/christian/ - christian

>>27104
This will sound odd but I promise I am not lying, I had a dream that I got a post with similar digits (yes, I occasionally dream about browsing and posting on imageboards) so I was a bit taken aback to see this when I awoke. But I believe everything happens for His divine will and I trust in the Lord Jesus Christ Son of God so I am also not surprised in a way.

>>27105
I've been reading the Bible more often and praying more often lately and doing more than ever to flee from sin in my life so perhaps I am more in touch with God and was able to in some sense tell that this was going to happen. Or maybe it's sheer coincidence. Either way, I trust that the Lord will use me and other imageboard users to deliver His divine will on Earth as it is in Heaven. That is to say, I hope people are won over to Christ by such seemingly trivial matters although I personally don't trust 4chan anymore and think its userbase is as close to beyond saving as it gets.

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>>27105
Neat!  :)

>Either way, I trust that the Lord will use me and other imageboard users to deliver His divine will on Earth as it is in Heaven. That is to say, I hope people are won over to Christ by such seemingly trivial matters
This is part of your 'mission field', Anon. That is, wherever you're at, there you are!  :D
>tl;dr
God will use willing hearts wherever they may be found. Simply pray, hear the Holy Spirit's word to you in w/e regard, then act. Simple as.

>and think its userbase is as close to beyond saving as it gets.
Heh true, 'BUT': 'But for the grace of God, there go I.'
They need salvation same as the next Anon.  :^)

< ''“Some want to live within the sound
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>>27107
>larping as a "good ol christian"
>censors and bans anything that calls them on their hypocrisy

Fuck off chobitsu

Why do the youtube embed links break? Most of them are not embedded now.

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>>26231
I knew i got one wrong, i even double check and didn't see it.

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There you go.

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>>22362 (OP) 
Tried and failed to edit a Captain Falcon helmet on St. Nicholas. Still, good banner hopefully.

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>>26545
And I forgot to scale it down. Mea culpa

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I hope this doesn't count as a Mormon banner.

>>27484

Another testimony I forgot to include
>https://www.bibleleague.org/stories/seek-first-the-kingdom/ - From a Buddhist nun

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>>27484
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>>27486
These are great, thank you! I might add, as an adjunct, the following books for those interested in related Eastern philosophies, as they overlap to some extent with Buddhism. While the authors are from an Orthodox Christian perspective, their work may still be helpful for Christians from other denominations who wish to explore some of these Eastern views in an apologetic context.  This links gives summaries for the various sections of Frost's book. 
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvz0hc5f

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>>27490
Thank you for these recommendations! I had not heard of these and they seem like very in-depth resources which I think is great and definitely more of what I was looking for but couldn't find.

I'm gonna put a recommendation for Matteo Ricci's work on Confucian ideas and Christianity (more specifically Catholic) in here - It did accidentally help cause the "Chinese Rites" controversy at the time due to a debate as to whether all of the Confucian rites Ricci thought were permitted in Catholic thought were really secular rites (as Ricci believed) or actually religious in nature (and thus not allowed) but that controversy's ended now and other than that the book is considered very solid and very historically significant in terms of Christianity and Eastern thought, and helped to convert Confucian people in China, Korea, Vietnam, etc. I'm not sure of it's use among the Orthodox, but Catholics and later Protestant missionaries used it's ideas too great success. The old now-ended controversy aside, it's considered an incredibly important work and very highly regarded so I think it's worth putting here.

Honestly, I think Eastern philosophy tends to be kind of ignored in terms of evangelism and Christian study here in the West so resources like what you put are really good for growing knowledge on these thigs.

A short free resource for evangelizing to Shinto practitioners - not Buddhism obviously but I don't think Shinto is commonly discussed

Shinto, The "Way of the Gods", or Jesus Christ, God's "Way"? by Richard S. Lofgren
https://www.ctsfw.net/media/pdfs/lofgrenshinto.pdf

It doesn't really go into the cultural views of leaving Shinto in Japan since from what I've heard it's considered a practice that helps "make" you Japanese and so people can sometimes have trouble leaving it but I might be wrong on that information

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>>21922
The Western versions of Buddhism tent to be more ((( secular ))) than the ones in Asia. But that's not a problem for Buddhists because they choose to not worship God or any gods. But there are also Buddhist temples with images of gods (like Brahma, etc.) and there are some sects/schools where there are practises where they pray to a certain pagan deity/deities.

>>24584
>Brahma
>Is that the hindu creator deity?
Yes.

>>24626
> A true Buddhist would tell you that Jesus, of course, was a Buddha, too, as it is a state of being above mere humanity, but below true divinity. 
That actually happened historically, if you read about Manichaeanism. It's a syncretic religion that combined gnostic teachings with elements from Christianity. Later it also got blended with Buddhism. Eventually it died out.

>>27511
>it was the evil one that had influence upon his heart and the Holy Spirit was not with him.

>>27517
Pretty sure his actions can be attributed to the evil one and not to the Holy Spirit. Unless you are suggesting that the Holy Spirit can led someone into sin.

