WE HAVE NOTHING, IF NOT BELIEF

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[aslansdelight]

JESUS DEMANDS EXCLUSIVE RIGHT AND CONTROL OVER THE INNER SANCTUARY OF YOUR SOUL! Beware of idolatry!

Meister Eckhart argued that the Temple (the human soul) must be perfectly empty, silent, and entirely detached from worldly distractions, to achieve union with God.

Lots of Christians rely on a "quid pro quo" spirituality. These are individuals who perform good deeds—such as prayer or fasting—purely to gain rewards, comfort, or something in return, effectively treating God as a business partner and their faith as a transaction, for they are perfoming spiritual acts with a hidden desire for spiritual prestige, recognition, or a sense of personal ownership.

Even though these things are not sins, they are still "things." If you love your own feelings of piety, or if you are attached to specific concepts of God, you are still filling the temple with objects; and God cannot actually enter. You are not loving God; you are loving the thing you want from God. Eckhart argues that making God a means to an end is a subtle form of idolatry. You have replaced the absolute, unknowable God with a transactional idol of your own desire.

Eckhart states that God is No-thing (Nicht). To truly know God, you must undergo Entbildang—a German word Eckhart coined which means "de-formation" or "un-imaging" of the Ego (the self). This is the only state pure enough to match God. Only when you stop trying to "picture" God can the real, uncreated God actually be born inside you.

The ultimate prayer is to ask God to rid you of "God" (the idol/image of God you created in your head).

— Eckhart, Meister. "Sermon 1: Intravit Iesus in templum." In Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense. Translated by Edmund Colledge and Bernard McGinn. New York: Paulist Press, 1981.

[transgendercoolcat]

💖 Help me take Baby Girl to vet 💖

Hi everyone. As many of you may know, this is a blog strictly for my cat Baby Girl. Currently I'm diagnosed with a terminal illness and have been unable to work due to being on dialysis 7 days a week. When I adopted Baby Girl from the shelter, I had a job so could afford vet bills, etc.

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[aslansdelight]

Please pray for this woman, that she may enjoy the best possible health and be able to raise funds to take her cat to the vet. Any additional help, whether by donating or simply reblogging, would be great!

[aslansdelight]

Anyone who claims that mental suffering (mental illness) matches the severity and the sheer brutality of physical suffering is harboring a delusion so profound it borders on the grotesque. People who say that don't know the first thing about real suffering and I'm not arguing about it.

They take for granted the privilege of having an untroubled body, free of chronic pain; that they can go on a walk for the sake of it, grab a coffee, sit on whatever uncomfortable chair is available for hours, and go home without a care. They don't have to worry if lying down in their own bed later is going to feel like being tortured.

They get to just.. live comfortably in their skin, without their body betraying them. Must be nice!

So yeah, don't talk to me about 'equal suffering' until your own body turns into your cell. :)

[aslansdelight]

Here are two photos of one of my four cats, Susie. In the first one, she's relaxing near the heater because of the winter, haha.

[aslansdelight]

Thinking again of C.S. Lewis when he said that it's very easy to love, especially benevolently, when things are going well and nothing bothers you. The real challenge, and therefore true love, lies in another plane entirely.

The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.

— C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

[themariandevotion]

(saying it slowly for the people in the back)

There is no such thing as a Christian Witch ♥️

[aslansdelight]

It made me a little sad to hear from the priest during today's mass that certain things, considered sinful, are justified if there is anxiety involved because that is "illness". Is it that compulsive pleasure is sought when one is well?

No one becomes an alcoholic, or desperately wants to have sex, with whomever and whenever, if deep down there is no emptiness that seeks to be filled and a discomfort that one wants to avoid at all costs. Psychological suffering is not an illness that can be cured pharmacologically or externally in the form of therapy and excuses certain acts..

[aslansdelight]

Jesús Misericordioso (Merciful Jesus)

⛪ Catedral de los Santos Justo y Pastor. San Justo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[aslansdelight]

If truth be told, I hold that the only authentic "necessity" for sexual union within a romantic relationship, is the profound duty of procreation. I am well aware, of course, that such a conviction instantly consigns me (and anyone else who happens to agree with me) to the fringes of modern thought, branded an extremist even by fellow Catholics, who predictably decry it as a "puritanical repression of pleasure!".

