Live By Faith

Hello! My name is Ashley and I am returning to Christ after straying away from the church as a teenager. I'd love to talk about the Bible!

[parsiancheese-deactivated202508]

For people who had ‘problems’ with Christianity, and became an athiest or converted.

Now I’ve been an athiest at times, when I didn’t understand theology and the true aspects of the Bible. Though, Christ had led me back with even more knowledge and wisdom.

So, I’m not gonna gatekeep but I want to share some advice if you want to delve and understand Christianity more. Without cherrypicking bible verses out of context, and using it as baseless arguments. Also the fact most evangelicals/pastors can contort someone’s view of Christ and Christianity, and eventually mislead them.

Here are some recommendations for more understanding:

Learn about Christian apologetics and the community (mainly on Tiktok) —— (recs: OrthoTruth, Sam Shamoun, InspiringPhilosophy, Cliffe Knetchle.)

Theology, and the understandings of doctrines. Don’t always get your facts from randos online if they dont state any scholarly sources and such. Basics: Hypostatic Union, how the trinity/triune God works. (I’ll make a post about this)

Inner Peace, How to deal with sin, and the lovingness and faithfulness of Christianity (recs: Father Spyridon)

Read the Bible, and use BibleRef.com to answer any questions you have about verses

Scholarly Books to deepen understanding (I’ll also make a post about this!)

May God bless you wherever you are. True knowledge is beautiful, and can lead to innate spiritual fruition. This can secure your faith and you can also use it to secure others!

[anxeious]

[ysabelmystic]

I just heard my mom tell my brother, “when you die, you will go outside and garden until your father says you’re done” and it took me a second to realize that my brother was playing a videogame and this was not a theological discussion.

[martianaviator]

Purgatory

[sharper-and-bigger]

The Garden of Death

Watercolor and gouache by Hugo Simberg, 1896

[naamahdarling]

“Gone outside to garden” is a strangely affecting euphemism for death.

[rylandsgrace]

This is cinema actually

[artist-issues]

You thought when people painted the "someday you're going to have to choose, for real, between the World and God, you won't be able to walk the line between both" picture that they were talking about martyrdom.

Some extreme. "Trample this picture of Jesus." "Say you don't believe!" "Convert to a different religion!"

You didn't realize that it wouldn't look like that. You didn't realize that when the line gets drawn in the sand, and Jesus is on one side, the other side would look like crying people wailing out, "why can't you just accept me for who I am? Why aren't I enough for you?"

You didn't realize that the choice would be between Jesus the Truth...or a majority of people in the culture making movies, letting t-shirt designs, changing their names, gently telling you that maybe this word in the Bible doesn't mean what you think it means, maybe love just means love, maybe you can have Jesus and whatever sexuality you want.

"Did God really say...?"

You thought it would be something overt. But the bad guys never said, "hey, choose the dark side over the light." They always said, "hey, maybe you don't even know what Jesus said."

The choice is: "It is the Lord. Let Him do what seems good to Him." OR "Did God really say...?"

That's the choice. This is where the rubber meets the road. This is our "choose this day who you will serve." As for me, I'm serving the Lord, and He's holding on to me. He never changes, and yes He did really say.

Hold fast to the truth. It doesn't change. People and cultures do.

[greenleavesandwarmbreezes]

#its like. literally the first thing the devil tried#'did God really say that you could not eat from all the trees in the garden?'#not only that but he twisted it so it sounded harsh#he didn't say 'you cant eat from THIS tree but you can still eat from ALL the others'#he guided Eve's attention to what she did not have instead of all that she DID have#we have to keep in mind what God has said because LITERALLY the oldest trick in the book is making us doubt it

[greater-than-the-sword]

And you're going to be made out as the bad guy.

“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.

Matthew 5:11 ESV

You are going to be the bad guy in their narrative. It is not unchristian to become the bad guy in somebody's narrative. It's one of the most Christian things there is.

