#bible nonsense

[nando161mando]

#religion #dogma #atheist #science #bible nonsense #sun #universe #earth #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #religion is a mental illness #religion is bullshit #religion is toxic #religion is a scam #religion is stupid #class war #bible scripture #bible quote #bible study #bible verse #bible #eat the rich

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

It's the Xian version of "Who's on First?"

#christianity #jesus christ #bible #bible nonsense #christian nonsense #religious nonsense #who's on first #religion #religion is a mental illness

[digital-nihilism]

What’s your favourite part from the Bible? I’d go with Eve giving birth to two sons that populated the Earth...

#bible nonsense #pro-life #god #devil #religion #atheism #nihilism

[thepoisonroom]

ofmd cementing its place as the black sails for people whose not easily conquered was hamilton slashfic

#these words are not in the bible #personal nonsense

[uruwashinonightingale]

if kei is a christ figure , then what does that make rokuta and itsuki ? is itsuki a figurative apostle or something ? my obsessed-with-finding-religious-parallels brain needs to know .

#mainly i’m wondering what #if any #religious symbolism is in rokuta’s character but idk… #in a way maybe he *is* kei’s sacrifice #then again i’m probably talking nonsense again #sorry for being insane over 1nm8 and goku luck and tcw’s religious parallels (delusional) #mallow speaks! #paradox live #1nm8 #kei miyama #rokuta #itsuki #maybe i’m grasping at straws here or maybe i’m just dumb #i haven’t finished my bible course yet so i’m not like an expert on religious stuff relating to christianity or anything…

[fooltofancy]

i have memorized. so many poems, dude. it was like. every year.

#and sometimes multiple times per year #won't even count the amount of the bible i memorized though much of it WOULD count for poetry #like i don't remember most of it NOW. #there are still chunks that come out sometimes #grad school sort of doesn't count though because the class i memorized for was like. explicitly memorization. #... it was a brainless credit while i was writing ten thousand pages a week don't look at me. #head full of absolute nonsense #.. including much of the prologue to canterbury tales #so much fucking shakespeare in there #ts eliot #so. so. much

[isfjmel-phleg]

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#random personal stuff #whining ahead feel free to ignore #after a little over two weeks with my family I guess it was hard today to go back to church here and #be reminded how easy it is to feel utterly disconnected for some reason #I have a small amount of friends whom I do very much appreciate #but otherwise it's like going through life in a glass case #which is probably my fault somehow #anyway I miss going to a smaller church (it got assimilated into this huge one) #and I miss smaller more intimate Bible study groups #there are more people around now whom it's not easy to be real or vocal in front of #(including the lady who once asked if I were one of the then-pregnant women and can't remember my name etc.) #and that's not their fault and they have every right to be there #it's just a different dynamic and unfortunately it's one that I haven't figured out how to be comfortable in yet #feeling like you belong with particular people is just really hard you know? #it has to be earned and proven and mulled over sometimes for years #before it's ever even believable #I got assigned a while back to consider why the whole disconnect thing #still drawing a blank #probably supposed to have an epiphany about what I'm doing wrong #if so can it be shipped a little faster because I don't have time for this nonsense

[radicalreliablerandomness]

mspaint justin bieber haircut dave strider

#thats far too many nonsensical words #0% of these words were in the bible (i checked) #homestuck #dave strider

[nando161mando]

#atheist #atheism #science #proscience #religion #dogma #bible nonsense #religious #religious trauma #religious art #religious imagery #religión #ex religious #tw religious themes #religion is a mental illness #religion is bullshit #religion is toxic #anti religion #religion is a scam #religion is stupid #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Christianity Makes Sense! A virgin had God's baby, who then grew up to be murdered by the Romans, so you and I could be forgiven for Eve eating that apple she got from the talking snake. Three days later, Jesus rose from the dead to tell everyone he was coming back someday to fight the Devil - then he flew up to his mansion in Heaven where he sits in judgment of the gays. How Can You Not Believe That?!

That sounds totally believable and not completely made up at all.

#christianity #bible #bible study #bible nonsense #religion #religion is a mental illness

[digital-nihilism]

Bible, behind the scenes

#god #religion #nihilism #atheism #sarcasm #bible nonsense

[singsonggirl]

The leaking of the Bible is honestly the funniest thing that has happened in this fandom. Just the evolution of this show and how it used to be a simple enjoyable kids cartoon and now it’s this chaotic mess that the fandom is screaming about every other week is so freaking funny to me.

