I Read the Book of Matthew

[four1298]

This post is a list of quotes from the book. The dashes separate the quotes from my personal notes. The stars separate quotes.

Quotes I didn't like from the book:

Jesus prepared for the Test by fasting forty days and forty nights
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Fasting for forty days can also be suicidal. You can die from starvation.

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“You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.
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This is horrible. He thinks loss is a good thing.

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“You’re blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God’s kingdom.
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This is literally suicide. People died from persecution. Take the Japanese missionaries.

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‘Do not murder.’ I’m telling you that anyone who is so much as angry with a brother or sister is guilty of murder.
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This is thoughtcrime, which is bad.

You have to blind your right eye the moment you catch it in a lustful leer. You have to choose to live one-eyed or else be dumped on a moral trash pile. And you have to chop off your right hand the moment you notice it raised threateningly
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This is like transableism. It's peak degeneracy. What if your whole body offends? Or your brain? Should you commit suicide? Also why is lust wrong? Why is desiring sex wrong? Genesis says to be fruitful and multiply.

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And if you marry such a divorced adulteress, you’re automatically an adulterer yourself.
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This is literally cucked. If divorced women aren't allowed to remarry, the implication is they shouldn't be allowed to make more children with another man. I'm a pro-natalist.

When you help someone out, don’t think about how it looks. Just do it—quietly and unobtrusively. That is the way your God, who conceived you in love, working behind the scenes, helps you out.
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This is the worst form of altruism.

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You can’t get forgiveness from God, for instance, without also forgiving others.
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Forgiveness is cucked. Sinners(abortionists and euthanizers) deserve the death penalty. They shouldn't be forgiven.

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The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.
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Wanting to go to Heaven is cucked. There is no afterlife, so it's just wanting death. It's almost suicidal.

When the Pharisees saw him keeping this kind of company, they had a fit, and lit into Jesus’ followers. “What kind of example is this from your Teacher, acting cozy with crooks and riffraff?”
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This is a response to Jesus hanging out with tax collector Matthew in chapter 9 verse 9. The Pharisees are based. Tax collection is bad. Taxation is theft. The Pharisees are based here.The news was soon out, and traveled throughout the region.

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The news was soon out, and traveled throughout the region.
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Jesus was a hypocrite. In Matthew 6:4 he says to do good deeds in secret so others don't find out about it, yet Jesus does his good things in front of others. That's what happens a lot in the book of Matthew.
Jesus was a hypocrite. In Matthew 6:4 he says to do good deeds in secret so others don't find out about it, yet Jesus does his good things in front of others. That's what happens a lot in the book of Matthew.

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“Don’t let a soul know how this happened.
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If Jesus weren't a hypocrite, he would have been against the book of Matthew because it spread the news.

However these healings are proof that he was real.

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others will smear your reputation...Without knowing it, they’ve done you—and me—a favor, given you a platform for preaching the kingdom news!
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Persecution is terrible. Again he's pro-persecution.

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Be content—pleased, even—when you, my students, my harvest hands, get the same treatment I get
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This is terrible. He wants disciples to be crucified like he was.

If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself
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I'm pro-selfishness.

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The wretched of the earth learn that God is on their side.
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This is horrible. Jesus is saying he's on Satan's side. He's on the side that's not good.

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Don’t run from suffering; embrace it.
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Christian suffering is bad.

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And some decide not to get married for kingdom reasons.
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This is cucked. How is not getting married good? This is like paleo-MGTOW. "Don't get married because you'll be divorced." No, get married and have children.

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“If you want to give it all you’ve got,” Jesus replied, “go sell your possessions; give everything to the poor. All your wealth will then be in heaven. Then come follow me.”
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This is probably the worst quote in The Bible.

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Let me tell you, it’s easier to gallop a camel through a needle’s eye than for the rich to enter God’s kingdom.”
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What's wrong with being rich?

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Can’t I do what I want with my own money?
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This is the story where the vineyard workers get paid in the order reverse which they came from.

God doesn't think you should do what you want with your money. He wants you to give it all away. Matthew 19:21. The OT is probably better than the NT because it's probably less altruistic.

*****

Late in the afternoon a wealthy man from Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus, arrived.
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Why is it okay for this man to be rich? Jesus said it's hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom.

Quotes I liked from the book:

And you count far more to him than birds
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I like this because it's human supremacist. Humans are superior to animals.

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“Oh, no,” said the captain. “I don’t want to put you to all that trouble. Just give the order and my servant will be fine. I’m a man who takes orders and gives orders. I tell one soldier, ‘Go,’ and he goes; to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
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This is pro-slavery. Jesus doesn't castigate him for having a slave in the next verse. This is Matthew 8:8-9

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“Why is it that we and the Pharisees rigorously discipline body and spirit by fasting, but your followers don’t?”
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I hate fasting. Some people commit suicide by fasting. This is where Jesus is based. Hunger is bad. Eating is good.

Matthew, the tax man,
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I like that Matthew was one of Jesus' top followers because of Matthew 21:31 which says prostitutes and tax collectors will enter the kingdom of Heaven before you. In another similar world, a John would have been one of Jesus' top followers. Perhaps some of his followers were Johns and that just wasn't mentioned in the book.

You’re worth more than a million canaries
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This is based. It's almost anti-vegan.

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Accepting someone’s help is as good as giving someone help.

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While he was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers showed up.
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Jesus wasn't an only child. Based.

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Don’t you remember the five loaves of bread and the five thousand people, and how many baskets of fragments you picked up?
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He fed five thousand with five loaves of bread. Perhaps this refers to preborn embryos. They only "eat" a little because they're so tiny. Jesus was pro-peborn children. Lifefuel.

We know from Matthew 5 that Jesus liked children: “Let the children alone, don’t prevent them from coming to me. God’s kingdom is made up of people like these.” One type of children is pre-born children.

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He couldn’t pay up, so the king ordered the man, along with his wife, children, and goods, to be auctioned off at the slave market...

The king was furious and put the screws to the man until he paid back his entire debt. And that’s exactly what my Father in heaven is going to do to each one of you who doesn’t forgive unconditionally anyone who asks for mercy.”
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This seems pro-slavery. It's the story where a servant is forgiven by a king, but he doesn't forgive.

Whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave.
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This may be pro-slavery.

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I was homeless and you gave me a room,
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I like this one because homelessness is a men's issue.

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“Are you going to sleep on and make a night of it? My time is up, the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the hands of sinners. Get up! Let’s get going! My betrayer is here.”’
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It's good that he wanted to live.

Other quotes:

“Joseph, son of David, don’t hesitate to get married. Mary’s pregnancy is Spirit-conceived.
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This is proof she wasn't cheating on him, which @fukurou said. Even he received the message.

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This would bring the prophet’s embryonic sermon to full term: Watch for this—a virgin will get pregnant and bear a son;
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This is proof God is real


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Instructed by the king, they set off. Then the star appeared again, the same star they had seen in the eastern skies.
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Isn't this proof religion is true? Many people saw a star.

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WALKING ON THE WATER
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This is more proof he was God.

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He said, “No more figs from this tree—ever!” The fig tree withered on the spot, a dry stick. The disciples saw it happen.
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More proof God is real.

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tldr: I don't like the pro-fasting, pro-persecution, pro-altruist, anti-rich, pro-loss, anti-remarriage, pro-suffering sentiments. I like the pro-life, pro-slavery, anti-vegan sentiments. This book has proof that Christianity is the true religion - Jesus performed miracles healing the sick and disabled, he fulfilled prophecies from the Old Testament, he walked on water, he withered a fig tree and his disciples saw, and when Jesus was born scholars saw a star that led them to him.

 

[Skelly]

Why are you pro-slavery?

 

[Emba]

Why are you pro-slavery?

The lord says to kill gentiles and enslave there 3yo daughters.

 

[fukurou]

imagine being soy to the extent of worshipping some cheating whore's bastard.

bitch got creampied by Chad(she called god), and made her carpenter beta bux raise it.

sheesh Christcucks are pathetic.

"spirit conceived" simply means she squirted while she was getting smashed in her vagina.

 

[sbccel]

Chudble

 

[TooSomething]

The lord says to kill gentiles and enslave there 3yo daughters.

Oof. Xd

 

[TooSomething]

imagine being soy to the extent of worshipping some cheating whore's bastard.

bitch got creampied by Chad(she called god), and made her carpenter beta bux raise it.

sheesh Christcucks are pathetic.

"spirit conceived" simply means she squirted while she was getting smashed in her vagina.

And engineer got her pregnant with their super high tech, without her knowing it.

Then, when Jesus was born he got taken away to the world of the Engineers to be taught of their ways.
He was then returned but his memory locked until he'd be baptized, which made "the holy ghost" unlock it again.
Then he started preaching the way of "the gods" to their creation, mankind.

But the humans rejected the blasphemer and crucified him, which the Engineers did not forsee, because they aren't gods in the end.

It is telling how with his last breath Jesus said that not his will but god's will shall be, and his kingdom shall come.
But god did not ever come. LoL

Maybe god did not even notice that Jesus got crucified. Maybe he had an accident on the way anfd never reached his destination.

We are just cattle to some higher beings, designed to work on earth and gather certain ore for them.

 

[Cell78]

imagine being soy to the extent of worshipping some cheating whore's bastard.

bitch got creampied by Chad(she called god), and made her carpenter beta bux raise it.

sheesh Christcucks are pathetic.

"spirit conceived" simply means she squirted while she was getting smashed in her vagina.

Don't blaspheme against the Holy Ghost. There's no turning back.

 

[fukurou]

Don't blaspheme against the Holy Ghost. There's no turning back.

your ghosts are holy as a pig's ass hole

 

[four1298]

I read the book of Mark and Luke. These books repeat much of Matthew, I think.

tldr: Jesus healed many people including Simon's mother-in-law, a leper, a paraplegic, a person with a crippled hand, a madman, a hemorrhaging woman, a dead girl, a mute deaf, blind people including Bartimaeus, a slaveowners' servant who was on his deathbed, a dead boy, an arthritic woman, and the Chief Priest's servant's ear.He was able to calm the sea and wind with his voice. The Twelve healed people too. A cloud enveloped Jesus and some of his disciples and God spoke to them. Elizabeth conceived a son despite being old.

I like it when it says to not denounce your parents, Hell is real, not to divorce, to be first you must be a slave like Jesus(Mark 10:44), to love God, Zechariah prayed to have children, Elizabeth's baby in her womb leaped for joy(Luke 1:41), he forgave a prostitute with very expensive perfume who stood by his feet, to eat three square meals(I don't like fasting), "to ask and you'll get," that you count far more than ravens, to invite the disabled to feasts, to punish those who give little ones a hard time(I think this can be pro-life), and levirate marriage. I also like the story of the king who forgave a servant's debt but changed his mind when the servant didn't forgive the debt to another person, so the king makes him a slave(Matthew 18). I also like that Matthew says accepting help is as good as receiving it.

I didn't like it when it says about the Great Reversal, about altruism, to embrace suffering, to mutilate yourself, when he withered a fig tree, to love only God, He brings good news to the poor, "You’re blessed when you’ve lost it all," to self-sacrifice, that He wasn't grateful Martha was cooking for her, to want to be in Heaven because it's like desiring to be dead, that He came to change everything, don't give when the favor can be returned, to carry your own cross, He ate with sinners, when a father supports an irresponsible son, to not "cling to life," to risk your life, that he likes that the poor widow gave two pennies, Judas committed suicide despite being paid well, Peter would die for him, Jesus forgave a criminal crucified next to him.

Proof God is real:

Simon’s mother-in-law was sick in bed, burning up with fever. They told Jesus. He went to her, took her hand, and raised her up. No sooner had the fever left than she was up fixing dinner for them.
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This is proof God is real.

*****

Deeply moved, Jesus put out his hand, touched him, and said, “I want to. Be clean.” Then and there the leprosy was gone, his skin smooth and healthy.

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“Get up. Pick up your stretcher and go home.” And the man did it—got up, grabbed his stretcher, and walked out, with everyone there watching him.
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Jesus healed a paraplegic who entered from the roof. Only God can do this.

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He said to the man, “Hold out your hand.” He held it out—it was as good as new!
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He healed a man with a crippled hand.

