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There are genuine Christians and there are "nominal/pseudo" Christians. There are genuine believers and there are make believers.

I read an interesting post on (The Christian Post) - "do all black lives matter." https://www.christianpost.com/voices/do-all-black-lives-matter.html

Hebrews 4:9 - So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. (NASB) Notice that the Greek word "sabbatismos" here is used no where else in the Bible! W. E. Vine, Greek Dictionary points out: Sabbath rest (4520) (sabbatismos from sabbatízo = keep the Sabbath) literally means a keeping of a sabbath or a keeping of days of rest. It is used in this passage not in the literal sense (meaning to keep a specific day, the "Sabbath" day) but to describe a period of rest for God’s people which is modeled after and is a fulfillment of the traditional Sabbath. SABBATISMOS a Sabbath-keeping, is used in Heb. 4:9, R.V., "a Sabbath rest," A.V. marg., "a keeping of a Sabbath" (akin to sabbatizoµ, to keep the Sabbath, used, e.g., in Ex. 16:30, not in the N.T.); here the Sabbath-keeping is the perpetual Sabbath rest to be enjoyed uninterruptedly by believers in their fellowship with the Father and the Son, in contrast to the weekly Sabbath under the Law. Because this Sabbath rest is the rest of God Himself, its full fruition is yet future, though believers now enter into it. In whatever way they enter into divine “rest,” that which they enjoy is involved in an indissoluble relation with God. (Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words) http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=35458

It’s a good thing I make just barely less than 75K a year. Those stimulus checks do help out. I’ve noticed that soon after I deliver stimulus checks on my mail route, multiple people flock to Walmart to buy new TV’s.

When people attack you like that, it's best to report them and/or place them on ignore. On a different Christian forum, I have dealt with liberals who don't care for morality, integrity, the truth or God. Some of them come straight out and admit they are atheists, which I find strange on a "Christian" forum! The political threads on that particular site are the worst! I don't spend much time on that site anymore because I got tired of arguing with liberals, atheists and pseudo Christians. Life is too short to waste my time dealing with such folly.

"Faith without works is dead" does not mean that faith is dead until it produces works and then it becomes a living faith or that works are the source of life in faith, which would be like saying a tree is dead until it produces fruit and then it becomes a living tree and the fruit is the source of life in the tree. James is simply saying faith that is not accompanied by evidential works demonstrates that it's dead. If someone merely says-claims they have faith but lack resulting evidential works, then they demonstrate that they have an empty profession of faith/dead faith and not authentic faith. (James 2:14-24) James is not using the word "justified" to mean "accounted as righteous" but is shown to be righteous. James is discussing the evidence of faith (says-claims to have faith but has no works/I will show you my faith by my works - James 2:14-18) and not the initial act of being accounted as righteous with God. (Romans 4:2-3) Works bear out the justification that already came by faith. In James 2:26, we see a comparison between the human spirit and faith which converge around their modes of operation. The spirit (Greek pneuma) may also be translated "breath." As a breathless body exhibits no indication of life, so fruitless faith exhibits no indication of life. The source of the life in faith is not works; rather, life in faith is the source of works. (Ephesians 2:5-10)

Bad trees (hearts) produce bad fruit. Jesus is identifying false teachers in Matthew chapter 7. He was giving us a guide for identifying them. False prophets will have actions that correspond to their corrupt nature. Just as a good tree (heart) produces good fruit to correspond with it’s regenerate nature.

Inherent in the idea of "tasting" is the fact that one might or might not decide to accept what is tasted. For example, the same Greek word (geuomai) is used in Mathew 27:34 in which those crucifying Jesus "offered him wine to drink, mingled with gall; but when he tasted it, he would not drink it." We do not merely "taste" into one Spirit, but drink into one Spirit. (1 Corinthians 12:13)

There are genuine Christians and there are "nominal" Christians. There are genuine believers and there are make believers.

The gospel is the "good news" of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ (1 Corinthians 15:1-4) and is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that BELIEVES.. (Romans 1:16) To "believe" the gospel is to trust in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ as the ALL-sufficient means of our salvation.

Yes. It is through faith "in Christ alone" (and not based on the merits of our works) that we are justified on account of Christ (Romans 3:24; 5:1; 5:9); yet the faith that justifies does not remain alone (unfruitful, barren) if it is genuine. (James 2:14-24) *Perfect Harmony*

In James 2:14, we read of one who says/claims he has faith but has no works (to validate his claim). That is not genuine faith, but a bare profession of faith. So when James asks, "Can that faith save him?" he is saying nothing against genuine faith, but only against an empty profession of faith/dead faith. So James does not teach that we are saved "by" works. His concern is to show the reality of the faith professed by the individual (James 2:18) and demonstrate that the faith claimed (James 2:14) by the individual is genuine. James is discussing the evidence of faith (says-claims to have faith but has no works/I will show you my faith by my works - James 2:14-18) and not the initial act of being accounted as righteous with God. (Romans 4:2-3)