#ml spoilers #miraculous ladybug #like when I first started watching this show I was a cute little child who actually enjoyed watching it #and now I’m older and I love how nonsensical and crazy it is #like I went through phases with this fandom #loving it #salting on it #loving it again #I hope this chaotic fandom never changes #the things that were leaked in the Bible I can’t WAIT to see reaction of when they get animated

[heraldofcrow]

This is legit the kind of madness me and my lore council friends get up to in the 4 am Discord group chats:

(Meme by @fantomette22)

#PFFFTTTTT #THIS WAS SO FUNNY #“YOU SEE KAFKA WROTE THE METAMORPHOSIS ABOUT A GUY THAT GOT TURNED INTO AN ALIEN BUG” #“AND SO DID IOSEFKA SO HER NAME IS A REFERENCE TO KAFKA BUT ALSO JOSEPH IN THE BIBLE BECAUSE HE WAS BETRAYED” #“BY HIS BROTHERS AND IOSEFKA WAS SCREWED OVER BY HER SISTER AND—“ #i was drunk #the others were slightly confused to say the least #sksjsjsks #bloodborne #nonsense post #lore council #mutuals #CrowNotes

[zo2paintedlady]

Whyyyyyy is it so hard for fans to separate the two and just let an event revolve around one person? I don’t get it. I’m also a Bubble but I at least know how to treat them as individuals who have their own lives and not just as a ship. If it was an event where they were both involved then it would be totally fine! This is not about the two of them though. It’s just about Build. Or at least it should be. 

Am I just too tired and getting myself worked up over something that I can’t control? Definitely. It’s still annoying though. But I am staying off of Twitter and away from the tags on all social media so more things don’t piss me off. I’ll watch the rerun when it’s time and enjoy Build’s success then.   

Also, this is another post about cosplayers. There’s a time and place, people! 

#biblebuild #bible wichapas sumettikul #build jakapan puttha #build jakapan #bible wichapas #if you're going to get all butthurt over this post then you don't need to comment. I'm too tired to deal with that nonsense #just let me vent

[queenlucythevaliant]

Why did God harden the Pharaoh’s? I’m in a Bible as Lit class and someone brought up “wouldn’t that be against free will,” and why did God let the Israelites stay it in slavery for so long. Why is God different in the Old Testament to the New Testament? I hope this doesn’t bother you, with all these questions

Okay, so there are several different questions here and I'm going to try to address them all. I'm sure I'll miss something somewhere, so other more knowledgeable friends feel free to add on. Follow-ups are also very much welcome.

First off, Bible as literature class! Yikes. I took a Bible as lit class for my English minor years ago and my experience was pretty much wall-to-wall frustration. It was mostly an exercise in coming up with the most transgressive reads on Scripture possible and that really upset me.

I hope that your experience is better than mine. However, assuming that the class is at a secular university, I'd still encourage you to be intentional about talking the things you cover in class over with knowledgeable Christians in your life. I certainly benefitted a lot from doing so, both in the sense that I got to vent a whole bunch and in that I got help contextualizing the secular perspectives within Christian scholarship.

That out of the way: The God of the Bible is the same in both the Old and New Testaments.

I do understand where you’re coming from. It’s not uncommon for people to find God kind of inscrutable in the OT when they're more used to reading the NT. I actually think that's a failure on the part of the contemporary church in the West; large swaths of the OT tend to be understudied among lay-Christians.

Systematic theology can help a lot here. I'm just going to hit a few really broad highlights, but I really can't recommend Wayne Grudem highly enough if you're interested in more in-depth reading. Lots of people start with Bible Doctrine, but my family happened to have a copy of his enormous Systematic Theology tome in the basement when I was in high school and I got a lot out of just poking through that a little at a time too. A few quick bullets though:

Across all the Biblical texts, God is love. He glories in kindness to his people, whether it's in the covenant with Abraham, the Exodus, the faithful ministry of the prophets, Christ's ministry/death/resurrection, or the promised coming of his kingdom.

God is holy; he gives the Law to the Israelites so that they can approach his holiness without fearing for their lives and he sent Jesus so that we can do the same. Both Isaiah and Peter react with fear and awe in the face of God's holiness.

God is just. By virtue of his holiness, he cannot allow sin to go unpunished. As modern westerners, we often chafe against this but has any of us experienced justice that was actually pure? Justice is a form of faithfulness, and the same God who sent his people into exile poured out his wrath on his own son in our place. He has promised that one day, every evil will face his perfect justice.

God is faithful. He keeps his Covenant with Abraham even unto the cross. In the OT he is faithful husband to an adulterous people. In the NT he tells us that when we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.

Lots of other characteristics but this answer is going to be long enough as it is. The only way to get a real sense for the continuity within the Bible is to read the whole Bible with an eye towards the continuity.

