#1 samuel

[camfusedly]

Hi I, an atheist, am reading the Bible for some reason (not the whole thing) and I'm reading a Bible that was given to me as a child (translation is NLT). Want to see some homophobic Bible translation.

"THEY BECAME THE BEST OF FRIENDS"

"NO HOMO, BIBLE EDITION"

Want to see how an accurate Bible translation does this verse?

LOVED HIM AS HIS OWN SOUL

THAT'S SOME GAY SHIT RIGHT THERE

DON'T DENY ME THAT, NLT

[fredericolimablog]

"O Senhor, contudo, disse a Samuel: "Não considere sua aparência nem sua altura, pois eu o rejeitei. O Senhor não vê como o homem: o homem vê a aparência, mas o Senhor vê o coração"."

1 Samuel 16:7

[wardrobe-warrior]

There is no Heterosexual explanation for David and Jonathan

1 Samuel 18: 1

"As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul."

(https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2018%3A1-11&version=ESV)

I'm sorry, soulmates?

2 Samuel 1:26

"I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me;     your love to me was extraordinary,     surpassing the love of women."

(https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Samuel%201%3A26&version=ESV)

That last line there is so definitley straight. I can think of no straighter thing to say.

[heart-for-god]

1 Samuel 3:10

[hiddenplacx]

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

Thinking about nephesh being translated "soul" but meaning "being". Thinking about nephesh referring to someone's physical being. Thinking about the lover calling her beloved "The one my nephesh loves." Thinking about Jonathan loving David as his own nephesh. Thinking about Jonathan's nephesh being knit to the nephesh of David.

Now what the heck could that mean???

[rabbitprayer]

1 Samuel 24:12 | David Spares Saul, Horace Castrelli, 19th c | 1 Samuel 24:17 | Saul and David in the Cave of En-Gedi, Willem de Poorter, 17th c | 1 Samuel 25:33 | Abigail throws herself at David’s feet, Weltchronik, 14th c

[aspirant1598]

[pertencoati]

SILÊNCIO

Vivemos em um tempo em que parece que tudo precisa e deve ser exposto. Falamos e postamos sem pensar, especialmente sobre o que estamos sentindo — sentimentos que, por vezes, ainda nem processamos em nós mesmos.

Em 1ª Samuel, vemos a história de Ana, uma mulher que não podia ter filhos, pois o próprio Deus havia fechado sua madre. Apesar de ser muito amada por seu marido, Elcana — que tamb��m era casado com Penina, a qual já tinha filhos —, Ana vivia angustiada, pois seu maior desejo era ser mãe. Penina aproveitava essa situação, sempre que possível, para zombar de Ana, o que a deixava em uma angústia ainda mais profunda. No entanto, em vez de sair por aí se lamentando, Ana orou e chorou aos pés do Senhor, que ouviu suas súplicas e, no tempo certo, permitiu que ela concebesse.

Aprendemos aqui que, quando desabafamos com o Pai, há uma mudança de cenário: a oração de um coração angustiado pode se transformar em um culto de ação de graças.

[booksofthebiblebracketpoll]

1 Samuel propaganda: none

Joshua propaganda: none

[camfusedly]

Bad news, everybody. I, an atheist, am looking through my New Living Translation Bible again (which I was given as a child.) (Note: This post will be about gay stuff under the cut.)

I was leafing through the first, pre-Bible pages and lo and behold. Look what I found.

This book is like "Hey here's some nice verses you might want to look up 😊" ***smacks you over the face with ABORTION***

Obviously the latter four of these are not directly about abortion in any way. But the first citation, if you read it in a good translation (unlike the NLT), it actually makes more sense to mean that the unborn are not considered people!! (Here's a three-minute video where the scholar Dan McClellan discusses abortion in the Bible, he addresses Exodus 21 about 50 seconds in.)

I had to look up what they had to say about homosexuality.

These verses probably* really are homophobic, but these summaries extrapolate them to harm the maximum number of queers.

(*I say "probably" because I think there is some wiggle-room to say "It's not about the gays at all!" Like I know the "It's about child abuse!" interpretation is popular among my crowd. I was convinced for a while but now I'm back to thinking that the above verses are probably homophobic.)

However, if there was a verse finder list for "David and Jonathan loving each other" that would be a much longer list!! In terms of sheer numbers, the Samuels are much more concerned with "Hey did you know David and Jonathan LOVED each other 👀" than the entire rest of the Bible is concerned with "Tell those [slurs] to stop fucking!"

But my favorite part is how they editorialize that "homosexual behavior has no place among Christians." And then. I turn a few more pages. And what do I see.

This long-ass page, absolutely kissing King James' ASS (my Bible has the NLT in one column and the King James in another).

If you want to read some love letters from King James to some young hot guy, here you go. He ends one of them like this: "And so God bless you, my sweet child and wife, and grant that ye may ever be a comfort to your dear dad and husband."

Sounds like homosexual behavior among some Christians.

[fredericolimablog]

"Pois a rebeldia é como o pecado da feitiçaria; a arrogância, como o mal da idolatria. Assim como você rejeitou a palavra do Senhor, ele o rejeitou como rei."

1 Samuel 15:23

[heart-for-god]

1 Samuel 2:2

[craigtowens]

Just Knowing Or Really Knowing?

I wonder how well you know the word “know”? Let’s find out on this episode of The Podcast.

Listen to the podcast of this post by clicking on the player below, and you can also subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or Audible.  https://craigtowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/just-knowing-or-really-knowing.mp3 I wonder how well you know the word “know”? Let’s find out. Check out this episode of The Podcast. Here are some helpful resources from this episode: The Scriptures I referenced are 1…

[biblebloodhound]

Fear or Faith? (1 Samuel 13:23-14:23)

The opposite of faith is not unbelief; it’s fear.

The pass at Micmash had meanwhile been secured by a contingent of the Philistine army. One day Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come on, let’s go over to where the Philistines have their outpost.” But Jonathan did not tell his father what he was doing. Meanwhile, Saul and his 600 men were camped on the outskirts of Gibeah, around the pomegranate tree at Migron. Among Saul’s men was Ahijah…

[rabbitprayer]

> be me, a medium in endor

> mfw king saul outlaws all mediums and those who consult spirits of the dead in israel

> guy shows up at my house asking me to call up the spirit of a dead guy

> wtf.jpg

> I ask him if he's trying to get me killed

> he swears an oath in the name of the Lord that nothing bad will happen to me

> okayyyyy

> he asks me to call up samuel?? I do

> old guy wrapped in a robe comes out of the earth and he looks pissed

> I realize that the guy who asked me to call him is king saul in disguise

> WHATTHEHELL.jpg

> saul asks ghost samuel what to do since God has left him

> ghost samuel says that the Lord has torn the kingdom away from saul and given it to his rival, david. he will hand saul, his sons, and the army of israel over to the philistines tomorrow.

> Saul falls on the ground

> I try to get the guy to sit up, eat something, anything. get this guy out of my house already.

> his entourage comes in and see the situation.

> they get him off the floor and onto my couch at least. they're begging him to eat.

> I go outside and kill the calf that I've been fattening, cook the meat, then make some unleavened bread from scratch. when I bring the meal to saul and his goons, they eat it and leave without saying thank you or tipping.

what do I even do after that? advice?