#the bible

[iwillsingforhim]

I was flipping through the Bible and my favorite verse popped up:)

Anyway if you see this you have to reblog and tag with a delight from ur day -- even the littlest thing counts

[creature-wizard]

Neville Goddard and Law of Assumption coaches: "Everything we're teaching you is in the Bible! You can have anything you want if you just manifest it! You can make yourself rich overnight!"

Meanwhile, the actual Bible (NKJV translation; IE, the translation Neville Goddard quote mined from):

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. (1 Timothy 6:9-10)

Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” (Hebrews 3:5)

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. (James 5:1-3)

Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. (Matthew 6:19-20)

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36)

[lovelazarus]

the Bible is just a Jesus X Judas hurt/comfort MCD slowburn.

[tajcox]

[chandeleurkm]

Jedus

Best RPF Ship - FINAL!

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[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.

[friendrat]

Random guy from Jesus hometown who has no clue what's happening sees a huge crowd gathered. He goes to see what's up. He sees the person everyone is gathered around is just the carpenter. He is now very confused.

Do you think Jesus ever got many carpenter requests after he started preaching? Like did anyone ever go up to him and be like; "My Lord! My Lord!" And the disciples are all: "The Master won't do anymore miracles today." But obviously Jesus is like; "Yes, my child?" And they just ask what his basic rate is to fix their door.

[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

[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

[faithful-grigori]

”#kadkdkaldk, #im gonna try to be gracious here and go out on a limb, #and assume the woman meant all the suffering leading up to the dying, #he survived the flogging the crown of thorns the carrying of the cross etc, #as she said in that tweet, #though I don't think 'surviving hours on the cross and being stabbed' is a valid argument, #cause he definitely quickly died from those, #and if I'm not mistaken they stabbed him to kill him faster anyway, #people WOULD spend hours slowly agonizingly suffering on the cross, #it was awful, #Jesus is 'manly' and 'strong men' are important, #but manliness is divisive on the internet so you need to define what those statements mean, #Jesus was a leader and a teacher - essentially a shepherd, #a good one that watched out for his entire flock, #he was not aggressive and did not assert dominance over his followers (he didn't need to really lol), #but he was firm in what he said (why wouldn't he be? he always spoke the truth), #he stood firm against the devil's temptation, #he showed kindness and mercy to the adulteress#he also told her 'go and sin no more', #and of course let's not forget, #Jesus wept, #he wept when Mary and Martha led him to Lazarus's tomb and were themselves weeping, #it deeply troubled him, #and he wept, #I'm sure there's a lot to unpack from it but one hing's for certain - Jesus is very sympathetic and empathetic, #and there's tons more to say in general but I just woke up#but anyway, #all these things among others are what Jesus was, #and imo as a woman - when men are called to be like Jesus this is how they should be, #this^ is the kind of strong men we need”

@inneskeeper this seems relevant to your interests

BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! SHE DOIBLES DOWN!

[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[...]

[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.