I'm not a Christian, but my wife is so we talk about these types of questions a lot.
You don't "have to be good." You have free will. However, there will be consequences after death depending on what you choose.
"If Jesus will forgive you no matter what" is not accurate. To be forgiven, you have to truly repent for your sins. Only you and God know if you are truly repentant. Would you consider yourself truly repentant if you did something bad because you expected to be forgiven? I mean remember, God is supposed to be omniscient.
Attempting to abuse the system itself would be a sin. But that could be forgiven as well if you truly repented for it.... So all in all, Christianity offers anybody hope for forgiveness, but we have no way to know who is actually forgiven in the end. That alone should be enough argument for erring on the side of caution and not sinning (assuming you accept the stated rules of the system).
Exactly. There's a reason Apple products are so successful. Apple does a fantastic job of hiding away unnecessary details and giving users a very slick, polished interface that usually does what they want. I'm not even a person who buys any Apple products.
No, telling the kids the truth about this is very reasonable. She let down your whole family's trust in her. She's an adult who made her decisions and you are not responsible to shield her from the consequences.
The insanity in the ruling is that 3/9 justices voted in favor if this nonsense. Seriously. I expected Thomas and Alito, but Gorsuch also voted in favor? These conservative justices need to be replaced.
Russian on Russian violence is good for pretty much everyone except Russia. The only thing keeping Russia relevant is the threat of their military power. The weaker their military gets, the weaker Russia gets.
I mean one of the main functions of Reddit is link aggregation. People can literally just copy links from Reddit and paste them here. It's not really a creativity problem yet.
Remember, it's not all of Lemmy, it's just lemmy.ml. lemmy.ml is the one run by pro-china folks.
Yeah the pandemic improved my life for sure. My daughter was born literally right when everything locked down. I was able to work from home for the last few years and consequently I was able to be a much bigger part of my kids' lives.
The improvement in my work-life balance was so huge that now I'm considering leaving my job since they are insisting on forcing people to come back to the office. I managed to get permission to delay return to office for a while, but it's still scheduled to happen.
No business is a force for good. They are all there to make a profit. If they appear to be doing good, it's because that image is one that they feel is profitable. It can change at a moment's notice if they decide that going a different direction is profitable (e.g. Twitter).
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