#bible lettering

[katabay]

THEY SAY THERE IS A CARPENTER FROM THE PROVINCE PERFORMING MIRACLES IN THE CAPITAL

another scene and some sketches of the fake byzantine empire ocs! thomas is a carpenter, john is a merchant. there's an emperor (two, actually) in here, looming ominously over everything.

(I call it the fake byzantine empire because the setting is playing with byzantine history that spans across three centuries, but it's also pulling from things like Statius' Thebaid and later medieval literature. folk catholic horror, probably. doctrinal debates and schisms are in here)

on the topic of nameless and unknown saints, tho, sometimes I think about this excerpt from an essay in Closet Queeries and the time I was on my way to Tanjay and saw an abandoned chapel along a road with a statue of a saint I didn't recognize inside

Closet Queeries, essays by J. Neil C. Garcia

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!

[rasticore]

Camael ripe for the "my pronouns are they/them not because i'm non-binary but because i'm Literally Everyone" joke

[ushiromiya]

umineko is a perfect work to me but seeing the increase in fem battler fanart has made me realize it could be a holy relic preserved for generations if beabato yuri was added into the mix as well

[beemintty]

walking into a christian bookstore hesitant.

walked out feeling like i failed as a christian.

let me explain:

i was that girl. the girl who lived and breathed bible books and devotion and self help books on christianity. i was that girl. the bible bash girl. the “i’m praying for you” girl. the god and the bible is the loud solution girl. the purity culture girl. the only friends with other christians, everyone else needs to be saved girl. the self righteous girl. the go to youth and church and conferences girl. i was THAT girl.

so what happened? i looked at the world. i saw people outside of my bubble. i saw pain and grief and anger and hurt. i saw PEOPLE. and my heart shattered. then i walked away. i walked away from my bubble. i walked away from purity. i walked away from my cruel ignorance. and i walked into curiosity and questioning. i walked into kindness and equality. i walked into openness and learning. i walked into love, for the world and for a girl. and i uncovered the truth of the church…. they do not love me. and if i was still “that girl”, neither would i. i walked out of the horrible reality is that was my whole world…

but some part of me always judges myself and the way my life is now. telling me i failed as a christian.

but know this: maybe i have failed as a christian. but, i have not failed as a follower of jesus. i have not failed at kindness.

[sarathrwizard]

Jude 1:1-25

This passage in the Bible has been very important for me recently. It helped clear up so many questions I had in my head. If you are willing, read 'The Letter Of Jude' from the Bible and maybe it will clear a few questions up in your head as well!

Bonus: Genesis 19:1-38 (Because it's mentioned, and is very intriguing to me.)

[slaughtergutz]

some fun comic practice

did you know that the chain catshark is also known as the chain dogfish. like pick an animal.

they are also biofluorescent, which means they glow BRIGHT GREEN under a blacklight.

[fearandhatred]

fandom: good omens

word: worship

I HAVE FINALLY DONE IT copied straight from my notes app babey!! this may seem like just a sad poem but it's really crowley spiraling into a toxic inferiority mindset within the 10 whole seconds that they kiss. i did not mean it to take that turn but next to all the emotions in my brain is this entity called Dark Thoughts that turns the whole console black with one touch. anyway thank u bestie for the word prompt sorry it took five years

<3

Worn delicate but strong on your smallest finger, a golden halo of a ring that dug through layers of cloth into my spine when i kissed you. it was the first time i felt the touch of your hardened hands on my body, pressing me to you like i could be consumed whole, like you could breathe me into your soul and nestle me in your lungs, like i could become your air. and for a moment, it felt like we were

One. like we were the paths of two comets destined to intersect once and then never again; or perhaps like the odd bullet that gets lodged inside another midair, and doesn't make it out the other side alive. and it felt as if i knew for the first time a purpose beyond existence, beyond love: to worship. to worship you.

Resuscitation has never felt so explosive, so stuffed full with fearsome grace with the same force by which it was ripped from me. and i know now that i will never be the same unless i have this one thing, this reason to live and also to die.

So i'll worship you, from now till the death of time. and when every one of your touches burns with holiness, when you scald my tongue with spit, i'll welcome you on my knees to set me aflame.

Have me in all the ways, split me open on the altar as evidence of my humility, make me repent. forgive me.

I understand now, i understand, it's in my blood to submit, in my nature to crawl on my belly and eat the dust left behind. and i will, and maybe i can do it right this time—i will drag myself behind you with my hands clawing the carpeted shadows of your footsteps, break the bottle open to anoint your head. i'll worship you, skin to skin, soul for soul, if it means you'll stay.

Please—

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Trust in the Name of the Lord Our God

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.

1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee; 2 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion; 3 Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah. 4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfill all thy counsel. 5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners; the LORD fulfill all thy petitions.

