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infinitysisters · 5 months

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“People are reluctant to pass over from the notion of an abstract and negative deity to the living God. I do not wonder. Here lies the deepest tap-root of Pantheism and of the objection to traditional imagery. It was hated not, at bottom, because it pictured Him as a man but because it pictured Him as king, or even as warrior.

The Pantheist’s God does nothing, demands nothing. He is there if you wish for Him, like a book on a shelf. He will not pursue you. There is no danger that at any time heaven and earth should flee away at His glance. If He were the truth, then we could really say that all the Christian images-of kingship were a historical accident of which our religion ought to be cleansed.

It is with a shock that we discover them to be indispensable. You have had a shock like that before, in connection with smaller matters –when the line pulls at your hand, when something breathes beside you in the darkness. So here; the shock comes at the precise moment when the thrill of life is communicated to us along the clue we have been following. It is always shocking to meet life where we thought we were alone. “Look out! ” we cry, “it’s alive.”

And therefore this is the very point at which so many draw back–I would have done so myself if I could–and proceed no further with Christianity.

An “impersonal God” -well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads –better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap –best of all. But God Himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, king, husband-that is quite another matter.

There comes a moment when the children who have been playing at burglars hush suddenly: was that a real footstep in the hall? There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion (“Man’s search for God”!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?”

- C.S. Lewis, Miracles

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capnpen · 1 year

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Quick Thought – Tuesday, March 28, 2023: God is NOT Dead

Read Psalm 14 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. Psalm 14:1-2 Reflect More than 130 years ago, a philosopher named Friedrich Nietzsche began what is now known as the “God is Dead”…

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girloflights · 1 year

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pai, quero transbordar somente de ti afim de não ter espaço para esse mundo.

#jesus #deuséfiel #deusébom #deus #amordedeus #yeshua #yahweh #frases cristãs #frases #desabafopradeus #god is alive

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lesbianralzarek · 2 months

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"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw

#i originally posted this as just a 'hey remember how fuckin bad middle/highschool was? shit was wild' type post but now #there are a bunch of teens in the notes being like 'oh my god are you serious? it gets better? im not stuck in hell forever??'#and im reminded that the only people who told teenage ella 'it gets better' were speakers at mental health assemblies #aka the least relatable people alive who were seemingly born to lie to you #so. uh. yeah im a certified adult who isnt here to lie or sugarcoat the realities of being a teenager #the only thing more certain than the pain is the transcience

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neuromessy · 3 days

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REAL.

#christian living #god is alive #faith in jesus #Spotify

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jasmineqt · 5 months

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This is my one of my achievement in my life🥰

This was the day I volunteered as a Marshall in the church because DVBS was held to celebrate every year in our little church for children. it is held every school vacation here they are taught to dance, sing, do handcrafted, story by god and here they learn to make friends and learn a lot more about God's word

#godisgood #god is alive

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bernardo1969 · 6 months

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Psalm 33 is a psalm of praise to the Lord, a celebration of God's perfection, only he deserves to be praised, the glory, that is, the perfect fame belongs only to God, because the Lord is almighty and because by his word or wisdom all things were created: "By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth" Psalm 33:6. That is why the Psalm begins by recognizing how that infinite wisdom that is his word or verb becomes the spiritual love (Agape) that nourishes all things in the physical world. The love of God is benevolent, compassionate, expansive, and perfect. This is how the Psalm begins: "For the word of the LORD is right and true; he is faithful in all he does. The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love" Psalm 33:4-5. And this psalm, as a sapiential hymn, teaches something else, the sensible men must recognize that the greatest blessedness is to live the fear of God (constancy, firmness, devotion), because it is through this spiritual gift that men please God and are especially linked to him, and more, the law of Moses teaches that God demands to be feared, that's why the psalm continues to teach: "Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere him. For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm" Psalm 33:8-9. The Psalm also remembers that everything is subject to God's providence and that God's plan develops progressively through the history of humanity: "The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance" Psalm 33:10-12. For all this, the Psalm ends the praise of God by requesting the greatest gift, his eternal love: "May your unfailing love be with us, LORD, even as we put our hope in you" Psalm 33:22.