Ah, yes—the sublime pleasure of enduring one’s days enslaved by a state of restless frustration, perpetually laboring to appease a physical compulsion born of sheer existential vacuity. Splendid, really.

They have now reframed intimacy as 'merely another expression of love.' A sentiment I don't entirely disagree with. Yet, if it is truly nothing more than an optional dialect of love, among many, then why do they cling to it as an absolute necessity? It is utterly comical.

[aurynne]

so many people love the concept of Jesus more than Jesus Himself. as soon as you start quoting the things He said besides “love your neighbor,” suddenly there’s a problem. they want the nice, passive Jesus that’s in their head, but not the loving yet firm Jesus that’s in the bible.

[aurynne]

you cannot claim to love God but be opposed to what He has to really say. we need to read the scriptures and be open to seeing things the way God sees them as opposed to how we’re used to seeing them.

[aslansdelight]

Jesus with children! 🥺🥺🥺

— Jesus of Nazareth, directed by Franco Zeffirelli (1977).

[aslansdelight]

[apenitentialprayer]

A domesticated Jesus who sounds like us, makes us comfortable, and commends our opinions is no Jesus at all.

Dale Allison, Jr. (The Historical Christ and Theological Jesus, page 90)

[herrevivalblog]

Your flesh doesn't care about your eternity because it's not going with you.

[thomastanker02]

When browsing Pinterest, I keep seeing posts where Jesus is standing with gods from other cultures (Brahma, Zeus, etc.) claiming that “they’re all friends".

I don’t meant to offend anyone who makes or likes these posts, but that’s is entirely incorrect.

For anyone who reads the Bible, God makes it very clear that He hates idolatry. While He does hate every other sin as well, idolatry is the only one that He compares to adultery (Hosea 1:2 & 3:1, Jeremiah 3:8-9, Isaiah 57:7-8). This means that worship for God is not only something personal, but it’s the avenue through which we experience the deepest form of intimacy with our Creator.

God is the lover of our souls, and He has always remained faithful to us even when we’ve abandoned Him for false gods who will not satisfy us. If God views idolatry the same way you would view your spouse cheating on you, then it’s wise to take it serious.

This teaching is also false because we were never intended to be satisfied other than in God. The Bible consistently teaches that the world will not satisfy us, and choosing the world over God will lead to death, both spiritually and physically (see Matthew 16:26).

We obviously see this with things like drug addiction, gambling, constant partying, lust, etc. but the enemy is way more subtle than that. He can work through things that have become normalized in our society, and thus, go undetected; constant shopping, doom scrolling, over eating, etc. Why would gods created by humanity fill what’s supposed be filled with the divine?

Lastly, this teaching honestly just doesn’t make any sense.

To say that Jesus is friends with other gods is to say that either all of them exist (a teaching God is very against) or that none of them do (which isn’t much better).

This teaching implies that no god is real, and that everyone who prays to them, Christians included, are wasting their time. It’s saying what really matters is how you improve as a person here and now, foregoing the essential Christian teaching how you live your life here will drastically affect your time in eternity. It’s saying to only think about the here and now, which is exactly the type of thinking many of the other sins listed above promote.

God is not friends with what takes His children away from Him. Jesus will not tolerate those who receive the love and devotion that was meant for Him. The Holy Spirit will not fill and guide those who are determined to follow the ways of the world, this teaching included.

Jesus is the only true God, and He will share His place with any other.

God bless, Jesus loves you ✝️❤️

[the-big-mood]

At Toba aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[chryza]

literally in tears at this video....such good helpers......

[aslansdelight]

It's terribly cold here in Argentina, it chills you to the bone; even more so for someone as sensitive to the cold as me, haha. And it's barely autumn! 😣

At least I have my beloved Susie to cuddle with. (⁠ʃ⁠ƪ⁠＾⁠3⁠＾⁠）