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Awake now, he told the wind to pipe down and said to the sea, “Quiet! Settle down!” The wind ran out of breath; the sea became smooth as glass.
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This is proof God is real.

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They came up to Jesus and saw the madman sitting there wearing decent clothes and making sense, no longer a walking madhouse of a man.

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She slipped in from behind and touched his robe. She was thinking to herself, “If I can put a finger on his robe, I can get well.” The moment she did it, the flow of blood dried up. She could feel the change and knew her plague was over and done with.
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A hemorrhaging woman is healed

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He clasped the girl’s hand and said, “Talitha koum,” which means, “Little girl, get up.” At that, she was up and walking around! This girl was twelve years of age.
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God seemed to resurrect a dead girl. Proof he is real.

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Then they were on the road. They preached with joyful urgency that life can be radically different; right and left they sent the demons packing; they brought wellness to the sick, anointing their bodies, healing their spirits
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Jesus gave the Twelve the power to heal.

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The man’s hearing was clear and his speech plain—just like that.
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He healed a mute deaf.

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The man looked hard and realized that he had recovered perfect sight, saw everything in bright, twenty-twenty focus.
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Jesus cures a blind man.

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Just then a light-radiant cloud enveloped them, and from deep in the cloud, a voice: “This is my Son, marked by my love. Listen to him.”
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This is proof.

In that very instant he recovered his sight and followed Jesus down the road.
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Jesus heals another blind man, this one is named Bartimaeus.

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Unannounced, an angel of God appeared just to the right of the altar of incense.
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This is proof angels are real. Zachariah saw one.

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“And did you know that your cousin Elizabeth conceived a son, old as she is? Everyone called her barren, and here she is six months pregnant! Nothing, you see, is impossible with God.”

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When the messengers got back home, they found the servant up and well.
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Jesus healed a slaveowners' servant who was on his deathbed.

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The pallbearers stopped. He said, “Young man, I tell you: Get up.” The dead son sat up and began talking.
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Jesus revives a dead boy.

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When Jesus saw her, he called her over. “Woman, you’re free!” He laid hands on her and suddenly she was standing straight and tall, giving glory to God.
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Jesus heals an arthritic woman.

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Jesus said, “Let them be. Even in this.” Then, touching the servant’s ear, he healed him.
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He healed the Chief Priest's servant.


Other quotes:

There’s nothing done or said that can’t be forgiven. But if you persist in your slanders against God’s Holy Spirit, you are repudiating the very One who forgives, sawing off the branch on which you’re sitting, severing by your own perversity all connection with the One who forgives.”
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Are you listening to this @fukurou ? Repent for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

Quotes I like:

At first they were in awe—and then they were upset, upset over the drowned pigs. They demanded that Jesus leave and not come back.
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This is actually based because animals shouldn't have rights. He sacrificed the animals for the good of one human. Take that veganism!

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Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.
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I like this.

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“Everyone’s going through a refining fire sooner or later, but you’ll be well-preserved, protected from the eternal flames.
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Does this mean Heaven does not exist and only Hell does or what?

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Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart.”
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This is one of the better things Jesus has said, though I don't care too much about divorce.

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Whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave. That is what the Son of Man has done: He came to serve, not to be served—and then to give away his life in exchange for many who are held hostage.”
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Jesus is a slave.

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in importance is, ‘Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.’
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This is basic, but I like it because Psalms 82:6 says you're a God.

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Jesus said to them, “What is this, coming after me with swords and clubs as if I were a dangerous criminal?
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Jesus wanted to live so much he's arguing with them.

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Your prayer has been heard. Elizabeth, your wife, will bear a son by you. You are to name him John. You’re going to leap like a gazelle for joy, and not only you—many will delight in his birth
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Praying for children is a good idea.

*****

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby in her womb leaped.
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This is Luke 1:44. This seems like a much better book than Matthew and Mark. This clearly shows preborn children are human.

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You’re blessed when you’re ravenously hungry.
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This is true, but for women only. Food stamps should be defunded. Frankly I'm against it when he says "You’re blessed when the tears flow freely" but if that were to apply to only women then I'd agree. Same for the Isaiah line I quoted in this post. Frankly, I think defunding cash assistance is more important than defunding food stamps. I don't think hunger is good for anyone.

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Just then a woman of the village, the town harlot, having learned that Jesus was a guest in the home of the Pharisee, came with a bottle of very expensive perfume and stood at his feet,...

“Do you see this woman? I came to your home; you provided no water for my feet, but she rained tears on my feet and dried them with her hair. You gave me no greeting, but from the time I arrived she hasn’t quit kissing my feet. You provided nothing for freshening up, but she has soothed my feet with perfume. Impressive, isn’t it? She was forgiven many, many sins, and so she is very, very grateful. If the forgiveness is minimal, the gratitude is minimal.”
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Jesus was pro-prostitution. This is Luke 7.

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“Whoever accepts this child as if the child were me, accepts me,”
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This is pro-life because one type of children is preborn children

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Keep us alive with three square meals.

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Ask and you’ll get;
Seek and you’ll find;
Knock and the door will open.
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Finally, a selfish verse. Though to be honest the previous verses are too demanding. He's saying to wake up all the neighbors up to get food. I think that's just going to make people angry.

*****

Look at the ravens, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, carefree in the care of God. And you count far more.
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Human supremacy.

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Invite some people who never get invited out, the misfits from the wrong side of the tracks
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This is one of the better quotes in The Bible, but this translation isn't good because others are more clearly pro-disabled. It's Like 14:13. I don't like that the next verse says it's because they can't pay you back though.

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In hell and in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham in the distance and Lazarus in his lap. He called out, ‘Father Abraham, mercy! Have mercy! Send Lazarus to dip his finger in water to cool my tongue. I’m in agony in this fire.’
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Hell is real.

*****

Better to wear a millstone necklace and take a swim in the deep blue sea than give even one of these dear little ones a hard time!
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Could these little ones refer to preborn children too?

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But the Master said, “You don’t need more faith. There is no ‘more’ or ‘less’ in faith. If you have a bare kernel of faith, say the size of a poppy seed, you could say to this sycamore tree, ‘Go jump in the lake,’ and it would do it.
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This might mean it's easy to get into Heaven.

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You know the commandments, don’t you? No illicit sex, no killing, no stealing, no lying, honor your father and mother.”
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I think illicit sex includes homosexuality. Based.

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They asked, “Teacher, Moses wrote us that if a man dies and leaves a wife but no child, his brother is obligated to take the widow to wife and get her with child.
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I like this because it says it's okay for a foid to remarry(after the husband's death). This is unlike when Jesus says it's bad for women to be divorced and remarry. This is levirate marriage.

*****

Quotes I don't like:

This is the Great Reversal: many of the first ending up last, and the last first.”
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This doesn't make sense. If the last are going to be first, isn't the logical conclusion that those who never converted to Christianity will enter Heaven before Christians because never is further away from first more than the last?

*****

Giving, not getting, is the way.
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I don't agree with altruism.

*****

Don’t run from suffering; embrace it.

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And if your eye distracts you from God, pull it out and throw it away.
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This is pro-self-mutilation

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No one is good, only God.
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If no one is good, goodness doesn't exist. Goodness has to exist.

Perhaps this is good, however. Nobody is good, so nobody is bad. Everyone goes to Heaven.


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“Mark my words, no one who sacrifices house, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, land—whatever—because of me and the Message will lose out.
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You shouldn't sacrifice preborn children for God.

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He addressed the tree: “No one is going to eat fruit from you again—ever!”
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I actually don't like this. That tree would've yielded fruit in season(it was out of season). He's destroying something good. What happened to when he said the last will be first? This contradicts it because the fig tree would have yielded fruit later.

*****

the callous rich were left out in the cold.
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I don't like that this is anti-rich.

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Isaiah
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I don't like the book of Isaiah because it says, "And the men who are high will be made low." I think MLK Jr said something similar in his I Have a Dream speech. The implication is that the powerful are bad and that's why they'll be brought low. It's suicidal because it says you should be low. The implication is that you should very low, as low as you can be.

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Jesus refused, again backing his refusal with Deuteronomy: “Worship the Lord your God and only the Lord your God. Serve him with absolute single-heartedness.”
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This is unlike when Bishop Nikolaj said to love God and yourself. Here it says to love "only" the Lord.

*****

God’s Spirit is on me;
he’s chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor,
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I don't care about the poor. Being pro-poor is pro-feminism. Women are supposed to be poor.

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You’re blessed when you’ve lost it all.
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This is pro-loss.

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Help and give without expecting a return.

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Giving, not getting, is the way.
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This is false. The Bible previously said "Accepting someone’s help is as good as giving someone help."(Matthew 10:41) Getting is the way. Again I only think altruism is good for women.

*****

He replied, “My mother and brothers are the ones who hear and do God’s Word. Obedience is thicker than blood.”
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His family wanted to see him and he said no. Isn't that bad?

*****

Don’t run from suffering; embrace it.
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Pro-suffering

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Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self.
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Sacrifice is terrible.

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“Martha, dear Martha, you’re fussing far too much and getting yourself worked up over nothing. One thing only is essential, and Mary has chosen it—it’s the main course, and won’t be taken from her.”
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But she was cooking for God.

*****

Turn both your pockets and your hearts inside out and give generously to the poor;
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Pro-giving

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You’re just like unmarked graves: People walk over that nice, grassy surface, never suspecting the rot and corruption that is six feet under.”
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Graves are bad now?

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religious bullies. True, they can kill you, but then what can they do? There’s nothing they can do to your soul, your core being
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It's not okay to be killed. Pro-killing.

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Get yourselves a bank that can’t go bankrupt, a bank in heaven far from bankrobbers, safe from embezzlers, a bank you can bank on. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.
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Wanting to be in Heaven is bad. That's like desiring death.

*****

I’ve come to change everything,
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Some of what was in the Old Testament was good though like the provisions against homosexuality and abortion.

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“The next time you put on a dinner, don’t just invite your friends and family and rich neighbors, the kind of people who will return the favor.
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This is the worst form of altruism.

*****

Anyone who won’t shoulder his own cross and follow behind me can’t be my disciple.
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Wanting to be crucified is bad.

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They growled, “He takes in sinners and eats meals with them, treating them like old friends.”
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This is bad because sinners are bad people. What if the sinner is a homosexual or an abortionist? That's unacceptable.

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I’ve stayed here serving you, never giving you one moment of grief, but have you ever thrown a party for me and my friends? Then this son of yours who has thrown away your money on whores shows up and you go all out with a feast!’
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This guy's in the right. The lost son was irresponsible.

*****

If you grasp and cling to life on your terms, you’ll lose it, but if you let that life go, you’ll get life on God’s terms.34-35
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This is anti-life. He's saying to not defend your life but to worry about the afterlife.

*****

“There was once a judge in some city who never gave God a thought and cared nothing for people.
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Caring about people is bad.

*****

Zacchaeus just stood there, a little stunned. He stammered apologetically, “Master, I give away half my income to the poor—and if I’m caught cheating, I pay four times the damages.”
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What a cuck.

*****

Risk your life and get more than you ever dreamed of.
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This is evil. Anti-life.

*****

he saw a poor widow put in two pennies. He said, “The plain truth is that this widow has given by far the largest offering today.
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He wants poor people to give even when they have so little. I don't agree.

*****

They couldn’t believe their good luck and agreed to pay him well.
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Judas was cucked for committing suicide(Matthew 27:5). He was going to be paid well for betraying Christ. That's what all the disciples should have done.

*****

I’d go to jail for you. I’d die for you!”
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Peter is a cuckmaxxer.

*****

But do it your way—it’s a dark night, a dark hour.”
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It's cucked Jesus wants to let them kill him.

*****

He said, “Don’t worry, I will. Today you will join me in paradise.”
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Jesus is a cuck for forgiving this criminal who was crucified next to him.

*****

Jesus came up and walked along with them. But they were not able to recognize who he was.
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Maybe he was a fraud, which there is quotes in this book that say there are some that claim to be the one. For example, this is warned about in Luke 21:8-9. Luke 9:38 says there was a fraud.

 

[HarrowingOfHell]

imagine being soy to the extent of worshipping some cheating whore's bastard.

bitch got creampied by Chad(she called god), and made her carpenter beta bux raise it.

sheesh Christcucks are pathetic.

