christianity

A little piece about God, His Oneness, and how He uniquely relates to us. I owe a huge debt to the Rev. Dr. Katherine Sonderegger and her Systematic Theology series (and also having her as a professor) for this.

#God #Jesus #Theology #Episcopal #Anglican #Church #Christianity

https://catecheticconverter.com/god-is-his-own-being

After reading about a Georgia Christian high school expelling a young woman for bring a trans boy to prom AND learning that that school uses the language of "neighborliness" for its values, I felt compelled to write a little bit about the so-called "Good Samaritan" parable.

#Christianity #Episcopal #Church #theology #Bible #trans #LGBTQ

https://catecheticconverter.com/being-a-neighbor-or-why-good-or-samaritan-dont-need-to-factor-in

International Christian Embassy Jerusalem hosting 3,000 Christians for Sukkot

Around 3,000 Christians from more than 70 countries are arriving in Israel for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem’s…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #Christianity #Christians #ICEJ #Sukkot
https://www.europesays.com/iran/306959/

I saw #Superman yesterday and it prompted this post on the Apocrypha and #religious themes in the film. Yes, it's weird. Also, spoilers ahead!

#Christianity #Judaism #Apocrypha #Bible #comics #dcu #dccomics #JamesGunn #theology

https://catecheticconverter.com/the-inconvenience-of-superman

Was at the #HandsOff demonstrations today in #Honolulu. Was handed this #Trans pride flag, which inspired this little entry:

https://catecheticconverter.com/being-ministered-to

#Theology #Church #Episcopal #Christianity

Lest we be partial in calling out Republicans on their bad practice of #christianity , Palm Sunday not only marks anti-profiteering, but the fucking balls to march into the heart of it and throw shit around... at pretty serious risk.

This gesture alone was a fail. Interrogation required several belligerent non-answers.

It's time to start riding some ass. (don't even.) I got your sweet baby right here:
https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/

More Italian art:

In these dark times I figured it was worthwhile to write something a little more light and hopeful. I love corny earnestness in #Christianity and so I wanted to share with you all a bit about my favorite examples of Retrofuturism enshrined in the liturgy of the Episcopal Church

https://catecheticconverter.com/space-age-prayer

#Episcopal #Church #Jesus #Retrofuturism #liturgy #worship #space #SpaceTravel #NASA

New piece on the blog! This one offering a theological commentary on Christianity and technology (and how it might be rooted in an eschatological heresy!)

#Christianity #Church #Episcopal #Anglican #Evangelical #technology #AI #AISlop

https://catecheticconverter.com/christians-are-supposed-to-be-left-behind

«Debunking Hateful Propaganda about Jews and Muslims»

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-hateful-propaganda-about-a70

#Christianity #Judaism #Islam #Muslims #Jews #Christians

On the third day of #Christmas my true love gave to me... an essay commemorating the Feast of Saint John the Evangelist. Hopefully something as good as three french hens (or three dried squid, if you're local kine).

https://catecheticconverter.com/on-saint-john-the-evangelist

#Church #Christianity #Theology #History

On the fourth day of Christmas we get... a pretty horrible story, actually. But, good news, it's probably fictional. Bad news, it's a fictional story meant to capture the all-too-real horrors of much of our world.

https://catecheticconverter.com/on-the-holy-innocents

#Christmas #Christianity #Theology #History #Gaza #Ukraine #Episcopal

New video on my Keith's Universe channel. Thought I'd weigh in my thoughts about the latest failed rapture prediction. I call this one "Another Rapture Bites The Dust"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwVbWXNzt4w

#RaptureTok #TheRapture #Christianity #EndTimes #Prophecy

I liked that so much, I've compiled it so I can pin the whole thing.

On Paul:
Sovereign>
No Christians want to pill me on Paul the Apostle? #PaultheApostle #Christianity #Discussion


john_darksoul >
Pill you on what? He was the most prolific writer of the New Testament. He?s well known.


