Zeejay

Follower of Jesus Christ, Husband, Appa 아빠, Alawai’i

[Faithfulness Okom @AttorneyF_]

I’ve heard so many people insist there has to be more than one way to God, as though a single path is inherently unfair and multiple options are self-evidently just.

But this argument almost never engages the actual question. It skips straight to fairness and never asks: fair given what? Fair given which diagnosis?

Jesus Christ is not a preference. He is a prescription. And prescriptions are exclusive because diseases are specific.

The Christian claim is not that God is stingy with salvation. It is that sin carries a documented consequence which is death and separation from God, and that consequence requires a specific solution. You cannot treat a debt by being a better person going forward. The debt still exists. You cannot treat it by praying in a certain direction or performing symbolic acts. Those things do not touch the penalty but only demonstrate that you have underestimated it.

So when someone says there must be another way, they are making one of two arguments without realising it: either sin is not serious enough to require the cross, or God was too dramatic when he said the consequence was death. Both positions require you to call God a liar. That is your right. But it is not a generous theology, it is a pretentious contradiction.

And perhaps more importantly, the message of Christ is not only about eternity. Accepting the resurrection means accepting your nature. It means living with the knowledge that every time you sin, you are crucifying him again. That image does not automatically stop sin, but it creates friction. It creates gravity, and it makes repentance something you pursue, not something you schedule.

A judge cannot pardon an offense the defendant refuses to acknowledge. But the deeper problem is not even guilt, it is jurisdiction. When you reject Christ, you are not simply saying “I am innocent.” You are saying “this court has no authority over me.” You are contesting God’s right to declare the consequence in the first place.

But God has already entered the record. 1 John 1 says you have sinned. Romans 6 says the wage of that sin is death. These are not opinions. They are the charges, filed and documented. Every other religious path; Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, however sincere and however demanding, hands you a program for self-improvement. They say: do this, abstain from that, accumulate enough, and you can close the gap yourself. They make you the solution to your own problem. Christianity alone says the gap cannot be closed from your side, and then points to the only one who closed it from his.

So the question “why can’t there be many ways to God?” is really the question “why can’t I negotiate the terms of my own pardon?” And the answer is that you are not the judge. You did not set the penalty. You do not get to revise it because you find it inconvenient. The court is already in session, and the evidence is already submitted. The only remaining question is whether you will accept what has already been done on your behalf, or insist that a crime you committed in a court you refuse to recognise deserves a sentence you are willing to serve.

Grace is not the absence of consequence. It is consequence fully met, by someone else, on your behalf. Rejecting that is the most expensive pride a person can carry.

[Gabrielle Clark @GabsClark5]

Every parent needs to watch this. This mother called me in hysterics after the police showed up at her door in the middle of the night. The dad had to escape with their daughter in the middle of the night to keep the trans cult from stealing her. This is a good family. @AffirmReal helped this family managed this situation. These parents are so brave to save their baby girl the way that they did.

[Trevor Thomas @TrevorGThomas]

https://t.co/SLYEfTdfxR

[Zeejay @zeejayzeejay]

@reddit_lies It will not be an easy life transition, but she can do it with God’s help. Rahab was a prostitute, but she changed when she encountered God and ended up in Jesus’ ancestral lineage and as an example of faith.

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

🧵Apotemnophilia

In the 90s, Dr. Robert Smith, a surgeon at Falkirk Royal Infirmary, performed leg amputations on two men. Both men were perfectly healthy but suffering from apotemnophilia, a psychiatric condition involving the desire to have healthy limbs amputated./1

[Zeejay @zeejayzeejay]

@MikeWingerii FYI I’ve ‘liked’ this post 10+ times, but every time I come back to look at this channel, it’s ‘unliked’ again. A glitch, or suppression?

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

Nowadays kids’ books have messages like “believe in yourself” and “you can do anything” but when I was a kid the messages were things like “a lady who has a candy house wants to cook and eat you” and “sometimes wolves can disguise themselves as old women”

[Zeejay @zeejayzeejay]

@Red_River_D @1984_nate I don’t think Adam was deceived, even indirectly.

1 Timothy 2:14
and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.

[Zeejay @zeejayzeejay]

@isaiah489 @rootcausesleuth Am I missing something? Doesn’t #1 have basically the same phrasing, just written in a different order? But they mean exactly the same thing, even though they’re swapped?

#1 : God decreed that, due to the fall, …

#2 : Due to the fall, Good decreed for …

[Zeejay @zeejayzeejay]

@lsanger @lsanger Awesome to be conversing with you!

I don’t understand what kind of “non-quotational use” you’re looking for; as I peruse verses, it seems anything could potentially be put in quotes if a reader wants.

Could you give me a made up example that would fit your criteria?

[Zeejay @zeejayzeejay]

@lsanger Maybe Dan 11:39?

Also, how do you understand the title “God of gods”? If “gods” here are false, are the “lords” false to parallel “gods”?

Deut 10:17 - said by Moses + Lord of lords

Psa 136:2-3 - Lord of lords

Dan 11:36 - said by a God-following spiritual being, maybe Gabriel

[Michael Foster @thisisfoster]

Marriage is probably best compared to a dance. When it works, it is beautiful. When it does not, it is painful. Like dancing, it takes two people who are working toward something together instead of each trying to impose their own rhythm.

