Mark 15 >And the sixth hour having come, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour Matthew 27:51: >"And the earth shook and the rocks were split" The secular Roman historian Phlegon documented an eclipse and earthquake around the exact same time, matching the Gospel account: >in the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad, an eclipse of the sun happened, greater and more excellent than any that had happened before it; at the sixth hour, day turned into dark night, so that the stars were seen in the sky, and an earthquake in Bithynia toppled many buildings of the city of Nicaea tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_03_part2.htm
Africanus in 221 AD >On the whole world there pressed a most fearful darkness; and the rocks were rent by an earthquake, and many places in Judea and other districts were thrown down. This darkness Thallus, in the third book of his History, calls, as appears to me without reason, an eclipse of the sun. For the Hebrews celebrate the passover on the 14th day according to the moon, and the passion of our Savior falls on the day before the passover; but an eclipse of the sun takes place only when the moon comes under the sun. And it cannot happen at any other time but in the interval between the first day of the new moon and the last of the old, that is, at their junction: how then should an eclipse be supposed to happen when the moon is almost diametrically opposite the sun He references here Thallus who wrote his work "around 52 AD" which has been lost in time though, but is referenced by Africanus.
King Abgar V had an exchange of words with Jesus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abgar_V Historian Eusebius quotes the Edessan archives: >Abgar, ruler of Edessa, to Jesus the good physician who has appeared in the country of Jerusalem, greeting. I have heard the reports of you and of your cures as performed by you without medicines or herbs. For it is said that you make the blind to see and the lame to walk, that you cleanse lepers and cast out impure spirits and demons, and that you heal those afflicted with lingering disease, and raise the dead. And having heard all these things concerning you, I have concluded that one of two things must be true: either you are God, and having come down from heaven you do these things, or else you, who does these things, are the son of God. I have therefore written to you to ask you if you would take the trouble to come to me and heal all the ill which I suffer. For I have heard that the Jews are murmuring against you and are plotting to injure you. But I have a very small yet noble city which is great enough for us both
Jesus: >Blessed are you who hast believed in me without having seen me. For it is written concerning me, that they who have seen me will not believe in me, and that they who have not seen me will believe and be saved. But in regard to what you have written me, that I should come to you, it is necessary for me to fulfill all things here for which I have been sent, and after I have fulfilled them thus to be taken up again to him that sent me. But after I have been taken up I will send to you one of my disciples, that he may heal your disease and give life to you and yours.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ >Christus, from whom the name [Note by OP: Christians] had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa
>1 Thessalonians 5:3 "While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape."
The term "peace and safety" or "peace and security" is almost constantly being used by top politicians on the news, in regards to a Middle East peace plan.
>2 Peter 3:3-4 " Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."
We can see all around us that many people are continuing to mock and scoff at the return of Jesus, which is absolutely guaranteed. These people are unwittingly fulfilling end times prophecy, and need to wake up.
The time is very short. You need to come to Jesus before it's too late. Hell is about to be unleashed. This world is going to see the wrath of God like never before. The amount of filth, degeneracy and blasphemy will not go unpunished forever.
“I know that nothing is unknown to your Majesty, but, as your friend, I would make you better acquainted with the facts by writing. The Jews who dwell in the cantons of Palestine have crucified Jesus: Jesus without sin, Jesus after so many acts of kindness, so many wonders and miracles wrought for their good, even to the raising of the dead. Be assured that these are not the effects of the power of a simple mortal, but of God. During the time that they were crucifying Him, the sun was darkened, the earth was moved, shaken; Jesus Himself, three days afterwards, rose from the dead and appeared to many. Now, everywhere, His name alone, invoked by His disciples, produces the greatest miracles: what has happened to myself is the most evident proof of it. Your august Majesty knows henceforth what ought to be done in future with respect to the Jewish nation, which has committed this crime; your Majesty knows whether a command should not be published through the whole universe to worship Christ as the true God. Safety and health.”
Answer from Tiberius to Abgar’s letter.
look into sacred geomatry, the patterns and math that makes up this world, the golden ratio etc. proving intelligent design behind everything. Look into the near death experiences all around claiming to have met God while being KO and otherwise the same. Remote viewing docs of the CIA showing that the soul is a real thing. And the small fact that nothing can come from nothing in this world ruled by causality, thus there was an initiatior. also
Henry Sanders
>look into sacred geomatry, the patterns and math that makes up this world, the golden ratio etc. proving intelligent design behind everything None of those things prove intelligent design. >Look into the near death experiences all around claiming to have met God while being KO and otherwise the same. All controlled NDE studies involving hidden information have had negative results. We know for a fact that false memories can be generated. >Remote viewing docs of the CIA showing that the soul is a real thing. Where? As far as I'm aware, such studies were abandoned because they didn't produce results. >And the small fact that nothing can come from nothing Nothing doesn't exist. Something does. >thus there was an initiatior Save yourself one step or else you have explain the initiator. >also Astrology tier, self-fulfilling nonsense.
