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		By: Dustin Hiott		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2023 05:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://thyblackman.com/2023/04/14/devout-christians-once-saved-always-saved/comment-page-1/#comment-472961&quot;&gt;Michael&lt;/a&gt;.

“REMEMBER The Sabbath to keep it holy.” Thus says the LORD GOD ALIMIGHTY.  The Sabbath day is on Saturday 7th day of week not Sunday dont let anyone tell differently The Church Catholic and Costantine Roman Emperor changed it to Sunday is because Constantine was a Sun god worshiper and Catholic Church did just because it said it had authority to do so.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://thyblackman.com/2023/04/14/devout-christians-once-saved-always-saved/comment-page-1/#comment-472961">Michael</a>.</p>
<p>“REMEMBER The Sabbath to keep it holy.” Thus says the LORD GOD ALIMIGHTY.  The Sabbath day is on Saturday 7th day of week not Sunday dont let anyone tell differently The Church Catholic and Costantine Roman Emperor changed it to Sunday is because Constantine was a Sun god worshiper and Catholic Church did just because it said it had authority to do so.</p>
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		By: Dustin Hiott		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[“REMEMBER The Sabbath to keep it holy.” Thus says the LORD GOD ALIMIGHTY.  The Sabbath day is on Saturday 7th day of week not Sunday dont let anyone tell differently The Church Catholic and Costantine Roman Emperor changed it to Sunday is because Constantine was a Sun god worshiper and Catholic Church did just because it said it had authority to do so.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“REMEMBER The Sabbath to keep it holy.” Thus says the LORD GOD ALIMIGHTY.  The Sabbath day is on Saturday 7th day of week not Sunday dont let anyone tell differently The Church Catholic and Costantine Roman Emperor changed it to Sunday is because Constantine was a Sun god worshiper and Catholic Church did just because it said it had authority to do so.</p>
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		By: sinote ibrahim		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2023 03:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://thyblackman.com/2023/04/14/devout-christians-once-saved-always-saved/comment-page-1/#comment-472995&quot;&gt;Eugenio&lt;/a&gt;.

Thank you sir for your comment, i come from a middle eastern background. whatever people do to offend God or His people from whatever background they come from is done based on the fact that they do not know God. God through Jesus Christ has shown us that His love extends to each individual on the face of this earth. His love is equal to blacks, whites, yellows or any other color, The love is for every race, tribe or nation. The people who break God&#039;s love unfortunately have not experienced God&#039;s love. i invite you to ask God to reveal Himself to you so you can know Him. I suggest that you read the new testament in the bible and try to pry to find God&#039;s attributes (Justice, Mercy, Love and Grace) I wish I have the space to explain to you that I love you even that i do know you because God loved me when i did not deserve it. Please when people miss behave that is not because of God but because they do not Know God. God bless you my friend. I pray that when i am in heaven i can see you and say hello.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://thyblackman.com/2023/04/14/devout-christians-once-saved-always-saved/comment-page-1/#comment-472995">Eugenio</a>.</p>
<p>Thank you sir for your comment, i come from a middle eastern background. whatever people do to offend God or His people from whatever background they come from is done based on the fact that they do not know God. God through Jesus Christ has shown us that His love extends to each individual on the face of this earth. His love is equal to blacks, whites, yellows or any other color, The love is for every race, tribe or nation. The people who break God&#8217;s love unfortunately have not experienced God&#8217;s love. i invite you to ask God to reveal Himself to you so you can know Him. I suggest that you read the new testament in the bible and try to pry to find God&#8217;s attributes (Justice, Mercy, Love and Grace) I wish I have the space to explain to you that I love you even that i do know you because God loved me when i did not deserve it. Please when people miss behave that is not because of God but because they do not Know God. God bless you my friend. I pray that when i am in heaven i can see you and say hello.</p>
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		By: Allan Guy		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2023 03:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have been a pastor for 50 years (33 at the same church),and I have to tell you how very much I enjoy your writings no matter what you call them. I was raised Baptist, one once a month they had a praise and prayer service at the African Methodist Episcopal church and my parents took us.  That formed my beliefs and strengthened my faith and I am eternally grateful.  I saw the Holy Spirit in action and saw a love and a worship that changed my life.  Keep up the good work Brother.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been a pastor for 50 years (33 at the same church),and I have to tell you how very much I enjoy your writings no matter what you call them. I was raised Baptist, one once a month they had a praise and prayer service at the African Methodist Episcopal church and my parents took us.  That formed my beliefs and strengthened my faith and I am eternally grateful.  I saw the Holy Spirit in action and saw a love and a worship that changed my life.  Keep up the good work Brother.</p>
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		By: M, G,		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 01:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eternal Life is not Salvation.