The man leads. The woman follows. That is the basic shape of it, but neither one is passive. She is not a puppet, and he is not a tyrant. They move differently because they are different, but they are meant to move together.

He steps first, but her response affects what he does next. A woman does not merely follow. She responds, adjusts, and adds something of her own. Give a man the lead and a woman room to move, and they will either make a mess of things or make something striking.

Sometimes one stands out more. Sometimes the other recedes a bit. The goal is not to make sure both get equal attention at every moment. The goal is for the dance itself to be good as a whole. It is not always neat or predictable. When it is healthy, it has life to it. That is part of what makes it good.

Think about Jack and Jill dance competitions. Partners are paired at random, usually as strangers, and given a couple of songs, one fast and one slow. I remember watching one pair dance. There was no practice and no real plan. They simply paid attention, responded to each other, and moved with the music. Nothing was choreographed. They figured it out as they went.

The movements were sensual, but not dirty. It was not about lust. It was about attentiveness, self-control, and responding well to another person. It was beautiful without feeling stiff or overmanaged.

A godly man does not want a wife who is merely present and agreeable. He wants a woman who responds to his leadership with passion and wisdom. But when a woman checks out, or grows hard and bitter, the whole thing starts to fall apart. The same is true of a man who refuses to lead.

Marriage is not a script. It is two people learning how to move together in real time. Sometimes they step on each other's feet. Sometimes they laugh. Sometimes they get it right and both know it.

When that happens, it feels solid and good. It feels like something real. The kind of good that reminds you God knew what He was doing when He made them male and female. And that's something worth working towards.

[Nilson Marcelo | @TopGrafx @TopGrafx]

6 coisas que os filhos fazem só por um tempo... e depois desaparecem para sempre 😞

1. Um dia eles param de correr até você assim que acordam.
Aquele barulho de pezinhos no corredor, o abraço na cama... aos poucos dá lugar ao silêncio e à porta fechada do quarto.

2. Eles param de dizer: "Mamãe, papai, olha!"
Já não correm mais para te mostrar cada pedrinha ou cada desenho.
Pouco a pouco, o mundo deles fica mais silencioso... e mais deles.

3. Um dia eles param de segurar sua mão enquanto caminham.
E de repente você sente o vazio.
Não porque o amor acabou... mas porque eles estão crescendo.

4. Um dia eles param de dormir nos seus braços.
Aquele apoio no seu ombro, a respiração ficando calma...
são momentos que, sem aviso, acabam.

5. Em algum momento, eles deixam de acreditar que o seu beijo resolve tudo.
Antes bastava um curativo.
Depois, as feridas mais profundas começam a se esconder na música e no silêncio... não mais nos seus braços.

6. Eles param de te trazer seus "tesouros".
Folhas, papéis, pequenas descobertas.
Aquele amor puro e espontâneo... simplesmente diminui.

A infância não é um ensaio. Acontece agora e, enquanto ainda pedem colo e chamam você o dia inteiro, aproveite cada momento. ❤️

[Great Lakes Wife @GreatLakesWife_]

I’m learning a lot about my unsavory character traits when my baby won’t sleep and/or won’t stop crying. Negative, weak, judgmental, quick to anger. Not Christlike at all. I supposed He’s using it to show me how much I need Him

[Zeejay @zeejayzeejay]

@BookmarkedKatie @TheLaurenChen If she’s 5’2” and 170 pounds like the pic says, then her BMI is over 30, which is the literal definition of obese (unless it’s somehow all muscle).

[Zeejay @zeejayzeejay]

@PrishaMosley I thought for a second he had a knife 😅

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

If you’re blackpilling about life, just remember something.

Western civilization is collectively waking up, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it.

History tells us this is inevitable.

Bask in the despair if you must. But it’s just fuel to open your eyes.

[Zeejay @zeejayzeejay]

@carney @shipwreckedcrew Leftists: He has no criminal record and lived here for decades, you can’t make him leave and go back to where he’s from!

Also leftists: So what if you have no criminal record and lived here for decades, you’re on stolen land and must leave and go back to where you’re from!

[Tanya @turnedwife]

“Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t marry the same sex.”

“Don’t like abortion? Don’t get one.”

“Don’t like gender ideology? Then don’t transition.”

This is the lazy, morally bankrupt argument of a culture that’s traded truth for comfort. We act as if every serious issue can be reduced to personal taste, like picking a flavor of ice cream. Like whatever we believe has no implications outside of ourselves.

You wouldn’t say:

“Don’t like child abuse? Don’t abuse your kid.”

“Don’t like racism? Don’t be racist.”

“Don’t like drunk driving? Then don’t do it.”

Why not? Because we instinctively understand that some things are just wrong, and not just for me, not just for you, but for everyone. Because they hurt people. They corrupt innocence. They distort reality. And they destroy the moral foundation we all depend on to live in a functioning society.

The idea that all moral issues are private choices is a lie. These things don’t stay in your bedroom or your clinic or your brain. They seep into schools, media, law, culture, and the next generation.

Everyone pays the price for the lies we choose to accept.

So no, it’s not just “your choice.” It never was.