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Carmelo Torres retweeted
When I was Muslim, I thought God’s holiness meant He couldn’t be near sinners.
We were so unworthy and Allah would be unlike anything in this world.
So how could Jesus, if He were God, touch lepers? Eat with sinners? Let a sinful woman wash His feet?
Then it hit me:
When Jesus touched a leper, the leper didn’t make Jesus unclean.
Jesus made the leper clean. Mark 1:41.
Holiness didn’t retreat from the sin. He came right to it and overpowered it.
I thought God’s holiness kept Him AWAY from people like me.
But His holiness was so strong it could walk right into my mess and clean it instead of catching it.
He didn’t avoid the unclean.
He healed them by with relationship, intimacy, and touch.
There’s a God who bleeds and weeps with us. And He says one thing…
“Follow Me”
Carmelo Torres retweeted
The story in the Bible that rattled me before I converted to Christianity from Islam:
The two thieves crucified next to Jesus. I never knew about them. Bro. They’re the whole Gospel in one scene.
Two men. Same sin. Same cross. Same dying breath. Same distance from Jesus — mere feet away on either side.
One mocks Him. One turns to Him and says, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
And Jesus tells the second man: “Today you will be with Me in paradise.” Luke 23:43.
That man did ZERO good works. He couldn’t. His hands were nailed down. He never prayed five times. Never fasted. Never gave to the poor. Never got baptized. He had nothing to offer but a dying glance toward Jesus.
And Jesus saved him... on the spot.
In Islam, that man was doomed. No time to balance the scale. No deeds to weigh. Game over. A horrible life with a horrible punishment ahead.
I wonder if that would be me…
Yet in the Gospel, that man was in paradise the same day — because salvation was never about his works. It was about WHO he turned to in his last moment.
Two criminals. Same cross. One simple difference: which one turned to Jesus.
That’s why the Gospel is offensive.
And Jesus asks everyone: who do you say I am?
Carmelo Torres retweeted
Mormons are often very personally offended when Christians say that Mormonism isn’t Christian. This is dumb.
Joseph Smith’s first “encounter” with God involves God telling Smith that every creed Christians profess is an abomination to God.
Every creed.
That includes the Nicene Creed. They reject who God is, who Jesus is, the nature of salvation, the nature of exaltation, the clear teaching of Scripture, etc..
Mormonism rejects the very core of the Christian faith in all its essentials. Joseph Smith knew this but nowadays they are playing mind games with their own people and with real Christians.
Either THEY are Christians or WE are. It’s one or the other. Not both.
When asked “Will all be damned but Mormons?” Smith replied, “Yes, and a great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 119)
The Doctrine and Covenants (1:30) leaves no doubt to the Mormon teaching of exclusivity when it says the LDS Church is “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased ….”
Brigham Young, second only to Joseph Smith in Mormonism said…
“Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity” (Journal of Discourses 10:230).
“The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God” (Journal of Discourses 8:171).
I could easily give you pages of them saying they are the only true Christians and how we are all ignorant beasts and our doctrines are wrong. They knew at the time they had a different God, gospel, Scripture, and system of belief. But now it has become expedient to pretend otherwise while still preaching all those false and unchristian things.
Mormons, your leaders are gaslighting you and you are gaslighting us. You aren’t Christian but we want you to be. Flee from Mormonism. Flee from Joseph Smith.
Carmelo Torres retweeted
Maybe this will help Mormons understand.
Think about it this way.
Mormonism is basically trans-Christian. It was born outside of Christianity, put on all the Christian clothes, Jesus, salvation, scripture, gospel, and now insists it’s the real thing. Sound familiar?
Same words. Totally different meanings.
When a Mormon says “Jesus” they mean the spirit brother of Lucifer who progressed to godhood. When a Christian says “Jesus” they mean the eternal God who took on flesh. That’s not a small difference. That’s a completely different person.
When a Mormon says “salvation” they mean resurrection plus exaltation earned through covenants, ordinances, temple work and faithfulness to the end. When a Christian says “salvation” they mean Christ paid it all and you’re trusting Him alone. Again, not the same thing.
“Gospel” not the same. “God” not the same. “Scripture” not the same.
Every single load bearing word in Christianity has been gutted and restuffed with something else. But they kept the label.
Joseph Smith didn’t restore Christianity. He replaced it and kept the wardrobe.
That’s not a denomination. That’s not a different stream of the same faith. That’s a different religion doing a Christian cosplay.
And the crazy part? Most Mormons genuinely don’t know this because they’ve only ever been handed the redefined version of those words. They’ve never actually seen what Christianity really teaches.