The reason that God is more approachable in the NT than the Old is that he became human. In the Incarnation, all of that holiness and justice and faithfulness and love that was God came to earth in our perfect likeness so that he could live beside us and die for us. God is certainly easier to approach in light of Christ's work, but he is utterly the same as he ever was. Read the Transfiguration and tell me that isn’t the God of Mount Sinai. Read John 1 and tell me it doesn’t remind you of the end of Job. Read the Gospels, Hebrews, and Revelation and play spot-the-OT-parallel. It's beautiful.

Why did God leave his people in slavery for so long? You could ask the same question about the Babylonian captivity and even about why Jesus waits to return and finally defeat Death. Why does he wait? Why let his people suffer?

Well. God is sovereign and he only permits evil to the extent that it ultimately accomplishes the very opposite of what it intends. Because the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, the Exodus was able to occur. The Exodus glorified God in extraordinary fashion, both among his own people and to the peoples of the ancient world. It was also a necessary type and precursor to Jesus's work on the cross. I don't think it's an overstatement to say that redemptive history rests on God's work in the Exodus, which is itself contingent on a period of slavery in Egypt.

“How long, O Lord” and “Come Lord Jesus” are the same sentiment in different words. We are still in exile, even now. We are chronologically exiled from the place where we belong, the New Jerusalem, and we mourn because we live in a fallen world in which sin and death can still hurt us. We can ask, just as the Prophets once asked, why God waits to vanquish the Enemy, extract suffering from the world, and restore our years that the locusts have eaten. And in each case (the slaves in Egypt, the Babylonian captivity, and the period of waiting for Jesus to return), the answer is that God does not fix it yet because He is doing something bigger!

Regarding Pharaoh's heart: this is basically a question of human nature. The easiest way that I can articulate it off the top of my head is using Augustine's fourfold state of man:

Prior to the fall, man was able either to sin or not to sin (posse peccare, posse non peccare)

The natural state of man after the fall is one in which he is unable not to sin (non posse non peccare). This was Pharaoh's state.

Following the work of Christ, regenerate man is able not to sin (posse non peccare)

In eternity, glorified man will be unable to sin (non posse peccare)

When we talk about man's will, we must acknowledge that our wills are subject to our nature. In other words, Pharaoh was a natural, fallen man. His nature was inherently sinful and his heart inherently hard.

What we've got here is sort of a "Jacob I have loved but Esau I have hated" situation. Pharaoh, in his natural state, had a hard heart and a natural enmity with God. God did not intervene to give him a heart of flesh. My people I have loved, but Pharaoh I have hated.

Not a perfect parallel, but I think it serves its purpose. The point is that God's sovereignty isn't in conflict with man's will, since our wills are a function of our natures. Man behaves however his nature inclines him to behave at any given time. We call this free will; however, God is entirely sovereign over all of it.

This is definitely a long, messy answer, but like I said, feel free to continue the conversation. I've got some biochem to work on, but I'm always happy to talk theology :)

#Secular Bible as lit classes really are a quagmire #mine was basically where I decided that I straight up do not care what non-Christians have to say about the Bible #(in the scholarship sense I mean) #if you don't have skin in the game then i couldn't care less what you think on authorship/characterization in genesis/weird subversive take #on ruth/Job being internally inconsistent/God's gender/the purpose of the parables/whatever other nonsense #sigh #and like. i had a good theological grounding to be able to push back on the BS nine times out of ten #my prof actually called me the most engaged student she'd ever taught which was pretty hilarious #but i was FURIOUS on behalf of the other Christians in the class who by and large had relatively shallow foundations as far as i could tell #like one girl was seriously doubting whether God was good when we did the prophets because of the way it was presented #i went to the prof's office hours one time to pick a fight (long story) and she told me that she's had numerous students over the years #that renounced their faith after taking her class #i spent the whole semester praying for all the names on the class roster #ugh i could rant about that class forever #meanwhile! no discussion of the ACTUAL literary merits of the Bible which are awesome! #the poetry the reoccurring motifs the deft use of metaphor the beautiful elevation of theology to art #i wanted to talk about that! #and that wasn't what the class was about #this was years ago and i'm still mad. sorry #maybe that'll be a separate post one of these days #ask me hard questions #only thou art holy

[theridgebeyond]

guys, uh, i think i might like being lutheran

#im getting more involved in my lutheran church (lay reader and centering prayer group leader) and im reading Pastrix by Nadia Bolz-Weber rn #look luther was a crusty man with horrific taste in islamophobic nonsense to put in the introduction of the Quran translated into Latin #among other things #but maybe it IS all about grace & maybe the bible IS the messy swaddling cloths where we find jesus & maybe we're ALL simultaneously #sinners and saints #and maybe i'm not the world's most reluctant lutheran anymore 😳😳