#biblical themes

[candycane969]

I hate explaining to people my love for TBOI because how do I say that it has one of the saddest and cruel storys Ive ever experienced in a video game, how Isaac didnt deserve any of this, how amazing its religious themes work, THE FUCKING MUSIC, at the same time showing them the gameplay and its just me shooting a poop for a solid minute

[noscomnias]

genesis 2:21

[acronym49]

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[imnotkosmic]

"Narrow Road," is a story of redemption, family, and learning that no one is too far gone. Jamie is a headstrong and rebellious college drop out that has had way too many second chances. When one of his stunts ends up with him volunteering at the local church, he meets JD, the daughter of the pastor. With a newly made group of friends, he'll learn that the narrow gate isn't always easy, but it's worth it in the end.

Moodboards:

Story moodboard;

Jaime moodboard;

JD moodboard;

Playlist:

[humorwithatwist]

Book Review: Show Me Your Glory (Idestrom)

This book review recently appeared in JETS 67.1. My thanks for the editorial team at JETS for providing a review copy. Show Me Your Glory: The Glory of God in the Old Testament. By Rebecca G.S. Idestrom. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2023, xviii + 326 pp., $44.00 paper. When Indiana Jones encounters two U.S. Army Intelligence officers in Raiders of the Lost Ark, he shows them a picture of the ark of…

[midorishinji]

Armillaria solidipes

— Do you know which organism is the oldest to inhabit this planet, Sakura? It’s a fungus, Armillaria solidipes, 8650 years old. It’s in Oregon, in the United States, and it’s also the largest organism to live… Inside the earth, its hyphae spread for miles and miles, as far as the eye can see… To give you an idea, humans live an average of 72 years. And we are also absolutely insignificant creatures.

Sakuino ｜Oneshot｜Also published in Portuguese and on AO3

— Do you know which organism is the oldest to inhabit this planet, Sakura? It’s a fungus, Armillaria solidipes, 8650 years old. It’s in Oregon, in the United States, and it’s also the largest organism to live... Inside the earth, its hyphae spread for miles and miles, as far as the eye can see... To give you an idea, humans live an average of 72 years. And we are also absolutely insignificant creatures.

I smiled back at her. It was Saturday morning and I was accompanying Ino on her research in the college's biology laboratory. While she observed something beyond my comprehension under the microscope — I was a mere math student, thank you — Ino rambled on about the most random topics.

— I don't think 72 years is that insignificant... And by the time we reach that age, life expectancy will have increased, of course... In Brazil, it's already higher than that, because an average measure is prone to distortions, some countries will always pull the mean score lower: wars, famine, high infant mortality. — I replied, trying to remain optimistic.

She clicked her tongue in annoyance, without taking her eyes off the lens of the microscope. That wasn't the answer she wanted to hear: — Do you know why I chose Botany, out of all the branches of biology?

I could say yes and give common answers like "because you like flowers" or "because you want to run your family's flower shop," but I knew they were simply inappropriate. Ino and I had known each other since we were kids, and yet, if I had to walk inside her soul in the dark, as one does within the familiarity of home, I would stub my toe on a corner. Understanding her veered on the impossible. — No.

— Because fungi are fascinating, but they scare me. Plants are easy to understand, methodical even… But not fungi. They're not plants, they're not animals, and they're a little bit of both, so we had to create a new category to classify them. Some can save lives, like the genus from which penicillin is extracted, others can kill with their toxins, like Amanita phalloides... Some form symbiotic relationships with plants and are what sustain entire forests, connecting trees and sharing nutrients, while others feed off death and destroy everything in their path. They are both life and death, two sides of the same coin, and putrefaction exists regardless of everything. It's what started life and it's what will end it, closing the door and turning off the lights when there's no one else here.

Thinking about it made me shiver. Being in a grave, devoured by organisms without any awareness (at least that I know of!) of what they do, of what they are. Little by little I would become part of the land and part of the Earth. It’s beautiful, even if in a somewhat macabre way. — Someday I'll be a really cute red and white mushroom, and some biology student will pick me up and slice me up to analyze me under a microscope. — I replied, as I dodged the air conditioner and got closer to her.

— What happens after we die?

Another one of her existentialist questions. — Come on, if you wanted to discuss philosophy, you should have called Hinata, it's her area. I don't understand anything other than numbers and equations. To me, life is a series of formulas, chemical reactions and concentration gradients that cease when we die.

