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My dad legit received death threats from one of their priests because he dares write his thesis on the interconnectedness of science and faith

Edit: some have expressed interest in it, so here is a Washington post article covering lots of relevant information https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/12/08/no-really-there-is-a-scientific-explanation-for-the-parting-of-the-red-sea-in-exodus/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c13145e3fac5

And here is the book he wrote about it https://www.amazon.com/Between-Migdol-Sea-Crossing-Science/dp/1501068962

He's been in multiple documentaries as well, so if you want to watch/cite those ask and I'll see if I can get the titles

Actually, the official name is Person With Folded Hands which was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and was added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Praying hands is a common usage but it's only one of the usages of this emoji.

https://emojipedia.org/person-with-folded-hands/

Jesus was going to be arrested anyway, even without the betrayal. He proclaimed a political Kingdom and was associated with zealots i.e. the Hebrews who wanted a violent revolt. (Getting my information from <em>The Politics of Jesus</em> by John Howard Yoder as well as <em>Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel: Abridged Edition</em> by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos. If Judas was doing anything, it would be fulfilling prophecy like how the the disciples were to get swords (two only) so Jesus can be counted amongst criminals.

The Bible I use is actually an NLT one too, but that's only because it's a Manga Bible which I bought ages ago, and you can't just let a good Bible go to waste!

It's also quite entertaining when people notice the anime Jesus on the front cover.

the possessive of Jesus is most commonly Jesus', both words being pronounced /ˈdʒiːzəs/

Singular nouns ending in -s can also form a possessive regularly by adding -'s, as in Charles's /ˈtʃɑːrlzᵻz/. The Chicago Manual of Style recommends this more modern style, while stating that adding just an apostrophe (e.g. Jesus') is also correct.[3] The Elements of Style and the Canadian Press Stylebook prefer the form in -s's with the exception of Biblical and classical proper names (Jesus' teachings, Augustus' guards) and common phrases that do not take the extra s (e.g. "for goodness' sake").

My parents were heavily religious. I’m stuck being a manga loving weeaboo now since I never got the chance to get all the weirdness out of my system while I was young. (I’m a married 36-year-old female.) My particular genre of interest is yaoi, shamefully. (Sodom and Gomorrah stuff right there.)

I laughed out loud when I read your comment and remembered that my parents thought I needed this book in my room:

The Picture Bible https://www.amazon.com/dp/0781430550/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_eZKWAbFPN4K25

Ah, memories.

Imo, NIV cuts out a lot of rather inconvenient language that doesn't jive with modern Christianity and King James uses overly grand language for the sake of majestic effect. While there's nothing inherently wrong with either one, I prefer a translation that aims to have the most historically accurate reading. I use NRSV because it's the most academically focused translation but uses standard English and notates whenever important words have debated meanings or when names have important connotations (e.g. the roots of Elohim or YHWH) or there's notable shifts in narrative, contradictory messages, etc. My copy also has accessible scholarly essays giving historical context and extensive footnotes focusing on how readers contemporaneous to the books' writing would have interpreted the material. Here's an amazon link for 14 dollars :)

https://www.amazon.com/New-Oxford-Annotated-Bible-Apocrypha/dp/0195289609/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1525813943&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=oxford+annotated+nrsv

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Tell them that it is wrong and explain how it hurts them and their perspective of relationships. As a Christian (who struggles with it) I believe that lust/porn/masturbation is sin. BUT YOU MUST NOT demonize the sin or them. It is a very difficult thing to struggle with (especially in our culture) but you must not demonize it. Nearly everyone struggles/has struggled with it before.

The main issue with the way abstinence only education is that they don't know how to respond. They don't know how sex works on a physical, mental or spiritual level aside from, "Wait until marriage." They don't know how far they can take it without sinning and they don't even know how far they can take without doing something stupid. You can't tell someone (who is a human being designed for sex) that they mustn't even look the wrong way at someone or they'll go to hell. I'd recommend a book &quot;Every young man's battle. It's a book (from a Christian perspective) of how to deal with that stuff. It's a very real and relate-able book that has many good ideas and techniques even if you aren't Christian. Both the authors struggled with lust/porn/masturbation/pre-marital sex but eventually left it behind.

TL;DR Explain how it's wrong but never ever demonize them or the issue. It's not the end of the world. Good luck buddy.

Emoji are just unicode symbols; like any encoding it is up to the client (the user's device) to interpret it. So some OSs and browsers decided to make the pistol emoji appear as a watergun to make it less "violent". Even the actual pistol appears differently depending on the system. https://emojipedia.org/pistol/

Poythress wrote an interesting book on mosaic law and devotes some thought to modern application.