6 Now know I that the LORD saveth His anointed; He will hear him from His holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand. 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. 8 They are brought down and fallen; but we are risen, and stand upright. 9 Save, LORD; let the King hear us when we call. — Psalm 20 | King James Bible: Purple Letter Edition (KJBP) The King James Bible: Purple Letter Edition © 2009 by Jim Musser. All rights Reserved. Cross References: Deuteronomy 17:16; Deuteronomy 20:1; 1 Samuel 1:17; 1 Chronicles 5:20; Psalm 3:4; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 9:14; Psalm 17:6; Psalm 21:2; Psalm 21:5; Psalm 46:7; Psalm 46:11; Psalm 110:2; Psalm 138:7; Psalm 145:19; Isaiah 58:9; Micah 7:8; Acts 10:4

Saving the Lord's Anointed

[fieriframes]

[I like to sing. I wish I could sing like those guys who can sing two notes at once, those Monks. It takes them ten years to learn how to do it, but it's worth it, because God really sits up and notices when you sing chords. And there are all those Monks that used to sit and copy the Bible in this very neat lettering, and let me tell you: When you write all neat and pretty like those Monks did, you can bet that God sits up and takes notice. Those Monks recieve divine grace or my name isn't... whatever my name is.]

[tajcox]

A Letter from Jesus

[tears-that-heal]

artist on instagram @quietbeings

[hauntedreputation]

SUMMERTIME SADNESS

Charlotte Brontë, from Villette (1853)

John William Waterhouse, Ophelia (1889)

Sylvia Plath, from Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977)

Georgia O’Keeffe, from Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters (1987)

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

Louise Glück, from Averno (2006)

Mia Wasikowska in Jane Eyre (2011)

Lana Del Rey, from Summertime Sadness (2012)

Gillian Flynn, from Gone Girl (2012)

Daria Amaranth, Haunting memories (2017)

Lorde, from Liability (2017)

Amy Adams in Sharp Objects (2018)

Stevie Dix, Sad Summer (2021)

[elizabeth-mitchells]

do you think that laura lee took her bible on the plane with her or do you think she left it with the gang

aaaahhh that's a great question and i'm honestly not sure!! i think she's both the type to take it with her because she doesn't want to be separated from it and it's like extra support from god, and like she might also want to leave it behind because maybe it could help protect her friends in the meantime and because she would hope that maybe one of them any of them would feel compelled to read it at some point

personally i want to think she left it behind because the more things laura lee left behind the more things lottie has to remember her by and grow unhealthily attached to 🥹

[raspberryzingaaa]

"Haha yeah this passage of scripture is really confusing" to YOU. MY Bible has annotated footnotes that tell me all about it.

[artandthebible]

Esther and Mordecai

Artist: Aert de Gelder (Dutch, 1645-1727)

Date: 1675

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Esther and Mordechai Writing the Letters to the Jews

After the evil Haman's plans for the extermination of all Jews in Persia is frustrated by Esther and Mordecai, King Ahasuerus grants the Jews permission to wreak vengeance. In grand old Testament style, the Jews slaughter tens of thousands of perceived enemies and then whoop it up.

After Haman is hanged, Mordecai replaces him as the king's most important servant. Esther is the king's wife - both Esther and Mordecai are Jews. Together they write a letter to the Jews in all 127 provinces of Persia, reminding them to annually commemorate this victory on the 14th and 15th day of the month of Adar. That letter became known as the first letter of Purim. The second was sent not much later, confirming the first.

The name of this feast, Purim, is from the Persian word for lot: pur and refers to how Haman cast lot to decide on the date of execution, as can be read in Esther 3.

[rowantothegate]

book of dark urge

1

1:1 Forgive me, father, 1:2 for I cannot help but admire the Chosen of your sworn foe: 1:3 Enver Gortash's genius will take us far, but fear not - 1:4 those of Bane always fall to the same folly: they cannot see the beauty of obliteration. 1:5 The Absolute hoax will garner false love from our new slaves, 1:6 but once I've built a large enough army, I will use our hold upon the Absolute's slaves to begin this vile world's end.

2

2:1 I can see the path through Gortash's brilliant plan. 2:2 Gortash, Ketheric and I will seize the Netherese relics that control the Crown, and then use the Crown to command the illithid Grand Design. 2:3 The Dead Three, age-old foes, our dire patrons, will be bosom friends for a time.

3

3:1 Father, you created me to be the last soul alive. 3:2 When the time is right, and my power is assured I will slaughter Gortash and Ketheric upon your altar, 3:3 where I myself hope to die when the world itself is gasping its last.

3:4 At the end of this all, Father, there will be not a single creature living. 3:5 Everyone will die. 3:6 Everyone will die for YOU. 3:7 I will make you proud.