Apostate Zophiel

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. And so hail to thyself for I will be my own master

[givemearmstopraywith]

you can't even crucify people anymore. because of Woke

[katabasiss]

do you guys think jesus, the son of a carpenter, smelt the wood of the cross & temporarily thought of home

[hungryfictions]

Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?

[apostatezophiel]

Realistically If Eve was unable to comprehend the difference between good and evil, can we even blame her for not obeying god and being 'seduced' by the serpent? She doesnt understand the difference between right and wrong, so why would God damn her for doing a 'wrong' act if prior to eating the fruit she was unable to tell the difference anyway.

[septmilleneurones]

Oh, I could have SO MUCH FUN with this. So a person not knowing that something is wrong doesn’t mean their actions don’t harm people? That sounds solid. Now let’s talk about all the Good Christians who don’t know why it’s wrong to be fucking homophobic/transphobic/racist/misogynistic/etc.

[apostatezophiel]

Im not even sure how to respond to this to be honest with you.

You're straw-manning what I said 😕 I never claimed an individual being ignorant of the effects of their actions is in any way permissible.

My issue was that God forever damned Eve and every other human on the planet due to her eating the fruit.

This is after God kept the tree within their reach, allowed the devil within the garden, and ultimately watched as she - who was unable to comprehend what 'evil' was seeing as she had never experienced it before in her life and wasn't even equipped to tell the difference between it and good - ate the fruit.

Eve wasn't just *ignorant* too, she had no feasible way of being able to tell what Evil even was. Besides, eating the tree didn't inherently make Eve bad, it opened her eyes which in turn caused them to run from god. It didn't mean she immediately went and harmed someone.

I don't see how your example of Christians being homophobic relates.

Christians living under a doctrine that tells them, same-sex love, is evil and then living within an echo chamber to exacerbate that opinion is not the same as what Eve did/experienced.

[angel-on-the-cutting-room-floor]

[apostatezophiel]

Realistically If Eve was unable to comprehend the difference between good and evil, can we even blame her for not obeying god and being 'seduced' by the serpent? She doesnt understand the difference between right and wrong, so why would God damn her for doing a 'wrong' act if prior to eating the fruit she was unable to tell the difference anyway.

[apostatezophiel]

My biggest problem with God and having a 'personal' relationship with him has always been the idea that we are to love and respect this 'being' more than we love and respect those we are surrounded by.

Its like hearing about stories you have never met and being expected to love this person more than you love your family or those that you interact with on a regular basis. I dont KNOW you. Why should I feel indebted to you when we have never spoken before, we have never interacted or held hands. I have never felt your warmth, nothing tangible has been felt from you. I, of course, when I participated in the church would feel the 'presence of god' while praying. But at the end of the day, I was alone in the room. It was just me crying and praying to myself. There was no god in the room with me.

[sinfordinner]

Prophets always be talkin about "divine intuition", like bro, how about you get some divine bitches?

[theprodigxl-daughter]

woke up and couldn't find anyone and now i have a tummyache and my hands are shaking and I'm only getting calmer because i found my mom. like, one day will i ever recover enough to be able to find myself all alone and not panic thinking I got left behind?

[abdullahsj1]

I know it will pass, but it’s heavy

[deviika]

Fyodor Dostoyevsky // Alanis Morissette

[johnmybelovved]

Being an "ex"-catholic is like. No I don't believe in this anymore. I was just raised in it and it permanently shaped the way I think and feel and generally interact with the world. This is my family and also it's a chain around my neck. I pretend it's not there anymore but yes it is. That one Mulaney bit that's like "'raised catholic' means you're an atheist now but you feel bad about it"... Yeah

[zarathustra-would-be-proud]

[quirkedupautisticbitch]

made this bc i was feel quirky 🥺

[theogvelociraptor-deactivated20]

[apostatezophiel]

I have an issue with the idea that God is never late and works in his own 'perfect timing'. What are you referring to? Is God always on time unless they die? And if they die is it then 'God's plan' as he knows best? Why does he not help those that beg him when he sees how finite our lives are? How many people living in poverty, struggling just to survive, beg and plead for him to 'bless their finances', just for him to ignore them and watch?

[oldfatwarlock]

God is never late. Nor is he early. God arrives precisely when he means to.

😜

[apostatezophiel]

I cannot tell if you are joking or not, so Ill respond as if you are serious.

I wasn't speaking on the punctuality of God, but rather on why he allows things to happen when he has the means to stop them. My confusion is why he allows the prolonged suffering of those he 'loves' when he in every sense of the word is the cure to the disease plaguing them. Pardon the frustration, but really, your response was disappointing to read and felt akin to a child saying "no you".

[traumatizeddfox]

i was his baby why did he do this to me?