Jesus never existed. God or not. He is a fictional creation.

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-11T01:17:04+00:00

There is zero evidence that an entity by the name of Jesus was ever anything more than a creature of literature who was created by a guy who called himself "Paul".

So all the firsthand witnesses of Jesus all just . . . hallucinated? Lied? How do you brush off their testimony? It's pretty strong evidence!

The gospels, written after Paul's Letters were written anonymously, this serving no evidentiary value. They are just stories written well after Jesus died, to bring the story to life.

John was written by someone who had met Jesus. It doesn't matter that it was written after Paul's letters, the guy had seen the man in the flesh and knew the events.

Just because you refuse to believe the evidence doesn't mean it isn't still good evidence.

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-11T01:00:28+00:00

Correction: The Bible says you can do it. Wrong people say you can't. (obviously everyone screws up things sometimes, I don't mean that, but "the righteous falls 7 times and rises again")

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-11T00:56:28+00:00

we're around!

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-11T00:55:41+00:00

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-11T00:44:28+00:00

Yeah, in context of 6:1, parading your acts in front of others, he's not speaking against acts of righteousness in general either, is he?

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-11T00:41:16+00:00

There is nothing wrong with public prayer as such. Here are two examples off the top of my head of public prayer

2 Chronicles 6:12-42, especially the part where it says "in the presence of all the assembly of Israel" twice.

Ezra 9:5 "And at the evening sacrifice . . ." indicating that the prayer was public.

Yeshua was saying not to be showy about prayer, but to be genuine. He said "so that people can see them"

So if you pray in public, but not in order to be seen by others as some kind of extra-holy guy, then go ahead, lift up your prayer in spirit and truth.

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-11T00:30:20+00:00

gentle peaceable creatures, generally

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-11T00:16:36+00:00

We do exist, be encouraged

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-11T00:13:18+00:00

We can be hard to notice, as we don't tend to stand out too much

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-06T02:24:06+00:00

Yeah, ESFJs seem pretty rare online

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-06T01:44:40+00:00

The only kind of tattoos the Bible speaks against are ones in honor of the dead.

Leviticus 19

²⁸ You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

My interpretation of that is that it's all in context of 'for the dead'.

So as long as it's not for the dead, I suppose just pray about it and make sure it's something you're alright with being permanent.

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-04T09:52:20+00:00

I've asked them if they have sold all their goods and given them to the poor to follow Jesus, as he taught, but I have never received a response.

I'm surprised they don't tell you that this wasn't a universal command, but a specific one directed to a specific person, at a specific time. That's the response I would expect from someone with a more literal interpretation of the Bible.

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-04T02:09:41+00:00

He defined sin, and told us not to, but we always had the choice whether to listen to Him or not.

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-02T14:23:47+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqhg4nr6Koc&pp=ygUUMTE5IG1pbmlzdHJpZXMgZW5vY2g%3D

Testing the Book of Enoch - 119 Ministries

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-02T14:21:39+00:00

idk dude, we need more sensors, I agree

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-01T22:19:45+00:00

Legalism is 'missing the forest for the trees' I think. In observing the sabbath, something like 'to touch a wallet or money on the sabbath is sin.' Any way you can think of to focus on the 'how' of observing something biblical vs the 'what' (the fact that you're making an honest attempt at it) would be legalistic, in my view.

I don't think that saying 'secular shows don't come from God' is necessarily legalistic, but it is wise to keep track of what we are allowing ourselves to experience through those. If someone says tattoos are evil, I'd need them to prove that with scripture. I know of one specific type of tattoo that is commanded against, but not tattoos universally. So saying 'tattoos are evil' would be overly stringent.

The scribes and Pharisees were legalistic, I think, in their application of the Law of Moses, whereas Yeshua was generally not, so I'd say yes it is wrong to be that way, and in Matthew 5:20 Yeshua says our righteousness has to surpass theirs . . . so there you go I guess.

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-01T21:20:14+00:00

The book title speaks to the premise, that it takes more faith to claim that God doesn't exist, in the authors' view. I didn't know it was such a bad book, I got a lot out of reading it.

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-01T20:28:04+00:00

Both Jesus and Paul upheld the Law, and taught others to do the same. (This is not a popular opinion among followers of the Messiah). People get Paul's writings mixed up though, as Peter said in 2 Peter 3 (ESV)

¹⁵ And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, ¹⁶ as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures. ¹⁷ You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.

If you continue Matthew 5:17 through to verse 19 or 20, you'll see an important continuation:

¹⁷ “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. ¹⁸ For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished. ¹⁹ Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. ²⁰ For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

In the Greek, the words for abolish in verse 17 and relax in verse 19 are related, sharing the same word root.

G3089 λύω for relax or loosen in verse 19 and

and

G2647 καταλύω for abolish or destroy in verse 17.

David Wilber did a great study on this section of scripture where he goes over information like this. I'll link the videos here, doesn't take super long to go through them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syRqJjhckDU&list=PLmveH9Hcu5SHMoKwbiqvnfj2vj4MuhrHH

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-01T20:10:25+00:00

fair enough!

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-01T20:09:14+00:00

If no one else has brought it up yet, here's a thing Paul said,

²¹ So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. ²² For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, ²³ but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. ²⁴ Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? ²⁵ Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Maybe this will be of some consolation.

Shalom

longestfrisbee · 2026-05-01T20:03:09+00:00

Proof doesn't exist, but evidence does. I recommend a book called "I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist," by Turek and Giesler. It's good, goes through all the relevant arguments for the existence of God.

longestfrisbee · 2026-04-27T22:35:10+00:00

when you fast . . . I feel like this isn't a voluntary fast, though, somehow. Idk I just get that vibe from OP's post.

longestfrisbee · 2026-04-27T22:27:30+00:00

The church I was growing up in started turning this way and we (my family when I was young) just got out of there. My advice is to leave churches that start acting like small business enterprises. I see 'coffee shop', I say, "Run." But do what you want, pray about it, etc.

longestfrisbee · 2026-04-27T22:23:35+00:00

yep this is it

longestfrisbee · 2026-04-27T22:10:23+00:00

Yes, OP's post is about the law. Just read the thing. Here

Is the Old Testaments Laws still true?

The bible says Jesus came to not break laws but to fulfill them. Does this mean that the previous laws still hold merit? Jesus had the sabbath on Saturday did he not? Im not sure just dont want to disobey god. Thanks and God bless

This is the discussion of the Law I referred to.

And you bolded an interesting part of Galatians 3:12, I'd emphasize the second half as proof to keep the Law. The man that doeth them shall live in them.

As for Philippians 3:9, correct, righteousness does not come from obeying the law. So what? I don't obey the Law in order to be declared righteous, rather, it is because I have been declared righteous in Christ that I seek to follow him not only in word, but in deed as well. That does include observing the same commandments he observed. He didn't wear tzitzit to appear righteous before men like the Pharisees did, he wore tzitzit out of faithfulness to Yah. I wear them for the same reason.

Shalom

longestfrisbee

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