer to Tyre and Sidon repenting in sackcloth and ashes, and doesn't say that when the Bridegroom is taken away His disciples will fast (since there would be no need for such penance, since He will already have paid for all their sins), or say anything about cutting off your hand and plucking out your eye if they cause you to sin (what would it matter, since Christ has already paid for all your sin), and Matthew doesn't mention Zaccheus paying back four times what he stole, and St. Paul doesn't mention beating his body to make it his slave, or putting to death the members of our physical body, and the prophets do not mention pulling out one's hair in repentance. In the Protestant Bible, apparently, the Christian life is much like that depicted on the Axiom in the film WALL-E, and any suffering one might (God forbid) encounter has no redemptive value, because Christ has already paid it all.

In the peace of Christ,

- Bryan

#3 || 10·01·30··12:35 || David

Bryan,
   You prove my point better than I could: reading the Bible through Rome-colored glasses can only lead away from the gospel of Jesus Christ and into perverse bondage.