>>27501 (OP) 
Once Save Always Saved

>>27518
The post attributed his heart to the evil one, sir.

>>27520
Absolutely, insofar as his actions are not attributed to the Holy Spirit, unless you are suggesting the Holy Spirit can lead us to sin. But never did I condemn him, as you are suggesting

>>27449
Why didn't he make a world with truly righteous humans in the first place, is he stupid?

C.S. Lewis discussed the problem of pain at length.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN8b5wkAEbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPXWyfKcfkw

>>27450
In essence, God did in the beginning with Adam and Eve. God created humanity for communion with Him, not as pre-programmed beings incapable of choice. True righteousness is not merely an inherent state but a relationship, a dynamic participation in God's divine life. If humans were created already perfected in righteousness, they would lack the ability to freely choose love, obedience, and holiness. Love without choice is not love at all. Additionally, creation itself is a process of growth and transformation. Humanity was made in the image of God, but the journey toward likeness, becoming truly righteous, is one of synergy between divine grace and human will. The fall of Adam and Eve was not an arbitrary failure but a consequence of free will, which allows for both sin and redemption. Through Christ, humanity is given the opportunity to freely return to righteousness, not as automatons but as willing participants in divine life. Would a world of preordained righteousness truly reflect the depth of God's love? The beauty of salvation lies in the fact that righteousness is not imposed but offered, and that through struggle, repentance, and the overwhelming grace of God, humans can become what they were always meant to be: partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).

>>27452
NTA. Powerful, thanks Anon.

>>27452
>If humans were created already perfected in righteousness
But, anon, Genesis 1:31* and Ecclesiastes 7:29* states they already were. And then they weren't by no one's choice but their own. I do not find fault with God for not seeing it coming. Because how can anyone forsee that which doesn't exist, which is freedom from God? And forsee that which has never happened before, which was man rebelling against God? This isn't a hard thought either. For does mankind, who was made in the image of the spirit of God, not love to justify himself with "How could I have known?" But it is only God who truly gets away with such an excuse. Neither do I believe that God would have seen it coming, because he is the Beginning and the End. God is the Beginning and the End. But not at the same time. Or else God would not have called himself two different times if he is the same time. "With God all things are possible!" you might now be thinking. But, obviously, all things being possible must also include the possibility that it's not possible. Matthew 24:24* has an example of this.

As for why man rebelled, the reason is there is no reason. Because provoking God is without reason to begin with. Is this too simple and stupid sounding to be what's happening? You bet it is! But it is what's happening anyway. And you've got to deal with it.

Lucifer has a similar stupid sounding origin

>>26946
The charity turned out to be genuine, thank God. My suspicions are humbled. Now I think to repay the generosity with my own generosity somewhere else.

Ran into some foolish companies trailer with my car that they parked in my driveway in the middle of the night. I didn't damage the trailer whatsoever but the owners are lawyers and have a camera on it so they might go after me anyways. It was the metal hitch of the trailer that ended up barely scratching my own car's plastic parts, their hitch is undamaged. Pray for the will of God to be done.

>>26984
Prayers enroute, Anon! :^)

With the recent happenings in Syria, spare a prayer for the Christian communities in that country.

Praying to not be led into the temptation to be offended at God for making me one of the spiritually low tier schlubs who shall have his works burn on Judgement Day, but I myself shall be saved. Yet as so by fire.
Praying to not fret over what other men tell me what I think I should have, when I know I am lucky enough to have anything. For I know God reducing all of the USA to dirty rags and stale bread would still be far less than the utter destruction the USA deserves.

>>26650
>If you can abstain for a day, then you can abstain for a week
Wrong, also your own imagination can make porn or porno situations
The best way is to distract yourself

I have not. And I probably never will. Notwithstanding the most success I have with quitting pornography by far is a proverbial cutting off of that which offends me, in removing myself from ownership over desktop PC's and laptops (I post this from someone else's computer.) Now I am "free" from pornography. "Free" because I do not practice the habit anymore, but I still have the habit. And I am sure if I went back to my old ways that I would quickly pick up from where I left off.

I still use a smartphone for computing tasks. But curiously smartphones do not have the same grip on me like PC's and laptops do. Perhaps the web browsing logistics do not mesh with me. Perhaps it is because it was PC's, and not smartphones, that had dominion over my impressionable adolescent years. Either way, thank God for me being enough of a no name wage slave that I do not need my own PC for my job. It makes the transition to a smartphone and staying away from computers easier.

>>26813
>And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell. (Matthew 5:30, ESV)

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>>26813
I thought that too and then God intervened and I saw porn for the monstrosity that it was, as a tool of Satan that destroys the healthy image and soul of women and men that God made good in the beginning. It puts human beings back into the gutter immediately after the fall, naked in the shameful depravity that obliges one to hide from God, overthrowing the basic dignity that God gave to Adam and Eve in the first sacrifice for sin to make them tunics.