Jonathan Ortiz
>Still believing the Bible is the word of God, instead of a way for Roman aristocrats to control the plebs and wipe out their dirty pagan religions.
Inb4 (((Old Testament)))
Christian Roberts
The answer from Tiberius Tiberius, emperor of the Romans, to Abgar, king of the Armenians, greeting:
“Your kind letter has been read to me, and I wish that thanks should be given to you from me. Though we had already heard several persons relate these facts, Pilate has officially informed us of the miracles of Jesus. He has certified to us that after His resurrection from the dead He was acknowledged by many to be God. Therefore I myself also wished to do what you propose; but, as it is the custom of the Romans not to admit a god merely by the command of the sovereign, but only when the admission has been discussed and examined in full senate, I proposed the affair to the senate, and they rejected it with contempt, doubtless because it had not been considered by them first. But we have commanded all those whom Jesus suits, to receive him amongst the gods. We have threatened with death any one who shall speak evil of the Christians. As to the Jewish nation which has dared to crucify Jesus, who, as I hear, far from deserving the cross and death, was worthy of honour, worthy of the adoration of men—when I am free from the war with rebellious Spain, I will examine into the matter, and will treat the Jews as they deserve
From Flavius Josephus documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/0037-0103,_Flavius_Josephus,_The_Antiquities_Of_The_Jews,_EN.pdf >3. Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians,
this is like saying harry potter books are proof that wizards are real
Joseph Harris
Don't follow the christ demon. Don't believe his lies. He is a brutal tyrant, a murderer, mass slaughterer of the innocent. Butchers children, spreads disease and famine. Punishes you for eternity for a finite existence if you "follow" him.
Don't take this demonic kike bait.
Thomas Perry
If I accept christ can I keep having premarital sex? I was told all I need to do was accept jesus as my personal savior, but there was nothing said on the afterwards
Jacob Nguyen
Scuse me lads, which bible is the best if I can only have one? In understandable English preferably
Leo Kelly
You will not go to heaven unless you get baptized and try your hardest to stop sinning. Jesus is clear on this, the road to heaven is straight and narrow, few people will make it. And no, you cannot have premarital sex, it is the sin of fornication.
Isaac Peterson
Goldstein 33:41 >the newfound Christian faith stormed out of Egypt with all the Israelite shekels and a belief in a merciful creator, one whom they call "The Great Goy". Jonah, son of God.
Jackson Walker
Ignatius Bible is my favourite. NIV is easiest to understand but it has some bias and intentional mistranslation.
Caleb Young
Thank you, are NKJV and ESV no goes? I do not care for denomination bias if that is a thing, just the most accurate, well translated to English
Owen Hernandez
Source on ALL of those claims? Also define best? Does that mean some people can sin more than others because they suck at trying?
The Aramaic Targum is also an interesting source, for example stating that Eve "desired" the angel giving more fuel to the serpent seed theory. Other than that I cant tell honestly. Personally I like the Berean Study Bible and when something weird comes up I look in the original script (Biblehub is really good for it) and look up the different words or the word in question up seperately and compare it to different translation (for which biblehub is again really good)
biblehub.com/ clicking a certain word for example brings up the original greek or hebrew word that was used iE
Mason Sullivan
Tick tock, jew LARPers, time's running out.
Robert Ward
Jesus was a shitskin
Adrian Flores
John 3:5 Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 7:14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Everyone has the temptation of sin and we will all sin at one point or another, accidentally or intentionally. Looking at a woman to lust after her, for example, is a sin. Coveting anything of your neighbor's is also a sin. It is very easy to sin and not notice it, you have to always be vigilant and try your hardest to be aware of whether you are sinning.
I'm a terrible christian. I was saved ( or so I think), rather came to the faith in Christ almost 20 yeas ago. I act, think and behave like a carnal christian. I struggle with sin daily. I've found myself sucked into the whole "willful sin" thing and loss of salvation. I'm convinced I'm not really saved, otherwise CHrist would have delivered me from many indwelling sins of mine. Maybe my faith isn't real. I don't know anymore. I live in conviction and unfortunately condemnation, daily over the things I do and think of. I've listened to the ones that say you can overcome your sins and to turn from them. I can't. I just can't. I beg God and pray for Him to deliver me from so much, but there's silence. I no longer know what to do. I've grown suicidal and have also convinced myself that when I stand before Christ, I will hear the words "Depart from me, for I never knew you". I don't think I'm really saved and it terrifies me. I weep daily and want nothing more than to be embraced by Christ one day and be told it's over. That the pain is over. But my flesh overtakes me. I lose the war in my mind and heart daily. I'm aware I can do nothing on my own, but when God doesn't move or work in me, what else am I left to do?
