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The Apocalypse Deck is here in time for #Christmas. #TheEndOfTheWorld #christmasgift #realbibletalk #Bible https://www.instagram.com/p/CID8FCQhINS/?igshid=4hbwfbjmjbzs
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#SundaySermonSeries include #wetdream #headcovering #kingdavid and #angels! A Game for Good Christians: The only #Christian game not afraid of the #Bible. Except no imitations. #cardschristianslike #dailybible #realbibletalk #theology https://www.instagram.com/p/CCXidlch35n/?igshid=szk2hv9bfdxt
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May the #God of #hope fill you with all #joy, #peace, and..... Our cards cover all the ways you may answer! Hit us up for more. #Bible #blessed #cardgame #realbibletalk #playerpics https://www.instagram.com/p/B0moMDvBZXA/?igshid=9yo0rtjm49pw
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"The #Trump Cards" are here. #murica and supposed #evangelicals have spoken (in tongues) #agameforgoodchristians #45 #speakingintongues #covfefe #realbibletalk #realbible #dailybibleverse #verseoftheday #biblegames #bible
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This is just an example of where we start when putting together a Card Talk. #comingsoon #Leviticus and the #deathpenalty ! #blogging #realbibletalk #Bible #theology #nerds https://www.instagram.com/agameforgoodchristians/p/BzGKQN4hBE0/?igshid=1jjs61han1r3g
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Come, see real flowers of this painful world. -- #Basho The voice said, "Cry!" And he said, "What shall I #cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the #flower of the field." -- Isaiah 40:6 #hiaku and #realbibletalk #Isaiah #flowers #hope or #nah .....? https://www.instagram.com/p/ByICdL5hNQ2/?igshid=awfcabmostmc
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A Game for Good Christians: Expansion Decks!!!
A Game for Good Christians is pleased to announce the release of two (2) new Expansion Decks!
You now have the opportunity to pre-order the
“Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” Expansion Deck with such biblical gems like:
Your father being your grandfather and uncle (Genesis 19:30-38)
Being liable for morons falling off your roof (Deuteronomy 22:8)
Loving God while not being a dick to everyone else (The whole sum of the Law, the Prophets, and the Gospel)
And The Wisdom Books Expansion Deck (with content taken from the books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Songs of Solomon) with sage words like:
You: an arrow from your father's quiver (Psalm 127:4-5)
A virtuous woman as defined by old Jewish men (Proverbs 31)
Going down to the nut orchard (Song of Solomon 6:11)
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Pentecost: too early in the morning to be drunk, but who can tell? (Acts 2:15)
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When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place . . . all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. . . . All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.” . . .
But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them . . .“Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.” ~ (Act 2:1; 4; 12-13; 14a; 15, NRSV. Full text here.)
This is the greatest answer to a disbelief in the power of God ever displayed in the Bible. And of course it comes from Peter: ADD/ADHD, impulse-control-issued, Christ-denying-but-getting-his-groove-back, blue-collar fisherman, shitty-sword-swinging Peter.
“Well yeah, we COULD be drunk, and I’m not saying that I haven’t had a few already, but damn, it’s 9am: we’ve got $h!t to do today. We don’t get drunk this early, but come shabbos all bets are off. But seriously though, this is the work of the LORD. If you read in the prophet Joel . . .”
Only Peter would start with addressing the alcohol question before quoting Torah.
And on this rock the church is built.
But what do we know: we made this game and you probably think we’re going to hell.
Little known fact: Family Guy’s Peter Griffin is loosely based on the Apostle Peter. No he’s not! What’s wrong with you?!
Buy this game: you can play while drinking, communion wine. Yeah. Communion wine.
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Noah's Awkward Sexual Encounter with his Son. (Genesis 9:22)
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Oh, the arguments over this card! At every testing of the game something came up: a footnote in a study bible, a blog entry from a renowned preacher, a comment remembered from a Bible college, an indelible image seared into brain tissue one Sunday morning by an overzealous youth pastor trying to connect with the congregation by spicing up the sermon. And then there is the shock, horror, and confusion of those who had never, no never ever, heard this debate before:
Should the phrase “saw the nakedness of his father” be understood as a sexual euphemism— that Ham committed some sexual act with/to his blackout-drunk father— or does the literal reading hold true— Ham looked at his father’s naked body and called his brothers in to observe their father’s shame?
Clearly we have chosen the former interpretation. [“But you guys chose that because it fits with your game better: Perverts!”] {You don’t know us! Shut it!}
As others have argued both sides of this controversy from critical analysis of the format, the Hebrew, and from the cultural milieu of the text, we will only comment from a point of biblical comparison and answering the second most asked question about this text: if Ham was the one who did something wrong, why his son, Canaan cursed? (Especially since Canaan wasn’t even born yet. [What?] Re-read Genesis 7:6-7 Noah, Mrs. Noah, Noah’s sons, and Noah’s daughter-in-laws. Nothing is mentioned about Noah’s grandkids.)