Consider 13a Penalties for Sexual Crimes:

>In sum, the situations presented to us by modern urban rapes are not entirely analogous to the situations in Israelite society, and we must be cautious about the extent to which the same general principles would apply to all cases. But in the absence of clearer evidence to the contrary, I tentatively advocate treating all cases of forced intercourse with a sexually eligible woman (unmarried and unengaged) on the same legal basis.

>Of course, from the standpoint of the woman’s family the difference between anonymous rape and an exploitive suitor would be monumental. If the offender were a suitor, the father and the daughter might decide that marriage was the wisest option. If the offender were an unknown rapist, they would naturally decline marriage and settle for the monetary payment. The legal statute nevertheless does not discuss the difference directly–not because it was not important to the family, but because it was not relevant to the governing authorities. By placing the decision wholly in the hands of the family the statutes leave the family with fullest control over all the questions relating to their future.

Decent art of Lucifer in a seraph form.

Ophanim, also known as Wheels.

Interestingly enough, snakes used to have legs and evolved them out a while back. Here's an article on the evolution via NPR : https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/20/498575639/how-snakes-lost-their-legs

I suggest you realize that words (especially when combined with other words) change meanings no matter their etymological roots.

I also suggest that you look up the word Agnostic. because it has a well understood, well defined modern meaning that doesn't just mean "without knowledge".

And Agnostic Atheism is a description for a philosophical stance not.

Also, by the etymological root, you are seriously without hole.

Well I'm talking specifically about this depiction, I'm sure he was decently toned but he definitely didn't look like this

https://www.ecosia.org/images?q=ripped%20korean%20jesus#id=0ED3324980BF1E46651577E52B70D6103556A69D

Matthew 21:18-24ish

Not made with on a Christian Minecraft server so it does contain swear words.

Possibly dank as heck.

https://anchor.fm/The-HiGh-ReLiGiOn-pcast/episodes/The-warning-e3sbff

It's called "Retelling the Bible." You should be able to search it in any podcast platform. Or go to the web page and click on the links for any episode.

https://wordpress.com/home/retellingthebible.wordpress.com

Some of the more radical stories I've tackled: "Sex Kabobs!" "What happens on the Threshing Floor," "Gomer's #MeToo Moment," "The Women Formerly Known as Lot's Daughters."

Just download the app... Then you can just press play and listen to it. Depending on the version. I prefer the voice of the person reading the NIV.

'Ana' prefix meaning

'a' prefix meaning

Actually, I found it on Amazon last night and ordered it. The one I found was better though. It had lights!!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JOY924C/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

I saw these shirts at a gift shop in Williams, AZ last year. Naturally Amazon has them for anyone interested. This one is my favorite.

This is the page for the program for Windows. There are also iOS and Mac apps at the bottom of the page.

For the Android phones there is MySword This is the one I use. In the KJV they have Strongs concordance, with clickable links for both NT (Greek) and OT (Hebrew) for words that give you the original word used, with the definitions, for you to see.

/u/Snackrattus

I was trying out the Microsoft Launcher. It set the background to the Bing photo of the day. I've decided I prefer the default launcher.

An apple card is hidden in the Bible, be the first to see it and comment in heaven to be given a 40$ apple card. By the way, did you know God can see what you're doing? Surely he wouldn't see you if you were to use NordVPN

I recently bought The Qur’an: A New Translation which is good. There are some examples of the text in the reviers there.

I can't read arabic very well at all so I need translations too lol.

My parents had a very old one, I think done was by oxford, that is like how you describe.

For something like this, since there are so many options, i'd recommend checking out versions in a library and see which one is most readable for you. I just keep in mind, when riding the bible as well, that there are layers behind everything in a translated source that might not get translated properly so if there is a part i'm particularly curious on the meaning I try to find multiple sources. That helped me understand another a biblical passages a lot more thoroughly. Certain things are up to multiple interpretations even in the original languages ofc lmao.

I am no theology expert though, it's just a hobby of mine, so there might be a better book from that perspective.

For an excellent book on the scholarship on biblical text and literature of the second Temple period check on Michael Heiser's book <em>Demons</em>.

This is correct. Dominion by historian Tom Holland (not himself a Christian) makes a series of similar points. The Christian worldview is so tightly woven with modern Western civilization that it would be extremely difficult to separate the two. Even atheism itself is framed in Christian terms.

The reason this proposition seems so odd to non-Christians is that people who were raised either non-religious (but American) or as evangelical literalist types think of "the Christian worldview" as "stuff in the Bible".

In fact, Christianity is a conglomeration of:

• Jesus
• Paul
• John
• 1st century Judaism (both the Judean and Alexandrian versions)
• Greek moral philosophy
• Roman political philosophy

.. as filtered via five centuries of Church Fathers, Boethius, and then the early medieval Scholastics.

You won't find "the intrinsic value of a human life" clearly stated in the Bible, and it's pretty easy to find places where the Bible seems to teach the opposite. However, Christianity - the whole - clearly promulgates that teaching, with all of its implications for modernity.