“I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.”  (2 Corinthians 12:2)

 “There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.  There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.  So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:”  (1 Corinthians 15:40-42)

Note:  2 Corinthians 12:2 and 1 Corinthians 15:40-42 unmistakably tells us that “salvation” is nothing like the “Protestant” definition of “universal salvation for all” by the “Grace of God”.  These verses inform us that there are different “degrees of salvation and glory” or exaltation.  

“Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,  Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.”  (Luke 13:23-24)	

“Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:”  (Romans 9:27)

“Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”  (John 5:28-29)

“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.”  (Revelation 20:12-13)  (for further understanding read all of Revelation 20)

Salvation versus Exaltation

The teachings about grace in the 2nd chapter of Ephesians are perhaps the most quoted by evangelical, Nicean, and protestant Christians. “For by grace are ye saved”, Paul taught the Ephesians, “through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast”. (Ephesians 2: 8-9).  When reading these two verses, the student of the scriptures must be aware of the meaning of “saved” versus the meaning of “exalted”.

Men are thus saved by grace alone, in the sense of being resurrected, as all mankind will be resurrected; they are saved by grace coupled with obedience, in the sense of gaining eternal life. 

The gospel plan is to save men into the Celestial Kingdom, and thus Paul teaches salvation by grace through faith, through obedience, through accepting Christ, through keeping the commandments, through performing Christian good deeds (works).

Thus, all will be resurrected, saved in that sense, by grace, by the gift of Christ through His death on the cross and His resurrection. And all who desire to be exalted, that is to live again in the presence of God the Father, in the Celestial Kingdom, must be obedient to the laws of the Gospel as given by Jesus Christ, and through His atonement, His suffering in Gethsemane, and on the cross.

Evangelical, Nicean, and protestant Christians do not differentiate between salvation and exaltation; for them there is no such thing as exaltation or degrees of glory as stated in 1 Corinthians 15:40-42, only salvation, meaning eternal life.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eternal Life is not Salvation.</p>
<p>“I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.”  (2 Corinthians 12:2)</p>
<p> “There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.  There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.  So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:”  (1 Corinthians 15:40-42)</p>
<p>Note:  2 Corinthians 12:2 and 1 Corinthians 15:40-42 unmistakably tells us that “salvation” is nothing like the “Protestant” definition of “universal salvation for all” by the “Grace of God”.  These verses inform us that there are different “degrees of salvation and glory” or exaltation.  </p>
<p>“Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,  Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.”  (Luke 13:23-24)	</p>
<p>“Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:”  (Romans 9:27)</p>
<p>“Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”  (John 5:28-29)</p>
<p>“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.”  (Revelation 20:12-13)  (for further understanding read all of Revelation 20)</p>
<p>Salvation versus Exaltation</p>
<p>The teachings about grace in the 2nd chapter of Ephesians are perhaps the most quoted by evangelical, Nicean, and protestant Christians. “For by grace are ye saved”, Paul taught the Ephesians, “through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast”. (Ephesians 2: 8-9).  When reading these two verses, the student of the scriptures must be aware of the meaning of “saved” versus the meaning of “exalted”.</p>
<p>Men are thus saved by grace alone, in the sense of being resurrected, as all mankind will be resurrected; they are saved by grace coupled with obedience, in the sense of gaining eternal life. </p>
<p>The gospel plan is to save men into the Celestial Kingdom, and thus Paul teaches salvation by grace through faith, through obedience, through accepting Christ, through keeping the commandments, through performing Christian good deeds (works).</p>
<p>Thus, all will be resurrected, saved in that sense, by grace, by the gift of Christ through His death on the cross and His resurrection. And all who desire to be exalted, that is to live again in the presence of God the Father, in the Celestial Kingdom, must be obedient to the laws of the Gospel as given by Jesus Christ, and through His atonement, His suffering in Gethsemane, and on the cross.</p>
<p>Evangelical, Nicean, and protestant Christians do not differentiate between salvation and exaltation; for them there is no such thing as exaltation or degrees of glory as stated in 1 Corinthians 15:40-42, only salvation, meaning eternal life.</p>
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		By: Eugenio		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While African Americans are wasting their time praying to a white God and the Religion of the slaves aka Christianity; the racist white americans are praying to their white banks, white businesses, white schools and they are doing a thousand times better that black people. In addition, Racist America has created a buffer between them and African Americans by bringing in the Hispanics, Asians, Middle Easterns, and migrants in general who are now taking over all the jobs and controlling all the businesses in the Inner cities of the poorest black communities. 

