#healing from sin

[mindfulldsliving]

The Disposition of Sin

The disposition of sin reveals itself in our mindset. Self-realization can become harmful when we prioritize our desires over higher values. Both moral and immoral acts can stem from a sinful disposition, often hiding true intentions.

Understanding sin is crucial, especially for those in recovery or facing a crisis of faith. Sin influences our actions and thoughts, turning self-realization into self-centeredness. It is more than moral failure; it creates barriers to healing and spiritual growth. The Bible provides a foundation for this understanding. Sin entered humanity through Adam and Eve’s disobedience, leading to death…

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bare skin, bare feelings.

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[canisalbus]

Is that canon!?! Was Machete just really naive/didn't really understand the implications of his relationship to Vasco? Did his mentor ever find out about them or discuss such things with him? I assume bc he didn't have parents, he kinda didn't get educated on sex or anything. Was it a big shock to realize he was "sinning"?

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[m-kyunie]

the "First Womb" of the Thirds

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

thinking priest!geto thoughts again :(((

you’re both a little rotten . it’s a stench that sticks to your skin and you can smell it off each other. there’s a certain kind of bond that only blooms between people who know the each other’s smile is fake, you know? and there’s a kind of trauma that lingers and rots and sticks to your bones and you can hide it with layers of clothing or heavy robes but people who have felt it themselves will always spot the signs . do you see what i’m saying. there’s something special between you when he says he loves his god and you know that he’s lying. there’s something special when you say you couldn’t care less if god thinks you’re sinful and he knows that you’re lying . because you can both smell it off each other. the sickening rot .

[runawaymun]

I think truly one of the best parts about y2k fashion being back in is being able, as an adult, to wear the clothes my parents told me I couldn’t bc of evangelical purity culture.

[demidevildonnie]

were not gods

[dyinggirldied]

Spoilers in tags

You know the increasing format (?) where MC is our typical nondescripted modern person who transmigrated into the character of novel they read only to find out or it is hinted that *gasp* they were actually the reincarnation of that very same character.

I thought that since the motif is becoming more popular that at some points the author will make use it like:

+making it the metaphor for trying to break out of the cycle or a look at life and how your mental health affects it.

+emphasize how depressed and burn out it can be, trying to survive when it seems like the world is against you

[solavelyan]

when i tell you veilguard was made For Me what i mean is that my favorite/main inquisitor trevelyan is an ex-templar heretic who does see herself as andraste's chosen with divine purpose while grappling with the guilt of the things she did during her time in the circle to temper and influence the knight-commander in ostwick in service of the rebel mages, who's a charismatic leader whose followers tend to see her as some level of divine thing or maternal figure or savior or all three and are frequently rewarded for that with her actions, and now through the lens of veilguard she is so so so much more mythal-coded than i had originally intended

i have to look back at solas's relationship with her, especially his romantic feelings, and i have to think there was just... this intoxicating mix of empathetic recognition of their similarities, reminders of how mythal might have been when she was very young and he had yet to fully rebel against the evanuris, and just enough differences and unique circumstantial traits that she would feel new and interesting to him

solas being hopelessly in love with not-an-elf is already its own kind of good drama, this idea of committing every part of himself to one group of people while pining painfully for another - and not just a human, but in thayet's case, a human he should be repulsed by, a former templar, noble on both sides with one of those sides being tevinter, descended directly from one of the dreamers that cracked open his prison and released that shred of the blight, who embraces the idea of divinity. but she's also good and earnest, and unlike mythal, actually listens to him, who allows him to step into his comfort zone: as an advisor, someone who dispenses wisdom but not orders, who's protected but not condescended to

he recognizes mythal in her but is blindsided by their differences, and it's a little like healing, if he lets it be. proof that mythal's mistakes were not inevitable, but choices that she made, too, that she could have opted not to, or that she could have chosen to take responsibility for but didn't - unlike thayet, who bears the weight of her actions and choices and the damage of her own ancestors' legacies, who views her divinity not as an all-mother but as one of perpetual servitude

and being unable to fully accept it, because he's spent thousands of years bound in mythal's service and calling it freely-given devotion

thayet drinks from the well. i think a very fitting end to her arc is as the keeper of the fragment that survived flemeth's physical death - not a new vehicle for mythal to live or seek retribution for herself, but as a keeper of memory. mythal is dead and gone and incapable of healing the damage she inflicted on the world, but thayet is not. and she's the only person other than solas then who understands the weight of the legacy he's working to undo in an atonement ending, who not only sees the burden of the past as hers to carry but who gladly bears it if it means carrying it with him. a validation that mythal cannot give him, because she didn't in life and is incapable of doing so now that she's dead

[live-padraig-reactions]

I've finally reached the Blackpits fight to save Gwydian and all I have to say is

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[aniah-who]

I need you, Jesus. I need you like how I needed you the day that I first found you.