"spirit conceived" simply means she squirted while she was getting smashed in her vagina.

The alternative is division, a device of The Jews.

 

[Diddlium]

DNR. Nigger type post. Fuck off, Beelzebub

 

[four1298]

What I like: an angel freed the apostles from jail, the king of Egypt which is portrayed as bad made infants die(it's bad but I like that this, abortion, is portrayed as bad), an angel freed Peter from jail, Jews beat up Paul(it's bad but this is portrayed as bad which I like because violence is bad), James said we're not going to burden people with circumcision, an earthquake(probably God) allowed Paul and Silas to be free from jail, Paul tells his jailer not to kill himself, Paul said we should work on behalf of the weak, Paul is Jewish, Paul defends himself as a Roman citizen, Jews took an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

Proof God is real: during the Feast of Pentecost they spoke in different languages, a crippled man at the Beautiful Temple Gate was healed, people were healed by being touched by Peter's shadow, crippled Aeneas was healed, people were healed the day Philip proclaimed the Message of the Messiah, Tabitha was resurrected, Paul knew wizard Bar-Jesus would go blind, Paul healed a man crippled since birth in Lystra, clothing that touched Paul's skin healed people, Eutychus was resurrected by Paul, he healed Publius' father

I don't like that: Publius had a home, it says daughters will prophesy, the believers sold everything they owned and pooled their resources, Peter didn't have a nickel, the believers seem like communists, Ananias was killed by God it seems, Moses killed an Egyptian who was fighting a Hebrew, Moses led them out of slavery, Stephen asked Jesus to kill him when he was being stoned, Philip preached to an Ethiopian eunuch, Peter stayed with Simon the Tanner, God told Peter to kill and eat when a blanket was lowered, Paul told Cornelius he's not a God, Jews are portrayed as a problem yet they don't typically relax with people of another race, Christianity was spread to non-Jews, Barnabas and Paul told people they're not Gods after they heal the Lystra man, it says Christians have to go through hard times, God-fearing Lydia was a dealer in expensive textiles(I dislike this as much as Simon the Tanner, Ananias, and Mnason), God overlooks some people's Christianity, Titius Justus had a home, God betrayed Jewish exorcists who were beginning to be Christians, it paints Jews as the enemies such as plotting against Paul, Paul laid his life on the line, it says God is generous, the disciples had houses, Philip's four daughters prophesied, Paul didn't care that he was being persecuted(this is suicide), Mnason had a home and let the disciples stay at it, Paul was a hypocrite for having money to pay for four men's ritual purification, Paul got beaten up which is bad, Paul may have been too poor to bribe Governor Felix who wanted a bribe.

Other quotes:
“In just such a time Moses was born, a most beautiful baby. He was hidden at home for three months. When he could be hidden no longer, he was put outside—and immediately rescued by Pharaoh’s daughter, who mothered him as her own son
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This just seems to be basic history, so I'm going to include it in this post.

*****


Quotes I like:
Provoked mightily by all this, the Chief Priest and those on his side, mainly the sect of Sadducees, went into action, arrested the apostles and put them in the town jail. But during the night an angel of God opened the jailhouse door and led them out. He said, “Go to the Temple and take your stand. Tell the people everything there is to say about this Life.”
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God frees people from jail.

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“When the four hundred years were nearly up, the time God promised Abraham for deliverance, the population of our people in Egypt had become very large. And there was now a king over Egypt who had never heard of Joseph. He exploited our race mercilessly. He went so far as forcing us to abandon our newborn infants, exposing them to the elements to die a cruel death.
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This is abortion. This is Acts 7:17-19

*****

Suddenly there was an angel at his side and light flooding the room. The angel shook Peter and got him up: “Hurry!” The handcuffs fell off his wrists. The angel said, “Get dressed. Put on your shoes.” Peter did it. Then, “Grab your coat and let’s get out of here.” Peter followed him, but didn’t believe it was really an angel—he thought he was dreaming.
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Angels free people from jail.

*****

Then some Jews from Antioch and Iconium caught up with them and turned the fickle crowd against them. They beat Paul unconscious, dragged him outside the town and left him for dead.
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Violence is wrong, so this is where the Jews are wrong.

*****

“So here is my decision: We’re not going to unnecessarily burden non-Jewish people who turn to the Master.
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This is about circumcision I think. Acts 5:19. Frankly intactivism makes sense.

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Along about midnight, Paul and Silas were at prayer and singing a robust hymn to God. The other prisoners couldn’t believe their ears. Then, without warning, a huge earthquake! The jailhouse tottered, every door flew open, all the prisoners were loose.
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What are the chances of that? Perhaps God did that. Perhaps God supports prison abolitionism, a movement I support. Prison was bad for Paul, so maybe it's bad for others too. Matthew 25:36 says those who visit prisoners will be rewarded with the kingdom.

*****

Startled from sleep, the jailer saw all the doors swinging loose on their hinges. Assuming that all the prisoners had escaped, he pulled out his sword and was about to do himself in, figuring he was as good as dead anyway, when Paul stopped him: “Don’t do that! We’re all still here! Nobody’s run away!”
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This is based of Paul. It's probably the best thing in Acts. It's anti-suicide.

*****


In everything I’ve done, I have demonstrated to you how necessary it is to work on behalf of the weak and not exploit them.
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The weak should include the disabled. This is Acts 20:34.

*****

Paul said, “No, I’m a Jew, born in Tarsus.
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I like this because it again shows that not all Jews are against Christianity. Jesus was a Jew. Paul was a Jew.

*****

“I went after anyone connected with this ‘Way,’ went at them hammer and tongs, ready to kill for God. I rounded up men and women right and left and had them thrown in prison.
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Paul sounds like Saul, but Google does confirm this is Paul, not Saul talking. Paul and Saul used to be a pro-prison scumbags. It's good their prior lives are portrayed as evil.

*****

Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is this legal: torturing a Roman citizen without a fair trial?”
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Could this be an anti-immigration sentiment? Paul recognizes that citizens have special privileges compared to others. Not just that but he was a citizen himself, not an immigrant. Immigration is contrary to Christianity.

*****

Next day the Jews worked up a plot against Paul. They took a solemn oath that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed him.
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I like this because I dislike fasting. Fasting was used for evil.

*****

Proof God is real:
When the Feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Without warning there was a sound like a strong wind, gale force—no one could tell where it came from. It filled the whole building. Then, like a wildfire, the Holy Spirit spread through their ranks, and they started speaking in a number of different languages as the Spirit prompted them.

*****

At the same time there was a man crippled from birth being carried up. Every day he was set down at the Temple gate, the one named Beautiful, to beg from those going into the Temple.
...
He grabbed him by the right hand and pulled him up. In an instant his feet and ankles became firm. He jumped to his feet and walked.

*****

They even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on stretchers and bedrolls, hoping they would be touched by Peter’s shadow when he walked by.

And they all were healed.

*****

He came across a man—his name was Aeneas—who had been in bed eight years paralyzed. Peter said, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!” And he did it—jumped right out of bed. Everybody who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him walking around and woke up to the fact that God was alive and active among them

*****

Philip proclaimed the Message of the Messiah. When the people heard what he had to say and saw the miracles, the clear signs of God’s action, they hung on his every word. Many who could neither stand nor walk were healed that day.

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Down the road a way in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha, “Gazelle” in our language. She was well-known for doing good and helping out. During the time Peter was in the area she became sick and died.

...

Peter put the widows all out of the room. He knelt and prayed. Then he spoke directly to the body: “Tabitha, get up.”

She opened her eyes.
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Tabitha is painted as good yet no one is good. It even seems Jesus said he wasn't good. It's a morality system that doesn't make sense.


*****

You’re about to go blind—no sunlight for you for a good long stretch.” He was plunged immediately into a shadowy mist and stumbled around, begging people to take his hand and show him the way.
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The wizard Bar-Jesus goes blind after Paul tells him he will.

*****

There was a man in Lystra who couldn’t walk. He sat there, crippled since the day of his birth. He heard Paul talking, and Paul, looking him in the eye, saw that he was ripe for God’s work, ready to believe. So he said, loud enough for everyone to hear, “Up on your feet!” The man was up in a flash—jumped up and walked around as if he’d been walking all his life.

*****

The word got around and people started taking pieces of clothing—handkerchiefs and scarves and the like—that had touched Paul’s skin and then touching the sick with them. The touch did it—they were healed and whole.

*****

Eutychus was sitting in an open window. As Paul went on and on, Eutychus fell sound asleep and toppled out the third-story window. When they picked him up, he was dead.

Paul went down, stretched himself on him, and hugged him hard. “No more crying,” he said. “There’s life in him yet.”
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He was resurrected.

*****

“Last night God’s angel stood at my side, an angel of this God I serve, saying to me, ‘Don’t give up, Paul. You’re going to stand before Caesar yet—and everyone sailing with you is also going to make it.’ So, dear friends, take heart. I believe God will do exactly what he told me. But we’re going to shipwreck on some island or other.”

*****

The head man in that part of the island was Publius. He took us into his home as his guests, drying us out and putting us up in fine style for the next three days. Publius’s father was sick at the time, down with a high fever and dysentery. Paul went to the old man’s room, and when he laid hands on him and prayed, the man was healed. Word of the healing got around fast, and soon everyone on the island who was sick came and got healed.

Quotes I don't like:

Your sons will prophesy,
also your daughters;
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This is blasphemy. How can there be female prophets? Women are far away from God. That's why they can't be popes nor priests.

*****

And all the believers lived in a wonderful harmony, holding everything in common. They sold whatever they owned and pooled their resources so that each person’s need was met.
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This sounds like communism, which isn't that bad of a system to be honest.

*****

Peter said, “I don’t have a nickel to my name, but what I do have,
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Why didn't he have even a nickel? Could it be Jesus' commandment to give away all your possessions.

*****

No one said, “That’s mine; you can’t have it.” They shared everything

*****

And so it turned out that not a person among them was needy. Those who owned fields or houses sold them and brought the price of the sale to the apostles and made an offering of it. The apostles then distributed it according to each person’s need.
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This literally sounds like communism. "To each according to his need." This is pure evil. They were selling their houses. Are they going to end up homeless?

*****

But a man named Ananias—his wife, Sapphira, conniving in this with him—sold a piece of land, secretly kept part of the price for himself, and then brought the rest to the apostles and made an offering of it.
...
Ananias, when he heard those words, fell down dead.
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What's wrong with this. Why is it wrong to have?

Having is bad, but giving isn't the only way to lose money. You can lose money by vice like gambling or prostitutes. Having is therefore actually good. Not having just means you're not good with money. Saving money is wise.

Ananias is actually not even in a good person. He was too altruistic. He should have kept everything that was his and never sold his land.

I think the opposite is true. Poor people don't enter the kingdom. Such a belief would encourage people to work harder.

*****

No sooner were the words out of his mouth than she also fell down, dead.
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Selfishness is so bad that God put Ananias and Sapphira to death. However, that's not happening today, so perhaps the implication is that it was only wrong because it was meant to be altruism for the disciples.

*****

We even heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth would tear this place down and throw out all the customs Moses gave us.”
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I like the customs of Moses, though this seems to be a false accusation(tbh Idk what they are but they seem good).

*****

God let him know that his offspring would move to an alien country where they would be enslaved and brutalized for four hundred years.
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Slavery and brutalization are in the same sentence as if slavery is brutal.

*****

“When he was forty years old, he wondered how everything was going with his Hebrew kin and went out to look things over. He saw an Egyptian abusing one of them and stepped in, avenging his underdog brother by knocking the Egyptian flat.
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I dislike this because it's violence. Moses is a murderer.

*****

He led them out of their slavery.
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Was Moses like Abraham Lincoln?

*****

As the rocks rained down, Stephen prayed, “Master Jesus, take my life.”
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Stephen sucks. He was asking for death. Maybe because he felt pain. Suicide is never the answer. Don't ask God to worsen your pain by making you die. Ask him to end your pain. Assisted suicide makes no sense.

Also why is Stephen killed? It seems God killed Ananias because he was insufficiently altruistic. Yet why is Stephen killed? It doesn't state he wasn't altruistic. God isn't fair.