Sovereign>
I've seen a lot of theories about him and I just want to hear what the arguments are against those claims. I'm favorable to him. I wasn't before because of some of the ideas I've read about that are similar to what this video says. Stuff like this:
v=hZmoN5y9tJo

Hazlin>
The Bible as we know it, was created to counter act Paul.

He is most of the New Testament, because his writings were too widely accepted, but did not provide a good basis for controlling the early church.

In fact his writings were empowering people to know God directly, and were eroding attempts at subjugating the church.

A part from the 4 Gospels (acts, and revelation), the other writings were put together with Paul's writings in order to bring their authoritative status up on equal footing.

And, the New Testament does as it was designed to do, you can go to any modern church and find a pastor using one of the other writings to re-contextualize Paul's writings.


Sovereign>
Oh you were saying all that in a negative way. I didn't realize. Can you clarify your position then. What issue do you take with him?


Hazlin>
Within the confines of this discussion, I have no issue with Paul.

He does mix in some of his own ideas and agendas.

But, he has the Gospel. What Jesus really accomplished with his death. The Law of Moses is dead, Jesus has killed it. Be free. Dare to know God as your loving parent.

Without Paul, you'd just be left with the other writings that are a return to the slavery of the 10 commandments and extended Law of God.


Sovereign>
What do you mean by "Without Paul, you'd just be left with the other writings that are a return to the slavery of the 10 commandments and extended Law of God"? Don't all Christians follow the 10 commandments? How is that slavery?


Hazlin>
The Israelites stood before God and sworn an oath that, if they did not keep the 10 commandments, and the rest of the law that, if they should be found breaking it, that every bad thing should come upon them, their wife, children, health, wealth would all be taken from them.

By their own free will they entered into this terrible slavery to the law, they must up hold it or be crushed.

It is like the progress of the Protestant reformation was erased, like no one was ever freed. And, today almost all Christians have returned to live under this terrible curse.

But, Jesus came to set them free.


Sovereign>
Interesting. The way you describe it makes sense so you are saying that they were freed from collective punishment basically. So the older jewish ways (Hebrew religion of the time before Christianity) were brutal because they were pro-collective punishment (not hard to believe given the way they operate in modernity). Do others generally accept this and understand it as you do or would you say this is a uncommon view you have?


Hazlin>
About every 400 years you can find someone who gets back in touch with the revelation of the Gospel.

Martin Luther's Lectures volumes 26 and 27. Do a good job of it.

But, these are dark days, even the people who call themselves Lutheran have no idea what Luther even thought or taught.

And, by extension do not understand the writings of Paul.

Almost everyone has converged to a pre-Protestant Reformation Catholicism.


Sovereign>
But would you say that even people like you who are not Catholic, who are Protestant, are followers of Paul? I understand you are not agreeing with everyone's interpretation of him but you still follow his word right?


Hazlin>
So here is the rub, Paul's revelation from Jesus on the Gospel. The revelation is that Jesus has removed all barriers and requirements for you to know Jesus and God directly.

At its roots, the true Gospel does not bind me to Paul. It does not bind anyone to the messenger. Instead the truth is I can just talk to God.

I do, and he talks back... that is how it is supposed to be.

Because it eliminates the middle person, I can show you were Paul was wrong and were he was right (Luther too). It is no longer about Paul, it is about Jesus.

This modern paradigm of being a follower of different Christian authorities only exists in the vacuum left by the rejection of the Gospel.

So my piece on the Holy Innocents a few weeks or so back garnered a little bit of discussion. So I figured it was worthwhile to follow that up with a longer essay on the nature of Truth in scripture that, I hope, will help enrich folks' appreciation of the Bible.

https://catecheticconverter.com/deeper-than-fact-on-fiction-and-truth-in-scripture

#Bible #Episcopal #Anglican #Church #Christianity #Theology #Spirituality #ImABelieverInTheIdeaThatFactOrFictionWasSomethingRikerDidOnTheHolodeckForFun

#BiblicalLoopholes #Humour #Christianity #Hypocrisy

After many weeks (has it been months?) I have a new entry on the blog! This one is in praise of the Book of Common Prayer.