#god is alive #psalm #bible reading

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tayrae1371 · 7 months

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#jesussaves #jesus is coming #keep the faith #faithoverfear #god is alive #slow to anger #love one another #jesus is the only way

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yeslordmyking · 7 months

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1 Peter 1:8-9 — Today's Verse for Saturday, September 30, 2023

#God #Jesus #christianity #faith #believe in God #you must believe #God is real #God is alive #faith in God #God is my hope #God loves you #accept God's love #surrender to God #return God's love #test of faith #bible verse #heartlight

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spirited111 · 7 months

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God is truly alive my friends. And He or She loves us and keeps us close to them. Because of that i feel really blessed. grateful to be alive and to be surrounded by loving souls. it’s all i ever wanted and it’s what i have :)

#gratitude #love #beautiful #God is good #God is alive

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mylordshesacactus · 2 years

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So my family has a Gay Pirate Plate.

Stay with me.

We do not know how the hell the Gay Pirate Plate was first acquired. This being a point of contention is actually pretty plot-relevant; the saga of the Gay Pirate Plate began with my grandmother and her sister, who, for some ungodly reason, both BADLY wanted the Gay Pirate Plate and believed it to be rightfully theirs.

I should back up, firstly, to establish: The Gay Pirate Plate is the cheapest, tackiest, ugliest plate in existence.

It is in no way a collector’s item. It is physically impossible for it to complement anyone’s decor, because the colors in it are garish. It’s just a ceramic plate with a gay pirate painted on it, and the painting is, this cannot be emphasized enough, extremely bad.

(How do we know the pirate is gay if he’s just posing on a plate? Listen. Fully 100% to stereotype, but he is. He is gay. There’s an energy. That pirate is a flaming homosexual. That pirate has sex with men and does it frequently. That pirate is fucking gay, all right, he just is.)

Anyway. The point is that this is an extremely cheap and ugly plate with a poorly-executed painting of pirate on it who is like a nine on the Kinsey scale.

My grandmother and her sister fought a blood feud over this plate for their entire lives. It would be on the wall in my grandma’s house, and then her sister would visit, and then it would be gone. She’d visit her sister and the plate would be on the wall and her sister would pretend it had always been there. She would steal it back, hang it up, and, when her sister visited, pretend it had always been there. This continued for DECADES.

When the sister died, the Gay Pirate Plate lived triumphantly in my grandmother’s house. And then my grandmother died. And my aunt, who had lived with her and been her carer throughout her life, rightfully inherited their house.

We visit my aunt after the funeral and stay with her for a week or two.

Me, my sister, and our dad. Her brother.

The three of us look at each other. We don’t say anything. We studiously avoid making eye contact with the Gay Pirate Plate mounted proud and ugly on the wall. We notice one another studiously avoiding looking at it. We notice one another noticing. We say nothing. We come to a silent consensus. We pack up to leave. We get in the van. Our aunt comes out to say goodbye. I loudly announce I need to use the restroom before we leave. She obviously stays outside to continue talking to my dad.

I take down the Gay Pirate Plate, stuff it under my oversized sweatshirt, go outside, and get in the van. She happily waves goodbye as we drive off.

Two days later my dad gets a phone call that opens with hysterical laughter and “You FUCKING ASSHOLE did you seriously STEAL THE PLATE--”

Anyway. The gay pirate plate lives in my dad’s house currently.

But he’s trying to get me and my sister out to visit him. And plate mounts are cheap.

#gay pirate plate #GOD i wish I had a picture #y'all are not prepared for the gay pirate plate #anyway we don't think my dad should have to miss out on our hijinks #we think he would much prefer to be alive to witness the nonsense #than for us to morbidly wait until he dies to begin the third generation of Gay Pirate Plate

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capnpen · 14 days

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Quick Thought – Friday, April 5, 2024: God is NOT Dead

Read Psalm 14 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. Psalm 14:1-2 Reflect More than 130 years ago, a philosopher named Friedrich Nietzsche began what is now known as the “God is Dead”…