#Queer Christian

[grandpa-spooks]

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If you are trying your best to follow God and get it wrong here and there, but you are actively seeking Him and His Kingdom, I'm pretty sure we all do that. But if you somehow miss the humility, the grace, the love, that serves as the entire foundation of our faith, and is explicitly preached over and over again to be the most important piece, are you following God or just whatever skewed version of Him most benefits you?

[ohholydyke]

If we’re going traditional vampire rules (no sun, drinks blood, dead, carrier of plague and other mystical powers) technically to my understanding there’s nothing stopping that vampire from receiving the Eucharist and having a saving relationship with Christ

1. Human - so human soul (so we’re excluding the versions where the vampire is actually a demon or spirit who just kinda looks human)

2. Presumably the soul doesn’t depart from the vampire (most cases seem to be more a “his soul is in there but damned” sense rather than literally soulless) so that soul’s still in their possession

3. From an orthodox perspective as long as that vampire was baptized and has confessed and done penance they can take the Eucharist

4. Nothing really impedes that vampire from being a full fledged Christian, at most if you include the holy water and crucifix aversion vulnerabilities you have someone who has a very hard time but neither of those things are necessary for the Eucharist or salvation

5. Orthodox theology God saves the damned humanity and forgives all sin so it’s not like vampires would be an exception on account of the whole turning people into capri suns thing

6. Jesus is fully human and transubstantiation is a thing and the image of a Catholic vampire mystic sustaining themselves on communion wine alone goes HARD

Thank you for coming to my TED talk

[whereserpentswalk]

I see queer friendly Christians the same way I see Queer friendly republicans. Members of an inherently bigoted organization, giving it a friendly face so that it's easier to excuse its bigotry.

Just like how a single republican being gay doesn't change the fact that stripping all queer people of rights is part of what the republican party is trying to accomplish; a single Christian being gay doesn't change the fact that stripping all queer people of rights is part of what the Christianity as an institution is trying to accomplish.

It's time we stopped making excuses for the church because some of them put on a progressive face. Because you can make that excuse for any institution. We can't be having "not all Christians" disclaimers when we talk about Christian bigotry for the same reason we can't be having "not everyone on the right" disclaimers when we talk about right wing bigotry.

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

Hey Kaleb!!!

This is a tangent off of that anon post and the idea of God’s omnipotence being intentionally limited to be more loving.

Tbh this is a big part of why I’ve never really understood the argument for Calvinism.

I’ve had several people tell me that our lives have to be predestined or else God isn’t actually all-powerful, and that has always sounded incredibly dumb to me personally (no offense to any calvinists in the chat). Like. Just because God can control everything doesn’t mean he does control everything

Wassup Duchess!! Sorry it’s been literally all day since you asked this lol. Also, i feel like it’s been forever since we’ve talked.

Yeah… I honestly cannot stand Calvinism. Out of all Christian traditions I honestly think it’s my least favorite (again. No offense to any Calvinist followers. Y’all know I love y’all). But I mean just that statement that “because God can control everything means he has to control everything” if God /has/ to do something already we are being a little loose with the idea of omniscience because God would be bound by *something* (like Aquinas, I am inclined to believe God is bound by God’s own nature but wtv). That said, I think traditionally that is still considered omnipotence but like this is why Aquinas said though many men say God is omnipotent, very few can actually tell you what that entails. And as far as the predestination of the elect goes, aside from their concept of election being sort of Marcionite (election in the Tanakh is for vocation not salvation), I know that it definitely does not entail that. 

[blood-is-the-life]

Tumblr user, look at me. Your problems with organized religion are not solved by harassing random religious people on the internet.

[chelledoggo]

remembered this card i bought at a craft fair last year.

i think we all need this message right now. ❤🙏

[goldieboyy]

id love to make friends online too!!! if anyone is interested id love to make friends and/or meet people here too!!! my dms are always open <3

i wish i had Christian friends. in my area its hard to find any dedicated Christians my age. sometimes ill be the only young adult attending the sunday service and as lovely as it is to see all the other people in my church again, itd be so cool to have a Christian friend whos just as dedicated as me, if not more.

would be so fun to study the Bible together, have dates with Jesus together, visit Christian bookstores and genuinely just be good friends and good people to eachother! id love to have a Christian friend

[oleandro-drag]

saint sebastian tended by saint irene but they're both drag artists

felt like this might be something this site would enjoy

on stage: oleandro & delfi oraakel, photographer: peroksiid (on ig as oleandro_drag, delfi_oraakel and peroksiid)

[saintmachina]

Deeply religious openly queer people are God's strongest soldiers. Constantly justifying their own existence to everyone from all sides...Phew

[wardrobe-warrior]

Oh my gosh. You aren't wrong.

For anyone who doesn't want to look it up:

Jonathan took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his tunic, and even his sword, his bow and his belt.

(https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Samuel%2018%3A4&version=NIV)

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.

[thyateira]

Medievalists speculate that the wound, pictured as a slit in Jesus’s side emitting blood and clear liquid, led some mystics to imagine other bodily slits that emanate blood and clear fluids. [...] Additionally, the blood of Jesus’s wounds is said to bring forth life; likewise, life is brought forth through the blood-discharging female sexual organ.

The idea of Jesus’s side wound being like a womb then led to artists showing a female — either baby or adult — being birthed from that wound. The birthed human is the Church, born through the life-giving blood of the Son of God … delivered through Jesus’s vagina. Jesus, then, becomes gender non-binary, bearing both male and female sexual organs.

Jesus’s Vagina: A Medieval Meditation // Emily Swan

[theskullkid]

just heard “turns out, shockingly, that you can’t pray away your gay thoughts because you can’t pray away your capacity for love” from a wise Christian queer man on a tiktok comp, and i thought it’d be wise to share

[dykecommunion]

sorry u don't see the inherent holiness of queer people and queer relationships. maybe u should praise God

[depressionanddeconstruction]

Queer Christians are on a whole other level. Queer Christians have faith you can't even understand. Queer Christians know God in such a deep and special way. Someone who realizes they're queer and STAYS a Christian has such a powerful belief in God and such an intimate acquaintance with His goodness. I wish homophobic, transphobic, conservative fundamentalist evangelicals could grasp even a tiny bit of the joy and peace and love that I experience through my QUEER relationship with God.

[blood-is-the-life]