I'm growing close to giving up and just saying fuck it and accept the fact I can't be saved and realize I'm going to hell.
Wyatt Hall
just stop looking at porn lol just close your eyes lol
Nolan Cooper
1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
What are you struggling with?
Michael Rogers
Thank you but I need to just stick to one for now, I will reread and get study books in the future I’m sure and will keep in mind what you’ve said Thanks for your help, I may go for one of those two then I’m English
Levi Cruz
Woops meant to reply to you that I’m English Anyway good night and God bless lads
Lust porn anger envy pride. So many people think of the big ones, like porn, drugs etc. No one stops to examine the others. Like lying, self righteousness, etc. They're all just as sinful. A main one is doubt. I'm hopeless
Ayden Nguyen
Bible on Massimmigration >47Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance, 48you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you. >49The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand, 50a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young. 51They will eat the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain or new wine or oil, no calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks, until they have caused you to perish. 52They will besiege all your cities, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen in all the land. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you
I believe that you truely try is what counts, not that you fail, for we all fail daily, some more some less. And I also believe that all who ask to forgive, and who forgive others, will be forgiven too. If you truely try, and pray honestly I dont doubt that he will hear you, and in the end it doesnt even matter as your choices shouldnt be coming from wether or not you will be saved, but because you love God as much as he loves us and so you want to see him happy by doing what he deems good, and because you love the people, the children, and want for them to live in better world. Wether you get saved or not in the end you need to decide good over evil. Try your best to always do this and im sure that you can be sure. >28Truly I tell you, the sons of men will be forgiven all sins and blasphemies, as many as they utter. 29But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of eternal sin.”
Camden Nguyen
Go to a priest, preferably Catholic, confess and have a chat with him. I am not that good at giving advice, hope you will make it fren.
On the reason behind the existence of evil and ultimately our purpose: First we must define evil. Evil is whats wrong in Gods eyes. God gave us free will, and free will requires the abillity to choose wrong, or else we would not be able to choose at all. If choosing wrong is evil then there cant be free will without evil
God creates Humans in his image, and he loves every one of them that is and will be. Satan, being basically a spoiled Child doesnt like us getting our fathers attention and thus tries to show him how lowly we are by corrupting us. He does this by bringing the fruit of knowledge of good and evil to us, which while likely intended for us eventually, we werent ready to eat yet as we were basically little babies in adult bodies. With the fruit now Eaten we had to learn of both, Good and Evil. We knew good from our father and from being in Eden, but what was missing is Evil. The best way to learn is to experience, thus we have to experience evil to learn of it, and we couldnt have evil in Paradise thus were send out, possibly falling from a spiritual state of existence into this mortal and material state. This world is sandbox/a tutorial so to speak. A containment reality where we can fuck around without being able to fuck up cosmically. Here we are meant to experience Evil, and Satan trying to corrupt us still is doing so by unleashing every plague he has up his sleeve onto us that we may fall from faith while simultaniously subverting what good and evil is. God loving and trusting us lets this happen since its the best way to learn of evil for us in the first place, and because he knows we will still praise God after everything. This is essentially the story of Job on a global scale.
Basically we are meant to learn good choices, and what this good actually is
In the beginning God created everything by creating polar opposites. In math it would be that he made out of 0, +1 and -1 which together are still 0, but now are something. In physics this is the big bang creating out of nothing matter and anti matter, energy and dark energy, protons and electrons. In the bible its seperating heaven from earth, days from the nights, the sun from the moon, the female from the male, adams rib In all cultures this unification comes up as a theme over and over, be it the marriage, uniting male and female, often dressed in black and white, resulting in the magic of a new kid being born, or be it the solar eclipse uniting sun and moon together. Couple thousand of years ago they talked about the same concept of the Big Bang
Another bit of hidden wisdom in the Bible: According to Mainstream Science snakes lost their legs in the evolutionary process >14So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, Cursed are you above all livestock, and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life. Here too the snake is made to crawl on its belly implying it didnt do so before meaning it most likely had legs but lost it just like Mainstream Science suggests too
>11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. >fountains of the great deep Thousands of years later there is a discovery making it possible those fountain of the great deep actually exist theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/13/earth-may-have-underground-ocean-three-times-that-on-surface