See "Paul and Scripture: Studying the New Testament Use of the Old Testament"
https://amazon.com/Paul-Scripture-Studying-New-Testament/dp/080103924X

>The coming of Jesus and the birth of the church caused Paul to look at the Scriptures with new eyes, sometimes clarifying what was written and sometimes reinterpreting it. This volume illuminates Paul's use of the Old Testament, providing a big-picture overview for students of the New Testament. Steve Moyise, a recognized expert on the use of the Old Testament in the New, discusses Paul's handling of creation stories, Abraham, Moses, the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings.

Clearly you've never read Jesus and Non-Violence. Sermon on the mount was full of non-violent protest strategies. Sure, he wasn't a militant revolutionary but that doesn't mean was wasn't fighting to liberate people from unjust systems.

One of my favorite books is My imaginary Jesus by Matt Mikalatos. The name of the book was originally just "Imaginary Jesus" but too many people thought he was saying Jesus was imaginary. What he IS saying is that we make up whatever jesus makes us more comfortable. Among the characters in the book are "Traditional Jesus" (White dude, long hair, robe, sandals, sash). CEO Jesus. Bodybuilder Jesus. Perpetrually angry jesus, legalistic jesus, magic 8 ball Jesus, etc.

It's funny, insightful, and the ending is actually powerful.

In adulthood, Moses is portrayed as leaving the comfort of the court to see the plight of his people (Exod. 2:11). As a Hebrew attached to the court, Moses may have been acting in some official capacity. Upon seeing an Egyptian official beating a Hebrew, Moses retaliated, killing the Egyptian, which led him to flee from Pharaoh's anger (Exod. 2:12-15). Moses' flight took him to the land of Midian, generally thought to be in northern Arabia, on the east side of the Gulf of Aqaba. One reason for not stopping in Sinai to hide out is that throughout the New Kingdom the Serabit el-Khadim area was regularly frequented by Egyptian mining expeditions.
~James K. Hoffmeier, Israel in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition
https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Egypt-Evidence-Authenticity-Tradition/dp/019513088X

Indeed. We've all met somebody who acts like Momoko, which is why it's funny to see them add it to what WAS a kid's show.

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For those wondering, this is from the english dub of the anime "Ghost Stories", which was basically a complete flop in Japan, and they had just enough money to make an English dub, so they told the localization team, "Do whatever you can to make this successful in the US."

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Thus, it was turned from a kid's show into anime South Park, with each character being a lot more interesting and A LOT more offensive than they were before. It's on Crunchyroll for those interested.

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Just... don't watch the sub. It's a waste of time. The dub is what matters, and this is one time where most everyone agrees with that.

Here's one for you --- Christians who really are scientists; and I invite you to check this out. This had Grigori 3 doing a double take.

In context it is more like "Truly I tell you... [it's near impossible.] And let me emphasize this shit again: [It's impossible.]" and then "... just fuckin' with you. All things are possible through mah man."

The whole thing is almost as if the Bible was written by lots of different people with differing political agendas: https://www.amazon.com/Misquoting-Jesus-Story-Behind-Changed/dp/0060859512

For “Christian apologists then” but now, read Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062071505/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_B6DD7RH2E3B7SYP8YXX0

Relevant information:

How Mormon culture made Utah a hotbed for multi-level marketers

LuLaRich docuseries

I can call him a liar when he's lying. "Wah wah conshpiracy wah wah"

It's real. Go learn about Muhammad's life and goals. Go learn of his violence. Go learn how Muhammad is allah's perfect man. Go learn about Muhammad's gruesome murders and sex slave markets and rapes. Go learn how he promised his fighting troops judgement-free entry into paradise if they die killing the non-Islamic. Muhammad the man of peace ha

Go watch and hear in their own voices, the Imams and Muslim Brotherhood and others. There's plenty of content out there. Don't be wilfully ignorant. Jihad means the struggle against all things non-Islamic. Islamic means "Muhammad did it" (forbidden means Muhammad did not): https://www.bitchute.com/video/O8b5MtgTEzqV/

And: https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y

Some would argue that Osho's cult in Wild Wild Country was a sex cult. Interestingly, Andrew Heaton recently spoke with someone who found herself in a sex cult. They even refer a bit to Wild Wild Country.

Maybe those stories will help you answer your question.

Salvation for those who prfcess their faith in Jesus == limited atonement.

Great podcast on that topic here:

https://podcasts.google.com?feed=aHR0cDovL2JpYmxldGhpbmtlci5vcmcvaW1hZ2VzL21wMy9wb2RjYXN0LnhtbA&amp;episode=aHR0cHM6Ly9iaWJsZXRoaW5rZXIub3JnL2luZGV4LnBocD9vcHRpb249Y29tX3ByZWFjaGl0JnZpZXc9c3R1ZHkmaWQ9MzE2OmxpbWl0ZWQtYXRvbmVtZW50LXVuaXZlcnNhbGlzbS1...