Carmelo Torres retweeted
Republican Senators, for the love of God…
STOP POSTING.
You’ve been in the Senate Majority for 15 months. WE THE PEOPLE gave you everything. We gave you the House and Senate so YOU ALL would unite behind President Trump and tram through the entire America First agenda, confirm every nominee, and crush radical Democrat obstruction.
Instead, because YOU chose John Thune as Senate Leader, everything is stalled, watered down, and sabotaged.
We don’t need more tweets about what “needs to happen.”
You have the power. Use it. Pass the agenda.
Confirm the nominees.
Stop the radicals.
STOP POSTING AND ACT.
The American people are watching.
Carmelo Torres retweeted
When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.
But this one broke me:
Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.
I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.
I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.
But bro, you know what shook me?
There’s a night missing.
After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.
A lamb is slaughtered.
Its blood painted on the doorposts.
And death passes over every house covered by that blood.
The Passover.
I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.
Islam just skips it.
And here’s what wrecked me.
The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.
Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.
70 times.
So I had to ask myself the honest question:
If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?
You don’t forge a document 70 times.
That’s just not corruption.
That to me is preservation.
And then I read the line that finished me off.
1 Corinthians 5:7.
“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”
That’s when it hit me.
The whole story was never just about Moses.
It was always pointing to a King.
The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.
Forever.
The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.
Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…
he’s one step away from the cross.
Carmelo Torres retweeted
Donald Trump is the first racist in history to have...
...dated a black woman
....deported an ex-Nazi
...upgraded MLK's birthplace to a national historic park
...posthumously pardoned legendary boxer Jack Johnson
...kissed the Western Wall
...loves his Jewish grandchildren
...established an Opportunity & Revitalization Council to restore black neighborhoods
...signed a major criminal reform bill
…granted Alice Johnson clemency
…loaned his personal jet to Nelson Mandela
...declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel
...moved the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
...overseen the lowest black unemployment in history
...denounced David Duke over 20 years ago
...been given a lifetime achievement award after paving a way for blacks to enter corporate America...
Worst. Racist. Ever.
Carmelo Torres retweeted
Let me say it loud for the retards in the back who keep rewriting history:
President Trump was advised to lock the country down for two weeks to slow the curve. He listened. Republican-led states reopened and got back to work. Democrat-led states stayed shut down for over a year.
Trump repeatedly pleaded with those blue-state governors to reopen their economies. They refused. Their goal was clear: tank the Trump economy so they could blame him for the damage. Millions lost jobs and livelihoods because of it.
Democrat governors chose to send sick COVID patients into nursing homes — a decision that killed thousands of our elderly. That was their choice, not Trump’s.
They lectured him: “Don’t tell me how to run my state, Trump! Don’t overstep your authority!” While encouraging people to snitch on their neighbors for not following the rules.
Operation Warp Speed happened under President Trump. The vaccines were developed a few years prior. Democrats originally scoffed: “I’m not taking a Trump vaccine.”
Then Biden and Democrats stole the election, forced vaccine mandates, and suddenly, it was “safe and effective” — take it or lose your job. Blue states cheered and reopened.
Don’t twist the history. Those of us who lived through 2020-2024 remember exactly what happened.
Carmelo Torres retweeted
Islam picks fights with gays, Jews, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, women, non-Muslims, atheists, ex-Muslims, booze, bacon, and dogs.
But the second I criticize Islam? I'm a hateful bigot and a raging Islamophobe.
Does anyone else see how backward and insane this is? Do you?
Carmelo Torres retweeted
Former atheist @LeeStrobel breaks down what made him a believer:
The four E’s:
1. Execution
2. Early Accounts
3. Empty Tomb
4. Eyewitnesses
“If I’m gonna follow the evidence … then I have to conclude that Jesus Christ didn’t just claim to be God, He backed up that claim…”
Carmelo Torres retweeted
You voted to convict President Trump.
You won’t put pressure on Leader Thune to pass the SAVE America Act.
I encourage every Republican in Louisiana to vote AGAINST you on Saturday, May 16th.
🗓️ Saturday, May 16th
Carmelo Torres retweeted
Dear Democrats whining about Democracy: please explain to America how, out of 21 Congressional seats representing the 6 New England states, there are ZERO Republican Representatives, even though 40% of the electorate are registered Republicans, 48% in New Hampshire alone?
Carmelo Torres retweeted
Dear President Trump, Thomas Sowell is an American treasure. Please consider honoring him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I can’t think of a greater representative of American values.
