@ladifari@pastorpaper Please post your objections, I'd be happy to talk through them one by one, I didn't understand at all until I actually read the Bible for myself, even if you just read the words of Jesus contained in the Gospels, which takes a few hours, I'm confident you'll see otherwise.
@samueleyekosi John is the latest Gospel, and was likely written with access to the early Jesus community, and the other disciples and their writings, John lived with Jesus for 3 years, saw Jesus rose and further instruct the disciples, and was endowed with the Holy Spirit post resurrection.
@Homoreligiosus0@DEINEMUTTER314 I'm leaning more and more Catholic these days, I was even attending Mass daily, but on the ground reality is that people worship Mary, and they don't give God that distinction, and I'm not sure a new member of the faith would learn that very easily in a Catholic setting.
@ladifari@pastorpaper It's how to read Hebrew and the term "Kol Ha'aretz", which basically means of "the whole Earth". What that means to Israel is different, they didn't know the Western Hemisphere, God is perfect, he talks through imperfect people, this will help you make sense of the whole Bible.
@kt4me I'm genuinely not understanding, maybe you can rephrase it? I'm curious to hear this position articulated well because a lot of people who love Jesus hold to it, even if I disagree I just want further understanding
@kt4me I've heard this argument before, I think it's kind of weak, when the Law is instituted originally, the command "man shall not lay with man" comes within the context of several moral and sexual laws, the power dynamic doesn't come from a natural reading imo, but Hebrew is fickle.
@vrynormaleating@maddykomtrikru Yo get your hours, if your job isn't giving you unsupervised and supervised hours get out, you don't want to get your masters and then have to work 5 more years which is very common
@Skeletonkey5555 So what's your best explanation for the prophecies about Jesus all over Isaiah, discovered and dated at least 200 years before the birth of Jesus. These are not vague prophecies, I seriously encourage you to read the text for yourself, even trans literate from Hebrew if you want.
@deadhulk7 A Young earth creationist perspectives places the Earth around 6,000 years old, Old Earth Creationists view the Earth as possibly much much older, but there are a variety of views on this. This is a dense issue, but Christianity is incompatible with none of them.
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@xtrvgnt1@beyoncegarden Right but the woman's mortality is not at stake, at least the vast majority of cases, I'm not advocating for a change in laws or freedoms either, just a change in heart and mind
@WesInman1@lostinganglia Local is a little vague here, what I mean is a flood that covered at least all of ancient Israel and most of that region, the exact extent of which is a whole different debate that I'm not interested in as much, at least what Noah would've experienced as 'the whole world"
@RobertEast88443@God_Questioner Absolutely bro, it can feel real negative on here, but I'm consistently pleasantly surprised in real life at how many present, nice, and relatable people I interact with, don't let all the bullshit get you down, a lot of it is artificial
@RobertEast88443@God_Questioner I bet lol, it's pretty funny, it's hard not to make light of it, but the nun would've probably had a much bigger impact on you if she practiced what she preached in that moment lol
@RobertEast88443@God_Questioner We are absolutely flawed people, and there's evidence of that in EVERY Church, but that ultimately doesn't reflect Christ, and who HE IS, in any way, sorry to get too preachy on you lol, just giving you my two sense on problems I was thinking about wrong for years. God bless bro