#biblical principle

[queen-of-hawkins-why-ler]

The real enemy of season 5 is going to be small-town Protestant fundamentalist Christian values but some of y’all aren’t ready for that conversation.

[truths33k3r4]

The Strength in Weakness Masterpost

Have you ever wondered why you were made the way you are? Why you were designed with nervous ticks, bad habits you can't break, or even.. a body you never wanted?

These are questions that plague the minds of 5 teenage mutant turtles.

" Why can't I be normal?? " " Why do I have unique physical limitations that no one else has to deal with? "

" .... WHY AM I LIKE THIS? "

Follow Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Lotus as they learn how to help each other through their quirks, trauma, and especially - their WEAKNESSES.

To God be the glory!!

How the story came to be~ 2023 TMNT Whumptober Art!

Bonus Sillies XD

~ CHAPTERS ~

~ BOOK ONE ~

A Stranger in Our Home

Always There to Catch You

Awake and CONFUSED

'Signs' of Life

Raph's Bad Student

The 'Subject' at Hand

Leo's Promise

Hidden Scars

Melodious Mirth

A Dangerous Game

A Steady Hand and a Racing Heart

Trying

A Prick and a Pull

Ghost of Her Past

A Leader's Nightmare

Facing Faults and Facts

IQ vs EQ

The Fight He Can't Win

Silent Connections

Concealed Concern

Lost Control

Make Him Make Sense

Laughter Doeth Good

Hard Words to Swallow

Grieving Cadence

Blurs and Pixels

Specter

An Un-Sound Mind

Beginning of Their Nightmares

A Chance

~ BOOK TWO COMING SOON!! ~

BREATHE

The Weight of Silence

Useless Protector

The Vibrance of Hope

The Stain of Guilt

Brotherly Intervention

Imprinted

Deceptive Answers

[likealittleheartbeat]

"A fifth point concerning nonviolent resistance is that it avoids not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. The nonviolent resister not only refuses to shoot his opponent but has also refused to hate him. At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love. The nonviolent resister would contend that in the struggle for human dignity, the oppressed people of the world must not succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter or indulging in hate campaigns. To retaliate in kind would do nothing but intensify the existence of hate in the universe. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives.

In speaking of love at this point, we are not referring to some sentimental or affectionate emotion. It would be nonsense to urge men to love their oppressors in an affectionate sense. Love in this connection means understanding, redemptive good will. When we speak of loving those who oppose us, we refer to neither eros nor philia; we speak of a love which is expressed in the Greek word agape. Agape means understanding, redeeming good will for all men. It is an overflowing love which is purely spontaneous, unmotivated, groundless, and creative. It is not set in motion by any quality or function of its object. It is the love of God operating in the human heart.

Agape is disinterested love. It is a love in which the individual seeks not his own good, but the good of his neighbor (1 Cor. 10:24). Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. It is an entirely "neighbor-regarding concern for others," which discovers the neighbor in every man it meets. Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friends and enemy; it is directed toward both. If one loves an individual merely on account of his friendliness, he loves him for the sake of the benefits to be gained from the friendship, rather than for the friend's own sake. Consequently, the best way to assure oneself that love is disinterested is to have love for the enemy-neighbor from whom you can expect no good in return, but only hostility and persecution.

Another basic point about agape is that it springs from the need of the other person--his need for belonging to the best in the human family....

Agape is not a weak, passive love. It is love in action. Agape is love seeking to preserve and create community. It is insistence on community even when one seeks to break it. Agape is a willingness to go to any length to restore community. It doesn't stop at the first mile, but it goes the second mile to restore community. It is a willingness to forgive, not seven times, but seventy times seven to restore community...He who works against community is working against the whole of creation. Therefore, if I respond to hate with a reciprocal hate I do nothing but intensify the cleavage in broken community. I can only close the gap in broken community by meeting hate with love. If I meet hate with hate, I become depersonalized, because creation is so designed that my personality can only be fulfilled in the context of community....

In the final analysis, agape means a recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers...

A sixth basic fact about nonviolent resistance is that it is based on the conviction that the universe is on the side of justice. Consequently, the believer in nonviolence has deep faith in the future. This faith is another reason why the nonviolent resister can accept suffering without retaliation. For he knows that in his struggle for justice he has cosmic companionship. It is true that there are devout believers in nonviolence who find it difficult to believe in a personal God. But even these persons believe in the existence of some creative force that works for universal wholeness. Whether we call it an unconscious process, an impersonal Brahman, or a Personal Being of matchless power and infinite love, there is a creative force in this universe that works to bring the disconnected aspects of reality into a harmonious whole."

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "An Experiment in Love" (1958)

[nocherrybombs]

The more lore we get, the more I'm starting to think of Celestia and the Heavenly Principles not as omnipotent god-tyrants who rule over Teyvat with an iron fist and dole out punishments to people who violate their arbitrary commandments

but more like the most underpaid, overworked, exhausted, bleary-eyed pirate ship's carpenters in the universe who are jumping from one disaster to the next, doing everything they possibly can to prevent this leaky piece of shit dinghy they stole from the dragons from getting totally ripped to shreds by the Abyss but the mortals and lesser deities won't stop fucking breaking things for no reason,

(Egeria turned the Oceanids into humans for fuck's sake, why the hell would she do that, look at them, now they have feelings)

and then after literal millennia of tirelessly working to keep the oversized patched-up canoe afloat with duct tape and chewing gum the Khaenri'ahns shoot a cannonball through the fucking hull and nearly capsize the ship and the Heavenly Principles are absolutely 110% done with this nonsense and hilichurlify them just to keep them from doing it again and are like "okay, you know what? Fuck this, fuck y'all, I haven't slept in 6000 years, if you want to drown in dark purple mud that badly then have at it, see if I care" and go off to take a nap.

