/christian/ - christian

>>28075
I don't get it. What does the unfunny cartoon guy larping as tarrant the obvious FED agent in the fake shooting video have to do with this thread topic?

Dunno where to post this, so I'm leaving it here

🔴 LIVE: Pope Leo celebrates first Easter amid Middle East war | AFP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sREmPpdtUJ4

Happy Easter /christian/?

Hi, I'm looking for a caring loving partner who will become my emotional support system. I'm not an atheist

>>28132
Go outside and look for one?

>Bad request
>Thread creation locked
Why?

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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.

>>28160
>Focus on Christ but HOW?
You can't do it by your own effort. You need to ask your heavenly Father.
"What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”"
Luke 11:11-13 ESV

"But Jesus called them to him, saying, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”"
Luke 18:16-17 ESV

How does a child receive something? Does he go out and work for it? No. Lacking any and all means, he runs to his father and asks. He has nothing to offer in return, but he knows his father loves him.

>always still focusing on the wrong things
Focus on the person of Jesus. Preach the Gospel to yourself daily. It's not a one-time thing. You live in Christ by remembering that you're saved because He was judged in your place as your substitute. 
"Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”"
John 6:28-29 ESV

What if "God" is just another soul, like the rest of us?
What if all souls existed since the beginning of time, and God and his angels were just the first to mature, and so they created Earth and our bodies to help guide us to become mature like them?

I just really wonder why none of the beings watching over us ever sends me hope. Maybe they get bored watching/following us. Maybe they severely limit themselves when it comes to intervening/interfering with our lives - but then why don't they do something about those non-humans that were made by demons. Surely they can intervene when it comes to demons messing with our freewill by creating the non-humans.

If any of the beings in Heaven is in contact with any of you: ask them to send some hope to me.

>>28188
>I just really wonder why none of the beings watching over us ever sends me hope.
The gospel is the good news. While your sin has separated you from God and earned you eternal damnation, God sent his only Son to became your substitute to satisfy the demands of His justice so that he could forgive you while still remaining just. Anyone who places his trust in Jesus receives eternal life as a free gift. Rather than Hell (which I deserve), I get to go to Heaven because Jesus died for me and rose again. This promise produces more hope than anything.

"Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not 

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>>28188
The model you describe is closer to a lot of pagan mythologies, wherein the small-g gods come to be within a universe that already exists before them. Mormonism is a step even lower than that, as it's a 19th century science fiction cosmology that reduces the Christian God to just one superpowered man among other powerful men who rule their own planets.
The problem is that demoting God to just a small-g god among other gods doesn't deal with the ultimate principle of reality/the Absolute. It limits you to talking about things inside the universe that helped create and govern the world (or fallen beings which purport to), rather than the Source of existence itself. Even paganism in its nobler forms at least attempted to access that Absolute. While they didn't fully succeed, it's noteworthy that St. John the Apostle used a bit of Stoic terminology in the opening of his gospel to aid the reader.
Pics related talk about this better than I can. It's from a pretty good introduction to sacramental cosmology called Journey to Reality: Sacremental Life in a Secular Age by Dr. Zacharu Porcu. Given the kinds of questions you're asking, you might find it helpful.

>If any of the beings in Heaven is in contact with any of you: ask them to send some hope to me.
I can keep you in my prayers for a while. Take care, anon.

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Kek, I guess the other big thing is that your issue was phrased such that it seemed like you weren't really thinking about the Trinity and its bearing on all that. The topic of the Trinity is definitely way beyond what I can say, so eh, here's the next chapter from the book.

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happy 9/11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjS5Z-c1usI
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWr5npxUmD6yu48xuqKlFpQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd4IFoWvDcBJU423AP81BFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G5-LrNWXh0
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEvZq2OkD2Q50-zcK_N-fPA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbJQXPJy6LF82axgJZz96mw
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFo9bQv3YwAQGeE_2iRdujA
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mKIm5RhDTGNr-v5jQILUys_CYgGPm_mXM

The lead singer of one of my favorite blues rock bands (The Cold Stares) covered this old hymn, and I like his rendition of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFGjxfbiBrg

He does sort of talk about religion in this interview: https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-cold-stares-are-not-afraid-of-death-but-it-fuels-their-incendiary-blues
I found it interesting so I thought I'd post it

Switchfoot has a new album about by the way, I haven't sat down and given it a proper listen yet though

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Here's a pretty unique one: a Greek priest's marriage of drone-heavy Byzantine music with metal.
https://heatcrimes.bandcamp.com/album/paradise-metal

>>28182
Sounds really interesting

>>27716
Garfield hard at work in The Phantom Menace remake.

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>>23460 (OP) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDaUvVBuTpc

I typically don't like posting YouTube vids but this short testimony helped to set me straight. For context, I have had listened to other testimonies in a similar vein which lines up exactly what this author describes. Ultimately, anytime you sin in lust you are giving these entities more and more power.

>>23460 (OP) 
I would say reading the Bible daily helps. I think it should be O.K. to take off the Sabbath, though. 

