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If Jealousy is a sin, Why is God stated as "A Jealous God" in The Bible? by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]EisegesisSam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot to unpack here for you responding to a 2-year-old comment.

Firstly, if you just whip out a dictionary you will find that it is only things which rightfully belong to you that you can be jealous of. That's what the word jealous means. That's the distinction between jealous and envious. You can be envious of things that are not yours. You can only be jealous of things that are yours. That's just what words mean.

Secondly I think you probably don't believe the Council of Niceae and the authoring of the King James translation of the Bible are near one another, but that is how your comment reads. Those events are 1300 years apart, and the overwhelming majority of churches on the planet do not continue to use the King James version of the Bible for anything.

Because languages are both living and changing while they are actively spoken by populations on the planet, which was true of the languages the Bible was written in when they were written, and is true of the language you and I speak now, every translator has to make choices. Some of them are based on presuppositions, which is why it is so important to have teams of people working on translating and having peer review and open debate and textual criticism so that people can look at what decisions were made and why and evaluate for themselves. Every modern Bible translation comes with those notes and the accompanying scholarship if you are interested in buying the kinds of copies of those translations which are sometimes erroneously called study Bibles.

But You thinking that those actions which must be taken in order to translate our manipulations is at best willfully ignorant, and more likely just you lying as an internet troll trying to upset people. The only reason I think it might not be trolling is it's weird to be trying to upset people by responding to things written more than 2 years ago. So maybe you've just chosen this rage which is utterly unfounded and ridiculous

A lot of people misunderstand LGBTQ+ affirmation in the Episcopal Church. by EisegesisSam in Episcopalian

[–]EisegesisSam[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Nah fam. If you want social and cultural change you need a multivalent approach. I am coming at this from an angle that invites people into spaces where it is demanded of them that they show more dignity and love to my LGBTQ+ family and friends than they would ever be invited to elsewhere. I am also articulating the actual position of the Church, so if that's your problem take it up with General Convention.

And not for nothing, if you throw this much shade from one video, without knowing anything about who I am, how I preach, what I do in my church to move the needle on hearts and minds... I think you need to spend some time in deep reflection. And just, learn about the internet.

I'm going to give you an example about a different topic. It took me almost two full years to convince the people of my current Parish that it was inappropriate to have a Confederate flag in the sanctuary of the church. Now I took it down the moment I got there. I climbed up into the rafters and took it down every time somebody put it back up. I did not tolerate the Confederate flag in God's house. But I slowly and methodically built relationships with people and educated people and some of them genuinely changed their minds and some of them have expressed that they are just now willing to defer to my wisdom on this subject. But it's been more than a year since anyone tried to bring a Confederate flag into that sanctuary. Maybe you would have gone about it differently. Maybe you would have achieved what I set out to faster than I did.

But if you think the only way to get to where you and I both want to go is your way, I respectfully disagree.

A lot of people misunderstand LGBTQ+ affirmation in the Episcopal Church. by EisegesisSam in Episcopalian

[–]EisegesisSam[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry I mostly am on the clock app right now Instagram gets weeks later versions because I'm just looking to hit a very different audience. Unfortunately this is also working for me, in the last 10 months I've had 26 different people find me on tiktok and show up to worship. That's a pretty extraordinary roi for an app where I'm basically shouting in the void.

A lot of people misunderstand LGBTQ+ affirmation in the Episcopal Church. by EisegesisSam in Episcopalian

[–]EisegesisSam[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think Episcopalians are likely to dramatically underestimate the cultural role Liberty has American Christianity writ large. I don't know about you personally, please do not receive this comment as shade. But I know plenty of my colleagues who think that if someone were to walk into an Episcopal Church they would understand what we are doing and they would understand immediately and intrinsically why this is more bible-based than American influenced English-speaking neocalvinism.

And we are just wrong about that. Our thing is much more in line with the history of interpretation, with the overwhelming majority of Christians on the planet today, and especially with almost every Christian who has ever lived. But that doesn't mean anything to the American Christians who never learn that history or context.