[thinkingonscripture]

The Value of Integrity

Integrity is the currency of a healthy relationship, but only among those who value it. It is the fruit of a morally upright heart that practices honesty, loyalty, and justice (Psa 15:1-5; Prov 19:1; 28:6; Mic 6:8). Without integrity, trust is compromised, communication suffers, and the stability of the relationship is jeopardized. Duplicity stands in stark contrast to integrity. While integrity…

[haggishlyhagging]

The Holy Spirit, symbolized by a dove, is a distinctively feminine principle—the Comforter—and yet has ever been treated by the Christian Church as masculine, alike in dogmas propounded from the pulpit and in translations of the Scriptures. A few notable exceptions, however, appear at an early date. Origen expressly referred to the Holy Ghost as feminine, saying, "The soul is maiden to her mistress, the Holy Ghost."

An article upon the "Esoteric Character of the Gospels" in Madam Blavatsky's Lucifer (November 1887), says:

Spirit or the Holy Ghost was feminine with the Jews, as most ancient peoples, and it was so with the early Christians. Sophia of the Gnostics and the third Sephiroth, Binah (the female Jehovah of the Cabalists) are feminine principles. "Divine Spirit" or Ruach, "One is She, the Spirit of the Elohim of Life," is said in Sepher Yetzirah.

An early canonical book of the New Testament known as "The Everlasting Gospel" (also as "The Gospel of the Holy Ghost") represents Jesus as saying, "My mother, the Holy Ghost, took me by the hair of my head up into a mountain."

The word "sacred" simply meaning "secret" —having its origin as shown at the time when knowledge was kept hidden from the bulk of mankind, only to be acquired by initiation in the mysteries—so also the word "holy" simply means "whole," that is, "undivided." In its ignorance, unwisdom and fear of investigation, mankind has allowed a division of the two divine principles—male and female—to obtain firm hold in their minds. Prejudice, which simply means "prejudgment" (a judgment without proof) has long ruled mankind, owing chiefly to that bondage of the will inflicted by a tyrannous, self-seeking priesthood. But we have now reached a period in history when investigation is again taking the place of blind belief, and the truth, capable of making man free, is once more offered.

It is through a recognition of the divine element of motherhood as not alone inhering in the great primal source of life, but as extending throughout all creation, that it will become possible for the world—so buried in darkness, folly and superstition—to practice justice toward woman. Not legislation but education will bring about the change—not external acts but internal thought. It is but a few years since the acknowledgment of a feminine element even in plants was regarded by the church as heretical. Yet, though still perceiving but partial truth, science now declares the feminine principle to inhere in plants, rocks, gems and even in the minutest atoms, thus in some degree recognizing the occult axiom, "As it is above, so it is below."

-Matilda Joslyn Gage, Woman, Church and State

[schrodingers-android]

To the iPad kid. A melody of a zoomer

Listen to your Father for he knows what you need

What is the is The Algorithm but the Hand of Your Creator giving you content

Like a Mother nurses her child, You, O Lord, give me those sweet YouTube vids (Selah)

Like a Shepherd comforting a lamb in his bosom, you comfort me with hours of mindless TikTok’s

What is my For You Page but your breath on my Phone.

I listen to you O Algorithm, for you are my Lord

Amen

[the-silver-stone]

watched the book of eli last night. yep this one is going on my fave apunkalypse aesthetic movies list. danngngngn. ghngnhghghghhhh

[wadelljones]

CARTER G. WOODSON:

THE ULTIMATE BLACK NEGRO HISTORIAN. In 1915, Carter G. Woodson traveled to Chicago from his home in Washington, D.C. to take part in a national celebration of the 50th anniversary of emancipation. He had earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree at the University of Chicago, and still had many friends there. As he joined the thousands of Black Americans overflowing from the Coliseum, which…

[papirouge]

"Jesus also didn't say that we should give money to the government"

Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, literally told us to pay our taxes aka "give money to the government" Romans 13:6-10

How are you all so fricking dense about it??

Anyone who thinks Jesus would be picking a political side if he showed up today has forgotten that his core followers included an anti-Rome zealot and a guy who was until then a tax collector for said Roman rulers. And he expected them to play nice and work together.

[igate777]

(via OCCUPY TILL CHRIST RETURNS. ARCHITECT OF THE FUTURE; ENGINEERING TOMORROW. PART 6.)

[intensesense]

Giving Thanks NOW! 

When it comes to gratitude, we each have our unique ways of understanding and expressing it. Some of us may feel more comfortable receiving praise and recognition than giving it. For others, particularly those who want to appear strong and emotionally detached, expressing thanks can feel like vulnerability. This may be the case for some men who may see gratitude as incompatible with the image of…

[1whoconquers]

The Firstborn and Firstfruits: A Deeper Understanding of God's Divine Order

The themes of firstborn and firstfruits are deeply woven throughout Scripture, pointing us to the importance of giving God our first and best in all areas of life. They reveal much about God’s character, His expectations for His people, and the fulfillment of these principles in Christ. By looking closely at these themes, we uncover a profound connection between Old Testament laws, sacrificial…

[mindfulldsliving]

Cultural Perspectives on the Golden Rule: Empathy in Action

The Golden Rule is a powerful principle that resonates across cultures and religions, urging us to treat others as we wish to be treated. It's a simple yet profound guideline for living a life of empathy and kindness.

Interpreting The Golden Rule: Insights from 3 Nephi 14:12, Matthew 7:12, and Luke 6:31 Why has “The Golden Rule” resonated across centuries? It’s simple yet profound, urging us to treat others as we wish to be treated ourselves. This powerful idea finds a place in diverse teachings, including scriptures like 3 Nephi 14:12, Matthew 7:12, and Luke 6:31. As we explore these passages, we see a…