*****

Philip grabbed his chance. Using this passage as his text, he preached Jesus to him.
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Philip is scum for preaching to an Ethiopian eunuch. This goes against Deuteronomy 23:1 which says eunuchs can't enter the kingdom.

*****

The angel said, “Your prayers and neighborly acts have brought you to God’s attention. Here’s what you are to do. Send men to Joppa to get Simon, the one everyone calls Peter. He is staying with Simon the Tanner, whose house is down by the sea.”
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Isn't this hypocritical? He's associating with Simon, a man who has a possession, a house.

If God put Sapphira's husband Ananias wife to death because he didn't give everything, why is it okay for Simon the Tanner to have? Also, the logical conclusion of when Jesus said to give all your possessions to the poor seems to be that everyone should be poor. If nobody can have, that means even the poor whenever they receive something should lose it.

Having is bad, but giving isn't the only way to lose money. You can lose money by vice like gambling or prostitutes. Having is therefore actually good. Not having just means you're not good with money. These are the implications of when Jesus said it's impossible for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven.

*****

Something like a huge blanket, lowered by ropes at its four corners, came down out of heaven and settled on the ground in front of me. Milling around on the blanket were farm animals, wild animals, reptiles, birds—you name it, it was there. Fascinated, I took it all in.

“Then I heard a voice: ‘Go to it, Peter—kill and eat.’ I said, ‘Oh, no, Master.
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I don't like this because it's not vegan.

*****

The minute Peter came through the door, Cornelius was up on his feet greeting him—and then down on his face worshiping him! Peter pulled him up and said, “None of that—I’m a man and only a man, no different from you.”
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Idc too much but this is cucked. He should've said he is indeed a God.

*****

Jews just don’t do this—visit and relax with people of another race. But God has just shown me that no race is better than any other.
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This is cuckoldry. Races should be separate. This is why the Jews are based.

*****

The believing Jews who had come with Peter couldn’t believe it, couldn’t believe that the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out on “outsider” non-Jews, but there it was—they heard them speaking in tongues, heard them praising God.
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Christianity should be for Jews only.

*****

When Barnabas and Paul finally realized what was going on, they stopped them. Waving their arms, they interrupted the parade, calling out, “What do you think you’re doing! We’re not gods!
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This is cuckoldry. Psalms 82:6, "you are Gods." Barnabas and Paul should've accepted being called Gods. This is after people say they're Gods because they healed the man in Lystra

*****

“Anyone signing up for the kingdom of God has to go through plenty of hard times.”
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This is pro-suffering. The implication is that you need to suffer to be a Christian. If you're not suffering you need to take on hardship. This is just anti-human. True religion is free of suffering. This goes against the healings that occur in The Bible.

Also isn't this extreme hypocrisy? Acts 5:19 says "So here is my decision: We’re not going to unnecessarily burden non-Jewish people who turn to the Master." This is about circumcision. Somehow the burden of circumcision is bad yet the burden of hardship isn't. Of course Ananias was killed because he didn't give to the disciples everything. There's less profit to be made from circumcision.

*****

One woman, Lydia, was from Thyatira and a dealer in expensive textiles, known to be a Godfearing woman.
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God-fearing yet she's a dealer in expensive textiles. Having a job is contrary to Christianity since it says the rich cannot enter the kingdom of of heaven. It's harder for that to happen than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. This is like the Simon the Tanner case.


*****

“God overlooks it as long as you don’t know any better—but that time is past.
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This is cucked. It's saying God overlooks some people's non-Christianity.

*****

He walked out and went to the home of Titius Justus, a God-fearing man who lived right next to the Jews’ meeting place
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Another God-fearing man with possessions(a home). The implication here is that it's actually okay for some people to have possessions, but how are you supposed to know you're one of such people. There's Lydia and Simon the Tanner.

*****

Some itinerant Jewish exorcists who happened to be in town at the time tried their hand at what they assumed to be Paul’s “game.” They pronounced the name of the Master Jesus over victims of evil spirits, saying, “I command you by the Jesus preached by Paul!” The seven sons of a certain Sceva, a Jewish high priest, were trying to do this on a man when the evil spirit talked back: “I know Jesus and I’ve heard of Paul, but who are you?” Then the possessed man went berserk—jumped the exorcists, beat them up, and tore off their clothes. Naked and bloody, they got away as best they could.
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God betrayed these Jewish exorcists. They were on the path to Christianity.

*****

Then he came to Greece and stayed on for three months. Just as he was about to sail for Syria, the Jews cooked up a plot against him.
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The problem with this is that it seems to paint the Jews as enemies. They cooked up a plot against Paul.

*****

“You know that from day one of my arrival in Asia I was with you totally—laying my life on the line,
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Paul was a cuck for risking his life. It's almost suicidal. Nothing matters more than life.

*****

What matters most to me is to finish what God started: the job the Master Jesus gave me of letting everyone I meet know all about this incredibly extravagant generosity of God.
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God is not generous if he doesn't let you have possessions. I wish God were generous though.

*****
While the cargo was being unloaded, we looked up the local disciples and stayed with them seven days.
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This implies the disciples had houses. Hypocrites.

*****

Philip had four virgin daughters who prophesied.
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Women can't be prophets.

*****

You’re looking at this backward. The issue in Jerusalem is not what they do to me, whether arrest or murder, but what the Master Jesus does through my obedience.
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Paul was scum. This is suicide.

*****

Some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us and took us to the home of Mnason, who received us warmly as his guests. A native of Cyprus, he had been among the earliest disciples.
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It's important to annotate this and list the hypocrisy of the church. Christianity is scum ideology. Again they had possessions which isn't allowed according to Jesus. Christianity is evil.

*****

There are four men from our company who have taken a vow involving ritual purification, but have no money to pay the expenses. Join these men in their vows and pay their expenses.
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This doesn't make sense. If poverty is good, how does PAUL have money to pay the expenses of ritual purification for FOUR people. Hypocrisy. These disciples are going to Hell. I hate Christianity.

*****

As soon as the mob saw the captain and his soldiers, they quit beating Paul.
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If religion causes you to get beat up, it's not worth it. What I like is that Jesus and the disciples healed disabled and sick people. If they were alive today, they would be against abortion of people with down syndrome, disabled people. The disabled people just wouldn't have been behind these beatings against Christians because they were healed (and because their disability makes them no threat). They healed the disabled and sick because they liked them.

*****

I rescued this man from a Jewish mob. They had seized him and were about to kill him when I learned that he was a Roman citizen. So I sent in my soldiers. Wanting to know what he had done wrong, I had him brought before their council. It turned out to be a squabble turned vicious over some of their religious differences, but nothing remotely criminal.
--
I'm anti-immigration but I think this law goes too far. Immigrants should have similar rights to citizens, just not the right to vote. Also this just goes to show the death penalty is bad. Jesus received the death penalty. And they're trying to give it to Paul.

*****

At the same time he was secretly hoping that Paul would offer him a substantial bribe.
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This is why it's bad Paul was poor. Governor Felix wanted a bribe.

*****

 

[four1298]

I read Romans:

What I liked: Paul said he's a slave of Jesus, Romans 1:26-27, Romans 3:23-24, Abraham was declared fit before God, Jesus made us fit for God, the unloved will be loved, salvation is not doing anything but rather trusting God,
Quotes I like:

What I didn't like: that we should give to Paul, those who take the path of least resistance will be punished, Paul says to not say, "The more [sin] we do, the more good God does, so let’s just do it!," no one is good, it says Adam originally sinned first, passing laws against sin increased lawbreaking(no shit Sherlock, but it reduced sin because people become fear of getting in trouble), all sin does is threaten us with is death, belief in Heaven, that we shouldn't sin(not all sins are actually bad), Paul spent time in sin's prison, Paul doesn't do good, "Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God," we need to go through hard times with God, God wants to shape our lives along the same life of his Son, Paul would accept being cursed in exchanged for the Israelites being blessed, David wished some people would get sick and break their legs, Christians shouldn't be treated like royalty, "love other people as well as you do yourself," don't criticize what others eat or didn't eat, "each person is free to follow the convictions of conscience."

What I liked:

I, Paul, am a devoted slave of Jesus Christ on assignment, authorized as an apostle to proclaim God’s words and acts.

*****

Refusing to know God, they soon didn’t know how to be human either—women didn’t know how to be women, men didn’t know how to be men. Sexually confused, they abused and defiled one another, women with women, men with men—all lust, no love.
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Basically, homosexuals refused to know God. They are sexually confused and defile each other. This is Romans 1:26-27. The problem is other translations word it differently. The main idea is that homosexuality is bad.

*****

Since we’ve compiled this long and sorry record as sinners (both us and them) and proved that we are utterly incapable of living the glorious lives God wills for us, God did it for us.
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Then in some sense humans must be good. I don't like that this translation is different. Another translation is:

"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."

I only like this because Jesus said no one is good so now we need to find a reason we actually are good. It's not a good quote otherwise. This is Romans 3:23-24.
*****

We all agree, don’t we, that it was by embracing what God did for him that Abraham was declared fit before God?

Now think: Was that declaration made before or after he was marked by the covenant rite of circumcision? That’s right, before he was marked. That means that he underwent circumcision as evidence and confirmation of what God had done long before to bring him into this acceptable standing with himself, an act of God he had embraced with his whole life.
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If Abraham was declared fit before God, then perhaps he was good.

*****

The sacrificed Jesus made us fit for God, set us right with God.

*****

I’ll call the unloved and make them beloved.

*****

That’s it. You’re not “doing” anything; you’re simply calling out to God, trusting him to do it for you. That’s salvation. With your whole being you embrace God setting things right, and then you say it, right out loud: “God has set everything right between him and me!”
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Is this sola fide? I don't like the idea of doing works so I like this.

*****

Even if it was written in Scripture long ago, you can be sure it’s written for us.
--
The Old Testament is good.

*****


Interesting quotes:

Every time you criticize someone, you condemn yourself.

*****

Circumcision, the surgical ritual that marks you as a Jew, is great if you live in accord with God’s law. But if you don’t, it’s worse than not being circumcised. The reverse is also true: The uncircumcised who keep God’s ways are as good as the circumcised—in fact, better. Better to keep God’s law uncircum-cised than break it circumcised. Don’t you see: It’s not the cut of a knife that makes a Jew. You become a Jew by who you are. It’s the mark of God on your heart, not of a knife on your skin, that makes a Jew. And recognition comes from God, not legalistic critics.

*****

When Christ died he took that entire rule-dominated way of life down with him and left it in the tomb

*****

By hiding within God’s good commandment, sin did far more mischief than it could ever have accomplished on its own.

*****

Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
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I don't like this translation because it's so different from others. The KJV translates it to:

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Who knows what else is wrong with this translation. This is Romans 12:2

*****

Bless your enemies

*****

Don’t hit back

*****


Quotes I don't like:

You have as much to give me as I do to you.
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I don't think we should give at all.

*****

In the end you get what’s coming to you—Real Life for those who work on God’s side, but to those who insist on getting their own way and take the path of least resistance, Fire!
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I don't like this because it's saying you should live life on hard mode(go on the path of resistance)

*****

If you sin without knowing what you’re doing, God takes that into account
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This is cucked. Ignorance shouldn't be forgiven.

*****

Some people are actually trying to put such words in our mouths, claiming that we go around saying, “The more evil we do, the more good God does, so let’s just do it!” That’s pure slander, as I’m sure you’ll agree.
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God literally said that though(when he says minimal forgiveness is minimal gratitude or the parable of the lost sheep or the forgiveness of prostitutes). Paul isn't God. In Acts 23:6 he says he was a Pharisee. Jesus had squabbles with the Pharisees. Paul is an enemy.

*****

There’s nobody living right, not even one,
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That's what Jesus said too("no one is good") and I don't like it. If everyone's wrong everyone should be guilty. The fact Jesus said this shows he wasn't God either. If no one not even Jesus is good, he can't be God.

*****

You know the story of how Adam landed us in the dilemma we’re in—first sin, then death, and no one exempt from either sin or death.
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Wasn't it Eve who ate the apple first?

*****

All that passing laws against sin did was produce more lawbreakers.
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This is bad because not all sins are good. There do need to be laws.

