Mormonism was based on the belief that the Apostles’ Creed is an abomination to God.
Joseph Smith said this is what God told him.
Yet they want to be called “Christian.”
Come out of Mormonism and come to Jesus.
@ModernityNews@PrisonPlanet Putting aside the gross nature of the posts from them, high fibre intake actually gave me so much pain. I’ve been on carnivore diet, 0 fibre, for ~6-7 months and I’ve never felt better.
Lori (not real name) was a major figure in women’s ministry at the church. She brought in new converts and reached all sorts of lost souls. For the past five years, she was a pillar of her church.
A stunning woman, she also was a former prostitute.
But while she had come to Christ and repented, Lori knew how to reach others on the edges of society.
Lori soon caught the eye of the minister’s son, and after about a year, he asked her to be his wife.
The same congregation that loved Lori’s testimony was in an uproar. What? That pastor’s son could do much better! She wasn’t meant for a good boy like him!
The issue became so controversial that it was brought up at a business meeting. After concerns were raised, the pastor’s son stood up and walked to the podium.
“You know; Lori really isn’t on trial here tonight. Instead, it’s that shed blood of Jesus Christ. Because the same blood which covered YOUR sin is somehow incapable of covering hers.”
There was a stunned silence.
And suddenly, weeping.
He was right. How could they claim to be saved by Jesus, yet declare another sinner beyond redemption? Did they think the same blood that covered Paul couldn’t cover Lori?
There was hugging, apology, and one of the musicians rushed to the piano for an impromptu round of “Nothing but the Blood.”
“Oh precious is the flow
That makes me white as snow
No other fount I know
Nothing but the blood of Jesus”
This was an anecdote shared with me today about a Pentecostal church somewhere off in Tennessee. I wanted to share it because sometimes judgmental people need a reminder about the Savior.
The fact that the people who still do things like this - segregating events or whatever based on gender and ethnicity - don’t realise they’re being discriminatory to all groups in the process is ridiculous.
Like, are y’all really that stupid? Or do you really lack wisdom?
Stay tuned for upcoming events as part of #SummerGameFest:
Today
Noon ET/9am PT: The Mix Indie Showcase
Tomorrow
3p ET/Noon ET: Black Voices in Gaming
Thursday
5p ET/2p PT: Latin American Games Showcase
7p ET/4p PT: Women Led Games
Watch at https://t.co/8GwHyfAB9q
When I was Muslim, I used to ask Christians:
“If Jesus was really God, why did He eat, sleep, and bleed like us?”
And honestly, I used to ask it with pride like it was some unbeatable argument.
But later I realized something:
That question was not exposing Christianity.
It was exposing my misunderstanding of what kind of God Jesus claimed to be.
Because the real question is not:
“Why would God become weak?”
The real question is:
“What kind of God would willingly step into human suffering at all?”
Islam taught me about a God who was distant and untouchable.
But Christianity introduced me to a God who stepped into hunger, exhaustion, grief, pain, betrayal, blood, and suffering with us.
And suddenly His humanity stopped feeling like weakness to me.
It became proof of love.
If Jesus ate, it means He came close enough to experience hunger beside us.
If He slept, it means He embraced the exhaustion we carry.
If He bled, it means He did not stand above suffering watching us from a distance.
He entered it Himself.
Philippians 2 says Christ emptied Himself and took on flesh.
Not because He stopped being God, but because He wanted humanity to finally see what God is actually like.
And it turns out God is willing to suffer for the people He loves.
That changed everything for me.
Because every other religion demanded sacrifice from humanity.
Jesus became the sacrifice Himself.
And no prophet in history ever claimed that.
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. - 2 Peter 3:9
Galatians 4:4 looks like a transition verse.
“But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son.”
If you read it fast, it sounds like a timestamp. But if read slowly, it is the most staggering sentence in the Bible.
‘Fullness of time’. Paul isn't saying God picked a convenient moment. He is saying God declared a moment complete. “The preparation is finished and everything I have been building across centuries is exactly where I need it to be”. God looked at human history and said: now.
Which forces the question. Why then? Why not a thousand years earlier, when Moses was fresh? Why not a thousand years later? What was so perfect about the first century?
I started looking into it and I have not recovered.
God needed a people with the theology. He spent 2000 years forming Israel; the covenant, the sacrificial system, the prophets, Isaiah 53 written seven centuries before Calvary, the framework of a coming Messiah who would bear the sin of the world. The Jews were shaped by wilderness, exile, and divine discipline, until the theological infrastructure for substitutionary atonement was fully in place.
But theology alone could not travel. God needed a language. Not a tribal dialect, but a universal tongue. So five hundred years before the Gospel, He let the Greek philosophers begin.
Heraclitus sat in Ephesus and concluded the universe was governed by an invisible rational principle. He called it the Logos.
The Stoics built on it. Philo of Alexandria stood at the intersection of Greek thought and Hebrew scripture and said the Logos was the mind of God in creation. For five hundred years, philosophy built a conceptual category it could not fill.
Then God sent a conqueror with no interest in theology. Alexander the Great wanted glory and empire. God let him want it. In satisfying his ego across three continents, Alexander Hellenized the ancient world and forged Koine Greek, the common tongue of the docks, markets, soldiers, and slaves. A language stripped of complexity, simple enough for anyone, universal enough for everyone.
The Hebrew scriptures were translated into it. The Septuagint was born. God used a pagan conqueror’s ambition to translate His own Word.
Then Rome came and paved the road. The Pax Romana. Piracy cleared. Stone highways stretching from Spain to Syria. A framework for movement the ancient world had never seen.
None of them knew they were collaborating.
Heraclitus thought he was doing philosophy. Alexander thought he was building a monument to himself. Rome thought it was building an empire for Rome. Not one of them understood they were stagehands. God was with Heraclitus in his pondering, with Alexander in his conquest, with Roman engineers laying stone, quietly requisitioning their work for a purpose none of them could see.
And then, when the covenant people were in place, the language primed, the roads built, and the category ready, when everything He had been quietly assembling was finally set, God stepped into the room they had unknowingly prepared.
John picked up his pen and wrote: “In the beginning was the Logos.”
Every Greek philosopher in the Mediterranean felt the ground shift. “And the Logos became flesh.” The category they spent five centuries constructing was not a principle. It was a Person.
The ‘fullness of time is not a timestamp’. It is God’s signature on a completed work. And the humbling thing is that this work was not built by saints. It was built by conquerors, philosophers, and emperors who thought they were writing their own story. God let them think that. And used every word. If this is not amazing then I don’t know what is.
@ZubyMusic I don’t know about the rest, but issues with talking on the phone and sustaining eye contact are autism related, not necessarily a Gen Z specific issue. I can speak from experience, but so can many autistic non Gen Z people.