#forgiveness and cleansing

[thinkingonscripture]

Confession of Sins for the Christian

The Bible mentions two kinds of forgiveness: judicial forgiveness, which removes the eternal penalty of sin at salvation (Eph 1:7), and parental forgiveness, which restores fellowship with God when believers confess their sins (1 John 1:9). At the moment of faith in Christ (John 3:16), the benefits of the cross are applied to us, and we receive forgiveness of sins and eternal life. Scripture…

[lightleckrereins]

No one had netflix releases a good adaptation of a Latin American literature classic that was considered impossible to adapt to screen on the bingo card.

Even less after the netflix releases a decent but nothing more adaptation of another latam classic also considered impossible to adapt. And the HBO butchers a third one that should be easy to adapt and perfectly setup for a tv show incidents in the past few months.

[ax-fire]

tag me in the fix it fics when they start coming thank you

[wandoffire]

[wiirocku]

1 John 1:9 (NKJV) - If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

[distraughtlesbian]

sorry for speaking my truth it will happen again. i think my main issue with valax’s redemption arc is literally just that there’s never a moment where the mc gets to actually talk to her about what she did—there’s not really a cathartic conversation, so valax and mc moving past what she did to them feels less like forgiveness and redemption and more like an agreement to ignore the elephant in the room

like sure we got to talk about our trauma (in chapter 17 of 20. lol. lmao, even) to the party, but valax wasn’t present for that?? and like, sure, she says once that she is sorry “for the pain she caused [them]”, but there’s a difference Tew Me between “sorry for hurting you ig ✌️😗” and actually being like “yeah, i abducted you and forced you into a magically induced coma and stole your blood and robbed you of a full year of your life and repeatedly tried to murder you, to say nothing of the grief i caused your loved ones. i did all that shit and i’m sorry for it and deeply regret it, and i acknowledge that you don’t owe me forgiveness, but i will spend the rest of my life working to build a better world for my people instead of being my mother’s pawn”, and a difference between “my mother is unhappy with me for saving you :(” and actually like, giving the mc space to talk about the impact of her actions towards them. like girl you are not getting out of this shit with one sentence’s worth of apology and a sex scene lmfao!!!

during the first half or so of the book the focus for mc is not falling the fuck apart bc they have a friend group to tentatively piece together and they’re averse to showing fear in front of valax, so they’re repressing all their trauma—and by the time valax joins the party, the narrative has gone full Valax Cool And Good mode, and fully allows you to flirt with her and tease her and generally stops taking her seriously as an antagonist. which would be all fine and good if we had actually at any point gotten to be like, “hey, you abducting me and keeping me in a magically induced coma and stealing my blood and trying to kill me has actually caused me a lot of lasting fear and pain,” followed by some set of choices wrt forgiving or not forgiving her for all that in light of the revelation that she did all that shit bc her mom tortured and brainwashed her

like why are my friends more pissed off about the time this bitch abducted me and did evil little experiments on me than i am. free valax she did all that shit bc of her mommy issues but i should’ve gotten to call her a cunt just once. pb stop making all your mcs generals in the idgaf war challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[p2ii]

I feel like there's something to be said about the way fandom will treat characters who's trauma they can personally relate to Vs characters who they cant

[connectingwithsoul]

Sometimes people act from their pain body, from their trauma. And then something really bad happens and they wake up, come online. Once someone is awake and aware, you can really see it. It's like you're interacting with a different person. The mask if off. They hear you. They see you. You can see that they see you. No one's acting out roles anymore. It's a completely different thing. A new dynamic.

@connectingwithsoul

[news4dzhozhar]

[mejcinta]

I feel like this 4 month old 'leak' is a mix of accurate character dynamics and fanfic. The account can't be accessed for some reason despite of the post still being up.

But I heard rumors floating around about Aemond being 'cleansed' for kinslaying and did some digging to find the source and here it is.

[handsomegentlebutch]

My 3 little cousins were baptized today. "Triggered" is kind of a strong word but being in a catholic church again... I'm a little fragile rn ngl.

[rvspecter]

We're about to lose a huge murder case. It turns out the person behind it is one of our own lawyers. And we're in business with the man who helped cover it up.

[cosmicheartz]

ok so i was thinking abt Solange and the Bishops and i realized that i kinda don't really want Solange to heal/cleanse them before she kicks them out. She heavily dislikes them despite acting somewhat cordial around them ( some moreso than others ) and does not forgive them in the slightest for the atrocities done to her species ( and like atrocities in general since a good chunk of her followers used to be followers of the other bishops and shes heard literal horror stories about how their lives were under the bishops rule ) Even if she does form some positive bonds with them its not enough for her to go out of her way to obtain their relics and cleanse them ( Her sorta burying the hatchet with Nari doesn't convince her to either ). Why should she have to listen to their family problems? They should be grateful they're even together as Solange would do anything to even fully remember hers ( repressed a lot of her past memories because of trauma ).

So Solange kicks them out after freeing Shamura. She tells them to meet her in the area where you choose which area to go on crusades, hands them some supplies ( mainly things to accommodate for their disabilities ( ie a walking cane for Leshy ) ) and simply tells them to leave. I haven't decided if that also includes Nari since they did technically bury the hatchet but either way he does leave.

Some squabbling/arguing ensues which Solange shuts down by threatening the Bishops ( not Nari as she does tell him he can visit to grieve at Giselle's grave if he wants to ) that if they ever step foot in her Flock its on sight. She also tells them that they can figure out their familial issues on their own and that she's not gonna be some middleman for them.

They end up leaving and Solange lets out a sigh of relief as having them around was really fucking with her mentally.

[wiirocku]

1 John 1:9 (NKJV) - If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.