The official name for the Unicode character is Person with folded hands

> meaning please or thank you in Japanese culture. Other common uses for this character include prayer/praying hands, or a high-five.

https://emojipedia.org/person-with-folded-hands/

1) that is an argument from authority logical fallacy

2) you can make claims all day long. Demonstrate them.

3) paradoxes most certainly exist in math

4) that is the definition of a paradox.

>a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

You used the wrong word, because even if what i said was a paradox, that doesn't make it fallacious or incorrect.

>paradoxes in math prove they have a place in logic

1) strawman. I did not say that.

2) again- that is the definition of paradox. By definition you are mistaken.

>found something that is not true

Then demonstrate it instead of just claiming it.

Anyone can claim. Demonstrate your argument.

kinda like this or something

Idk it’s a little too edgy, but for me I find humor in this kind of stuff.

He did eventually change his tune on this, but that was changed during the revisions. I am not sure if he released versions of the books before these revisions occurred so you might have a version that pre-dates this decision by him. But, even with his change of heart it's specifically NOT allegory. That didn't change. It's just that he says its fundamentally a Catholic book.

The quote: "The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism"

This is a quote from the collection of letters published in The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. You can buy that book and read tons of letters he wrote people covering tons of additional information on concepts or decisions he made during the writing, as well as his speculation on things that were never codified in the books themselves.

• https://www.amazon.com/Letters-J-R-R-Tolkien-J-R/dp/0618056998

https://www.amazon.com/Word-According-Gen-30-Day-Challenge/dp/1087729254

And if you don't feel like buying it, here's a sample pdf https://s7d9.scene7.com/is/content/LifeWayChristianResources/The_Word_According_to_Gen_Z_Samplepdf.pdf

This book goes into it, but you can probably find other sources online as well.

The short version is Jesus often used humor to build relationships and teach memorable lessons, the same as people do today. Thing is, a lot of the jokes don't translate/carry over as well.

My favorite example is the "splinter in someone's eye/beam in yours" played much more humorously to audiences at the time, while getting his point across.

Nah I'm this cool https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.com/Manga-Bible-NLT-Tyndale/dp/1414316798&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiuiNSLj5vyAhWwmOAKHTZxDbYQFnoECAcQAQ&amp;usg=AOvVaw3m7_cHN1R5OIojTnPal6y3

> Give me one scholar that is not anti-trinitarian that translates μορφῇ meaning anything other than, sharing the very essence.

"that is not anti-trinitarian"... well, I read arguments, not theological labels. As a unitarian, should I consider anti-unitarian literature as irrelevant on this topic? Nah, I read from all kind of author

https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/0761848282/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1642&amp;creative=19458&amp;creativeASIN=0761848282&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=encyclopaed09-21&amp;linkId=B5QA7F653SM2TVIB

and if you want a Phd on this (a JW, well...) https://fosterheologicalreflections.blogspot.com/2017/09/morfh-understood-as-status-philippians.html

Oh, you mean some of the premade stuff? Yeah that's fair, a lot of that stuff (but not all of it - check the label) amounts to fruit soda.

But I always heard 'juicer' and thought of something like this

> First of all, kids go to Heaven no matter what they did as they didn't mature to understand everything they are doing. They aren't judged for the bad things they did and will go to Heaven instantly. That explains your "10,000 kids starve every single day".

First of all, thank you so much for posting. It was very nice to read your perspective of things. I am a Christian (just for full disclosure) and one of the most impactful things I remember reading in college was the book "Spirit of the Rainforest" which is the testimony of a Yanomamo Shaman who later converted to christianity. The part that I remember most strongly was during a spirit walk, he saw the spirit of a child who was recently eaten by a giant snake go to the great palace in the sky, and his spirit guide told him how the evil spirit in the sky takes all children's spirits there. He later goes on to talk about how that spirit turns out to be God and stuff, but that part always stuck with me, and it's interesting to see how this is a common theme even outside of Christianity and Islam. (it also makes sense, I mean I'm not here saying "Look! Proof we're right and everyone else is wrong!" or anything, just illustrating how this point seems to be fairly universal)

EDIT: Just realized I wrote first of all and quoted you saying first of all lol. Sorry if it made my post feel edgy or aggressive at the beginning there.

Dude these are my favorite. I buy them as a snack. You can get them on Amazon

Dhuey-Rheims or RSVCE

Any primary sources for that? Check out Carm.org, they've got quite a few things, I think you would find interesting. https://carm.org/evidence-and-answers ,check How God Became Jesus out. It's a book that actually provides evidence for Jesus, and His resurrection.