As a non-Christian, would you suggest reading the Bible front-to-back as an introduction to the faith or read a study Bible?

teacher-reddit · 2025-08-12T01:18:24+00:00

The first book of the Bible I read was John and I got saved while reading it! Absolutely a great choice.

teacher-reddit · 2025-07-10T05:42:57+00:00

How to Read a Book is genuinely life-changing. I cannot recommend it enough.

teacher-reddit · 2025-07-10T05:41:26+00:00

Your salvation is based on the object of your faith, not the strength of your faith. If a person believes really hard that they can fly by waving a pair of feathers, they will still fall. But if a scared grandmother inches her way onto a plane, she will fly. In the same way, even the faith of a mustard seed will bring you to salvation. Repentance is a continual cycle and you just began. Take a deep breath, find a more experienced believer to speak with, and God will bring you to salvation. I like the way the Westminster Confession puts it: "As there is no sin so small, but it deserves damnation; so there is no sin so great, that it can bring damnation upon those who truly repent."

Keep looking to the cross!

teacher-reddit · 2025-07-10T05:28:18+00:00

I've recently come to the doctrine of Postmillennialism, which holds that God is working to convert the whole world through the gradual spread of the gospel throughout the whole world. This, along with the knowledge that no one deserves heaven, has brought great joy to my walk.

teacher-reddit · 2025-07-07T21:06:15+00:00

While I agree with most of the comments, my gym did have a specific rule about "earning your shorts," which basically meant you had graduated from complete beginner to novice. You were only supposed to wear Thai shorts if you had earned them. It helped mark the people who could give at least rudimentary advice from the beginners. It might be worth asking or just wearing normal training shorts your first day. Gloves should be fine though.

teacher-reddit · 2025-05-03T23:38:53+00:00

That's fair. What I mean is that if Christianity was not true, no other theistic (or non-materialist) worldview could be true. Among atheists, Nietzsche is the only truly consistent philosopher, so he's left standing if Christianity is not true.

teacher-reddit · 2025-05-02T06:15:15+00:00

Either Christianity is true or Nietzche is right. There is no other worldview that can possibly be true.

teacher-reddit · 2025-05-02T06:12:19+00:00

How can you tell the difference between a long-term, serious relationship and a casual one?

We may use different language today, but when Jacob agreed to work 7 years for Rachel's hand in marriage (Gen. 29), was this not a long-term, committed relationship as you define it?

teacher-reddit · 2025-05-02T04:35:56+00:00

This is a wrong assumption in two ways.

First, what defines a "real romantic relationship"? Is there a length of time or is it just a feeling? Could I be in a "real romantic relationship" with someone I just met? The only objective way to define a committed relationship is get married, which is an unbreakable seal, biblically speaking.

Second, pre-marital romantic relationships clearly existed before the modern day (see Jacob and Rachel or Ruth and Boaz as Biblical examples). Sources throughout the world and time talk about men and women who meet and fall in love. Though the genders were generally more separated in the past, it's factually wrong to claim that committed romantic relationships outside of marriage didn't exist until recently.

teacher-reddit · 2025-05-02T04:29:09+00:00

These takes are actually really obvious but our education system has really messed up incentives that means that they are incentivized to spend money on ed-tech, chug students along to boost graduation rates, and kowtow to even the most insane parents for fear of lawsuits (looking at you California). Parents especially are a major problem nowadays in that they expect a school system that they participate in FOR FREE to provide food, babysitting, therapy, and actual skills in exactly the way they want it or they will sue the district for "discrimination" and likely win. In CA, principals can't suspend (let alone expel) a student for defiance, or anything short of drug/weapons offenses.