— Don’t you believe in heaven, hell, purgatory, reincarnation?

— I don't know. Should I?

— Wish I knew. Maybe we’re already in purgatory, or hell, and this life is nothing but a punishment. We have to atone for our sins, correct our mistakes, to move forward. When we die, we become free: free from conscience, free from weight. Just a white light surrounding us that erases everything.

I wish I could argue back and say that this could be heaven, but I'm not that optimistic. — Who knows…

— Wouldn’t you like to know?

I remember, during my time studying for confirmation, they told us that the forbidden fruit was an apple. But I also remember sometime later coming to the conclusion that the forbidden fruit was knowledge: ignorance is bliss. As much as I disagreed with this stupid saying, Ino's proposal made me stop for a second, with bated breath: wouldn’t I want to know? It was a tempting proposal, as much as it was a deal with the Devil himself. I always wanted to know everything, of course. I would have bitten the damn apple without thinking twice, like Eve did.

— Does it matter if we know?

The words flowed out of my mouth so easily that I even got surprised. Ino was also taken aback by my comment: — As expected of miss Sakura Haruno. — she said, laughing and turning to me, finally looking away from the stupid microscope — To you, knowing doesn't matter because you would keep fighting and moving forward as if nothing had changed.

— In heaven or hell, my definition of ethics does not change.

— Ah, you're right about that. If I knew I was in Hell now and that I was damned to spend eternity here, it wouldn’t matter if I found my existence comfortable before, I would stall like a spoiled kid and follow the advice from that old saying that says “if you are in Hell, embrace the devil”. But you would go on with your life, doing what is right even if you knew there was no salvation, simply because you do what’s right. Nothing beyond that.

— If you say it's because I'm as stubborn as a mule... — I already threatened to get up from my chair, a little annoyed.

Ino laughed. She had a truly infectious laugh, and it was impossible not to like her, you know? Even more so when she laughed like that, without worry, without limits. — If you say so, then I won't say it... By the way, do you know something that's also very interesting? Did you know that humans and fungi have a common ancestor from around 450 million years ago? This is why psilocybin works on us, because it’s pretty similar to serotonin, and acts on the same receptors. That's why it makes us happy.

I knew the name psilocybin. — Tell me you didn't take it before getting in here…

But Ino Yamanaka laughed again, and returned her gaze to the microscope, without answering me.

[sunlit-mess]

I came here for the Hazbin, and now I'm here for murder drones as well lol (Also, fucking love your art, you're my fav artist <3)

dragging yall with me...

[rongrii]

Angeltober day 5 - Chalice

Artwork for @ultrainfinitepit’s angeltober again!

Why is there a snake in my apple juice chalice smh

[comikbook]

The Son of Man, 2024, Digital Painting by myself, Liz Pence

[piffle--paffle]

Yea please, I will read!!!

Does anybody here on Tumblr potentially have an interest in reading a Snape-fanfiction that also contains biblical themes? Im looking for basically a little test-audience.

Thanks!

Hat jemand hier auf Tumblr eventuell Interesse an meiner Snape-Fanfiction, die auch biblische Thematiken enthält? Die Geschichte ist zuerst einmal auf Deutsch geschrieben. :) Ich suche sozusagen nach Probelesern.

Dankeschön!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

It's the 2 month anniversary of this blog! Here's all the main MTXT couples to celebrate.

[painisforsundays]

[ultrainfinitepit]

Most popular monsters from each of the Themed Monster Enamel Pins sets. I'm planning to self-fund a small batch of each of these to test the colors, and more will be available from the pin campaign.

[zeb-z]

dude. what is up with Edward Twilight. He really tried to establish dominance over Arthur ‘call me Sir until you earn my name’ Bennett, in the craziest, most confusing interaction, where he gloated over being with Mary, but also gave a ‘we saw you across the bar and dug your vibe’ sorta energy in what I can only call an attempted power play? and then he immediately lost the idgaf war so bad to he had to make two frenzy checks.

[scribesofcalamity]

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul." - Pablo Neruda

I couldn’t *not* do a Valentine’s Day piece of my Tzimisce Sophie-she loves the holiday so much she took it as her last name 🫶💖

[angel-hole]

SUPTOBER DAY 01 - liminal in the beginning

4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance;

— Ezekiel 1:4—5