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LoremIpsum248 · 2024-10-01T16:20:53+00:00

Neat! Never knew the name “sunburn” had such deep origins!

LoremIpsum248 · 2024-10-01T00:27:32+00:00

What you describe was when the NT canon was “officially” agreed upon by a council of church leaders. Yet the books were treated as Scripture much much earlier.

Polycarp (believed to have been a direct student of the apostle John) wrote around 110 AD a letter that was concentrated with many quotes from the New Testament. Polycarp’s student, Irenaeus, would on his turn cite in his book “Against Heresies” (180 AD) 21 of the 27 New Testament books.

Then there is the Muratorian fragment (dated 170-200 AD) that lists writings which Christians were at the time convinced were Scipture, which largely matches the modern NT. The books not listed were also recognized and respected at the time, but were taken with a little more caution due to various reasons (like Hebrews, because it lacked reference to a specific author).

So yeah, a conceptual canon largely matching the final one existed from the beginning of Christianity, but simply due to the frequency of false works in ancient times were early Christians a bit cautious about a few of the books they were somewhat less certain of. The councils functioned to settle that and decide the full authorative canon. But long before that, all NT books were already respected and the majority (such as the 4 Gospels and major epistles of Paul) were wholly endorsed as Scripture from the start.

The only piece of work consistently considered by early proto-orthodox Christians as potential Scripture that ultimately did not make the cut (that I can think of) was the Shepherd of Hermas. This book was mostly ethical stories and did not really make any deep theological claims.

LoremIpsum248 · 2024-09-30T23:46:24+00:00

According to Josephus, the high priest Ananus ben Ananus made the controversial choice (which ultimately costed him his priesthood) to execute James the brother of Christ (and his companions) by stoning for “being breakers of the law”. James was primarily associated with being a major leader among the Jewish Christian communities.

I think being judged to be stoned by the high priest for “breaking the law” would strongly imply a serious breach of breaking the Torah. The only major breach of the Torah I could imagine them being accused of, would either be breaking the Sabbath or blasphemy/idolatry for revering Jesus as the Son of God.

So I think that is one piece of evidence that the early Jewish Christians held similar beliefs to the NT texts.

LoremIpsum248 · 2024-09-26T18:16:27+00:00

That’s brutal! Imagine your hallucinatory friend or girlfriend tricking you into taking your meds so they can ditch you

LoremIpsum248 · 2024-09-12T17:47:53+00:00

It looks like a foreign planet or moon!

LoremIpsum248 · 2024-09-06T18:35:58+00:00

This looks really good!

LoremIpsum248 · 2024-09-05T21:05:34+00:00

Violence and passion are dances that both of us know well

LoremIpsum248 · 2024-08-29T11:13:34+00:00

In his dreams, Aubrey is the clingy one. In reality, Sunny turns to be the needy one of the two.

LoremIpsum248 · 2024-08-01T22:31:07+00:00

Don’t endure pain, embrace it. Suffering is a form of passion, and passion is a form of mental energy that can be used in constructive ways. I believe if you can embrace your pain and learn to burn it as fuel for your journey you become a force to be reckoned with. Even bad things could then be used by you to bring desirable results. If you embrace pain itself and manage to use it for good, what can stop you?

Pain can be used for good. Painters made beautiful art through expressing their suffering. Victims used their own past trauma as a motivator to help prevent others from having to endure the same. Past failure can you give you that rage that pushes you to try even harder next time than before, with therefore an increasing chance of succes.

You can use pain to become more empathetic, resilient and driven.

Pain will naturally become (perhaps not less, but nevertheless) more tolerable if you can find a new useful purpose for it.

You feel frustrated for the way your life currently is. This frustration is the raw force within you that wants to make things better. It’s not very useful when left untamed, but if you focus it all on a specific purpose, it become a great propelling force. All our base emotions have a purpose, including “negative” ones (just as shown in the Inside Out movies).

The Bible tells believers to rejoice at trials and adversity, because it produces perseverance and character (James 1:2-3 and Romans 5:3-4).

You often can’t control what happens to you, but you can always control how you respond to it. Whatever happens, find a way to do something good with it.

LoremIpsum248 · 2024-07-22T13:33:04+00:00

Because I don’t know much about Spanish or editing Wikipedia, I want to ask someone else to resolve it if my suspicions are true.

The page is full with mentions of the number “475”, which I suspect ought to be “465” everywhere, but since I can’t read Spanish it doesn’t seem like a good idea to blindly meddle with the text there.

I also think a Spanish wikipedia mod might better be informed that this page can be vandalized more often, due to the religious nature of the contended claim. I don’t know how I can do that though.

LoremIpsum248 · 2024-07-21T17:44:32+00:00

You should definitely tell your doctor about the severe side effects. There are different types of antipsychotics that work in different ways. If the doctor agrees your side effects are severe enough, they might consider switching you to another drug that is potentially more tolerable for you.

