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Me: Everyone is entitled to their opinions and can not like the things I like.

Someone: [calls my fave boring]

Me:

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Beautiful October. Värmland, Sweden (October 14, 2017).

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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - George Eliot

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Mary: And then Rabbi Benjamin said to Him, "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! How could you do this to your family?!"

(Lazarus interrupts to bring some food to Mary)

Mary: Where was I?

Luke: (reading from his notes) "Oh my God, oh my God, how could you do this to your family?"

Lazarus: Boy, it really loses something in the Gentile translation.

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James: Eema, do I smell fresh raisins and cinnamon cakes?

Salome: No.

James: Could I?

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Judas: Question. When they shot Bambi's mother, did you find that a sad moment?

Judas: At all?

Hadad: I'm sure she's mounted on a nice wall in a fine home somewhere.

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Quintus: I feel like I have died and gone to heaven!

Atticus: I have that dream, too, but you go in the other direction.

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Thaddeus: I was 17 once, too. I snuck out all the time. Of course, I didn't have a girlfriend. I just wanted to eat bacon.

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Any time someone tries to sound clever by proposing theologies or writing stories where God as understood by Christianity turns out to be "both God and Satan" or "actually kind of evil the whole time," I think about how Red from OSP gets frustrated when people think they're being smart and edgy when they reimagine Superman as evil.

You're missing the point.

The fact that, in Abrahamic religions, there is one God who is also all-good defies the "trope" (if you'll allow the word in a religious context) that most religions follow: either there are no all-good gods, or they're just one of many deities of varying moral make-up. God's beneficence in the context of a lot of terrifying things He's done (flood the world, destroy cities, urge the Israelites to fight other people and squelch their religions) complicates the question of what "holiness" means. God's all-goodness enriches the theological narrative more than saying "He's good and evil" ever would.

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It just occurred to me that Shmuel describes Jesus as looking like He’s in His thirties, maybe early forties, and He’s literally only 30 (about to turn 31 at most). My Lord and Savior looking aged and rough and I love it

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Just thought to myself "lord I don't wanna look at my work email" and a little voice said "then don't" and I remembered it's after 8pm sorry anyone trying to reach me I'll get back to you in 12 hours or more

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Do you think The Chosen will depict the temptation in the desert? How will The Chosen depict it? Will Jesus rebuke Satan who is invisible while those who pass by think Jesus is crazy and talking to himself, or will they see Satan in the form of a snake and notice that Jesus is talking to it? Will The Chosen depict Satan taking Jesus to the top of a building in Jerusalem, and everyone watching from below will think that Jesus has suicidal thoughts?

I think we won't see the temptation unless it's a flashback, given how far into the timeline the show is. Since that's likely to be the case, I challenge the Chosen Army (fandom) to write their own fics of how the show could've depicted the temptation. (Honestly they wouldn't have to be based on the show, could just be "Bible fanfic" but maybe they could use details specific to the show.)

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Jesus after a sermon according to Mags and Eden

Been rewatching Season 4 second time through🥲

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It’s easy for casual viewers of The Chosen unfamiliar with scripture to look at what Judas says about Thomas and say he’s being paranoid and ridiculous because Thomas is in the inner circle, but we need to take scripture into account. Jesus says in scripture, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” Let’s be honest, we’d all feel like pointing fingers if we were members of Jesus inner circle, having heard Jesus say that. In Judas case, he was still mean to say that because he was incorrect about Thomas.

Oh, I love the drama of Judas wondering if Thomas is not a "real" disciple. Tasty, tasty irony. We haven't gotten to the "one of you is a devil" comment, and I wonder if we'll see it portrayed. I need to rewatch that moment because I think Judas cites something Jesus says about disciples who might fall away to explain his momentary distrust of Thomas (which, to be fair, he does try to take back).

It's definitely important to study the scripture passages inspiring these moments. In that scene from John 6, the scene you're referring to, Jesus tells his followers that he is the Bread of Life and they need to "eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man" or they will have no life in them. This bugs a lot of Jesus's followers, and many fall away. The inner Twelve stick with him, and then he drops that bomb about one of them being the devil.

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The Chosen Jesus: “I don’t want people to follow me based on any misconceptions that I’m a military leader.”

Also Jesus: Chooses Judas (who thinks of Jesus as a military leader more so than the others) to enter into his inner circle.

He also chose Simon Z, who for years was trained by rebels and assassins to believe the same thing and apply that to a lethal degree. And Big James, John, and Thomas have believed the same thing. It would've been hard to find Jewish followers who DIDN'T believe the Messiah would be a military leader. It was a popular belief at the time, as the show demonstrates.

The difference is that Simon Z has been more willing to internalize Jesus's teachings and adjust his perspective. I would say he's done better than the other three I mentioned, not just Judas, and still he doesn't understand how Jesus, by laying down his life, will be "a ransom for many."

Jesus WANTS his disciples to come to terms with his identity and his mission. He wants to overturn their previous conceptions so that they see the truth. It's up to them to be willing to listen and believe.

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I wonder about that too, but maybe it's a "ship of Theseus" situation where parts of the bridle were replaced bit by bit over time. So is it technically the same bridle? 🤷 But symbolism so I'm letting it slide

I sort of get what they were trying to do with the bridle passed down through Jesus' line from the Exodus, but please don't ask me to believe that a: a 1000+-year-old bridle would still be functional and b: a family would hold on to a bridle that long in the first place