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thinkingonscripture · 11 months ago

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The Believers' Adoption Into God's Family

As those who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ, we have been transferred from Satan’s “domain of darkness” (Col 1:13) and placed into the family of God. Our new status is as “children of God” (John 1:12; cf., Rom 8:16; Phil 2:15). John wrote, “See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are” (1 John 3:1a). We do not come into…

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cheesebearger · 2 years ago

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a lot of people will play dragon age 2 and they'll be like... whoa.... anders is truly a grey character who does both good and evil......

when in actuality anders blowing up the chantry was not only good but based, sexy, and inspirational and he has never done wrong a day in his life

#dragon age #anders #i refuse to believe the non-game added lore by dave gaider - via his tumblr blog - placing several hundred orphans in the chantry #there are no fucking kids in that building in the game. if we were meant to care about a bunch of fucking exploded orphans they'd be there #if we go just by who we the player see in the church a bunch of fucking shitty pastors got blown up #and given the chantry is the nonviolent part of a military org #theyre not like blameless or innocent bystanders lol #any attempt to put children in the chantry is simply an attempt to justify the violent oppressive theocracy they represent #by adding 'innocent bystanders' for anders to additionally kill #thus making him look more violent compared 2 the banality of the true horror enacted by this military theocracy's oppressive violence

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beeftendergroin · 2 months ago

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just spending his unpaid breaktime efficiently as a child soldier ❤️

#firm believer that ac cloud will stretch himself thin to keep ec seph from harm aka cover him with his own rib cage #and give him the home he deserves #aka his own body lol #will never leave ac!cloud and ec!seph jail #gold cloudy wolf bc the colour looked good with pink thats it #stop giving me age gap sfkr bc i will definitely stretch that shit and see its elasticity limit #sefikura #church indulgences for sale #tw internal organs #cloud strife #final fantasy vii #ff7 ever crisis #sephiroth

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kibutsulove · 11 days ago

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mid-war Fire nation religion was probably a lot like Catholicism methinks but I won’t elaborate cuz then I’ll scare away the hoes

#sulove speaks #sulove headcanons #<- I haven’t seen this tag in ages #atla #fire nation #avatar the last airbender #something something azula being that atheist daughter forced to go to Sunday church service with her family EVERY WEEK #except in this case it would be like temple service .idk #ozai was maybe agnostic but still contributed to religion in fear of it actually being true and he does NOT want to see those fiery gates #no sirree #zuko was probably what the fire nation would consider ‘pagan’ (he just believes that all spirits have equal power)#iroh . hm. I don’t care about him enough to figure it out

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ggeneralgrunt · 1 year ago

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ON UNJUSTIFIED WORSHIP

how can you praise a god

when the ground on which you worship him

is dirtied with the crimson remnants of gorged guts

and is reeking with the pungence of blood's metallic tang?

the shame suffocates me while it all lay clear to you.

#tbh i don't consider myself to have ever been a christian because before the age of 6 or 7 (when i vocally deemed myself an atheist)#you can't mentally comprehend the contents of religion #so what would even be the point of calling myself a believer when i had no #clue what i was meant to be believing in? i was always very disconnected with the church and not at all interested anyway; animals >>>#trauma poetry #vent poetry #poetry #spilled ink #religious trauma #religious poetry #ex christian #ex religious

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opens-up-4-nobody · 11 months ago

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#man ive never seen an eating disorder kill someone else besides a parent infecting a child but my nana is really trying #shes like 1000% orthotexic. will not eat anything not filled with vegetables or fat. and my grandpa is 87yo with a heart condition currentl #in the hospital for covid bc thry went to Christmas church and dont believe in being vaccinated and my dad is so frustrated #bc he knows his mom is not gonna give his dad hearty foods. he needs to eat like protein shakes and meat and ice cream. anything thats not #her cooking which sucks on top of being extremely healthy. except its not healthy bc they dont eat a balanced diet #so its my nanas eating disorder killing her husband and shes so fucking frustrating. im like 99% sure she has obsessive compulsive #personally disorder bc she fits to a T and has zero insight. she may have full on 0cd bc talking to my dad he has more obvious 0cd #compulsions than i do. he used to say phrases before going to bed and would take 2 steps across the floor to prevent bad things from #happening. so like im pretty sure my nana is where i get my perfectionism and 0cd. god. i wish i could express how fucked up she is #like my dad said at least he had a stable home to grow up in but like she has zero sympathy for other people. cannot look past herself. wil #not wear a mask bc she doesnt care enough abt other ppl. my dad was like: u would not have survived in that house. which is fair bc i am #barely keeping it together coming from a stable home with two sympathetic parents who i know love me #and like its sad that they're suffering the effects of buying into the fox news bullshit and its killing them #but also. genuinely. i think theyre not very good ppl. theyre the type of people who think they're better bc they're religious. white. and #thin. and theyre not better thsn anyone. their grandchildren cant stand them. well cant stand her at least. papa is just quite so its hard #to say what hes thinking. apparently he was confused last night and saying something about eating dinner on the golf course. which sounds #nicer thsn being in the hospital lol. ugh. he seems not long for this world tbh. may he pass peacefully to b with his 1st wife who died of #brain cancer at age like 20 or something. so it goes. bleh. how many funerals are intended for me in the next 5 years? hopefully none but #that seems improbable with the unspoken drain circling that seems to b going on in this family. old age and like almost 10 years of cancer #defying the stats but for how much longer?#i dunno. its just so weird to watch these things happen and not talk about it directly to the other ppl who see it #i worry that ill come off as too callose or inappropriate bc i have that tendency when something bad is happening but thats everyone else #excuse? idk i just feel like its better to talk abt things #unrelated #ed mention #i tell u this so i can say these things to someone and also bc if i were u. i would like to hear the drama #bc im nosey and i assume other r too ;-]

