The editors of Vanity Fair thought it necessary to provide a reason why a Hollywood leading man would ever recognize and humble himself before a higher power. They only demonstrated the depths of their own ignorance.
Maybe if they went to church once in a while they’d “woke” to God.
the antichrist is/will be a democrat
It is sad that believing in God in Hollywood today is considered some kind of betrayal or oddity. You can also trace the spiral downward of Hollywood and the movie industry w/the take over of the radical left. These people have become so insane they actually believe if they play a role they can go testify in front of Congress on that topic.
C.S. Lewis explained it in his simplistic genius way…..You are a soul, you have a body. – So, interpreting- you could be hollow made of wood when you are not a believer? No concern for eternal life? Hollow for sure. Wood? Flammable? Could be in the land of fruits and nuts that they perceive Heaven on earth?
No one is truly Christ’s just because he calls himself a Christian, or because others do.
A fact that all here can agree with: there are MANY competing gospels [good newses] in the world. All claim to be THE exclusive truth. All contradict the others. All have their adherents. All are vying for our belief.
Yet there is only one Good News that saves today. Why? Because there’s only one from God. The rest can’t make anyone right with Him simply because they’re not from Him. They’re all counterfeit and are guaranteed to damn all who preach them (Galatians 1:8-9).
God’s one true Gospel is very simple but it is also very specific, according to the apostle Paul through whom it was revealed.
What this means is, a person may well be morally impeccable, humble, polite, generous, self-sacrificing, devout, insightful, loving and even “Christ-like.” BUT if that person has not believed God’s Good News, or has been deceived into trusting a false one, then despite ALL humanly good qualities he/she remains dead in sin and is on the way to the Lake of Fire. Without that one saving Gospel, they are without Christ and are lost in sin no matter how righteous they may seem. That’s what the Bible says.
So is this actor truly a Christian: completely forgiven and forever justified in Christ through faith in His death, burial and resurrection for all the actor’s sin? I don’t know.
But there IS a way — only one way — to know for sure: learn what *he* says is the exact gospel of salvation that he’s trusted eternity to. Same goes for anyone else, too.
Vanity Fair helps redefine a religious experience for their readers as a “metaphysical intervention” that allows Chris to “take control” because he was so scared of his success.
Thinking for yourself while reading Vanity Fair is not required I guess.
So how big & successful was he while standing outside of a store waiting for someone else to buy him alcohol (presumably because he was too young to buy it hisself)?
reading vanity fair to find out about Christianity is like going to a playground basketball court to find out how to do advanced algebra.
maff is hard
What success was he having as a teenager in HI?
Divine intervention can happen in the most unlikely of places, to the most unexpected recipient, melt the coldest heart and penetrate the hardest head.
That’s my personal experience.
No one was more surprised than I.
Luke 19:10
for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
“Divine intervention can happen in the most unlikely of places, to the most unexpected recipient, melt the coldest heart and penetrate the hardest head.
“That’s my personal experience.
No one was more surprised than I.
“Luke 19:10
for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
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My experience, too. But it doesn’t happen apart from a personal acceptance of the Gospel of the grace of God, the core of which is in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4:
“For I delivered to you in the foremost what also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised the third day according to the Scriptures…”
How many people in Christendom believe that statement is literally true AND sufficient by itself to save, as Paul said it is? Relatively few.
Conversely, how many in Christendom DO believe it, but seek to supplement it by their own righteous conduct (which is itself sin)? The vast majority.
“Few there be that find it.”
1 Cor 9:24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
So did Paul write this because he believed he was completely forgiven and forever justified in Christ?
Matthew 7
They don’t understand how he can have PART of a plan!
I don’t want to hear shit from a magazine who: 1. put Michelle 0bama on their cover and named her beautiful. 2. Talk about how men are putting women down in the articles, and then splashes their front covers with ‘how to please men in bed’.
Shut up and go make someone a sandwich.
What is this thing called vanity fair?
“So did Paul write this because he believed he was completely forgiven and forever justified in Christ?”
Very good question, but you’re confusing two separate things taught by Paul.
Paul was not speaking of salvation or justification there, but of rewards gained or lost for service to the Lord at the Bema [judgment seat] of Christ. The Lord WILL examinine all of a believer’s works, as by fire, leaving either the precious and lasting, or worthless ashes…yet Paul assures us in this very passage that the tested believer himself WILL BE SAVED (you left that key part out).
The Bema must not be confused with what I was speaking of earlier: Christ’s having been “raised for our justification” (Romans 4:25), which is the primary issue. It’s what having the very righteousness of Christ means (Romans 3:22, 2 Cor 5:21).
All of us are unjust and unrighteous because of our sin. That’s what it says. None of us can lift a finger or work our way out of that. If we could, Christ died in vain.
Instead, the Good News is that in forgiveness and justification (called salvation, generally) are received freely, as a gift. No work required…”not of works,” Paul said more than once.
Once received, salvation is complete and permanent. One either has ALL of it, or one has NOTHING.
Unlike the Bema, our works are not a factor in forgiveness or justification today [works DID matter back when God was dealing with Israel according to the covenants, but He saves no one that way today, neither Jew nor Gentile. ALL come by simple faith in what Christ finished for us, or one is lost.]
So because salvation CANNOT be earned or merited by works, only received through faith in the Gospel of grace I posted earlier, salvation cannot be lost, forfeited or sinned away either. It’s ours forever, once it’s been received, because that’s what God promises and He cannot lie. That’s good news!
Here’s the problem.
Over 95% of Christendom, historically and today, exists to maintain itself as a salvation industry by convincing people that they must work, either to earn or to maintain God’s free gift of forgiveness and justification. Christendom convinces people they cannot possibly please God or get to Heaven without its help. That’s how Christendom stays in business, but every single one who preaches such fake good news will be damned for selling what God gave to the world as a gift.