*****

All sin can do is threaten us with death, and that’s the end of it.
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Death is really bad though and this underplays it by saying it's the "only" thing as if it's not a big deal. It's the biggest deal. Sin doesn't just sentence you to death, but it also sentences you to Hell, which is also bad.

Also how does sin threaten you with death? Well there's suicide but what this might refer to is the death penalty, I dunno.

*****

Grace, because God is putting everything together again through the Messiah, invites us into life—a life that goes on and on and on, world without end.
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I actually don't like the belief of Heaven because it makes death seem like a good thing.

*****

So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not!
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This is cucked. God disagreed with this many times such as Matthew 21:31, when he said the prostitute with expensive perfume is forgiven because the more forgiveness there is the more gratitude there is, and that there is joy when a lost sheep is found.

*****

I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise
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Paul admits he's a sinner.

*****

I decide to do good, but I don’t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway
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This is just human but it shows Paul isn't God, so why do we even have the book of Romans?

*****

Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God.
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This goes against what Bishop Nikolaj said.

*****

If we go through the hard times with him, then we’re certainly going to go through the good times with him!
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There shouldn't be hard times.

*****

God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son.
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This is bad. Jesus died at a young age. Nobody should be like Jesus.

*****

It’s the Israelites… If there were any way I could be cursed by the Messiah so they could be blessed by him, I’d do it in a minute. They’re my family. I grew up with them. They had everything going for them—family, glory, covenants, revelation, worship, promises, to say nothing of being the race that produced the Messiah, the Christ, who is God over everything, always. Oh, yes!
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This is cucked. He wants to be cursed. How is this even Christian?

*****

Moses wrote that anyone who insists on using the law code to live right before God soon discovers it’s not so easy—every detail of life regulated by fine print! But trusting God to shape the right living in us is a different story—no precarious climb up to heaven to recruit the Messiah, no dangerous descent into hell to rescue the Messiah. So what exactly was Moses saying?

The word that saves is right here,
as near as the tongue in your mouth,
as close as the heart in your chest.
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Does this mean we're supposed to trust our instinct or what?

*****

David was upset about the same thing:
I hope they get sick eating self-serving meals,
break a leg walking their self-serving ways.
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This is just pure evil. David is hoping people endure hardship. David was evil.

*****


It would be easy to misinterpret what’s going on and arrogantly assume that you’re royalty and they’re just rabble, out on their ears for good.
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Christians should be treated like royalty though.

*****

From your point of view as you hear and embrace the good news of the Message, it looks like the Jews are God’s enemies. But looked at from the long-range perspective of God’s overall purpose, they remain God’s oldest friends. God’s gifts and God’s call are under full warranty—never canceled, never rescinded.
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I like this because I like Jews, but it doesn't go far enough.

*****

Don’t quit in hard times;
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You must quit in hard times.

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Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can’t go wrong when you love others
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The problem is that this is only directed to people who love themselves. It's not saying you should love yourself, which is what I want to hear.

*****

For instance, a person who has been around for a while might well be convinced that he can eat anything on the table, while another, with a different background, might assume he should only be a vegetarian and eat accordingly. But since both are guests at Christ’s table, wouldn’t it be terribly rude if they fell to criticizing what the other ate or didn’t eat?
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I don't like this because it says non-vegetarians shouldn't be criticized.

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If there are corrections to be made or manners to be learned, God can handle that without your help.
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This doesn't make sense. You need people to help you to be Christian.

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Or, say, one person thinks that some days should be set aside as holy and another thinks that each day is pretty much like any other. There are good reasons either way. So, each person is free to follow the convictions of conscience.
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This is cucked. People should be the same.

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if you’re a vegetarian, eat vegetables to the glory of God and thank God for broccoli.
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At least it's not saying you can be a vegetarian. It doesn't go far enough though.

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Forget about deciding what’s right for each other. Here’s what you need to be concerned about: that you don’t get in the way of someone else, making life more difficult than it already is. I’m convinced—Jesus convinced me!—that everything as it is in itself is holy.
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Does this also include bad things? I don't get it.

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Would you risk sending them to hell over an item in their diet? Don’t you dare let a piece of God-blessed food become an occasion of soul-poisoning!
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More anti-veganism.

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Keep a sharp eye out for those who take bits and pieces of the teaching that you learned and then use them to make trouble.
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It's impossible for bits of scripture to cause trouble. This doesn't make sense.

*****

 

[poorenglishcel]

Did you borrowed it from him?

 

[Divineone]

The lord says to kill gentiles and enslave there 3yo daughters.

Nice

 

[Emba]

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Chaim candles only

 

[four1298]

I read 1 Corinthians.

What I like: you are a temple, what the world calls smart is stupid, Christians are poorly clothed, sexual relations are certainly good, to not take each other to court, homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God, a woman can remarry if her husband dies, Paul defends himself that he deserves a meal or two, Paul expects nothing for himself out of proclaiming the Message, the lower the human the more necessary it is, when one human hurts or flourishes so do other people, speaking God's Word or having magnificent faith or giving everything to the poor is nothing without love, Paul admits he was trying to stamp out the church's existence in the past


What I didn't like: Paul uses the word infantile as criticism, "Everything [including death] is already yours as a gift," everything we have is a gift, Paul calls himself a father, Paul said you shouldn't make yourself at home with the sexually promiscuous, Paul wishes everyone were single(which is the worst thing in this book), it says being Jewish isn't the point, marriage takes time and focus away from God, Paul lies that Jesus would be in favor of singleness, he says God doesn't grade us on our diet, he says we shouldn't get Christ to serve us, our foremost effort should be to help others live well, eat anything sold at the butcher shop, authority is given from husbands to wives, love is altruistic, he looks death in the face every day, the resurrection body will be different from the dead body, and it seems to imply animals will be resurrected.

Quotes I like:

The experts of our day haven’t a clue about what this eternal plan is.

*****

You realize, don’t you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God’s temple, you can be sure of that. God’s temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple.
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This is 1 Cor 3:16-17. I like this because perhaps this can be used to counter suicide. Suicide is bad because it destroys a temple.

*****

What the world calls smart, God calls stupid.
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This might actually be relevant today. This book previously also said, "I’ll expose so-called experts as crackpots." I like this because one type of expert is global warming experts. They've been wrong countless times. Then there's Anthony Fauci an expert though tbh I'm not really anti-vaccine(Idk about mRNA vaccines though)

10 times 'experts' predicted the world would end by now

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, while selling her "Green New Deal", said that the world will end in 12 years if nothing is done to address climate change.

www.foxnews.com

*****


You might be well-thought-of by others, but we’re mostly kicked around. Much of the time we don’t have enough to eat, we wear patched and threadbare clothes, we get doors slammed in our faces, and we pick up odd jobs anywhere we can to eke out a living. When they call us names, we say, “God bless you.” When they spread rumors about us, we put in a good word for them. We’re treated like garbage, potato peelings from the culture’s kitchen. And it’s not getting any better.
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This is true Christianity. God told us to get rid of our possessions. And indeed, Christians may be poorly clothed. Jesus said when you're sued, give up your coat(Matthew 5:40).

*****

Now, getting down to the questions you asked in your letter to me. First, Is it a good thing to have sexual relations?

Certainly—but only within a certain context. It’s good for a man to have a wife, and for a woman to have a husband. Sexual drives are strong, but marriage is strong enough to contain them and provide for a balanced and fulfilling sexual life in a world of sexual disorder. The marriage bed must be a place of mutuality—the husband seeking to satisfy his wife, the wife seeking to satisfy her husband. Marriage is not a place to “stand up for your rights.” Marriage is a decision to serve the other, whether in bed or out.

*****

And how dare you take each other to court! When you think you have been wronged, does it make any sense to go before a court that knows nothing of God’s ways instead of a family of Christians?

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Unjust people who don’t care about God will not be joining in his kingdom. Those who use and abuse each other, use and abuse sex, use and abuse the earth and everything in it, don’t qualify as citizens in God’s kingdom.
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This is one of my favorite quotes because it includes homosexuals. Other translations say:

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

This is 1 Cor 6:9.

*****

On the other hand, if you were free when Christ called you, you’ll experience a delightful “enslavement to God” you would never have dreamed of.
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Indeed slavery can be delightful.

*****

A wife must stay with her husband as long as he lives. If he dies, she is free to marry anyone she chooses.
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This sort of contradicts when Jesus said to not marry a divorce adulteress. I like that people have the freedom to remarry.

*****

So if we have planted spiritual seed among you, is it out of line to expect a meal or two from you?
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Food and perhaps accomodation seems to be a right.

*****

If I proclaim the Message, it’s not to get something out of it for myself. I’m compelled to do it, and doomed if I don’t!
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I like that Paul expects to get nothing from this.

*****

So eat your meals heartily, not worrying about what others say about you—you’re eating to God’s glory, after all, not to please them.

*****

As a matter of fact, in practice it works the other way—the “lower” the part, the more basic, and therefore necessary

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If anything, you have more concern for the lower parts than the higher.
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This is good. The least is the most important. Isn't this anti-sacrifice? I don't like John 15:3 which goes, "Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends." I like this verse.

*****

If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance.
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Isn't this selfish? I like this. It's okay to flourish. If one part dies, they all die. It's like what GK Chesterton said about suicide.

*****

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
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I like this because I like love. I want to love and I want to be loved.

*****

If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
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I like this because it's selfish. It's not just about faith which I think involves giving love but also being loved

*****

If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
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I like this because I never liked the passage to give away all your possessions. The implication is also that getting somewhere good matters.

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Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
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This is like when Jesus said to forgive 77 times.

*****

I don’t deserve to be included in that inner circle, as you well know, having spent all those early years trying my best to stamp God’s church right out of existence.

*****

Quotes I don't like:

You’re acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I’ll nurse you since you don’t seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything’s going your way? When one of you says, “I’m on Paul’s side” and another says, “I’m for Apollos,” aren’t you being totally infantile?
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Paul is saying being like an infant is bad even though Jesus said you need to be like children in Matthew 18:3

*****

Everything is already yours as a gift—Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.
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Death is the worst thing possible. It's not a gift.

What I don't like about Christianity is that it exploits the fear of death. People fear it so an afterlife seems attractive, but the way to get into Heaven is self-destruction, death. For example, God says to give your possessions to the poor and Romans 8:29 says, "He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son." Heaven isn't real.

*****

Isn’t everything you have and everything you are sheer gifts from God?
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If they're gifts, why does Jesus want us to give it up? This contradicts that.

*****

I’m writing as a father to you, my children.
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Matthew 23:9 says to not call anybody except God father.

*****

I also received a report of scandalous sex within your church family, a kind that wouldn’t be tolerated even outside the church: One of your men is sleeping with his stepmother.
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I don't see what's wrong with this. This isn't incest since they're not biologically related.

*****

I wrote you in my earlier letter that you shouldn’t make yourselves at home among the sexually promiscuous.
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Didn't Jesus defend the sexually promiscuous prostitutes though?

*****

Well, it may be true that the body is only a temporary thing, but that’s no excuse for stuffing your body with food, or indulging it with sex.
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Idk if it's this translation but I don't agree with this. Indulging in sex within marriage is good. Other translations say "fornication," a word which includes homosexuality though.

*****

I also received a report of scandalous sex within your church family, a kind that wouldn’t be tolerated even outside the church: One of your men is sleeping with his stepmother.
...
You must not simply look the other way and hope it goes away on its own. Bring it out in the open and deal with it in the authority of Jesus our Master.
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This is what Jesus would have done though. It's like when a woman was found to be an adulterer and Jesus said to cast the stone if you're not a sinner. Nobody cast a stone.

*****

As written in Scripture, “The two become one.” Since we want to become spiritually one with the Master, we must not pursue the kind of sex that avoids commitment and intimacy,
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I don't like the idea of becoming one with God. It sounds gay.

*****

Sometimes I wish everyone were single like me—a simpler life in many ways!
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He's literally scum. You're supposed to be fruitful and multiply. This is worthy of criticism. The Pharisees would've criticized him.

*****

I do, though, tell the unmarried and widows that singleness might well be the best thing for them, as it has been for me. But if they can’t manage their desires and emotions, they should by all means go ahead and get married. The difficulties of marriage are preferable by far to a sexually tortured life as a single.
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The first and second sentences are bad. It says marriage is for those who lack self-control and that singleness can be good. As if marriage is for bad people or something. The third sentence is good though though I wouldn't say marriage has difficulties.

