Just-Christian-Thoughts

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[just-xtian-thoughts]

Not that anyone cares, but all these personal insults being hurled around across political camps, especially the ones with ablest slurs, are in violation of Matthew 5:22

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I feel like Christ's "adultery of the heart" and 'removing-body-parts-that-cause-sin' lectures were given as examples of why thought-policing is so infeasible...

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How can any country be "God's' country," on a planet that belongs to satan?

[saywhat-politics]

“Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated, but I’m overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America at half-staff calling this nation to honor and venerate a man who was an unapologetic racist.”

– Pastor Howard-John Wesley, Alfred Street Baptist Church

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Racism is like "Bearing False Witness" against whole nations of people...

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Anyone remember the blasphemy challenge?

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Has there been any suggestion, that the "days" were intervals between the moments of his building of the universe, instead of during those moments?

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Hyprocracy is like an inverse-war-of-attrition

[charlesoberonn]

[abortionlover]

@noonesgaylikegatson your post has not left my mind since you made it. I see it everywhere.

[just-xtian-thoughts]

I've been kinda reading all this like they're trying to re-live the Old Testament.

The past decade of taking over the Supreme Court was their "Book of Judges," and now they've jumped into the book of Kings...

[vexwerewolf]

I genuinely think there was no greater insight into the modern Christian mindset than when the Pope said he very much hoped Hell was empty and he was absolutely hounded by both Catholics and Protestants outraged at the idea of a man who wanted a place of infinite suffering to have nobody in it.

[just-xtian-thoughts]

I'm really loving Sefaria

[sweetdreamspootypie]

Do not quit alcohol cold turkey

Do not suddenly stop drinking alcohol as a new years resolution if you have been consistently using alcohol most days

Your body gets used to the presence of the alcohol as a sedative in your system

Suddenly removing the sedative you are chemically accustomed to is like suddenly removing the wall you are leaning on - you will topple over

You brain electricity gets overexcited

This causes seizures

This causes sudden onset dementia (Wernicke's encephalopathy)

This causes brain damage

If you use alcohol often (even in moderate amounts)

Or in large amounts

Or you have ever noticed you get shakey tremors and anxious when you stop drinking

Then your body is chemically dependant and you need to be very careful coming off alcohol otherwise you will cause brain damage

Slowly wean down the amount you drink over days or weeks

Talk to a doctor about your goals to quit and ask about support options

Medically supported withdrawal is a lot safer

If alcohol withdrawal goes badly there is a 15% chance it will kill you.

Do not go this alone

You deserve to be safe

[sweetdreamspootypie]

Please reblog this or other similar posts and talk about it with people around you

Support your friends to be safe

[felinesassosaurus]

Remember the Cold Turkey Rule:

Quitting drugs can make you feel like you're dying

Quitting alcohol can make you actually die

Do No Do This Alone

You Are Worth Helping

[just-xtian-thoughts]

I've yet to hear any preacher, theologian, touch upon the accounts of Satan's temptations of Jesus, as a framework for handling bible quote VS bible quote debates…

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Thinking about that whichever-irate-right-wingnut whobwas complaining that it was considered "hate speech" to go around saying that "the Jews killed Jesus."

And how, the very same bibble-thumping peoples are even quicker to cry out to the government for bloodshed for righteousness' sake, than the mobs who lobbied for crucifying a Jew, millennia ago.

It truly seems that the mightiest hand in the devil's arsenal, is playing the card of "righteous indignation."

Though giving out "bad-faith" intrepations seems to be his M.O, but that's for another post...

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Seriously though, why did God have to make Satan o̲u̲r̲ problem? He could have fallen literally anywhere else.

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The majority of the "Biblical Figures" weren't even Christian.

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Riding Into Wars And Rumors Of Wars

I don't know where to find the list of every established rule for "interpreting scripture," but if there's anything regarding "multiple interpretations that are all correct," I hope that this is one of them. "The four horsemen of the apocalypse" is now and infamous Biblical reference that's probably especially popular today with the apocalypse being at the forefront of the minds of millennials and zoomers (especially on Tumblr). I haven't been exposed to much in the way of sermons or modern day teachings regarding these riders however. But after hearing the same cycle of news reports of the tragedies occurring in Syria (I've been meaning to write this since way back then, but what I've been seeing in Ukraine also applies), in the order that they were being reported, I've come to wonder something. I've been told of sermons about the mixed-material sculpture in Daniel being applied to the cycle of empires past present and future…What if the "four horsemen" applied to the cycles of war in the exact same way? The rider on the white horse: your everyday greedy leaders; your dictators; your Hitlers, Putins, and Kissingers. The driving incentive of wars that aren't civil wars, always seems to come not from a sense of desperation, but from an insatiable desire for "conquering and to conquer." And from acting on that desire does war start. And the rider of the red horse takes the stage, as does the ensuing violence and bloodshed. The rider of the black horse has come to represent "famine" in popular culture, because of the specific mentions of "wheat," "barley," "oil," and "wine." But it could also be referring to "poverty." The waste war lays to land and resources. The money spent on troops and weapons. And also because of that waste does medical aid become scarce. Leading to rises in common diseases and infections that are no longer treatable and rapidly spread. Naturally, that becomes the time that the rider on the pale horse of death strikes. Deaths came from the other three, but not as aggressively as plagues and famine are known to be. As I implied earlier I feel this is a complementary interpretation. This passage may still be pertaining to singular, specific events in the future to come, but they also bear an uncanny resemblance to patterns seen throughout humanity's history, past and present. Specifically, the horrors of every war ever waged and their aftermath(s). That it can represent both makes these revelations all that more impressive to me…