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autumnhobbit · 10 months ago

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I’m gonna be real with you guys, I kind of dread the idea of trying to raise any future kids in this church

#and it’s not because i don’t believe the faith. obvs i do #but like in practice i’m either going to be going by myself or with my mom & siblings or whoever #i don’t have any friends my age so idk how i’m gonna find good friends for future kids #and obvs i want them to have good friends #i do believe in the virtues of friendship and believe it’s an important thing for people to experience and work at #but also i’ve had a lot of heartbreak in friendship and have a complicated relationship with it #and when i think back on my own childhood in churches it was always so turbulent #both because my family didn’t gel with the cultures/ideals of so many parishes #and because my dad made enemies everywhere we went (for obvious reasons but still)#that wasn’t us kids’ fault #but it didn’t matter #i thought i had adults to look up to in faith #but i have literally none i have a close relationship with #and even the ones i respect that doesn’t mean they’re good around kids #or would like hanging out with me #and i don’t want just any random person thinking because they’ve talked to me a couple times #that they get say in the close intimate decisions or issues i have with my spouse or children #the whole thing is strange tbh #like i don’t even want to have a close relationship with some priests even if i respect them or like them #and too many priests think that just cause they see you once a week they know you and should have a say in things they know nothing about #idk man catholicism in america and maybe the world is just. so hard nowadays.

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kaurwreck · 3 months ago

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for the ask game: LILAC CHARCOAL AND RASPBERRY

anon this is so sweet 😭

[ask game provided below for reference; if you'd like to play, please reblog from OP here:]

#anon i love this but i have a covenant with God so i can't kill Him with you #this reminds me of the time my brother lamented his atheism and my agnosticism on behalf of our religious mother. but i'm not agnostic.#so i clarified i believe in God and that's never changed. i just choose not to worship Him + I think there are multiple truths (incl. gods)#which is shorthand but I've never been able to explain it to others to their satisfaction and it isn't anyone else's business anyway #he thought that was MUCH worse and became so dramatic. he was genuinely so thrown. he fixated on the fact it's heresy.#which I didn't expect because like yes it's heresy but heresy is a doctrinal concept -- it doesn't have any intrinsic meaning.#and not to be dismissive but doctrine is fairly sequestered from God. It's functionally and historically a voidable social contract.#i was involved with the church/attended various bible retreats for several years before leaving. but I didn't leave over God lmao.#my institutional involvement was always contingent on its alignment with my own individual purpose/practice/rituals/bible study/covenant.#which church/community leadership knew and tried to triage in various ways but like. it's not hard to reject authority baselessly derived.#so my present relationship with God isn't any more heretical than it was when I practiced Christianity as a religion.#If anything I was maybe more heretical in funnier and more flagrant ways when I was practicing than I am now.#but anyway. my point is.#i wont help you kill god but I'm always here for heresy.#alternatively i also recommend either (1) listening to god is dead (meet the kids) by british india #which when engaged with meaningfully amounts to the same philosophical state of being as killing God #or (2) forming a reverse orphic mystery cult relationship with Him the way I did when from ages 10-14 #in other words #we can either sacrifice God to the secular age like thomas jefferson and nietzsche #or we can obsessively study the bible @ the cost of enough sleep that we (in brief spurts) access the parts of us inclined towards prophecy #those are the only two approaches to god that I'm capable of partaking in with any sincerity or intellectual honesty #and I'm unfortunately very married to sincerity and intellectual honesty.#(i'm sorry for meeting your very nice compliments with a nonsequitur illustrating why i should live as a hermit in a remote woodland shack)#(but I suppose I'm not sorry enough to remove the nonsequitur from my response prior to publication. so. take from that what you will.)

