#biblical standard

[thinkingonscripture]

Righteousness and Sin in the Life of the Christian

All Christians are simultaneously justified before God and continue to struggle with sin. Both are true. We who have trusted in Christ as Savior have received judicial forgiveness of sins (Acts 10:43; Eph 1:7), eternal life (John 10:28), and the gift of God’s righteousness (Rom 5:17). Because God’s righteousness has been imputed to us, He declares us righteous in His sight. God’s righteousness is…

[certifiablyinsanez]

Aziraphale 1793 is SO UNGODLY FINE you don’t understand, he was in chains and was so cunty while doing it. The thoughts I have for him are not safe to share.

[skrunksthatwunk]

love like you / maternal pang

bonus under cut:

the first stephanie + the maternal pang tone destroyer i couldn't include bc it's a serious comic

[sketch-guardian]

I've been on hiatus for a while due to university, with little energy or ideas to draw🙈 however I finally managed to finish a sketch. Perhaps someone still remembers some of my OCs, i.e. the RAD Classmates, well now I want to introduce, for MC to enjoy:

"THE NEW EXCHANGE STUDENTS FROM THE CELESTIAL REALM"

REMIEL (she/her)

NATHANIEL (they/them) (he/him)

URIEL (she/her)

I hope they're good enough, even if a bit strange😞 I tried my best with shading and coloring😖

[kodasea]

Smile

[dimsilver]

conservatives who think posting a photo of a model-looking conservative woman next to a photo of a normal-looking or overweight or blue-haired liberal woman constitutes a slam-dunk ideological argument: I am Biting you

[hazellvsq]

frank and piper are interesting counterpoint narratives to me. both of them have relatively mundane problems compared to the rest of the cast yet their parent's domains represent the heights of human passion as defined by the series, despite piper and frank both being (outwardly) dispassionate and (inwardly) mopey. the good end of these domains is love and protection (selfless), the bad end is heartbreak and bloodlust (selfish), which both of them try to resist. they both get claimed last out of their trios and had beforehand assumed that they were the children of someone else. both also experience perceived rejection from their mortal family directly before the series begins - both express anger and hurt at being "sent away". their rejection and unexpected claiming, back-to-back, results in discombobulation for them both, and feelings of humiliation brought on by both sets of parents.

they also both go through forced physical transformations by their parents to fit an ideal they don't want. all of the characters experience issues of identity and self-esteem but i think its the most pronounced with these two in the series. neither of them really knows who they are, and are pessimistic about their own capabilities. they are also counterpoints in that they feel disconnected from their own looks - both are very self-conscious people, but, based on how they're described by other characters, piper is probably the most beautiful member of the 7 and frank is probably the least. piper is frequently harassed and objectified, whereas frank is teased constantly about his looks. he neither feels as childish as his face is nor as grown as his body is, and he doesn't understand how to move through the world. both of which are common experiences throughout puberty - suddenly being treated differently on the basis of a body that's changing faster than you want or understand.

(discourse alert) i don't have a lot to add to the piper transformation discourse except that i do think its interesting that her blessing was temporary within the book and her love interest actually self-reflected on his reaction to it and realized that he should not have told her that she looked hot in that instance. rick did reverse frank's transformation five years later and i'm curious about his thought process about both writing it in the first place and in reversing it, and what feedback he received, if any. piper's transformation was a makeover whereas frank's was a puberty, which later rick walked back with "actually frank is still going through puberty". piper's was cheesy, sure, but frank's falls so flat bc that's just not how it works. its too much of a stretch. i don't even think it was in rick's og plan for frank, maybe he just watched captain america and was like "hell yeah i should do that" and flipped a coin between frank and leo, bc again frank was already initially described as physically grown in his debut book. and i can't even talk about hazel's reaction to to it bc its not real to me and i can't read suddenly. idk frank's plotline in general was too rushed in that book and he should have gotten another pov chapter set at least bc rick was trying to do too much too fast and relied on idiocy like the transformation to support it in the place of real character work when it wasn't even necessary for anything he accomplished in the book. he could've just walked around with better posture and achieved the same effect.

[blissfullyecho]

femininity is part of the God-given divinity within you..

[cubikzoa]

What if Eldritch madness is like swimming in the ocean. What I’m saying here. Is that unknown knowledge is an ocean that goes down forever. You go down too deep too fast, the pressure crushes you. You come back up too quickly, you die of blood oxygenation. Some people don’t even have the strength or presence of mind to ever surface again. You have to learn how to dive safely. How to swim well. You have to be perseverant and always strive to do better, and to be aware of the danger and past follies of others. If you know the particulars of it like your own name, and have your goals in mind, you should be alright, but the ocean is still an unpredictable force of nature. If you choose to take the plunge you’d better know how to swim.

Anyways do you think this means that since Eldritch beings might be unfamiliar with human stuff it would be just as freaky and confusing to them as their stuff is to us. Like Cthulhu sees a juice box and is like “What the actual fuck is that”

[mrsketchy]

Character belongs to @elysium-heights

ArtFight

KoFi

Twitch

[blamebonk]

Simplified angel wing head cannons? I made them colorful!

Simeon’s looking a little scruffy…wonder why!

[ceilidho]

the first time i read it was a long time ago but saltwater instantly became like my golden standard for ghost fics, i’m like if it ain’t got that ceilidho vibe it simply ain’t it for me sorry. girl you DID THAT! changed my life fr

🥺🥺 that's my baby!!!

[rowanisawriter]

i am literally always writing or thinking about writing the most irrelevant and niche fic known to man

[coffeeinthelibrary]

my favourite thing to lie about is sometimes i will just tell people i’m bilingual. like if you aren’t fluent but know a language that isn’t very commonly spoken, there’s a 90% chance that you will be the only person in the room with working knowledge of that language. make a grammar mistake? who’s gonna correct you? this never fails to work and makes me laugh every time

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

“What compels people to risk their lives to leave their homes for Europe and ignore offers for help that they fear will send them back to the place they just left” is not the same question as “why did rich person take stupid risk for tourism”

[durn3h]

I know it's been done to death already, but it really is so funny/sad to me the amount of people that say they hold to biblical sexual/marital ethics when the only things they agree with the bible on the subject are homophobia and dominion over women