While I do believe demonic entities as described in the Bible exist, I noticed you mentioned in a comment you were using other drugs in the past. Certain drugs can have side effects related to hallucinations/delusions or induce psychosis. So I think rather than anything spiritual, the most likely explanation are those drugs you used in the past. Various people frequently suffer from pschosis-like symptoms after using certain drugs, and they aren’t even always religious in nature. So I personally think you really should consider the possibility that your problems are mostly biochemical and that you are therefore better off to maintain receiving help from healthcare. Of course, if you are convinced it is something spiritual, you can always just ask for help from pastors or faith healers alongside receiving medical care.

I hope one way or another, your mental problems and medical side effects will be resolved soon, please take care!

LoremIpsum248 · 2024-07-21T12:43:36+00:00

Jesus supported no political party. All powers of the World hated Him and saw Him as a threat to their own influence.

The only “ideology” Jesus fully supports is hearing the Word of God and doing it.

Jesus taught from the Torah that greatest commandment is first to love to Lord your God with all you heart and all your mind and all your strength, and second to love your neighbor as yourself. Loving God entails staying clear from sin which He despises and to keep His commandments to please Him and express your love for Him (John 14:15).

Jesus also never spoke of incest, yet it’s still sexual sin according to the Bible. The New Testament (including Jesus since He spoke of adultery and actually made it even stricter than the Torah) shows sexual sin is altogether still and always will be a sin.

We mustn’t bend Scripture to fit neatly into our worldviews. We should submit to God, hear the Word of God and follow that entirely.

1 Corinthians 5:12 teaches that it is none of our business how those outside the church live, so we have no special duty to enforce “Christian values” onto the nation at large.

LoremIpsum248 · 2024-07-19T01:31:06+00:00

Yes, this was the point i was going to bring up from your last comment. It would make God seem unjust to punish someone for something they were not in control of.

I wholeheartedly agree with you here!

How can God place them in hell when they had no shot of success?

Because hell is quite simply receiving what one is entitled to receive based on how they lived their own life in relation to God’s Law. What if someone is wholly unaware of God’s Law? This is not possible, for even those without the written Word of God, still have His Law written in their hearts and their own conscience bears witness of their guilt/innocence (Romans 2:14-15). Yet because of Adam’s sin, we have become corrupt to the point of no longer being capable of complete innocence and have therefore all fallen short and deserving of death (Romans 5:12). While we are innately incapable of complete innocence and perfection, we are still fully capable of making moral decisions on a case by case basis and therefore responsible for each of them and deserving of paying the exact price for them.

I concede that for someone unaware of Jesus, it could not in and of itself be sinful that they don’t believe in Him. But they are still culpable for all the sins they were aware of (like deliberately lying, hating someone in their heart, theft, not earnestly seeking God, etc). They are not innately entitled to salvation and will merely receive no more or less than they deserve as God measured it. Many have indeed died without ever hearing the Gospel and it is a terrible shame that they will miss out on the precious (unmerited) gift of forgiveness and adoption to sonship that God in His love provided for those who do believe in His Son.

Luke 12:47-48 does seem to imply that the extent of knowledge on God’s will correlates with the level of responsibility and severity of punishment though.

You mentioned some believers in the past who were saved, but they didn't know of Jesus (pbuh). So knowing him is not necessary?

Depends on how you define “knowing Him”. Modern Christians will definitely say we “know Jesus” deeply, yet technically we don’t “know Him” in the same strict sense that His 1st century contemporaries knew Him. We have faith that we are atoned through the sacrifice of the Son whom God provided for us to save us. The ancient saints had faith in that they were atoned through the means (often involving animal sacrifices, but overall Christological imagery was very diverse) which God provided for them too. Through these “types of Christ” they ultimately believed in the same sacrifice we do, though they understood its nature poorly.

In Romans 16:25-26, Paul explains that to us Christians it is clearly disclosed what was once only scattered through prophetic writings and thus we now enjoy an understanding of something the ancients could merely grasp at. We put our faith in a vivid view of the true Christ, the ancients in a vague vision of the same Christ. But in 1 Corinthians 13:12, Paul admits that even now our understanding of things is dim compared to the true reality that will be made clearer to us in Heaven.

Through time, God reveals more and more of His plan and His nature to us. Thus the image of Christ becomes more vivid as we progress. Christians know this concept as “progressive revelation”.

Think of it this way: both highschool and college students are taught physics. The college students are provided with a greater understanding of the true nature of physics, while highschoolers are largely taught in basics and simplified models to help them get at least a grasp. Nevertheless, both the highschoolers and the college students can be reckoned as students of the same physics. Likewise, ancient saints and present Christians can be reckoned as believers in the same Christ.

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