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kurohaai · 2 years ago

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Reject fish 🙅‍♀️🦈 become clown 🙏🤡

My newest fantroll just dropped ayo Bonus my train of thought while making her below:

Also Sepida (the gf) belongs to @halloweensuittruffles!

#homestuck #hiveswap #fantroll #Candia Sieben #Sepida Calamr #clownfish #doodle #Kuroha Ai #time for me to whisper more context in tags here we go #she and her eventual gf are on the same age and grew together choosing the clown path #because they saw some clown music fest near the shore one day and they're impressionable #I don't think she really believes in the messiah or the church but she definitely vibes with the clown culture #clounture #which actually creates a condition where they never really fits in any of the worlds but ig they're content as long as they have each other #I can see people who are against them and people who think they can be used to gain favor to the other side (clown/fish)#also her name came from the genus of black dragonfish (which I draw heavy inspiration from with her spikes)#while her last name is actually the one who coined the iron maiden device #which actually not a true torture device so there's the irony of it being as a poser like her lmaoooo

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dullahandyke · 5 months ago

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And that's another thing. I reckon I've done a pretty decent job of excising the culturally Christian values from my mind (obvi not fully but getting there) but if theres one thing I do hold out hope in, it's a very obviously Christian angel swooping down from heaven to be my caretaker and hold my hand. I miss her where is she. Cant look at historical art of angels bcos I'm reminded of her and I get sad

#also i do say 'jesus christ' and 'godspeed' and other assorted christianisms so much my parents make fun of me #mostly bcos theyve wedged themselves into my script as handy phrases and i think its kind of funny so i let them stay #and final conscious remnant i do still do the sign of the cross to bolster myself sometimes and tbh i do not know why!#i never did it as a kid and in fact got EXTREMELY anxious about it in combination with prayer #because someone said 'you do the sign of the cross to let god listen and then you do it at the end to let him go :)'#and i got really scared of the idea that i would forget to do it at the end and he would stay there listening #and i dont remember ever believing in him so i think it was just a conceptual fear bcos tbh i still fear that now #< like up until a certain age id just bring novels into mass and read them for the hour bcos that was a better use of my time #and there were a few protestant families in my primary school so they didnt have to do the communion bullshit and i was soooo jealous #they got to stay at school fucking about while i had to be at church practicing and shit....#baby me was so spiteful abt it actuslly it was kind of funny. stood on the knee rests on purpose bcos she heard it was disrespectful #also she took her communion w her left hand in an attempt to trick god into thinking she was lefthanded. lets go queen #anyway #xtianity #christianity #< i think someone wants it blacklisted? idr

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echo-s-land · 7 months ago

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The way my father and aunt are both religious but in a total opposite way is insane

#its very easy to not know or to forget my father is catholic #you cannot not see how catholic my aunt is #there are crosses everywhere in her house its insane #not in a bad way im just amazed two people raised by the same parents and who dont have a big age gap have so different view on religiob #*religion #also my dad believes in evolution while last year i had to be confronted facetoface with my aunt with the fact she doesnt believe we and #chimpanzees are cousin species #bc you know. adam and eve god created us perfectly theres no way we're cousins with monkeys and all #it had been.. surprising and totally unexpected #also my own cousin has voiced the fact she finds interracial couples and gay couples disgusting and not normal so yay /sarc #how can my dad and aunt think so differently. what the actual f #my dad isnt the best but hes decent and is a great & kind man above all. my aunt is nice too but wtf is going on with my cousin #going back on the first topic: my dad rarely goes to church meanwhile my aunt goes every week and learnt to play organ she's very active in #church life - again just stating how my dad and aunt are different. not judging it just surprises me

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thefabelmans2022 · 2 years ago

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i wonder what songs they'll play at the funeral. i hope it's always look on the bright side of life.

#logan is the perfect age to be a monty python fan.... doesn't seem like his thing but who knows #succession spoilers #succession #sidenote the funeral is gonna be so interesting as a further look inside the roy family #like i've always been kinda curious about the roy family's religious beliefs/background like iirc there was some implication #that logan at the very least was raised catholic? so even if he didn't really believe is it going to be a catholic funeral?#did he raise his kids in the church? is caroline catholic? is ewan?#will there be extended family there? maybe even from scotland?#GASP where are they going to bury him????? new york????? canada???????? scotland??????????#where he wanted to be buried (if he wanted to be buried if he even thought about it) could tell us so much about him #WHAT IF HE WANTED TO BE BURIED WITH ROSE. DID WE THINK ABOUT THAT.

