People joke that hell will be ‘lit’ because all the famous people will be there. It is one of the most theologically illiterate things a human being can say, and almost nobody stops to explain why.
The joke assumes enjoyment exists independently of God. That pleasure is something humans discovered and God merely watches from a distance. That we are having fun he is not privy to. But that is completely backwards. God did not observe sex and decide to permit it. He invented it.
He did not stumble upon music. He is the source from which music flows. No human musician in their current state walks into heaven’s choir without being exposed. The least of them will put our greatest to shame. Every good thing we have ever experienced is derivative. A trickle from a reservoir we have never seen.
This is why the incarnation is such a devastating argument. God puts on flesh. He enters the world with full access to everything we spend our lives chasing. Wealth. Fame. Sex. Power. And he is conspicuously unimpressed.
Not because he came to perform suffering, he went to weddings, he ate, he wept, he loved people fiercely. But none of it could compete with what he already knew was real. A man who has eaten the actual meal is not tormented by the photograph of it.
Then he meets a rich man, a man who had maximized human enjoyment by every available metric, and he says: sell everything and come. Nobody says that unless they know exactly what is on the other side. That is not the language of sacrifice. That is the language of an outrageously favorable trade.
As for hell, the joke gets it completely wrong. Hell is not a party for rebels. Hell is what happens when a being built to find its fullness in God is permanently severed from the source of every good thing they ever enjoyed.
The music does not continue without him. The laughter does not continue without him. The connection does not continue without him. Because all of those were on loan from the one they are now cut off from. It is not pleasure without God. It is the final and total collapse of everything that ever made pleasure possible.
You are not enjoying something God is missing out on. You are enjoying God already, dimly, through everything he made. Heaven is not a different category of experience. It is the same thing with the glass finally removed.
Most Christians don’t know this but the Quran mentions Jesus - a lot.
However, it denies that he was actually crucified and raised again.
Surah 4:157 says, “They did not kill him, nor crucify him. It was only made to appear so.”
Muslims point to this verse and say, “See? Jesus never died.”
But honestly, if you care about truth, this verse should disturb you more than reassure you.
Because now you have to ask:
Why does the Quran, written 600 years later, contradict every first-century historical source we have?
Christian sources.
Jewish sources.
Roman historians like Tacitus.
Josephus.
Early church fathers.
They all affirm the crucifixion of Jesus.
And then the Quran arrives centuries later with no eyewitnesses, no names, no timeline, and simply says, “It only appeared so.”
That’s not historical evidence. That’s a rewrite.
And then the questions get even harder.
If Jesus never died, why does Surah 3:55 say Allah raised him?
Raised him from what?
Why is Jesus the only prophet still alive according to Islamic theology?
Why is he the only one returning to judge the world?
And if Allah made the world believe Jesus was crucified, then wouldn’t that make Allah the author of the very belief system Islam later rejects?
Because the Torah, the prophets, and the Gospel all point to the cross.
So if the crucifixion was fake, then Islam is built on a global deception allowed by God Himself.
Why is that seen as protection instead of contradiction?
This verse was not written to clarify Jesus’ story.
It was written to erase it.
But the irony is this:
The more people try to delete the cross, the more undeniable it becomes.
Because the truth does not disappear when attacked.
And neither does Christ.
Santa Teresinha escreveu que a santidade não está em fazer grandes coisas, mas em fazer as pequenas com grande amor.
ela não estava consolando quem não chegou longe. estava dizendo que o ordinário é onde Deus mora.
a louça lavada com cuidado, a paciência que custou, o sorriso dado quando você estava no limite.
a vida que parece comum demais pra importar é exatamente onde Deus te espera
The reason Noah’s Ark triggèřș atheists so much is because the story completely humiliates human pride.
One man trusted God while the entire world mocked him.
Then the same people laughing at Noah were suddenly begging for the door to open.
That possibility terrifies modern people that the crowd is not always right.
Some of you feel alone obeying God while everybody around you laughs. Stay faithful anyway.
@nozima Problema das pessoas é achar que Deus só pode fazer o que tá escrito na bíblia. E ele não é limitado por um livro. Além de que deve ter várias outras coisas que ele fez e nunca foram incluídas.
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O coração de Deus está destroçado pelas guerras, pela violência, pelas injustiças e pelas mentiras. Mas o coração do nosso Pai não está com os malvados, com os prepotentes, com os soberbos: o coração de Deus está com os pequenos e os humildes, e com eles faz avançar o seu Reino de amor e de paz, dia após dia. Onde há amor e serviço, aí está Deus. #ViagemApostólica #Argélia
Trump ameaçou o Papa.
A resposta do Papa: "Chega de idolatria ao eu e ao dinheiro! Chega de exibição de poder! Chega de guerra! A verdadeira força se manifesta no serviço à vida".
E Roma está novamente de pé...