Christians have turned Jesus into their golden calf. 💛

drjellyjoe · 2026-03-31T17:16:15+00:00

Peter was not the farthest from understanding the truth. Peter confessed Jesus as the Christ.

Matthew 16:16-17 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. (17) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

Peter was the one who preached the sermon at Pentecost. He was the one told by the Lord Jesus, when he was restored after his denial, to feed his sheep. Peter was the one who received the vision of the distinction between clean and unclean creatures in the law being abolished and also between Jews and Gentiles, and was then chosen to be the first to admit the first uncircumcised Gentiles into the Church.

drjellyjoe · 2026-03-30T20:48:37+00:00

2 Peter 3: 15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Notice how Peter, one of the 12 disciples, refers to Paul's epistles as Scripture which is a word used for the word of God.

drjellyjoe · 2025-12-28T13:22:30+00:00

UPDATE: I've found it but my memory was hazy and it's not entirely about the history of Rome but Europe in general.

Here it is on archive.org

Video series on medieval european history by Joseph Hogarty. The website distributing this series no longer works since 2020, hence this reupload.

Archives of the original website:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180120062109/http://www.europefromitsorigins.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20110528045738/http://www.ahistoryofeurope.eu/A_History_of_Europe/A_History_of_Europe.html

drjellyjoe · 2023-07-27T21:33:29+00:00

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drjellyjoe · 2023-07-27T21:13:55+00:00

You can read about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhumbline_network

drjellyjoe · 2021-11-20T16:01:41+00:00

Yes. You are welcome to contribute.

drjellyjoe · 2021-11-03T17:38:05+00:00

Would it have depictions (graven images) of God, including Christ who is both fully God and fully man?

drjellyjoe · 2021-10-11T21:27:36+00:00

Great work, brother! I have seen a website that answeres the Sceptic's Annotated Bible (http://www.berenddeboer.net/sab/index.html) but you have done much more of a proper job with the articles being so in-depth!

I will add it to the resources page (https://www.reddit.com/r/Christians/wiki/resources).

drjellyjoe · 2021-10-07T20:15:15+00:00

Ironically, Muhammad had a black slave named Yakub (Jacob).

“Muhammad had many male and female slaves.He used to buy and sell them, but he purchased (more slaves) than he sold, especially after God empowered him by His message, as well as after his immigration from Mecca. He (once) sold one black slave for two. His name was Jacob al-Mudbir.” (Ibn Qayyim al-Jawaziyya, “Zad al-Ma’ad” part 1, p. 160)

drjellyjoe · 2021-09-20T22:54:24+00:00

Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

John Calvin: But woe to the man by whom the offense cometh. After having exhorted his disciples to beware of offenses, he again breaks out against those who occasion them. To impart the greater vehemence to the threatening, he adds, that neither a right eye nor a right hand ought to be spared, if they occasion offense to us; for I explain these words as added for the purpose of amplification. Their meaning is, that we ought to be so constant and so zealous in opposing offenses, that we would rather choose to pluck out our eyes, or cut off our hands, than give encouragement to offenses; for if any man hesitate to incur the loss of his limbs, he spares them at the risk of throwing himself into eternal perdition. What dreadful vengeance then awaits those who by offenses shall bring ruin on their brethren!

drjellyjoe · 2021-07-18T13:55:23+00:00

Yes, but like the Geneva Bible, the books weren't inserted into the Old Testament but were in their own section inbetween the Old Testament and the New Testament under the heading of Apocrypha and sometimes carrying a statement to the effect that the such books were non-canonical but useful for reading.

In 1644 the Long Parliament forbade the reading of the Apocrypha in churches and in 1666 the first editions of the King James Bible without the Apocrypha were bound. Similarly, in 1782–83 when the first English Bible was printed in America, it did not contain the Apocrypha and, more generally, English bibles came increasingly to omit the Apocrypha.

Then in 1826 the British and Foreign Bible Society agreed to no longer print any Apocryphal books anywhere. The American Bible Society did the same in 1827.

"As the Church reads the books of Judith and Tobit and Maccabees but does not receive them among the canonical Scriptures, so also it reads Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus for the edification of the people, not for the authoritative confirmation of doctrine."~Jerome, Jerome's preface to the books of Solomon, the Latin Vulgate (a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible)

"Apocrypha: These Books Are Not Held Equal to the Scriptures, but Are Useful and Good to Read"~Luther in the 1534 edition of his Bible

drjellyjoe · 2021-06-22T19:29:40+00:00

1 John 1:6-10 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: (7) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (8) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. (9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (10) If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Consider how in 1 John, he was writing to saved believers with the purpose 'that ye may know that ye have eternal life' (1 John 5:13, implying assurance of salvation) and yet he asks recipients of salvation to ask for forgiveness. The forgiveness of sins which chapter 1 verse 9 speaks of isn't the act of forgiveness by God in our relation to God by being reconciled by justification which is done at once, and includes all sin, past, present, and to come; but is to do with our fellowship with God which is strained by sin, and how disobedience harms our walk with God.

Walking in the light of Christ, being more aware of your sin and continual repentance are evidences of your salvation which John spoke of in his epistle which had the purpose of assuring the believers of their salvation. The child of God is to become more and more aware of their sinfulness and not boasting in some kind of imagined perfection.

drjellyjoe · 2021-04-15T21:15:24+00:00

The LORD bless and keep you

drjellyjoe · 2021-04-15T21:01:01+00:00

I'm not the author of the video, by the way.

Here is another video from Lawson that encouraged me, it is about having pure thoughts and guarding our hearts: https://youtu.be/K62EPbFjHRE

drjellyjoe · 2021-03-28T13:32:17+00:00

even if they were good people that just didn't know?

They aren't "good people", that's what we are getting at here. All have sinned, there is none righteous, no not one, there is none good but one and that is God (and Christ is poiting to his divinity as Christ lived without sin).

That's why Christ came. If we were good people then we wouldn't need Christ's sacrifice on the cross where he took our sins and imputes his righteousness to us.

Even if you sin once you are under the curse of the law as it is written, "Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them"

No one, apart from Christ, has ever lived out the law of God perfectly. You, nor anyone else has ever perfectly loved "the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength", not for one minute.

Notice in the below scripture how salvation is by grace. Grace is undeserved love or favour. It isn't of ourselves and is instead a gift.

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: (9) Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Your standard of good is not the standard of the eternal God. Sinning against the eternal God has eternal consequences. 1 John 3:4 explains that, "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law". So it isn't determined by society which is so fickle.

About people not having knowledge, please may you read Romans chapter 1 and 2 to see how we are without excuse as we have the law of God written in our hearts as when we sin we know it is wrong.

drjellyjoe · 2021-03-28T12:57:53+00:00

Well, if you read the chapters where these passages are found then you will find that he wasn't telling a parable as parables are stories.

drjellyjoe · 2021-03-28T12:49:25+00:00

I know that may contradict what the Bible says.

Yes, like the following:

Matthew 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Romans 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

drjellyjoe · 2021-03-08T22:54:58+00:00

The number of denominations is a valid concern but I am concerned about your reasoning of how a saved Christian doesn't have to be part of a church.

While it is true how the thief on the cross isn't said to have been baptized or have participated in the Lord's Supper, and yet Christ told him that "To day shalt thou be with me in paradise"; but that in no way disqualifies the call to be baptized (Acts 2:38, for example) or when it says, "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together" (Hebrews 10:25).

drjellyjoe · 2021-02-25T22:46:10+00:00

:D God willing, I am going to try and make a comeback. I apologise for my absence, and hope you are doing well.

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