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 next question i have it's a similar one we just answered in another video called uh is accepting salvation a choice um but it's worded different i think there's some other issues in it so are people who chose for jesus actually saved so tara asks in the greater rounds of christian conversation i hear a lot of when i chose jesus or when i accepted jesus as my savior or some other such language as they decided to be a christian are those people so fundamentally fraud flawed as to not be saved or is it just a simply a matter of word choice because many of them seem very intellectual and godly minded as to be born again christians but this language has caused me to think that they believe they can choose to turn away from sin and as such there is no possible way to be saved correct that's a long question almost got to understand the question infer some parts out a little bit. Sure. Well, let me just take a stab at it. Thankfully, we're saved by God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ and not our ability to articulate God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ. So I agree with Tara. I agree that there's a lot of sloppy speech out there. And I would want to encourage that we realize that most people, well, most, some, they're just not, I don't know how to say this as gingerly as I can. Maybe they're not as skilled or schooled in theology and Bible as perhaps we'd like, right? I mean, people say sloppy things. I think about, you know, ministry in the past to old folks home and hearing, you know, an old doll say, you know, the Lord spoke to me. Well, there's a reflex in me to say, well, the Lord doesn't speak anymore. We've got the 66 books, both Old and New Testaments, canons close. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.