#Episcopal #Anglican #Christianity #Spirituality #Theology #Liturgy #Bible

https://catecheticconverter.com/in-praise-of-the-book-of-common-prayer

Second #blog post. I wrote about #IU and saints and why I think she is one.

https://dogfox.codeberg.page/posts/IU/

Titles on the feed pages are still a little screwed up, but...

#sainthood #christianity #kpop

In my morning prayers today, I had some thoughts about the Bible, the politics of the Psalms and Proverbs, and how it is that MAGA and I can read the same Bible but come away with very different views.

(Image ALT TEXT: A title page with a stylized font that reads "The Psalter;" this comes from the Alternative Services Book, 1976)

#Jesus #Bible #MAGA #politics #theology #Anglican #Episcopal #Christianity

https://catecheticconverter.com/are-we-reading-the-same-bible

There is no ethnic cleansing in Israel and the West Bank – this is why

A recurring accusation promoted by the Palestinian Authority is that Israel has pursued a policy of “ethnic cleansing”…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Israel #Bethlehem #Christianity #demographyofisrael #ethniccleansing #Gaza #Opinion #palestinians #PLO #statistics #UnitedNations
https://www.europesays.com/iran/309573/

Decided to write another thing about #surfing and what it means to my life. Also, the header photo is of me surfing! (From the summer of 2004, on tiny Fort Pierce summer waves)

Whenever I try to add Alt text to my images in Write.As, I have problems (I'll put it in a reply).

https://catecheticconverter.com/surfing-and-humility

#Spirituality #Christianity #GrowingUp #Biography

#StormerArchive #DailyStormer

Looking at Christianity Objectively

Andrew Anglin
Total Fascism
April 10, 2013

Tor link:
http://stormer5v52vjsw66jmds7ndeecudq444woadhzr2plxlaa...

PDF uploaded.

Tags: #AndrewAnglin #Christianity #History #Race #Religion #Spirituality

Measuring Up to Jesus

The other day when I was on Social Media a quote I saw from sales guru hit me: “You become what you think about all day long”. It made me ponder on what I think about every day, which lead me to realize how much my thinking – and lifestyle – has changed over the years.

I used to be more selfish, helping and serving others with the end motive of serving my own needs and ego, and praying for my own needs – talking to God more than listening. St. Francis says [that] it is through giving that we receive, and I took it literal.

Today … when I give of myself I don’t look for what I receive, because the real gift is how God is blessing others through me .. which I may never see. My agenda has become God’s agenda. Said another way, I live my life as a prayer.

If we focus our attention on bad news and gossip, and distractions, we will miss God's incredible, visionary, optimistic purpose for every believer: to grow so much in our faith that we shine like beacons to everyone around us!

God's vision for each church is that we would grow so much in our love for God that we'd love people the way He loves them: unconditionally and passionately.

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I've FINALLY posted something new on the blog! In this one I talk about some insights I had from the book of Ecclesiastes and why "all is vanity" is actually good news.

(Plus, I'm super proud of my meme work in this!)

#Christianity #Bible #Theology #Anglican #Episcopal #Spirituality

https://catecheticconverter.com/chasing-bubbles

My new YT video is up!

It's about a new app called 'Orange Bible' which lets people earn satoshis (the smallest unit of bitcoin) for Bible Study, among other things.

Be aware that I do make a few sarcastic jokes about religion in this one, so just putting out that warning. If you can't tolerate religious humor, that's perfectly okay, just maybe skip this particular video.

https://youtu.be/4N3PsKrK3FA

#YouTube #Religion #Christianity #Technology #Crypto #BTC #Video #SocialMedia