[anxeious]

[flowerehab]

REBLOG IF YOU THINK IS OKAY FOR  A BOY  READ AND/OR WRITE FANFICTION

I’m trying to make a point to a friend

[caramel-phantasies]

REBLOG

[latenightdork]

REBLOGGING this again bc FANFICTION! ISN’T! GENDERED!

[honeyjarhowell]

I CLICKED REBLOG I INSTANT I READ THE TITLE

[hidingoutbackstage]

Some of my faves were written by @xxsilver-wraithxx

[embergeist]

Definitely.

[megasenticentus]

Why the fuck not?

[internet-tears]

Why would boys NOT read or write fanfics?

[whats-a-queen-without-a-king]

They have a point

[cardbox-productions]

I don’t care what gender you identify as, you can read and write fanfics regardless of who you are

[amazingsam9]

I’m a boy and I write fanfic all the time lol do whatever ya want fanfic isn’t gendered

[glavilio]

i hate when people defend those horrible monoculture lawns because they don't want bugs outside. like we don't live on planet bug

[philosophybits]

“To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

[flowerytale]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Dr. and Mrs. J.G. Holland (1858)

[onlytiktoks]

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

I was not prepared

[sophsun1]

#about me

Seinfeld – 4.03: The Pitch Ticket

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Thanks but I'm not thirsty.

[square-opossums]

watching gen z and millennials make fun of gen alpha has been torturous. "But they're actually stupid" 1. theyre middle schoolers 2. isn't that what older gens said about us? don't you remember being 11?

it truly is just "impulse reaction to cringe <- has not yet unlearned shame"

the cycle continues let me out of here

guys. guys I think we should kill cringe culture

[patricia-taxxon]

the thing is, if your younger self was a bigot or an abuser, u can't make people forgive you. but you still gotta forgive yourself, like that's non-negotiable, dude. that happens before u can even ask the question of earning forgiveness from anyone lese

[patricia-taxxon]

oops, in your attempt to martyr yourself out of respect for your victims you accidentally sabotaged your own ability to conceptualize yourself as anything but a perpetual evildoer who is always one bad day away from hurting everyone you love, all but guaranteeing history to repeat itself. rookie mistake

[patricia-taxxon]

did you read the post

[greater-than-the-sword]

hmm. if only there was a way to become a new person. oh yes there is!!! It's Jesus!!!!

[redheadedbrunette]

Sci Fi concept: the aliens come to earth, first contact and all that, and when asked why they came, they say they're on pilgrimage because they wanted to see the planet where their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, lived

[artist-issues]

You thought when people painted the "someday you're going to have to choose, for real, between the World and God, you won't be able to walk the line between both" picture that they were talking about martyrdom.

Some extreme. "Trample this picture of Jesus." "Say you don't believe!" "Convert to a different religion!"

You didn't realize that it wouldn't look like that. You didn't realize that when the line gets drawn in the sand, and Jesus is on one side, the other side would look like crying people wailing out, "why can't you just accept me for who I am? Why aren't I enough for you?"

You didn't realize that the choice would be between Jesus the Truth...or a majority of people in the culture making movies, letting t-shirt designs, changing their names, gently telling you that maybe this word in the Bible doesn't mean what you think it means, maybe love just means love, maybe you can have Jesus and whatever sexuality you want.

"Did God really say...?"

You thought it would be something overt. But the bad guys never said, "hey, choose the dark side over the light." They always said, "hey, maybe you don't even know what Jesus said."

The choice is: "It is the Lord. Let Him do what seems good to Him." OR "Did God really say...?"

That's the choice. This is where the rubber meets the road. This is our "choose this day who you will serve." As for me, I'm serving the Lord, and He's holding on to me. He never changes, and yes He did really say.

Hold fast to the truth. It doesn't change. People and cultures do.

[gracefulchristiangirl-deactivat]

If it was a sin 6,000 years ago, 2,000 years ago, or 15 years ago, its still a sin today. It doesn't change because cultural norms do.