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the world, the Bible, every decent Christian I’ve ever spoken to: you know that being a Christian isn’t about rules and is in fact about a relationship with God, right?

me (autistic) (very young): yes! Quick question, how do I do that?

my parents, whom im beginning to realize might have been Mistaken about some things: well obviously you read the Bible and memorize all the rules in it, and if you think something might be right or wrong you check against the rules in the Bible!

me, (again, autistic): ok! Those are definitely different things and not the same thing in a different hat!

Me, recently, (I must stress, so so so autistic) watching the ‘rule’ that you will know someone’s relationship with Christ by the fruits of the spirit and the ‘rule’ that being gay or supporting gay people is morally wrong and you cannot maintain a relationship with God while living in sin like that smash into one another in real time as every actually decent Christian I’ve seen in the past six months has been either Gay or supportive of the LGBTQ: …… oh shit have I been being homophobic and weirdly rules-lawyery the whole time. How the fuck did that happen? Where did the idea that ‘a relationship with God’ equals ‘knowing all the rules and checking everything against them?’ come from?

my parents in actual recent conversation: you cannot trust your understanding of God or your mind to adequately reach out to Him! You cannot trust your relationship with Him to be enough! To be on the safe side you should focus on what you can fully know (the Bible)! This totally isn’t self-contradictory considering you have to rely on your mind to interpret the Bible also!!

me, (very near an autistic meltdown): oh so. Oh so I’ve been faith-by-works-ing my way through this. I saw ‘we cannot fully rely on our own power to know what God wants’ and instead of going ‘so I should Ask Him’ I went ‘so I shouldn’t even try to ask and should instead follow a bunch of mostly made up rules.’ Great. Love that for me. I gotta change that now I fucking guess. Can I at least get a solid answer on whether wanting to marry someone of the same gender is chill or not, because I’m fighting fucking battles right now between my conservative family and my liberal friends and I want to not keep having to say “I guess I’m just not sure” every time someone gives a half-decent argument either way.

God, giving a shockingly clear and immediate answer: Girl you are single and entirely unready for a relationship. Also you’re ace. Also we just spent all this time on how you’re struggling because you’re terrified of trusting me with telling you whether something is wrong or not because you don’t believe I’ll tell you when you need to know. You don’t need to know right now. You’re working through this mental hypothetical because you’re anxious and untrusting. You are completely and painfully single. Having some all-powerful sign that confirmed for all time that this was right or wrong would do absolutely nothing for you right now. It’d change nothing about how you treat gay people - you treat them well anyway. The only thing it would do would make you feel (falsely) like you wouldn’t need to rely on me anymore. Literally why would I do that.

me: …….. well shit, ok then. That. Ok. Turns out Just Asking Him without checking the rules first… works. Ok. Ok ok ok. Very chill very cool very chill very cool.

#Molten rambles #Christianity #this is long and rambling and maybe slightly controversial my bad gang #Having a bit of a meltdown over here 👍#“Hey have you considered your longstanding anxiety and constant mental anguish over your incapacity to decide-#-whether being gay was fully and completely morally good or bad is in fact an indicator that that’s how you think about morality in-#-the first place? And that that’s wrong? And in fact antithetical to a healthy relationship with and reliance on God? No?#Well consider it. Try holding space for nuance. Try not being certain about something. Try letting God handle something. Try loving people #-even if you don’t know perfectly for certain that what they’re doing is right or wrong. Try letting them handle their own-#Conscience and relationship with the Lord and just dealing with your own shit. Yknow. Like it says to in the Bible.”#Shocker really #I still hate it. I hate not knowing #I hate loving people so so so much and then having the little voice on the back of my head say “ok but they’re doing something Wrong”#And not being able to shut that voice up with Rules. Not being able to prove to my anxiety with Facts and Logic that it’s stupid and mean #Not knowing if it’s the Holy Spirit or my parents hatred rubbing off on me. But that’s the point #Nothing about my behavior would change if I knew it were right or wrong. Literally nothing #I’d treat people the same way. I’d vote the same. And I don’t have any imminent decisions to make concerning this.#The only thing it’d do is give me an easy out on my own unhealthy self-reliance and lack of trust #So here we are ig #Why is this so hard <- maintaining an interpersonal relationship with the God of the universe a thing that is normal to want #And also possible to achieve??? Absolutely wild

someone make a wild life au where oli joins the life series and teams w the bamboozlers. im too tired to do it someone else has to

#slash jay #unless #theorionsound #what!#theorionsound-fanblog making his own posts?!#unheard of #shocker really

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always remember ashton is a father of 3 and get surprised by my OWN canon abt my OWN character bc he rlly should not be a dad also remembering hes a divorcee by 26 so we are in year one of ashton's divorce canonically, everyone bake this boy a casserole so he can survive

#a woman let him knock her up TWICE #shocker really #and its the SAME woman #single divorced dad ashton is my Favorite #{ behind the man the myth the legend} ☠➥ {ooc}#{ cursed forever } ☠➥ { headcanon }

Thinking about rage and murder

#once again i am tired #shocker really #txt

jacob's romance in me2 is way more adorable than i was expecting oh no

#aza texts #comments on the vids are gross though #shocker really

the world, the Bible, every decent Christian I’ve ever spoken to: you know that being a Christian isn’t about rules and is in fact about a relationship with God, right?

me (autistic) (very young): yes! Quick question, how do I do that?

me, (again, autistic): ok! Those are definitely different things and not the same thing in a different hat!

me: …….. well shit, ok then. That. Ok. Turns out Just Asking Him without checking the rules first… works. Ok. Ok ok ok. Very chill very cool very chill very cool.

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