#the bible

[ricks-brainspew-blog]

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him.

Genesis 1:27

The Christian God made humans patterned after himself, so at least for Christianity, humans can be considered the same species as God.

Of course I doubt this would be taken seriously as a theological argument.

i would cannibalize god's rotting corpse. if the opportunity arose

[gender-thief2]

realizing a song you liked as a kid is about sex is how i imagine jesus felt when judas betrayed him

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

@eucatastrophicblues

Samantha Joy Groff (American, 1993) - Two Are in the Field; One Will Be Taken, the Other Left (2024)

[ace8space]

so. people have entertained the idea of gay jesus (religious trauma amiright?) .

but.

what about aroace jesus?

i feel like aroace jesus would cook

[1-jar-of-stars]

Biblical Parents 002.

[libraryfag]

guy who's only knowledge of the bible is from sufjan steven's Seven Swans talking to a christian: great stuff man. favourite part was when that guy swam across Lake Michigan

[atheostic]

Christianity:

A woman is spiritually unclean after giving birth, and she's unclean twice as long if she gave birth to a girl vs a boy.

Women should obey their husbands.

The man is the head of the household.

Female Hebrew slaves are not to go free like their male counterparts; the only way for her to go free is if she sexually pleases her master or he gives her to his son to marry.

Women are classified as objects in one of the ten commandments (Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's possessions; his wife, slaves, oxen, or house).

That's totally the same as being equal, right?

[m4el-1t0]

From Gilgamesh and Enkidu to Achilles and Patroclus and then David and Jonathan the most prevalent thing in human history we have been warned about are homoerotic codependent friendships and yet you keep talking to the guy you met at 19

[nyuiarantes]

A short comic based on a passage in Acts of John, an apocryphal christian writing from the second century CE. I really enjoy the way it's written as a first person account of the travels of Saint John, it's very lovely:

113 O thou who hast kept me until this hour for thyself and untouched by union with a woman: who when in my youth I desired to marry didst appear unto me and say to me: John I have need of thee: who didst prepare for me also a sickness of the body: who when for the third time I would marry didst forthwith prevent me, and then at the third hour of the day saidst unto me on the sea: John, if thou hadst not been mine, I would have suffered thee to marry: who for two years didst blind me, and grant me to mourn and entreat thee: who in the third year didst open the eyes of my mind and also grant me my visible eyes: who when I saw clearly didst ordain that it should be grievous to me to look upon a woman[...] who didst make my love of thee spotless: who didst make my joining unto thee perfect and unbroken: who didst give me undoubting faith in thee, who didst order and make clear my inclination toward thee[...]

[fortressofserenity]

Lord, please save them, amen.

Please say prayers for my family.

[upliftingwords]

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

Other Christians: Yeah I’m a Christian, but don’t worry, I’m normal.

Meanwhile, Christian Tumblr: I worship a triune God who emptied themself to become a human. He was born a poor teenager and grew up in poverty and at risk of homelessness. He was fully God and fully Human. He taught and lived in radical indiscriminate self giving love and subversive peaceful resistance of oppression. He fought the cause of the widow, orphan, immigrant, poor, and oppressed. He loved the sinner so much they left their sin and followed him, and reconciled both the government allying capitalist and the rebel freedom fighter to harmony in himself. He invites us to take his prescience into ourselves by eating his flesh and drinking his blood. My God then enthroned himself as the exalted king of the world by dying the death of a cursed blaspheming slave. He then rose from the dead and decided his first witnesses would be women, whose witness is worthless in court. His followers then went on to live in voluntary communism, to advocate radical generosity, to destroy ethnic barriers, to elevate the inherent humanity of women and the enslaved, to self identify as exiled and enslaved refugees and pilgrims, to equate God with Love, to diagnose the government as a necessary evil worth responding to with equal parts submission and resistance, and to make the preposterous claim that we conquer the world by giving our lives in self sacrificing love. In my faith, normalcy is heresy.

[tajcox]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Hans Memling (German-Flemish, 1430-1494) Triptych with Saint John of Patmos, 1479 Memlingmuseum, Museum St John’s Hospital, Bruges The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament. Written in Koine Greek, its title is derived from the first word of the text: apokalypsis, meaning 'unveiling' or 'revelation'. The Book of Revelation is the only apocalyptic book in the New Testament canon.