These Hispanics, Asians, Middle easterns prayed to their businesses, their banks and their own agenda that does not include black people except for taking the black dolalrs aways from the black communities and putting in the white man&#039;s bank or their Asian banks. 

With that said my Fellow African American Christians, while you are praying to the teaching of your former slave masters and reading a black, red, or brown dictionary known as the Bible, your black Christian children are been murder by police officers or by other Christian black children who were raised by single black Christian mothers with no ring on their fingers or a husband; more so, your black Christian children are struggling to get jobs and they are falling victim to the School to prison pipeline created by the children of the slave masters and the creator of the garbage religion and white God that you followed with such a devotion.

Remember with an increase in migration to the United States by other races there was an increase in black incarceration. Yes, while you were distracted praying to a Neanderthal God, the Racist American government were letting in millions of illegal Asians and Hispanics in order to deprive the young black Christian men and women from having jobs by giving those jobs to all the illegal immigrants and as you can see every where you go in America and in the black inner cities you will find the Asian, Hispanics and Middle eastern controlling all the businesses, having all the jobs and more importantly they are the ones feeding black America with their Hispanic, Asian and middle easter food that black people love so much and spend their black dollars at those stores but receive nothing in returned.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While African Americans are wasting their time praying to a white God and the Religion of the slaves aka Christianity; the racist white americans are praying to their white banks, white businesses, white schools and they are doing a thousand times better that black people. In addition, Racist America has created a buffer between them and African Americans by bringing in the Hispanics, Asians, Middle Easterns, and migrants in general who are now taking over all the jobs and controlling all the businesses in the Inner cities of the poorest black communities. </p>
<p>These Hispanics, Asians, Middle easterns prayed to their businesses, their banks and their own agenda that does not include black people except for taking the black dolalrs aways from the black communities and putting in the white man&#8217;s bank or their Asian banks. </p>
<p>With that said my Fellow African American Christians, while you are praying to the teaching of your former slave masters and reading a black, red, or brown dictionary known as the Bible, your black Christian children are been murder by police officers or by other Christian black children who were raised by single black Christian mothers with no ring on their fingers or a husband; more so, your black Christian children are struggling to get jobs and they are falling victim to the School to prison pipeline created by the children of the slave masters and the creator of the garbage religion and white God that you followed with such a devotion.</p>
<p>Remember with an increase in migration to the United States by other races there was an increase in black incarceration. Yes, while you were distracted praying to a Neanderthal God, the Racist American government were letting in millions of illegal Asians and Hispanics in order to deprive the young black Christian men and women from having jobs by giving those jobs to all the illegal immigrants and as you can see every where you go in America and in the black inner cities you will find the Asian, Hispanics and Middle eastern controlling all the businesses, having all the jobs and more importantly they are the ones feeding black America with their Hispanic, Asian and middle easter food that black people love so much and spend their black dollars at those stores but receive nothing in returned.</p>
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		By: Ed Swift		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Swift]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 19:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you sir, that was very helpful.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you sir, that was very helpful.</p>
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		By: Billy Lile		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Billy Lile]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the most powerful, concise, articles ever written about this subject. You can call your website anything you want, because we are all &#039;brothers&quot; in Christ if we &quot;overstand&quot; this article. Thank you for this article, you handled the Word very well!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most powerful, concise, articles ever written about this subject. You can call your website anything you want, because we are all &#8216;brothers&#8221; in Christ if we &#8220;overstand&#8221; this article. Thank you for this article, you handled the Word very well!</p>
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		By: Barbara Runnels		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Runnels]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Eternal life has been granted but where a person spends that eternity is the question.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eternal life has been granted but where a person spends that eternity is the question.</p>
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		By: Thomas		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2023 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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