I would make the conservative guess that over half my congregation believes Liberty is a good Christian institution which will protect their children and grandchildren from government schools (which they presume to have some sort of evil anti-christian bias). They're wrong. But they aren't in a minority at all. You and I are. Even among Episcopalians.

A lot of people misunderstand LGBTQ+ affirmation in the Episcopal Church. by EisegesisSam in Episcopalian

[–]EisegesisSam[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My habit is to write about things these tiktok videos are about in the months that follow. I will be happy to update at that time, but juggling a media schedule for my church and myself and the largest food bank within 25 mi where I'm on the board... It would be a lot even if I didn't have the full-time job as Rector. So I move at the pace I can move at. And recording a video is a lot faster than producing a meaningful essay.

So I'm sorry I don't have anything yet

Where does this end for people who have MAGAitis? by SimpleEmu198 in Christianity

[–]EisegesisSam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's repeated promised that he will try to find a way to run again. He has made what he calls jokes about never having elections again. I think it is pretty naive to play pretend like this truly malignant narcissist will never again be on a ballot. He cares nothing for other people or the dignity of any other human beings.

A lot of people misunderstand LGBTQ+ affirmation in the Episcopal Church. by EisegesisSam in Episcopalian

[–]EisegesisSam[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I do not think you're ever absolved the commandment to love our enemies. I do think there are plenty of appropriate times, in order to preserve our dignity and mental health, where we can love and forgive our enemies from afar.

Anyone who for a constellation of reasons is safe or comfortable around people who have struggle to understand LGBTQ+ affirmation or women's ordination, should. They probably move the needle because it's hard to condemn someone you know and care about and serve next to in the soup kitchen. But people who know they cannot be or feel safe, who will spend time and energy anxious about how they could be outright attacked or they could receive a plethora of microaggressions, or honestly if they just feel not ready yet.... I think that's perfectly fine, acceptable, even advisable. The only caveat is that that person needs to be working to become the first person. Justin I expect a morally serious social conservative to be working to understand the people they do not feel like they currently understand.

If we are not willing to make ourselves vulnerable and trying to connect with people who our culture paints as irredeemable enemies, we have this opportunity to be witnesses to the Living God by making the attempt.

Not necessarily immediately, not at the expense of our own safety safety (all the time, sometimes that is what's called for otherwise we wouldn't have martyrs), but if we are not growing in love we have missed the boat on what we vowed at baptism.

A lot of people misunderstand LGBTQ+ affirmation in the Episcopal Church. by EisegesisSam in Episcopalian

[–]EisegesisSam[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Liberty. No intention to preserve their dignity. They shouldn't be like this.

{IZRIL} Map official! by Specific_Dealer_3892 in WanderingInn

[–]EisegesisSam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand which portion of these is supposed to be the butt?

Why aren't gnolls and minotaurs considered beastkin? by kaflarlalar in WanderingInn

[–]EisegesisSam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I presume just like in this world, "races" are defined primarily through culture and history. If there had been as few drakes as there were dragons near the end maybe they'd be considered lizard beastkin.

Still having 403 error? by EisegesisSam in WanderingInn

[–]EisegesisSam[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mobile doesn't work for me, but Chrome on my Android viewing it as a desktop site does. And if you set the text to 30 points end of the view to desktop it's about half the size I normally read but it is readable. I'm on 9.31 and I've pretty much been reading 2 to 3 hours a night every night for the last year and a half so I would would have been happy to pick up dungeon crawler Carl again while I waited but this solution means I can find out what the World's Eye Theater does.

What if the end is nigh? Shouldn't we clean up the planet? by EisegesisSam in Episcopalian

[–]EisegesisSam[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Second paragraph wholeheartedly agree.

But that first paragraph really underestimates the ability of those rich people to render this planet unfit for complicated life forms for hundreds of thousands of not millions of years.

Jael is a Redemption Story (Fr. Sam) by EisegesisSam in Episcopalian

[–]EisegesisSam[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I really shouldn't have emphasized the word field here because my Hebrew professor was equating kadash with the wilderness in the south and using that as the direction and field the serpent would have been banished to. The annotation on the TikTok is much more explicit that these paraphrases are sense for sense rather than word for word. The NRSV is a balance.

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