A few chapters later we encounter another family saved in the nick of time by the hand of God, when everything around them is destroyed—when the land, people, fluffy bunnies, and cute little duckling are wiped off the face of the local map; however, keeping His word, God does not use water. He uses fire.
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In Genesis chapter 19 we are presented with the story of Lot, visiting angels, unwise sexual advances and promises, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the ending of the story most Sunday school teachers aware of its existence, close the Bible on after declaring that homosexuality is wrong, God will kill you for it, or turn you into salt you look at it [“allelu, alleluia! Let’s go eat some cake and sing about Jesus loving all the little children of the world in rainbow colors! Except the Canaanites. Screw their children.”].
We will present this closing scene in its entirety:
Now Lot went up out of Zoar and settled in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar; so he lived in a cave with his two daughters. And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the world. Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night; and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.
On the next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring through our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger rose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.
Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father. The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab; he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day. The younger also bore a son and named him Ben-ammi; he is the ancestor of the Ammonites to this day. (Genesis 19:30-38, NRSV)
Here are the parallels between the stories of our two families in Genesis:
Both live among “sinful” people who are destroyed by the hand of God
Both are rescued as the remnant of (apparently) “righteous” people
Both fathers get blackout drunk after the destruction
Both fathers have something happen to them from the hands of their children while they are incapacitated (we argue that it is sexual in both stories)
Completing the pattern
Both stories go out of their way to name the descendants of the evil-doing children, who become the “bad guys” of the Hebrew narrative during the Exodus from Egypt and entry into The Promised Land.
Check the Ancient Near East map in your study Bible and then read through the biblical narrative: Who were the evil, nasty, no good, very bad people who needed to be utterly wiped out, so their land could be passed through and/or inhabited? The Cannanites, the Edomites, and the Moabites. So what does this have to do with sexual encounters?
These are tales of etiology: stories of origins, reasons, explanations. When the young Hebrews ask, “why do we hate those people who look pretty much like us, sound pretty much like us, but only dress, eat and worship slightly differently than us, but live not that far away?”the answer comes back from the text:
“Well my little one, a long time ago, the ancestors of those people did some nasty sexual things that I’ll explain when you’re older (because I’m afraid you might do them to me); they are people worthy of death, because they did things that you just don’t do ever. Ever! So don’t play with them.”
In the Ancient Near East having some form of a sexual encounter with the patriarch of your family— your own father, who you are taking advantage of when he cannot defend himself— is beyond distasteful, beyond taboo. It is absolutely horrific. It is an abomination.It also serves as a great reason for why “we” would attempt the wholesale slaughter of “them” in the name of the Lord: that sort of evil trickles down from generation to generation, it’s in the blood. Besides, they’re living in the land we want.
This, combined with other arguments, lead us to say we don’t know what Ham did, but it was freak nasty, not merely a look-see, inappropriate pointing, and calling of his brothers to gape with him. There was bad-touching involved.
But what do we know: we made this game, and you definitely think we’re going to hell now.
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Side note: Leviticus 20:17, which employs the same Hebrew phrase for “uncovered...nakedness,” is used by the various sides in this debate. Alternately it has been used to argue that Ham had sexual relations of some kind with Noah, that he merely looked at his father’s body, AND that Ham slept with Noah’s wife. Yes, that would be his mother.
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Houdini Jesus (John 5:13)
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Note: We might change this card to “Introverted Houdini Jesus.”
Jesus didn’t like crowds, even when— esp. when— performing miracles.
“Give us some room. No crowding. Please! Up-close magic in progress ...”
Then there is this story: A man has been sick for thirty-eight years lying beside a pool that supposedly has magical powers to cure. People who have lesser ailments and can easily get themselves into the water are cured not this guy. For thirty-eight years he’s been watching Roman yuppies with corns on their feet, Pharisees with hangnails, and Tax collectors with paper-cuts, step over him, take a refreshing dip, and be healed.
Jesus heals a man, of course, but then immediately disappears into the crowd— poof! He’s gone!— only to later materialize, and track the now-healed man down for a follow-up, “I’ve taken care of the outer-man, take care of the inner-man,” type conversation.
It is interesting that the primary concern in the life and mind of the sick man, was not Jesus’ only concern. Jesus cared about his physical situation and healed the man, but that wasn’t all the healing that was needed.
Perhaps there are things that even the Son of God can’t make disappear; things up our sleeves that only we can reveal and vanish.
[Poof!]
But what do we know: we made this game and you probably think we’re going to hell anyway
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Ezekiel: Dysfunction You Can Trust
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We have multiple cards based in the book of Ezekiel, including “bread freshly baked with human dung (4:12)” and of course “lusting after lovers with donkey genitals and horse emission (23:20)” [We’ve gotten multiple emails asking for assurances that the latter was included in the game].
One of our Ezekiel cards garners more silence than laughter when played by some brave soul: “God-sanctioned gang rape. (Ezekiel chapter 23)”
Go read the chapter. Then take a walk. Hug a puppy. Kiss your children. Practice watercolors. And then come back. We’ll be here to talk when you’re done.
