#Christian God

[atheostic]

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do.. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ..But He loves you... and HE NEEDS MONEY!

George Carlin

[atherflame-theconcubus]

So I’ve been seeing a lot more paganism/Hellenism, TikTok’s on my FYP, & a lot of them were talking about the Greek gods were pissed, as well as gods from other regions.

And then one of them just straight up confirm that all the higher beings are including the Christian deities (from what I can understand. This includes individuals like the sins, Lucifer, Jesus, Michael, Gabriel, and God himself.))

The Christian deities are pissed

God himself is pissed

A little later, I ended up coming across the TikTok, where Lucifer was saying that the deities and gods are basically planning something and to just sit tight, so let’s hope they can pull through

[blitzsicedcoffee]

If The Christian God Showed Up To Me:

Me: Oh hey are you like-Dionysus or something?

God: Wha-why do so many people ask me that?! No. I'm god. You know. God.

Me: mmm you're gonna have to be more specific.

God: Right uh...wait why? I'm the 'one true' god. The god. GOD.

Me: See just cause you say it over and over again doesn't make it easier to understand.

God: You've never heard of me?

Me: Maybe....prove it.

God: You picked your nose during sunday class and wiped it on the chairs. Also you fell asleep in the pews.

Me: HA good times.

God: So I'm here for penance of sins-

Me: Hey Hermes what do you make of this dude

Hermes: Mmmm banished *hits god with his staff*

[shadowbrightshine]

I'm a Christian.

Sometimes I like to envision God as a beautiful lizard, looking the world and basking in the heat of the stars he made. Listening to the music his angels sing and waiting for the day he comes down to make the universe the perfect temperature again.

[bitchalotl]

I'd like to think God feels sad sometimes.

Imagine:

He paces around a deserted WW1 battlefield, and the boom of artillery can be heard in the distance. He catches a glimpse of a severed arm and stops right there. Looks up to the Grey, smoke covered sky, and says:

"Why did I allow this to happen?"

[bible-hunger-games]

Oh dear...It appears some Biblical figures have been thrown into The Hunger Games.

[CLOSED] Submit names into the reaping here.

Here's a poll tournament for characters from the Bible where you can vote on who you think will survive, inspired on a whim by mostly @hellsite-hungergames. (I'm failing at not playgerizing their info post at this very moment, in fact.)

Rules and information are under the cut!

Rules and information!

The submission form is open until Saturday, February 19 begins in UCT.

You can submit more than one character, but please don't spam one character over and over.

Characters don't have to be directly from the Bible so long as they are related to it in some way. e.g. Dante from Dante's Inferno (book that influenced views about what hell, heaven, and purgatory were like but wasn't ever officiated by the church) or a well known pope.

Each poll will be open for 24 hours; the polls for each round of the hunger games will run concurrently.

I will try to match characters up so that the pairings are entertaining, but there will likely also be some randomization involved.

The Bible Hunger Games will hopefully begin on Monday, February 21.

(Disclaimer: Um. I have next to no in depth bible knowledge. I've some studying to do.)

[yellowfoot-06]

Imagine if all the contradictions, all the things that seem insane to us, the hypocrisy, the wrath, the love, everything about the Christian God, while not making sense to us, makes perfect sense to God. That they have such a complex mind and personalities that we cannot comprehend their machinations, what they’re thinking. What we may call flaws in logic makes sense if you have a different way of thinking.

Idk just a thought.

[narcissus-lives]

A Conversation With God

You do not know where you are or how you got here. This does not distress you, nor does the entity that you first thought was in front of you but that you now realize you cannot locate. The thing that is nowhere but that you are convinced you can see is watching you, you think, from an impossible distance away. The breath on your face is warm and smells of wildflowers and rot. As quickly as you meet the eyes they are no longer eyes. You try to open yours but aren't sure if they're closed. The anatomy of the entity makes perfect sense, but you aren't sure how, and the way the body shifts is so seamless it is nearly imperceptible. You can identify bits and pieces, the antlers of a stag or the wings of a dove, but by the time you recognize its form it has already become something else. How foolish you are for thinking you understood. You have never felt terror like this before. You will never know peace like this again. You have a question. There is no answer. The entity screams, not audibly but in a voice that echoes infinitely, and it is grief and rage and ecstasy and sweet, delicate, mocking laughter. The silence is oppressive and absolute. Your ears are bleeding. The anger is reciprocated and you are shaking, fists tight, fingernails cutting into flesh. Without moving the entity reaches out, takes your hand, shatters twenty-seven bones. Gently, with the grace of a lover, it kisses your palm. You want to apologize, and the entity parrots your words before you speak. You are hated. You are loved. You are witness to a beautiful display of horror. You are god.

[n0thingiscool]

[noperopesaredope]

I just randomly remembered the fact that, when I was a little kid, I thought God was supposed to look like this mf:

And I just thought that everyone knew that. This is the canonical version of what (the Christian) God looks like. I was so baffled when I learned that that is not the common portrayal of God, and that my figurine of this guy was not a figurine of God, he was just from Star Trek. Nevertheless, when someone mentions God, I almost always imagine this guy.

[atheostic]

God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible by CJ Werleman 

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

[d3vilishd00dles]

I have a few questions(genuine curiosity) for those following God(Bible) about holy water🙋🏾

so like I remember seeing something about if you put a little holy water in regular water, the whole thing becomes holy water, is that true?

if you mix it with something else, does the holiness transfer to the thing and become a holy thing?

can you drink it?

can you cook with it?

does it have to be water?

could it juice, milk, oil, etcetera?

does it have to be a liquid?

if you cook with it, is the meal now a holy meal?

who blesses it?

can you bathe in it?

if you water a plant with it, is the plant holy?

[reformedontheweb]

The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the indiscretions of youth . . . For one sin God banished our first parents from Eden; for one sin all the posterity of Canaan fell under a curse which remains over them to this day; for one sin Moses was excluded from the promised land; Elisha’s servant smitten with leprosy; Ananias and Sapphira were cut off from the land of the living.

A. W. Pink

[mask131]

The swarm of putti is disturbing me SO MUCH

The Holy Trinity, Lucas Cranach the Elder, ca. 1515

[noknowshame]

why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?