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[despazito]

[velvetcloak]

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[doubting-devotion]

Guys…is this a safe space to say that I find depictions of a blue-eyed Jesus a bit…off putting?

[animentality]

[daughter-of-mary]

Please pray for Amanda Todd’s soul

TW: suicide and bullying

She committed suicide more than a decade ago due to being severely bullied. I have been continuously thinking about her for years. Please pray for her friends and family too

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[myinsolence]

and THANKS for not using ai

[animentality]

[mysticismmess]

This may seem a bit stupid but how do we go about believing being gay is not a sin. The Bible kind says it is in some parts, and whilst I like to counter the argument by saying, yeah and the Bible also forbids you from eating bacon…I dunno. I would like to find something more definitive other than “Almost nobody practices levitical law in modern society” as an argument FOR lgbt people.

This is about renegotiating an approach to scripture, more than anything else. If we look for affirmation of lgbtq+ identities in a text that was written by flawed human beings in a context where those identities were understood in a fundamentally different way, we won't find it. The same applies to biblical passages about marriage and heterosexual relationships. They operate in a completely different cultural and historical context, so we have to use critical thinking.

Quite frankly, the Bible has very little to say on sexuality of any kind at all. When it does come up, it's usually tied to some kind of other sin and presented as a kind of comorbid thing (and we can safely say Paul's opinions on the matter were personal views anyway). We have blown it out of proportion and hyperfixated on it culturally for so long, that we ignore the MANY very explicit passages about financial sins in favour of reading wole encyclopedias' worth of meaning into passages about sexuality, for example.

The Bible primarily teaches us the nature of God, and His approach to humans. What I have learned from the Gospels, in particular, is that God values us treating each other with love, respect, dignity, and humility. There is absolutely nothing to indicate that being in a loving, consensual relationship with someone of the same sex is something that would violate God's desires for us. In fact, to me, the very fact that people of all sexualities are born with the capacity for love beyond mere procreative need is a sign of God's grace and the beauty of the world we live in.

The Bible as a text is not God. God can be found within it, but you have to use your God-given capacity for reason to discern His presence and evaluate the text for what it is.

God is not frozen in time on the pages of a collection of books written 2000 years ago but an active and loving presence in our daily life.

[thuesdaynightdykelife]

I love being friends with prostitutes and transsexuals and artists and drug dealers and perverts and queers

[enki2]

[carpetenebras]

No you don’t understand how frustrated I am that we always depicted the Apostles as old men, especially when it comes to during-Jesus-alive stuff.

They were probably late teens to early 20s, given the time and the description and some Biblical passages.

They were not ancient old men with long beards and wrinkles at the Last Supper.

They were young adult rebels with a cause.

[shadowstep-of-bast]

where my punk-rock apostles at

[vikingqueen]

I can’t remember where, but the bible says that Jesus was the only one who was old enough to pay the temple tax required by Jewish law, none of the disciples had hit that age. A quick google tells me that Jewish men pay it from the age of 20 - all of the disciples were teenagers.

[nillions]

Not all of them! Matthew 17:24-27 addresses the issue of the temple tax, in which Jesus tells Peter to get a four-drachma piece from a fish’s mouth to account “for my tax and yours”. In addition, Peter is the only person directly mentioned to have a mother-in-law; Jesus heals her in according to three accounts (Matthew 8:14-17, Mark 1:29-31, and Luke 4:38).

So! The “Disciples were ancient old men with long beards and wrinkles" factoid is actually just statistical error. The average disciple was under 20. Simon Peter, who lived with his mother-in-law and his fishing boat and payed the temple tax was an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[battlebunnyviktor-blog]

#did i just see a spiders georg meme backed up with chapter and verse citations 

[ohholydyke]

“Minimalist nativity sets can’t hurt you”

Minimalist nativity sets:

[psalms-and-spells]

The beauty of the naivety is partly because it was dirty, and they were REAL people in a very REAL situation. Like… why would you want to simplify the LIVING EMBODIMENT OF GOD??? The fact that him coming to this earth wasn’t pristine. It was out of place. It was dirty and rough.

And it should look like that on your dining room table goddamn it!

[shacalraven]

he's nice to draw

[jesus-son-of-man]

Jesus of Bethlehem, Palestine

[christslamb]

[twinsfawn]

anyone else feel like there will always be a veil of separation between them and the rest of the world and that they’ll never actually be understood or is that just me

[stuckinapril]

*Looking at you with no emotion in my eyes* I am normal about failure and I don’t grieve every single thing that has deeply touched me even if it’s no longer in my life

[makovnik69]

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