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The Apocalypse Deck is here in time for #Christmas. #TheEndOfTheWorld #christmasgift #realbibletalk #Bible https://www.instagram.com/p/CID8FCQhINS/?igshid=4hbwfbjmjbzs

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#wheresthelie? #realbibletalk #Bible https://www.instagram.com/p/BzPFZFKBmzz/?igshid=1fj8dtzc43ba6

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This is just an example of where we start when putting together a Card Talk. #comingsoon #Leviticus and the #deathpenalty ! #blogging #realbibletalk #Bible #theology #nerds https://www.instagram.com/agameforgoodchristians/p/BzGKQN4hBE0/?igshid=1jjs61han1r3g

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Guess whose favorite verse this would be if he could read? #45 #bible #agameforgoodchristians #alternativefacts #dailybibleverse #realbibletalk #gentrification

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A Game for Good Christians: Expansion Decks!!!

A Game for Good Christians is pleased to announce the release of two (2)  new Expansion Decks! You now have the opportunity to pre-order the

“Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” Expansion Deck with such biblical gems like:

Your father being your grandfather and uncle (Genesis 19:30-38)

Being liable for morons falling off your roof (Deuteronomy 22:8)

Loving God while not being a dick to everyone else (The whole sum of the Law, the Prophets, and the Gospel)

And The Wisdom Books Expansion Deck (with content taken from the books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Songs of Solomon) with sage words like:

You: an arrow from your father's quiver  (Psalm 127:4-5)

A virtuous woman as defined by old Jewish men (Proverbs 31)

Going down to the nut orchard (Song of Solomon 6:11) 

But wait: there’s more: If you pre-order by August 15st you can receive discounted prices for both expansion decks AND a personalized bonus: a custom card with your name on it! 

Expansion decks are slated to ship in mid-September, but order now to get the discount and the personalized card! Thanks for your support,and tell your friends!

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Hebrew Erotica Masquerading as Christ's Bride (Song of Solomon)

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Trigger warning: Might not be suitable for repressed, conservative Christians offended by truth and puns (#realBibletalk)

Songs of Solomon is not about Christ’s love for the Church, but you can read it that way if you want:

You can create spiritual culminations from the gentle caress of words; find ecstasy in the tangled tongues and lips, pressed together like the mountainous breasts deer play on in the text.

You can regale your heart with how Jesus’ banner covers you with words of love; how He fills your mouth, sates your appetite, with every good thing: apples and figs of Scripture, milk and honey of comfort, an embrace with hole filled hands under your head and in the small of your back.

You can come to an understanding that God is intimately in love with you, wants a deep and penetrating relationship with all people; how God wants to shower us all with fragrance stronger than spices.

You can revel in God describing the your whole castle of your body, head to toe, not skipping your most secret, damp corners.

But that is not how the writers wrote the text. They were not thinking about Jesus. And we have a hard time with the “they were writing about Him without knowing they were” argument. Do you really want to posit that God used this medium to communicate deep truths about relationship with the Divine because even God knows “sex sells”?

The debate about why/how the book even made it into the Bible has been hard fought. The traditions that there is a deeper allegorical or anagogical meaning that ties humanity to the Divine are just as old— as famously stated by R. Akiba: “for all the ages are not worth the day on which the Song of Songs was given to Israel; for all the Ketuvim are holy, but the Song of Songs is the Holy of Holies.” Thus we theists posit that the text is about YHWH and Israel, Christ and the Church, the pious Jew and the Sabbath, the Logos and the soul, Tiferet and Shekhinah.  And on and on, world without end.

But why can’t these books be holy while still simply speaking of human love and romance? Is it because we’ve regulated sexuality to the basest, vilest, unspeakable regions of the theistic experience; sex has gotten so much bad press, that a book in the Bible cannot be only speaking about sensuality? As if sexuality wasn’t also created by God.

Perhaps we can regain an understanding of these holy words as love poems taken from wedding rituals, folk traditions, an amorously appropriate poet, or maybe even King Solomon himself, not sexed up theological musing about Jesus’ love for you.

However, if you need that sort of intimacy with your deity, by all means, have at it. At least God will call you in the morning.

But what do we know: we made this game, and you probably think we’re going to Hell. A sexy, sexy Hell.

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Pentecost: too early in the morning to be drunk, but who can tell? (Acts 2:15)

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When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place . . . all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. . . .   All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.” . . .

But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them . . .“Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.” ~ (Act 2:1; 4; 12-13; 14a; 15, NRSV. Full text here.)

This is the greatest answer to a disbelief in the power of God ever displayed in the Bible. And of course it comes from Peter: ADD/ADHD, impulse-control-issued, Christ-denying-but-getting-his-groove-back, blue-collar fisherman, shitty-sword-swinging Peter.

“Well yeah, we COULD be drunk, and I’m not saying that I haven’t had a few already, but damn, it’s 9am: we’ve got $h!t to do today. We don’t get drunk this early, but come shabbos all bets are off. But seriously though, this is the work of the LORD. If you read in the prophet Joel . . .”

Only Peter would start with addressing the alcohol question before quoting Torah.

And on this rock the church is built.

But what do we know: we made this game and you probably think we’re going to hell.

Little known fact: Family Guy’s Peter Griffin is loosely based on the Apostle Peter. No he’s not! What’s wrong with you?!

Buy this game: you can play while drinking, communion wine. Yeah. Communion wine.

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