*****

If a wife should leave her husband, she must either remain single or else come back and make things right with him. And a husband has no right to get rid of his wife.
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It's wrong for a husband to get rid of his wife, but it's okay for a woman to get rid of her husband. That's a double standard.

*****

Don’t become a Jew. Being Jewish isn’t the point. The really important thing is obeying God’s call, following his commands.
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We should become Jewish. I don't even know what he means though.

*****

Slavery is no roadblock to obeying and believing. I don’t mean you’re stuck and can’t leave. If you have a chance at freedom, go ahead and take it.
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The first sentence is good. The third sentence is bad.

*****

Because of the current pressures on us from all sides, I think it would probably be best to stay just as you are. Are you married? Stay married. Are you unmarried? Don’t get married. But there’s certainly no sin in getting married, whether you’re a virgin or not. All I am saying is that when you marry, you take on additional stress in an already stressful time, and I want to spare you if possible.
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That means he thinks all who are children now should never get married when they become adults. This is like human extinction.

*****

The time and energy that married people spend on caring for and nurturing each other, the unmarried can spend in becoming whole and holy instruments of God.

*****

On the other hand, if a man is comfortable in his decision for a single life in service to God and it’s entirely his own conviction and not imposed on him by others, he ought to stick with it
--
Yet Paul is imposing it on Christians.

*****

Marriage is spiritually and morally right and not inferior to singleness in any way, although as I indicated earlier, because of the times we live in, I do have pastoral reasons for encouraging singleness.
--
He's literally against the commandment to be fruitful and multiply.

*****

The Master, in my opinion, thinks so, too.
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According to Schalom Ben-Chorin, Jesus was married like every other rabbi in Israel.

*****

But fortunately God doesn’t grade us on our diet. We’re neither commended when we clean our plate nor reprimanded when we just can’t stomach it.
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I disagree. I think God is vegan. I also think fasting is a sin.

*****

So, never go to these idol-tainted meals if there’s any chance it will trip up one of your brothers or sisters.
--
What if you're hungry though?

*****

And don’t tell me that I have no authority to write like this.
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He's probably been criticized so he defends himself like this. He is worthy of criticism.

*****

You don’t seem to have raised questions with the other apostles and our Master’s brothers and Peter in these matters.
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This may be proof Peter is the worst apostle. Is he being criticized by Christians?

*****

We must never try to get Christ to serve us instead of us serving him;
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I think Christ should serve us, but I think praying is useless.

*****

We want to live well, but our foremost efforts should be to help others live well.
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I don't like altruism.

*****

Eat anything sold at the butcher shop, for instance; you don’t have to run an “idolatry test” on every item.
--
We should never eat from a butcher shop. Veganism is the way.

*****

On the other hand, if he goes out of his way to tell you that this or that was sacrificed to god or goddess so-and-so, you should pass. Even though you may be indifferent as to where it came from, he isn’t, and you don’t want to send mixed messages to him about who you are worshiping.
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I don't think food should be rejected. What if you're hungry?

*****

In a marriage relationship, there is authority from Christ to husband, and from husband to wife. The authority of Christ is the authority of God.
--
I don't think women should have authority.

*****

If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it.
--
Everyone's essential. But this doesn't go far enough. Why is one cell important? It's not. If you lose a cell with a scrape, the body will survive. Even then why is hearing so important. You can survive without it. It'd be better without an analogy to parts of the body or cells as it did earlier.

*****

Love cares more for others than for self.
--
I disagree with this definition of love. Altruism is the worst ideology.

*****

Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
--
What if you're poor though?

*****

[Love] Isn’t always “me first,”
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But that's actually the definition of self-love.

*****


[Love] Puts up with anything,
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I don't think you should put up with hard times.

*****

To be perfectly frank, I’m getting exasperated with your infantile thinking.
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There's nothing wrong with being childlike Jesus said we should be like that. Matthew 18:3

*****

I look death in the face practically every day I live.

*****

Ignorance of God is a luxury you can’t afford in times like these.
--
This contradicts when it said: If you sin without knowing what you’re doing, God takes that into account

*****

The dead body that we bury in the ground and the resurrection body that comes from it will be dramatically different.
--
I want them to look the same. This now sounds like reincarnation mumbo jumbo.

*****

Just as there are different kinds of seeds, there are different kinds of bodies—humans, animals, birds, fish—each unprecedented in its form.
--
Is this saying animals get resurrected too? I don't like this. I don't think animals are equal to humans.

*****

 

[four1298]

I read 2 Corinthians.

What I liked: cramped conditions don't get us down, don't squander life, don't link up with those who will pollute you, nothing lacking to the one with the least, Paul isn't considered on Christ side (by the Corinthians I think), and Paul said some people say they're being bullied by letters.

What I didn't like: his life is at risk because of Jesus, it's good to give more offerings than what you can afford, God loves it when the giver delights in giving, Paul would rather die than take the Corinthians' money, Paul has been beaten up jailed and nearly died because of Jesus.

Quotes I like:

Cramped conditions here don’t get us down.

*****

Companions as we are in this work with you, we beg you, please don’t squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us.
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Suicide is the squandering of life.

*****

“Don’t link up with those who will pollute you.
I want you all for myself.
--
I actually like this. This could be used to support an immigration ban against Muslims and other non-believers.

*****

Nothing left over to the one with the most,
Nothing lacking to the one with the least.

*****

If you’re looking for a clear example of someone on Christ’s side, why do you so quickly cut me out?
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I dislike Paul because he said it's better to remain single. This shows he's not considered Christian.

*****

And what’s this talk about me bullying you with my letters?
--
He's bullying single people by telling them their dream of marriage is bad. Married people tend to be happier.

*****

So how does it happen that the more I love you, the less I’m loved?
--
Perhaps because he's against love.


Quotes I didn't like:

Our lives are at constant risk for Jesus’ sake, which makes Jesus’ life all the more evident in us
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I don't see how this follows. I also don't see how this is good.

*****

These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us.
--
I don't believe in Heaven

*****

Because of this decision we don’t evaluate people by what they have or how they look.
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This is sort of superfluous but God does judge you on what you have. God says to give all your possessions away. Perhaps this verse contradicts that. It's okay to have.

*****

living on handouts, yet enriching many;
--
So it's good to have handouts.

*****

Don’t become partners with those who reject God.
--
This contradicts when Paul said, "If you are a man with a wife who is not a believer but who still wants to live with you, hold on to her."

*****

They gave offerings of whatever they could—far more than they could afford!—pleading for the privilege of helping out in the relief of poor Christians.
--
This is actually terrible. It's bad enough that Jesus said to give all your possessions away, but now Paul is saying it's good to go into debt.

*****

No, you’re shoulder to shoulder with them all the way, your surplus matching their deficit, their surplus matching your deficit.
--
So it's wrong to be in a deficit. This contradicts when it says people have more than they had.

*****

God loves it when the giver delights in the giving.
--
Does he? Giving doesn't seem delightful. Altruism is like theft. You're told to give or else you're a bad person.

*****

This most generous God who gives seed to the farmer that becomes bread for your meals is more than extravagant with you.
--
If God is generous why does Jesus tell us to give? If he were truly generous enough, humans wouldn't be told to give.

*****

I’d die before taking your money.
--
Yet his "needs were always supplied by the believers from Macedonia province."

*****

I’ve worked much harder, been jailed more often, beaten up more times than I can count, and at death’s door time after time. I’ve been flogged five times with the Jews’ thirty-nine lashes, beaten by Roman rods three times, pummeled with rocks once.
--
This just shows Christianity is bad.

*****

 

[Deta97]

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Corinthians 2:14-16)

 

[four1298]

I read Galatians.

I like that it says Paul's authority didn't come from a popular vote but from Jesus, if anyone preaches something other than what you received originally let him be cursed, Paul used to live the Jewish way, God called out to Paul in utero, Jesus sets us right before God because nobody can do it by himself, and slave sons will not inherit with the free son.

I don't like that it seems Christians didn't follow all the religious rules and regulations, Jesus sacrificed himself(not true), Paul accuses Jews of not following the commandments when they're not observed, Jews have no advantage over non-Jewish sinners, people who trust in the law are not children of faith, you need to follow every detail in the Book of the law, Jews are equal to non-Jews, it seems to say Ishmael shouldn't have been born, the children of the barren woman surpass the chosen woman's, you lose Christ's freedom when you get circumcised, he says circumcision supporters should castrate themselves(evil), save critical comments for yourself


Quotes I like:

My authority for writing to you does not come from any popular vote of the people, nor does it come through the appointment of some human higher-up. It comes directly from Jesus the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead.
--
This is actually one of my favorite quotes. Democracy is not the way. The way is God.

*****

If anyone, regardless of reputation or credentials, preaches something other than what you received originally, let him be cursed.
--
I actually agree with this. The keyword is originally. But doesn't this contradict when it said that religious leaders were wrong for reinstituting religious rules. The most original teaching is the Old Testament. Also this contradicts all that Paul said like that singleness is good. Also which other books quote Jesus more?

*****

I’m sure that you’ve heard the story of my earlier life when I lived in the Jewish way.
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I like Paul because he's Jewish.

*****

Why, when I was still in my mother’s womb he chose and called me out of sheer generosity!
--
Could this be a pro-life verse? How does Paul know though that God called out to him though? You can't remember what happened in utero. Perhaps his mom told him???

*****

Convinced that no human being can please God by self-improvement, we believed in Jesus as the Messiah so that we might be set right before God by trusting in the Messiah, not by trying to be good.

*****

“Expel the slave mother with her son, for the slave son will not inherit with the free son.”
--
This seems based.

*****

Quotes I don't like:

A few years later Paul learned that religious leaders of the old school had come into those churches, called his views and authority into question, and were reintroducing the old ways, herding all these freedom-loving Christians back into the corral of religious rules and regulations.
--
Christianity is cucked. It removed rules and regulations we liked.

*****

offering himself as a sacrifice for our sins.
--
Did Jesus actually sacrifice himself? That's not pro-life. Suicide isn't. Yet that doesn't seem like that's what he did. For example, The Bible seems to say he was verbally defending himself:

Jesus said to them, “What is this, coming after me with swords and clubs as if I were a dangerous criminal? Day after day I’ve been sitting in the Temple teaching, and you never so much as lifted a hand against me. What you in fact have done is confirm the prophetic writings.” All the disciples cut and ran.

He also asked "why has God forsaken me."

*****

“If you, a Jew, live like a non-Jew when you’re not being observed by the watchdogs from Jerusalem, what right do you have to require non-Jews to conform to Jewish customs just to make a favorable impression on your old Jerusalem cronies?”
--
Now Paul is accusing Jews of not following the commandments.

*****

We Jews know that we have no advantage of birth over “non-Jewish sinners.”
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Jews have no advantage over SINNERS. How is this logical? Also this is just antisemitic. Just because they're Jewish they have no advantage over SINNERS.

*****

Is it not obvious to you that persons who put their trust in Christ (not persons who put their trust in the law!) are like Abraham: children of faith?
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I don't get it. Isn't the law God's? Therefore Paul is pretending to be Christian to say the Christian law shouldn't be trusted. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing, something along the lines of a secularist in Christian clothing to undermine Christianity.

*****

Scripture backs this up: “Utterly cursed is every person who fails to carry out every detail written in the Book of the law.”
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This literally contradicts the previous and next paragraphs. It said not to trust the law. He's doing this to make a point to live by faith. The next paragraph says "Rule-keeping does not naturally evolve into living by faith."

I like this quote but it's too extreme. Every detail?

*****

In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal.
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I'm Jewish. Equality is better than antisemitism but I believe Jews are superior.

*****

It corresponds with what is now going on in Jerusalem—a slave life, producing slaves as offspring. This is the way of Hagar.
...

In the days of Hagar and Sarah, the child who came from faithless connivance (Ishmael)

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This is cuck extremism. It seems Paul is saying you shouldn't impregnate slaves. What's the point of slavery then? He doesn't like Sarah and Hagar had a child.

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Because the children of the barren woman
now surpass the children of the chosen woman.
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Is this saying few or no children are better than children? Cucked.

