#the bible

[rpftourney]

Best RPF Ship - Round 6 Match 2

[siren-stories]

I'm about to say something controversial, be warned. It is my personal assumption, based on Jesus' own account of himself in Revelation, "I am the Alpha, and the Omega" that when God took form in Eden, the form he took looked like the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth. He formed a man in His outer material form, took a bit of that and formed a woman in His inner spiritual form. This is why all throughout the Bible, men have to ascend a mountain, persecute His children or fight Him on the road to have a chance meeting with God and God comes to women where they are. In a sense He lived as an aroace would because He already created all things, humanity is His child. When He lived He took no wives and sired no children and was sinless in flesh and spirit. The sacrificial lamb. He is known by many names but I'm sure He make a great Representative of aroace people. It's very common historically to show faith by celibacy. He commanded us to love, He never said it had to require intimacy.

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

but.

what about aroace jesus?

i feel like aroace jesus would cook

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[libraryfag]

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

[joireblogstohidefromfelonies]

Bible lore save me Bible lore

jayvik nation i fear delusion is key right now…NEVER forget the biblical references at hand okay…judas was MISGUIDED and CONFUSED and jesus KNEW and WANTED JUDAS TO BETRAY HIM in the GARDEN of gethsemane…so he could DIE and come back STRONGER…ALL HOPE IS NOT LOST

[1-jar-of-stars]

Biblical Parents 002.

[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[...]

[rpftourney]

Best RPF Ship - Round 1 Match 19

[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]

[godslove]

¹⁷ “You can throw us into the blazing furnace. The God we serve is able to save us from the furnace and your power. If He does this, it is good. ¹⁸ But even if God does not save us, we want you, our king, to know this: We will not serve your gods. We will not worship the gold statue you have set up.”

—‭‭Daniel 3:17-18

[autisticexpression2]

Really reaching with this one.

You don't have to abandon your faith to support freedom of religion for all, which includes freedom from religion as well. What the book of Genesis has to say on anything should have no bearing on legislation.

AMEN.

[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.

[mysharona1987]

MAGA Christians: “It’s alright to drown Jesus, right?”

[manybackflips]

Me leaving the function after releasing the 57 parrots who I taught to sing the entire Old Testament in Mandarin Chinese