[neverendingford]

I have made my peace with being forgotten

and yet you think of me.

I have made my peace with being unloved

and yet you continue to try.

I have made my peace with this silence

and yet your knuckles rap at my door.

I have made my peace with letting go

but you continue to hold on.

what do you think of me?

what do you love?

who do you speak to?

what are you holding onto?

is it me you perceive?

or a shape of something you thought was real

created from dreams and wishes and the promise of a thousand people before you.

[no1ryomafan]

Thinking about the idea of a casshern au that’s specifically a new take that’s closer to the original but uses the sins characters as if I’ll have time to make that/develop it given “I had a au like that for Jeeg and even Kikaider but it went nowhere + now I’m working on a actual big project so I can’t do anything else until it’s done which will take a few years at my rate”

but yknow? It’s fun to rotate concepts.

[void-galaxy-shenanigans]

just had a Thought™¹. ✨Reader discretion is advised✨, AKA read at your own risk and hate will be blocked.

¹ based on conversations with my ex-Mormon friends & Christian friends, & my attempts to understand and reassure them

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¿what if suffering is the worst sin? ¿what if building a life that brings you joy is the ticket to heaven?

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in more detail:

¿what if causing suffering of any kind unto others is the worst sin? ¿what if letting your suffering hurt other people is the worst sin?

¿what if telling everyone they’re sinned and doomed to hell is enacting the worst sin? ¿what if telling children they are unholy and sinners is the worst sin? ¿what if “holy” wars are the worst sin?

¿what if being “kind” and “charitable” only for status or out of fear of eternal punishment is a sin?

or even.... ¿what if forcing yourself to eat something you don’t want to is a sin? ¿what if submitting to “the grind” is a sin? ¿what if complacency is a sin?

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in reverse, ¿what if joy is the ticket to heaven? ¿what if going on that trip you wanna go on is the ticket to heaven? ¿what if being kind just to be kind & for no personal self-gain is the ticket to heaven?

¿what if telling people they are sacred and holy and loved (truly loved, for who they are & not in spite of it) by God is the ticket to heaven? ¿what if telling children that (because Jesus died for their sins) they are protected and holy just for being alive?

¿what if knowledge, and wielding it wisely is the ticket to heaven? ¿what if the lesson of Adam and Eve was to remind us of what was sacrificed to bring knowledge to us, making knowledge itself holy and of God Himself?

¿what if the lesson of Lucifer the Devil is not to fear him but to love his complexity and embrace him as God’s son? ¿what if God told the tale of his fallen son to remind us all to love our children dearly? ¿what if God was sharing his deepest regret— that he did not love his son as deeply as Lucifer needed?

¿what if the tale of Abraham and Isaac is to remind us that your children are just as important as God? ¿to show us that loving and protecting your loved ones is, in fact, to love God Himself?

¿what if kindly alerting the waiter/waitress or server that something is amiss (you received the wrong food, or it’s cold when it should be warm, or the cooks / preparers forgot to add or remove an ingredient, or etc.) is a ticket to heaven? ¿what if revolution and standing up for what you believe in is a ticket to heaven? ¿what if using your voice is a ticket to heaven? ¿what if using your privilege to protect others is a ticket to heaven?

¿what if self-love and self-respect are a ticket to heaven?

¿what if love and respect and unity are holy and lead to heaven, but hate and division and ignorance and complacency lead to hell?

¿what if the reason it’s a staircase to heaven is because you have to evolve and heal and grow as a person, to resist and re-evaluate instinctual feelings (and written languages, and spoken languages, and thoughts) before acting upon them, and that takes a lot of work?

¿what is the whole point is to show God you are willing to work on yourself and build connection with others before you are allowed into his home and around his children (angels, beloved pets, and other deceased souls)?

¿what if it’s a highway to hell because you can stay complacent and blind and are easily manipulated (highway hypnosis), and because you can hurt animals and people easily, and because you’re on autopilot and instinct and thoughtless power saving mode, all of which are easy and require very little from you?

¿what if it’s a highway to hell because you can crash blindly through wilderness, through homes, through living beings, and hardly notice a bump in the road? ¿what if mindlessness and carelessness are the fuel (gas, battery power, etc.) to drive to hell?

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¿Do you hear me? ¿Do you understand?

(Also semi seriously, ¿should I start a branch of Christianity / a church based around this concept, with its own commandments that are freeing and gentle and loving?)

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~Nico (he/they)

[undefeatablesin]

Meanwhile, at Oedon Chapel 🌙

[sheepcreature]

AGH.