Hello fellow Christians, non-believers & heretics. In this thread let us speak of the teachings of the Bible, Old Testament & new.
I started reading the Bible last week & it’s very inspiring to me in becoming a better person.
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John Miller
Evan Perez
I really am starting too question my beliefs now
Lucas Walker
start here, it's where I did:
>Actual Exodus story
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Logan Nguyen
i am having trouble with the "turn the other cheek" of the new testament.
Is this the correct translation? How did people rationalize this in the past? it is suicidal, because your enemies will just take advantage of your kindness.
Cooper Davis
Any opinion of the apocalypse book?
Is it a real end of things or a revelation?
Cooper Hall
It is suicidal, but if you trust in god & believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins, then where would you go after your death?
Heaven.
Jaxson Price
When you are confronted with people that displease you you endure and turn the other cheek.
It is not to be understood as suicidal.
It is to be understood as in if a girl slaps you, you are so alpha you turn the other cheak because chick slaps don't hurt.
As a Brazilian whore/songer once put it:
"Tapinha não dói!"
"A slap (in the ass) doesn't hurt!"
Also: Bump.
Gavin Evans
WTF dude!? How is it suicidal? It is a display of strenght.
Never in that passage is suicide or severe body harm mentioned.
It is said as in "don't be afraid of be slapped / attacked sometimes" way.
Justin Carter
Fuck off kike
Anthony Cruz
You do read the 1582 A.D. version of the Rheims New Testament, don't you?
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Samuel Cook
Which part? The part where it says you can beat your slave so long as they don’t die right away? Or the part where (((god))) uses Job as a poker chip against the Devil then proceeds to lecture Job about how awesome (((god))) is? Or was it the inspirational part where (((god))) tortures a newborn for seven days before killing it to punish his parents for adultery?
Josiah Long
>Holy book written by people
Christian Williams
The Bible was divinely inspired by The Holy Spirit, user
Landon Johnson
That's fucking stupid. She should be slapped back. Even in the bible, it is recognized that women are below men, so a female putting her hands on a man in the first place is blasphemy.
William Myers
>blasphemy
I don't think that word means what you think it means
Aaron Jones
Lucas Clark
OP confirmed New Age heretic; Yeshua HaMeschiach do smite the tares already
Gavin Diaz
>The Bible was divinely inspired by The Holy Spirit
[Citation Needed]
Angel Rodriguez
Death to Hebrew cult
Adam Jenkins
don't know how this one missed my filter. w/e, sage.
Robert Rivera
It's evident if you read it and understand its teachings
Isaac Morris
Turn the other cheek refers to forgiveness and long-suffering, it does not involve forgoing just violence; as we can see when Jesus tells his disciples to buy swords, as well as when Jesus drives the money changers from the temple.
Brody Hughes
>It's evident if you read it and understand its teachings
A book telling you its assertions are true?
Justin Ramirez
Thomas Aquinas on Turning the Other Cheek
"Holy Scripture must be understood in the light of what Christ and the saints have actually practiced. Christ did not offer His other cheek, nor Paul either. Thus to interpret the injunction of the Sermon on the Mount literally is to misunderstand it. This injunction signifies rather the readiness of the soul to bear, if it be necessary, such things and worse, without bitterness against the attacker. This readiness our Lord showed, when He gave up His body to be crucified. That response of the Lord was useful, therefore, for our instruction." (In John 18, lect. 4, 2)
Joseph Pieper comments: "The readiness to meet the supreme test by dying in patient endurance so that the good may be realized does not exclude the willingness to fight and to attack. Indeed, it is from this readiness that the springs of action in the Christian receive that detachment and freedom which, in the last analysis, are denied to every sort of tense and strained activism." —The Four Cardinal Virtues (Notre Dame Press, 1966), 133.
Logan Williams
How do you know that a math book contains the truth?