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asinglesock · 2 years ago

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when starchild from ghost quartet said "when I was a baby, I was blessed by a stranger / in waters I didn't understand / and now I'm infected with disbelief and blasphemy / I'll never have a holy land / I am a ghost in the eyes of my God" that felt targeted :/

#a sock speaks #bitter work #I've been attended churches that are open communion for anyone who's baptized #and I was baptized but with a non-Nicene formula #the upci usually baptizes adults or kids old enough to choose but I was baptized really young #how much choice is involved if you're baptized at age 3? not much more than if you're baptized as a newborn #but I guess you can be baptized by immersion at 3 and that makes a difference #and like. I wish I'd had a Nicene creed-observant baptism as a baby. I'd be okay with someone choosing that for me.#but as an adult I feel like I have to act out of deep conviction if I'm going to be rebaptized.#for one thing it's a pretty serious step theologically #for another I have to have my mind completely made up because it will be an emotional scar to my parents #getting baptized in secret seems to go against the whole point of being baptized #but do I believe in trinitarian doctrine firmly enough to claim it as a matter of conviction?#I took a pneumatology class to try to figure it out but tbh it's not helping #I think I can confess the Apostles' Creed and I'm less confident about the Nicene Creed but I think maybe??#but I'm not sure that my interpretations of the creeds match up correctly #wandering through the wilderness for a few years could be bearable but it's much harder to think you'll spend the rest of your life there #this is not my home. this is not my home. where is my home? when can I go home?

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crazycoven · 1 year ago

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gnaws on wood

#crazy how religious trauma just got me fucked up for life lmao #and I still live with the same people who instilled that fear inside me so that's fun on a daily basis #I try my fuckign best to navigate my life and stay positive I can literally be having the best day and all it takes is one little thing-#like how is that fun for you? to sit and tell ur family members that they're gonna go to hell the end of the world is upon us #'you aren't gonna be able to live your life fully anyways just come to church and get saved then you can at least get into heaven' I JUST #I AM ABOUT TO START GOING INSANE #I need to find a way out of here but god damn I can't even find a job rn like ugfhfghfsghgfhfg god I'm trying to stay strong so bad I am #crazy how people think they're helping you when really they're the ones pushing you further into insanity #not to mention the fact that I believe Christianity probably caused me to be so fucked mentally starting at a young age #then the fucking job thing like even then I need accommodations since I'm fucking epileptic like UGGFHFGHFGHFGHFG #It will all be okay and I believe that truly I just needed to yell and scream into the void thanks #man the worst part is the fear mongering gets to me after while and I think well damn they're probably right huh #hayden.txt

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scattered-winter · 2 years ago

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I think one of the biggest things I want to break the cycle of if I'm ever able to have kids is religion tbh. like growing up my parents didn't really give me a choice of which religion I wanted to be a part of, if any, and when I expressed interest in studying religions from other cultures as a hobby they got freaked out and made me promise I'd "be careful not to fall away from the True Real Church" or whatever and like. idk I feel like a kid should be allowed to choose for themselves !? because religion is a big personal thing and so I think the reason it never clicked with me was because it was always something I was forced to do and believe. and idk if I ever have a kid I would want them to be able to explore the world around them and decide what they believe on their own, and have my support no matter what they choose

#re lrb #i mean there's also. the weird cult side of mormonism that also weirded me the fuck out from a young age #i remember distinctly this one time i had some concerns about how the church essentially brainwashes people and brought it up to my mom #and her answer was something like ''well yes that's true it wouldnt be good but in this case its the true church so its fine :)''#like. ma'am that was exactly the wrong thing to say to a kid who was an avid reader + already knew what mob mentality + blind following was #and idk. my parents have always said that ive always been someone to Question things. authority and rules and systems and all that #and theyve always warned me that it could get me in trouble if im not careful (which im sure it could)#but the way they always meant it was trouble with the church #and tbh im glad i grew up questioning all the things i was taught because i managed to get the hell outta dodge #and idk. i have a lot of trauma and baggage surrounding religion because of how i was raised practically in a cult #but if i ever have a kid i'd want them to be able to choose what they believe or if they dont believe at all #idk. i just wish i had a choice thst my family truly supported me in and so i want that for any kids i have.#anyway this is a long tag ramble but idk. i just got thinking.#winter speaks #personal #tw mormonism #tw religion

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cherriesandcharms · 2 months ago

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so i finished trespasser with vir. but unfortunately my brain is not ready to let go of the game yet

#im not playing any more tonight #but!!!!! the urge to play my pious male trevelyan is so strong #ive honestly never played a character who is actually religious let alone believes theyre the herald #i think generally bc i play non human characters most #so they have a lot of non-andrastian influences #or at least arent raised in the church the way a noble child would be #cherry plays dragon age

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