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I am emphatic about this. The moment any one of you submits to circumcision or any other rule-keeping system, at that same moment Christ’s hard-won gift of freedom is squandered.
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Why is he so obsessed with circumcision?

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As for the rumor that I continue to preach the ways of circumcision (as I did in those pre-Damascus Road days), that is absurd. Why would I still be persecuted, then?
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He's causing his own persecution.

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Why don’t these agitators, obsessive as they are about circumcision, go all the way and castrate themselves!
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Castration is extremely different from circumcision. Why is he wishing something bad upon others? This is just evil.

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the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness.
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But according to Bishop Nikolaj selfishness or self-love in other words is good like loving God.

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If someone falls into sin, forgivingly restore him, saving your critical comments for yourself.
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Help others but not yourself. Hate yourself.

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These people who are attempting to force the ways of circumcision on you have only one motive: They want an easy way to look good before others, lacking the courage to live by a faith that shares Christ’s suffering and death.

 

[CRASH THE CUCK]

DNR. Nigger type post. Fuck off, Beelzebub

I think this may be the most retarded user on incels.is

 

[Diddlium]

I think this may be the most retarded user on incels.is

Shame that statement means literally nothing coming from you, tranny

 

[CRASH THE CUCK]

Shame that statement means literally nothing coming from you, tranny

> foid chinese cartoon avi calls me tranny

who even are you, gray?

 

[Diddlium]

> foid chinese cartoon avi calls me tranny

who even are you, gray?

31k posts, not a single one of quality.

Sewer rats stay sewer rats. Fuck off back to your mod job on IT, troonskin

 

[CRASH THE CUCK]

31k posts, not a single one of quality.

Sewer rats stay sewer rats. Fuck off back to your mod job on IT, troonskin

back in the day i made quality posts, but a newfag like you wouldnt know

 

[Diddlium]

back in the day i made quality posts, but a newfag like you wouldnt know

And you stopped because it became too much effort, didn't it? Lazy niggers always end up dropping their mask and showing their true identity.

 

[DoomThreeKoala]

31k posts, not a single one of quality.

Sewer rats stay sewer rats. Fuck off back to your mod job on IT, troonskin

IT touched this reply

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/1n62h2e/schoolgirlmaxxed_incel_attacks_fellow_incel_hurls/

 

[Diddlium]

Bahahahahahaha

IT touched this reply

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/1n62h2e/schoolgirlmaxxed_incel_attacks_fellow_incel_hurls/

JFL

 

[Diddlium]

IT usually doesn't post these kinds of posts. Infighting content doesn't really interest them since it happens so often. The timing of that post really does seem super suspicious, as well as the general lack of relevance

 

[four1298]

I read Colossians.

I like that it says Paul prays we have the strength to endure, all sins are forgiven, don't let anyone pressure you to diet, wives submit to your husband, slaves do what you’re told by your earthly masters

I don't like that sexual promiscuity is bad
Quotes I like:
We pray that you’ll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul—not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable

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All sins forgiven

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So don’t put up with anyone pressuring you in details of diet,

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Wives, understand and support your husbands by submitting to them in ways that honor the Master.

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Servants, do what you’re told by your earthly masters. And don’t just do the minimum that will get you by. Do your best.
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Other translations use the word slavery. This is one of the best things Paul has said.

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And masters, treat your servants considerately. Be fair with them. Don’t forget for a minute that you, too, serve a Master—God in heaven.


Quotes I don't like:

There’s a lot of suffering to be entered into in this world—

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Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in— insiders—not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin.
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You're already saved except Jesus gave a rule and it was to give your possessions away. This commandment is worse than all the commandments of the OT. Perhaps this includes prostitution, taxation, and adultery as the list of rules we don't need to keep anymore. Based.

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So, then, if with Christ you’ve put all that pretentious and infantile religion behind you, why do you let yourselves be bullied by it?
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This almost sounds atheistic. Again he uses infantile as an own when Jesus said you should be childlike.

*****

And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy.
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Paul is a hypocrite. He says Christianity does away with the list of rules, yet now he makes a list: "It’s not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws."

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make sure it’s all gone for good: bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk.
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I don't see the problem with profanity. What happened to doing away with the long list of laws?
*****

 

[four1298]

I read Ephesians.

I liked that the sacrifice makes us free of punishments, Jews and gentiles are now together, Paul says he's the least qualified to preach the message, he says infancies are bad, going along with the crowd is bad, "Mostly what God does is love you," "Don’t drink too much wine," and wives should submit to their husbands and husbands are like God.

I didn't like that it says husbands shouldn't get only give
Quotes I like:

Because of the sacrifice of the Messiah, his blood poured out on the altar of the Cross, we’re a free people—free of penalties and punishments chalked up by all our misdeeds.
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I like this because it's positive.

*****

The Messiah has made things up between us so that we’re now together on this, both non-Jewish outsiders and Jewish insiders.

*****

When it came to presenting the Message to people who had no background in God’s way, I was the least qualified of any of the available Christians.
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He admits it. I don't like him because he said it's better to remain single.

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No prolonged infancies among us, please.
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But Jesus literally said to be childlike.

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And so I insist—and God backs me up on this—that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd.
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Could this be anti-democracy?

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Mostly what God does is love you.

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Don’t drink too much wine. That cheapens your life.
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Prohibition is based.

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The husband provides leadership to his wife the way Christ does to his church, not by domineering but by cherishing. So just as the church submits to Christ as he exercises such leadership, wives should likewise submit to their husbands.
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This is patriarchy. Men are the leaders in marriage. Women must be submissive.

*****

And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They’re really doing themselves a favor—since they’re already “one” in marriage.
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Is altruism and selfishness at the same time. This is actually good coming from Paul who said singleness is good.


*****

And work with a smile on your face,


Quotes I don't like:

This is why I, Paul, am in jail for Christ, having taken up the cause of you outsiders, so-called.

*****

Feeling no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion.
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The requirement of circumcision is gone now, but whoredoms are still bad.

*****

Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting.

*****

 

[four1298]

I read Philippians.

I like that Paul says he's not an expert and "I can make it through anything"(this is one of my favorite verses).

I didn't like that Paul basically wants to join Christ in Heaven already(suicide) and there's suffering for Christ,

Quotes I like:
There’s far more to this life than trusting in Christ.
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I like this. It's okay to have our own pursuits.

*****

By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this,

*****

Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.

Quotes I don't like:

None of his circumstances contribute to his joy: He wrote from a jail cell, his work was under attack by competitors, and after twenty years or so of hard traveling in the service of Jesus, he was tired and would have welcomed some relief.
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Paul is in jail even though it's a home. Jesus said, "anyone who sacrifices home, family, fields—whatever—because of me will get it all back a hundred times over, not to mention the considerable bonus of eternal life." It seems like life itself is not allowed since you have a home no matter what.

Now, "home" is singular, so maybe it means just one. Though other translations use plural. Perhaps it just means extra houses. Perhaps it's mostly said to the rich who had several. They can still have one for themselves or perhaps even several. And again Jesus was a communist so it's not exactly altruism. You would still have according to your need as the communist saying goes. Communism is not exactly this altruism where you give everything and receive nothing back. It's a system where everybody has to give otherwise it's not that kind of a system and everyone receives according to their need.

Jesus cared about the poor when he said of "the least of these." He would therefore not want you to become poor yourself.

*****

The desire to break camp here and be with Christ is powerful. Some days I can think of nothing better
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This is extreme cuckoldry. It's like considering suicide.

*****

There’s also suffering for him. And the suffering is as much a gift as the trusting.
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Yet the book of Jacob says, "learn with joy and not with sorrow."

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the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.
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The actual worst way to die is suicide.

*****

all created beings in heaven and on earth—even those long ago dead and buried—will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ,
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I don't like vegan ideology.

*****

They hate Christ’s Cross. But easy street is a dead-end street. Those who live there make their bellies their gods; belches are their praise; all they can think of is their appetites.

*****

 

[four1298]

I read Thessalonians.

I like that it says "we’re not after crowd approval—only God approval," and “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.”

I don't like that it says they moonlighted so they wouldn't be a burden, keep yourselves from sexual promiscuity, suddenly everything will fall apart, “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.”
I read Thessalonians.

Quotes I like:

we’re not after crowd approval—only God approval.
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Anti-democracy
*****

thank God no matter what happens

*****

Our God gives you everything you need, makes you everything you’re to be.

*****

Quotes I don't like:

You remember us in those days, friends, working our fingers to the bone, up half the night, moonlighting so you wouldn’t have the burden of supporting us while we proclaimed God’s Message to you.
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This is cuckoldry. It contradicts when he said:

So if we have planted spiritual seed among you, is it out of line to expect a meal or two from you?

Christianity is BS. You have to work yourself to death.

*****

Keep yourselves from sexual promiscuity.

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“We’ve sure got it made! Now we can take it easy!”—suddenly everything will fall apart.
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I don't like this negativity. It contradicts when it said:

God didn’t set us up for an angry rejection but for salvation by our Master, Jesus Christ.

*****

Our orders—backed up by the Master, Jesus—are to refuse to have anything to do with those among you who are lazy and refuse to work the way we taught you.

*****

it wasn’t because we didn’t have a right to your support; we did. We simply wanted to provide an example of diligence, hoping it would prove contagious.
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I don't think you should be forced to work so long. What happened to communism?

*****

Don’t you remember the rule we had when we lived with you? “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.” And now we’re getting reports that a bunch of lazy good-for-nothings are taking advantage of you. This must not be tolerated. We command them to get to work immediately—no excuses, no arguments—and earn their own keep. Friends, don’t slack off in doing your duty.
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I like communism but this communist quote is bad. What if you can't work because of illegals? What if you're disabled and can't work for that reason? Could this verse be ableist? This dooms most people since they don't work that much, "moonlighting."

This is sort of debunked by the quotes that say from each according to his ability to each according to his need. It means only those who have the ability should work. It's a redundant and worsened summary of "from each according to his ability."

*****

 

[four1298]

I read Timothy and Titus.

I like that it says Paul brought witch hunts and arrogance, God wants everyone saved, a leader must be committed to his wife and attentive to his children, don’t let anyone put you down because you’re young, slaves must make the best of it and respect slaves, Onesiphorus is okay despite having a house, and God piles on the riches, slaves should be loyal workers, church leaders shouldn't be drunks.

I don't like that it says widows can get assistance, wine is good for digestion and medicine, and accept the hard times.

Quotes I like:

The only credentials I brought to it were invective and witch hunts and arrogance.

*****

He wants not only us but everyone saved,

*****

A leader must be well-thought-of, committed to his wife, cool and collected, accessible, and hospitable. ... He must handle his own affairs well, attentive to his own children and having their respect.
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A leader must be a married father. Based.

*****

They’ll tell you not to eat this or that food—perfectly good food God created to be eaten heartily and with thanksgiving by believers who know better!
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Perhaps this can be used as part of a defense of obesity.

*****

Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so, making you fit both today and forever.
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Perhaps this can be used as a defense of physical unfitness.

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And don’t let anyone put you down because you’re young.
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Technically the preborn are young too don't dehumanize/put them down.
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Anyone who neglects to care for family members in need repudiates the faith.
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Gavin Newsom neglected his mother who got assisted suicide according to Wesley J Smith.

*****

No, I’d rather the young widows go ahead and get married in the first place, have children, manage their homes, and not give critics any foothold for finding fault.

*****

Whoever is a slave must make the best of it, giving respect to his master so that outsiders don’t blame God and our teaching for his behavior. Slaves with Christian masters all the more so—their masters are really their beloved brothers!

*****

But God bless Onesiphorus and his family! Many’s the time I’ve been refreshed in that house.
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This is like Mnason and Simon the Tanner both of whom had houses and were Christian.

*****

Tell those rich in this world’s wealth to quit being so full of themselves and so obsessed with money,...Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage—to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be extravagantly generous.
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So God is the source of riches. Doesn't that contradict the first sentence? No. God gave it to them, but if they go to God, the riches will be piled on even more.

*****

Guide slaves into being loyal workers, a bonus to their masters—no back talk, no petty thievery.
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Paul is proslavery.

