@masonmennenga I got a job in the church op shop and spend my time caring for volunteers and correctional services people who just want to help the community improve.
@StevenUllmer@JustinPickerel@bradrathbone “You know what, God. All the other countries have a king. We want a king.”
“I’ll be your king”
“nah”
“okay, I’ll meet you there!”
“God, all the other countries have blood sacrifices!”
@bradrathbone@JustinPickerel@StevenUllmer It is real easy to get angry. Also real easy to think I’m right. Or be misunderstood. And have my perfectly worded responses interrupted by kids asking questions before I can get them typed
@StevenUllmer@bradrathbone@JustinPickerel Jesus would have been totally justified in casting the first stone at that poor prostitute. But did not choose to hate sin or be Just. He attacked an oppressive system instead. Sometimes justice is not what we think it is
@JustinPickerel@bradrathbone@StevenUllmer Those are weird stories. I probs should be where they are. But here we are with a thousand different points of view on the internet and we all have rich traditions of Christian thought to draw from
@JustinPickerel@bradrathbone@StevenUllmer Pharaoh is not the point of the story. We are meant to learn that God takes care of his team. Spoiler. We are ALL his team.
@JustinPickerel@bradrathbone@StevenUllmer Oh my Gosh, the god you follow is not good! Lucky he meets us where we are. He will take on the attributes that we need him to. Do you really think the God who started all of everything needed blood to be able to forgive? Nah we needed that.
@bradrathbone@StevenUllmer@JustinPickerel God is entirely redemptive. Not punitive. God must be more loving, more gracious, more forgiving than me. Or I’m out. Jesus is what God looks like. All other views of God, OT, NT, now, are shadows and dim reflections.
@bradrathbone@StevenUllmer@JustinPickerel You have got to keep moving forward! Ask all the questions of what you were handed. Than ask questions of those questions. Keep going! You never get to the bottom of it. You can never reach certainty. And that is what is beautiful about this life.
@bradrathbone @aireekaw So here is the problem. If someone has the certainty that it is only important to be concerned with life after death, then they absolutely do not care what happens in the life of their neighbour only the death
@bradrathbone@masonmennenga@bradrathbone why do I feel like you and I are listening to the same podcasts and music, but we have never talked about it in real life