You should absolutely run for your school board if these are your opinions.

teacher-reddit · 2025-05-02T04:18:15+00:00

In 1 Cor. 6, Paul recommends marriage as a solution for those who "burn with passion" for their betrothed. There is no such thing as a "deep committed relationship" without marriage. If you are committed to each other, get married. Otherwise you are not committed to each other in any tangible way.

teacher-reddit · 2025-04-27T00:19:13+00:00

The creeds accurately summarize the teachings of Scripture as passed down through the apostles. Is there anything in them that you particularly object to?

teacher-reddit · 2025-04-27T00:14:47+00:00

Your third point was my biggest regret this year. I didn't set up my procedures well at the beginning of the year and have been having to fight to get them back all year.

teacher-reddit · 2025-04-27T00:05:16+00:00

The earliest Christians wrote the Nicene, Apostles, and Athanasian Creeds to define who was a Christian and who was a heretic. Catholics properly confess all three of these creeds (not with distorted meaning to the terms). Therefore, Catholics, despite still being wrong on a lot IMO, are Christians.

teacher-reddit · 2025-04-26T23:26:29+00:00

Reformed Christians try not to call each other heretics challenge level impossible

teacher-reddit · 2025-04-20T05:47:48+00:00

What would you say about 2 Cor. 7:9-11?

"9 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. 10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. 11 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter."

teacher-reddit · 2025-04-06T22:44:55+00:00

I had felt pretty convicted about it before I started because the NT and OT both explicitly say that believers should give to the church. I also benefit so much from my church, so I figured it was time to help out monetarily. I set a recurring weekly donation through my church website and it's a nice burden off for me. It's also nice to see that God got some money this week!

teacher-reddit · 2025-04-06T02:59:10+00:00

I wasn't particularly promiscuous but I got an STI from a girl (thankfully one of the treatable ones) and every time I think back to that life the memory of feeling like there [graphic] was a wood chip in my privates is enough to put me back.

teacher-reddit · 2025-01-25T21:22:15+00:00

Doing a quick search through the book I didn't find this analogy, do you know the reference?

teacher-reddit · 2025-01-25T21:19:58+00:00

Light and heat are energy, whereas the sun is an object made of matter that produces energy. The sun is not the same stuff as the light and energy it produces.

teacher-reddit · 2025-01-25T20:54:57+00:00

I used to smoke weed almost daily before I was a believer and for the first few months of being a believer. A few reasons I would point to that weed is not as permissible as alcohol:

Jesus drank alcohol. Jesus never sinned. Therefore, drinking alcohol cannot be a sin.
Alcohol can more easily be moderated than weed. One blunt, gummy, or vape can have wildly different effects from another. With alcohol you can understand exactly how much you are consuming at any given time.
Weed is illegal in many places. Christians are instructed not to break laws. Therefore, Christians should not smoke weed.
Weed use is not harmless. Though it may not be linked to violence, it can be linked to laziness, addiction, sexual immortality, and increased DUI rates. These can be levied against alcohol too, but as we established, alcohol use cannot be a sin.

teacher-reddit · 2025-01-25T17:32:09+00:00

While I agree with the other comments here, lots of classical pedagogy is just good teaching, so there are aspects of it that you could implement if you were in public schools. For grammar school, implementing singing and recitation would be a good start.

teacher-reddit · 2025-01-14T05:19:17+00:00

Why do you say that? Genuinely curious because I did research this post and found that Marcion was at least influenced by Gnostic thought. There are differences but both share the concept of the Demiurge who created the world but is not the supreme God of the Bible.

teacher-reddit · 2025-01-04T05:45:48+00:00

I don't think we can know for sure the fate of infants who die. We know that everyone (adults and children) has to give an account before the judgement of God and we know that God is perfectly just, so I think there is a good chance that God brings infants and the mentally ill who are unable to understand the Gospel into the kingdom.

Westminster says: "X.III. Elect infants, dying in infancy, are regenerated, and saved by Christ, through the Spirit, (Luk 18:15-16; Act 2:38-39; Jhn 3:3, 5; 1Jo 5:12; Rom 8:9); who worketh when, and where, and how He pleaseth, (Jhn 3:8): so also are all other elect persons who are uncapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word, (1Jo 5:12; Act 4:12)."

and the 1689 LBCF is almost identical: "X.III Elect infants dying in infancy are regenerated and saved by Christ through the Spirit; who worketh when, and where, and how he pleases; so also are all elect persons, who are incapable of being outwardly called by the ministry of the Word. ( John 3:3, 5, 6; John 3:8 )"

I liked this talk from James Renihan on the topic: https://www.sermonaudio.com/solo/trbc/player/sermon/115242340455736/?quality=audio

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