It’s important that a church leader, responsible for the affairs in God’s house, be looked up to—not pushy, not short-tempered, not a drunk

*****

Quote I don't like:

Sign some widows up for the special ministry of offering assistance. They will in turn receive support from the church.
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Widows can be freeloaders, but others have to work to death:

In fact, we worked our fingers to the bone, up half the night moonlighting so you wouldn’t be burdened with taking care of us. And it wasn’t because we didn’t have a right to your support; we did.

*****

Go ahead and drink a little wine, for instance; it’s good for your digestion, good medicine for what ails you.

*****

Run away from infantile indulgence.

*****

accept the hard times along with the good;
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Badness shouldn't be accepted unless you can't change it.

*****
Those who were brought up religious and ought to know better are the worst.
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This is basically saying religion is bad.

*****

Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness.

 

[four1298]

I read Hebrews.

I like that it says to have a bed ready for visitors, regard prisoners as if you were in prison, and honor marriage and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy.

I don't like that it says the system of commandments never worked out, God put the old plan on the shelf, judgment will be fierce, God is vengeful, smile when you're stolen from, being in trouble is training, Esau wasn't forgiven despite regret, and God is fire.
What I like:

Be ready with a meal or a bed when it’s needed.

*****

Regard prisoners as if you were in prison with them.

*****

Honor marriage, and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband.

*****

What I don't like:

Regarding angels he says,

The messengers are winds,
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The wind isn't angels though. Is this denying angels?

*****

The former way of doing things, a system of commandments that never worked out the way it was supposed to, was set aside;

*****

By coming up with a new plan, a new covenant between God and his people, God put the old plan on the shelf.
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I prefer the old covenant. The new covenant is garbage, "give all your possessions away"

*****

a mighty fierce judgment it will be!

*****

“Vengeance is mine, and I won’t overlook a thing”

*****

If some enemies broke in and seized your goods, you let them go with a smile, knowing they couldn’t touch your real treasure.

*****

This trouble you’re in isn’t punishment; it’s training,

*****

Watch out for the Esau syndrome: trading away God’s lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite. You well know how Esau later regretted that impulsive act and wanted God’s blessing—but by then it was too late, tears or no tears.
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I don't like it because he should have been forgiven. How can it be too late?

*****

he’ll also rock the heavens: “One last shaking, from top to bottom
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It almost sounds as if Heaven can become Hell. I think I like Heaven.

*****

God himself is Fire!
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It reminds me of this quote: "In truth, you will never see Him. The Light that even blinds the eyes of the seraphim will bum your pupils forever." I don't like it because it sounds like it's saying God is Hell.

*****

Don’t be obsessed with getting more material things.

*****

Make sure you don’t take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others

 

[four1298]

I read the book of James.

I like that it says to reach out to the homeless and loveless, love others as you love yourself, life is a gift, God cares to the last detail.

I don't like that it says churches are not models of good behavior, cheer when the rich are brought down to size, God doesn't put evil in one's way, act, works, Abraham placed his son Isaac on the sacrificial altar, and those who pile up wealth pile up judgment

Quotes I like:

muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.

*****

“Love others as you love yourself.”
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I like this because it implies to love yourself. The first step is to love yourself. If you don't love yourself, then how can you love your neighbor like yourself? The goal is to love your neighbor. This is actually one of the best quotes in The Bible. This also makes me realize even the commandment to give all your possessions has the first step of having in the first place.

*****

What a gift life is to those who stay the course!

*****

God cares, cares right down to the last detail.

*****
Quotes I don't like:

Christian churches are not, as a rule, model communities of good behavior.
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This isn't part of The Bible. It's the translation's introduction.

*****

And when the arrogant rich are brought down to size, cheer!

*****

Prosperity is as short-lived as a wildflower, so don’t ever count on it.
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Prosperity is only short-lived because you have to give it away.

*****

God is impervious to evil, and puts evil in no one’s way.
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This contradicts when it said:

God hath taken away his plainness from them, and delivered unto them many things which they cannot understand, because they desired it. And because they desired it God hath done it, that they may stumble.

*****

Act on what you hear!
--
I think I like sola fide. I don't like the idea of works because the works aren't good.

*****

Isn’t it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense?
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I like sola fide though there's so many verses that counter it.

*****

Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove.

*****

Wasn’t our ancestor Abraham “made right with God by works” when he placed his son Isaac on the sacrificial altar?
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Abraham was vile for doing this.

*****

You thought you were piling up wealth. What you’ve piled up is judgment.
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Well it's not exactly saying wealth is negative judgment. Frankly it doesn't say negative judgment.

*****

Don’t add words like “I swear to God”

*****

Believing-prayer will heal you, and Jesus will put you on your feet.
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Faith healing doesn't work. There's babies who died from faith healing.

*****

Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed.
--
Nikolaj says otherwise:

To whom shall I confess my sin except to You, against whom I have sinned?

 

[four1298]

I read the book of Peter.

I like that it says to be good servant's to your masters, your outer appearance doesn't matter, women lack men's advantages, be glad your in the thick of what Christ went through

I don't like that it says the world can be corrupted by lust, Balaam was a prophet who turned to evil, they're worse if they return to sin than to have never left sin.

Quotes I like:

You who are servants, be good servants to your masters—not just to good masters, but also to bad ones. What counts is that you put up with it for God’s sake when you’re treated badly for no good reason. There’s no particular virtue in accepting punishment that you well deserve. But if you’re treated badly for good behavior and continue in spite of it to be a good servant, that is what counts with God.

*****

What matters is not your outer appearance—the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes—but your inner disposition.

*****

As women they lack some of your advantages.

*****

Friends, when life gets really difficult, don’t jump to the conclusion that God isn’t on the job. Instead, be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced.

*****

God is especially incensed against these “teachers” who live by lust,
--
Some teachers live by lust.

*****



Quotes I don't like:
I don't like that it say
religious bullies are the worst kind)

*****

Love makes up for practically anything. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry, a bed to the homeless—cheerfully.

*****

It’s better to suffer for doing good, if that’s what God wants, than to be punished for doing bad.

*****

So if you find life difficult because you’re doing what God said, take it in stride. Trust him. He knows what he’s doing, and he’ll keep on doing it.


a world corrupted by lust.

*****

They’ve left the main road and are directionless, having taken the way of Balaam, son of Beor, the prophet who turned profiteer, a connoisseur of evil.
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How can a prophet be evil? If he's a prophet, he's got to be good.

*****

If they’ve escaped from the slum of sin by experiencing our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ, and then slid back into that same old life again, they’re worse than if they had never left.
--
The book of Mormon says this too:

and after this should deny me, it would have been better for you that ye had not known me.

*****E

 

[four1298]

I read the books of John
I like that it says God is love, no one has seen God ever, and he loved us first so we love him.

Quotes I like:

*****

No one has seen God, ever.
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How then is he real?

*****

God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day—our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in love.
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This is actually talking about loving your neighbor but I think it can be expanded to self-love and love of life.

Also it seems to define love as being absent of fear. That may mean to be Christian is to not fear Hell.

*****

But friends, that’s exactly who we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end up!

*****

Anyone who doesn’t love is as good as dead.
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While this is talking about neighborly love, perhaps this can apply to sexual love too.

*****

We, though, are going to love—love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.
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This is like that John quote that says we love him because he loved us first.

*****

Quotes I don't like:

Here’s how you test for the genuine Spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his faith in Jesus Christ—the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person—comes from God and belongs to God.
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But that's exactly what those "lying preachers" probably do. Or perhaps that's not the case.

Perhaps this is a sola fide verse.

*****
I don't like that it says God is light, love of the world is bad antichrists are everywhere, no one who lives deeply in Christ makes a practice of sin, there are a lot of lying preachers,he gives life to those whose sin isn't fatal
God himself being the light,
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Darkness is sort of good though for sleeping.

*****

Anyone who claims to live in God’s light and hates a brother or sister is still in the dark.

*****

Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.
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Your life is in the world though

*****

Well, they’re all over the place, antichrists everywhere you look.
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Even you could be the antichrist.

*****

No one who lives deeply in Christ makes a practice of sin.
--
But Jesus said no one's good. Therefore even Christians are sinners.

*****

It’s the person who acts right who is right,

*****

There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world.
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Even religious leaders aren't saved. How then can a commoner be sure of his salvation?

*****

we ask for God’s help and he gladly gives it, gives life to the sinner whose sin is not fatal.
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This contradicts when it said all sins forgiven.

What is fatal sin though? Perhaps it's sin that causes death like homicide or suicide.
*****

 

[four1298]

I read Revelations.

I like that it says about the mark of the beast, pain will be gone, it says Heaven will be a golden city.

I don't like that it says some Jews belong to Satan's crowd, don't quit even if it costs you your life, Jezebel is bad despite being a prophet, willing to die for Christ is good and self-love is bad, those not in the Book of Life will worship the Beast, Great Babylon was ruined by whoring, Blessed are those who die in the Master, whores are exploited, and slavery is terrible

Quotes I like:

“You do have this to your credit: You hate the Nicolaitan business. I hate it, too.
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So hate can be good. A previous book said it's bad to hate others.

God however hates some people. For example it says "they that are rich, who are puffed up because of their learning, and their wisdom, and their riches—yea, they are they whom he despiseth." Hate thy neighbor.

*****

“Here’s the reward I have for every conqueror, everyone who keeps at it, refusing to give up: You’ll rule the nations, your Shepherd-King rule as firm as an iron staff, their resistance fragile as clay pots. This was the gift my Father gave me; I pass it along to you—and with it, the Morning Star!
--
Aren't rulers rich though? I thought rich people were bad.

*****

Immediately I saw Four Angels standing at the four corners of earth,
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Globes don't have corners. Could this imply flat earth?

*****

The Woman gave birth to a Son who will shepherd all nations with an iron rod. Her Son was seized and placed safely before God on his Throne. The Woman herself escaped to the desert to a place of safety prepared by God, all comforts provided her for 1,260 days.

*****

It was able to animate the image of the Beast so that it talked, and then arrange that anyone not worshiping the Beast would be killed. It forced all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to have a mark on the right hand or forehead. Without the mark of the name of the Beast or the number of its name, it was impossible to buy or sell anything.
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Vaccines are the mark of the beast. This is like the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Death is gone for good—tears gone, crying gone, pain gone—all the first order of things gone.”

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The wall was jasper, the color of Glory, and the City was pure gold, translucent as glass.

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Quotes I don't like:

And I hear the lie in the claims of those who pretend to be good Jews, who in fact belong to Satan’s crowd.
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I want to say this is JINOs but I don't dislike any Jews.

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“Don’t quit, even if it costs you your life.

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“But why do you let that Jezebel who calls herself a prophet mislead my dear servants into Cross-denying, self-indulging religion?

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The bastard offspring of their idol-whoring I’ll kill.

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They weren’t in love with themselves;
they were willing to die for Christ.

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Everyone on earth whose name was not written from the world’s foundation in the slaughtered Lamb’s Book of Life will worship the Beast.
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I don't think I like predetermination cuz you can be doomed to Hell.

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A second Angel followed, calling out, “Ruined, ruined, Great Babylon ruined! She made all the nations drunk on the wine of her whoring!”
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This one's okay because it's anti-wine.

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I heard a voice out of Heaven, “Write this: Blessed are those who die in the Master from now on; how blessed to die that way!”
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Dying is bad.
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In the Spirit he carried me out in the desert. I saw a woman mounted on a Scarlet Beast.

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She held a gold chalice in her hand, brimming with defiling obscenities, her foul fornications.

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Earth dwellers whose names weren’t written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world will be dazzled when they see the Beast that once was, is no longer, and is to come.

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kings of the earth went whoring with her;
entrepreneurs made millions exploiting her.
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This is cucked. Whoring is not exploitation.

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And slaves—their terrible traffic in human lives.
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This is one of the worst books in The Bible.

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Dressed in the latest fashions,
adorned with the finest jewels,
in one hour such wealth wiped out!

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Let evildoers do their worst and the dirty-minded go all out in pollution, but let the righteous maintain a straight course and the holy continue on in holiness.”
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Evildoers should be stopped or else they'll go to hell.

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If you add to the words of this prophecy, God will add to your life the disasters written in this book; if you subtract from the words of the book of this prophecy,