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We are not equipped to psychoanalyze the prophet Ezekiel, certainly not in a more thoughtful manner than the countless biblical scholars and psychologists who have gone before. The metaphors, images, and symbols employed by this prophetic voice offend the senses of most readers to the point of utter confusion and revulsion. This has led to lay and learned speculation about Ezekiel’s relationship with the significant female figures in his upbringing and later life, an absentee father figure (God notwithstanding), the use of hallucinogens, alien-abductions, and attributing to him various mental maladies, including manic-depression, an anti-social personality disorder, and/or pathological aggression towards women.
Any, one, or none of these may be the case, but what would it matter? As one author/speaker elegantly penned, “God Uses Cracked Pots:” We’re all broken. It’s through those fissures that the living water flows through us and waters a thirsty ground. Or something like that. Something a lot less violent, disturbing, and unbearable compared to the gore laced spectacles with which Ezekiel confronts the people of Israel.
Or is that the point?
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Hebrew Bible/Old Testament scholar Dr. Leslie C. Allen presented a perspective on Ezekiel’s personal dilemma that is haunting: “It took language this outrageous to break the spell of the Temple.”
Imagine talking to a people so convinced of their moral and social superiority, despite acts of oppressive avarice against those in poverty; a people who believe they are immune to God’s punishment because they are His favorite nation— He has placed His house, His Ark, His Law, in His city, among His people; a people you love and desire to rescue from their impending doom, but God has already told you that this is impossible, they will not listen to you: What do you do? How do you get through to them?
By any means necessary. Through offense. Scandal. Shock and awe.
Anything to prevent a valley of dried bones.
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Perhaps the words of Abraham J. Heschel on prophetic speech corresponds with Dr. Allen’s thought: “[the prophet’s] images must not shine, they must burn.”
Perhaps a prophet’s occupational hazard has a corresponding benefit compared to the pastor/priest:
The prophet often screams from outside the congregation: warning, chiding, loving, from afar. This is so unlike the pastor/priest embedded in the congregation— and the social cliques, and the church board, and hierarchical structures of review— who weekly worries about which words might give offense, what edification will not be received well. Illustrations must be pruned, and picked and ripened so very, very carefully.
The prophet’s only concern is that the orchard is on fire.
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Perhaps a little Ezekiel is still needed in the world.
But what do we know: we made this game and you probably think we’re going to hell anyway.
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A concubine cut into pieces: Her severed remains FedEx-ed around the country (Judges 19:29)
[Card Talk]
Note: Yes, we are aware that Fed-Ex did not exist in the Iron Age. Really? That’s your biggest problem with this card?
During the testing phase of this game someone came across this card and freaked out. The person was offended, indignant, opened a Bible, and then became horrified. “I think I’m more upset reading the Bible than your card.” The person was hurt by the silence. There is no condemnation in the text. No one says this is wrong.
This chapter of Judges is far, far worse than our 12 word summary, which only captures a moment in a dismal native of racism, betrayal, gang rape, and murder which occur long before this poor woman is dismembered. This passage stands as one pastors, priest and parents hide from fledgling follower of the faith, and every atheist apologist knows by heart in order to rail against the former. Both miss the point.
This is the book of Judges: a book which, in part, records the moral decline of a nation. A book whose heroes become less heroic, less moral, as time marches on— compare Deborah, Ehud, and Gideon, to Samson, Jephthah and Abimelech. A book that repeats some version of the phrase, “in those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes,” especially towards the end, as things get worse and worse. (c.f. Judges 17:6, 18:1, 19:1, 21:25) So in truth, it should be no surprise that here, nearing the end of the book, we have this scene.
Not every tale in the Bible displays what is morally correct; some stories exist to condemn the horrific through silence, without commentary from the characters, the narrator, or God. The hearer/the reader knows that even if the foreboding words of missing kings was absent (19:1), no one who survives an encounter with this text needs an Aesopian moral at the end: an appearance of Moses, Jesus, or a South Park character, to tread upon the editorial stage and declare to the audience, “God thinks this is bad and you should too!”
In her book The Nakedness of the Fathers, the Jewish theologian/poet Alicia Suskin Ostriker places the judge Deborah in a modern-esque setting, leading a women’s support group. While recounting stories from the Torah and this episode from the book of Judges and, Deborah explicates the silence:
“We are speaking of Jews not gentiles. Remember that among Jews these stories are not heroic but scandalous. A symptom of social chaos, when men forget to obey God as their Lord and King, and therefore fall into abominations. For us it is tragic when women suffer.”
No one in the story speaks up for the woman or comments on how she was abused. This is another biblical sign of how morally bankrupt the nation was, not an example of the misogynistic patriarchy. The writer knew this.
The condemnation is in the telling. The condemnation is in the silence.
But what do we know: we made this game and you probably think we’re going to hell anyway.
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