It fills me a spiritual enlightenment and mindfulness that helps with some of my worse habits. Other than that it's just actively wanting to change. Even when I smoked marijuana and tobacco I "wanted" to quit, but didn't want to quit "right this second" because I was "still having fun." 

Eventually I got a good job and the marijuana started giving me panic attacks thinking about getting fired, so I quit that. Then I started approaching 30 and the thought occurred to me that I could quit "in my twenties" and that sounded like I could grow old and still be O.K. because it was "just something dumb I did when I was young" but if I kept it up suddenly it would start turning into a serious problem. 

Other than that a combination of willful change and rising prices has helped me start to curb fast food and energy drinks, though I need to do better about that (I'm hoping with my wife's new schedule it will be easier to cook at home and summon the motivation to drink home made black coffee instead of energy drinks or sugary iced coffees from the store, though.)

Lastly, it's just going to be slimming down and curbing pornography/masturbation, but like the above I think a combination of spiritual fulfillment, willful change, and my wife's increased presence will help with that

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I ask god to help me.
When it comes to temptations, you should remove them from your environment, and then also avoid looking at them when you encounter them in the world.
While we're on Earth, we are stuck in our flesh, which is corrupt and constantly bombarded by demons and their evil temptations.
When we go to Heaven, we'll receive new bodies, ones that can't corrupt, decay, hurt, etc.

Ask god to send life lessons and guidance your way, and pay attention to anything that he sends you.

>>23460 (OP) 
Don't think about it too much

Keep yourself busy with a lot of things so you won't have any time to do any vices. 

Easy

>read almost any epistle in the OSB
>read the notes
>the editors are annoyed at the NKJV's translation choices again
I wish they'd done a full Bible translation instead of leaving the New Testament to the NKJV. At this point, I'm tempted to get a Douay-Rheims Bible for the NT.

>>28147
Finished Romans. First Corinthians next.
Concerning the arguments of justification by Faith vs by Works, Paul seems speak more of a separation of Faith from the Law as in just blindly following the Law as if he's talking to the Jews specifically, in that Abraham had no law to follow but was justified by Faith before the Law. I would assume this then to imply the later arguments of justification by works to be because of the inherent desire in (You) to love Christ and then follow his commandments, which follows from Faith, fulfilling you with the desire to show that faith through works
I suppose I'll have a more accurate understanding once I read Timothy, but this is my hunch currently.

>>28167
Paul teaches that justification is by faith alone because faith alone apprehends the righteousness of Christ by which we are justified.
>>28147
>>28149
Anon, that’s a false church.

>>24554 (OP) 
I'm still in Genesis...

>>28183
That's good Anon. I recommend going on through Exodus, then switching to the New Testament and the book of John, then going on from there. Gambate!

>>28164
These are great!
I tried finding a copy, and I think this is it (in Russian): https://www.azbyka.ru/otechnik/Nikolaj_Japonskij/izbrannye-uchenye-trudy-svjatitelja-nikolaja-arhiepiskopa-japonskogo/

>>28171
Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future covers Hindu-influenced sects, other New Age practices, and even UFOs and pentecostalism far more than it does Buddhism, but what it does have on Buddhism is quite good. It's popular for good reason.
Would you happen to know what branch of Buddhism that temple belonged to, by the way? I'm not super knowledgeable about it, but I do know that Buddhism tends to integrate the native pantheons in some way, and that this is especially pronounced in Tibetan Buddhism.
>>28172
Thanks for digging that up, anon. I don't speak Russian, but that's probably a great resource if anyone here does.

>>27681
Sadly this is how people are now conditioned by technology.

>>28176
Not that anon, but I prefer text. You can read faster than watching a video, and you can analyze the content rationally without being influenced by the speaker's style/charisma/pacing/accent.

>>28175
>Would you happen to know what branch of Buddhism that temple belonged to, by the way? 
Unfortunately, I don't, and I don't have any good way to contact her at the moment (I'm curious too lol). Her family is Chinese though, so I'm assuming it is one of the sects popular among that diaspora here in the U.S.

>Thanks for digging that up, anon. I don't speak Russian, but that's probably a great resource if anyone here does.
No problem! I hope it helps someone here.

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>>27549
>I pray to God for me to be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
Today I have heard an answer to this. Thank the Lord. And the answer is so what if I am afraid of such a thing? The people I am talking about are so hopelessly addicted to their misery, and excess, and great wastefulness, that they're basically dead already. And they have been dead for a long time. And there is a non zero chance that they were never really alive to begin with. Because of how they have fallen so far, that they willfully allow "The Empire's" ideas into what ought to be their own personal oasis away from The Empire, literally 24/7 via television and social media. So that they never rest from The Empire.
Moreover if there was only one object I could use to summarize their outlook on life, it would be a magnet on their refridgerator that is similar to this post's picture. I am keen to notice the proverb doesn't say anything about asking the child's permission for the loan. It doesn't say anything about repaying the loan either.

Existence is giving me a headache today.

I ask for a prayer too truly feel like im actually trying for God to turn my life around and better myself

>>28105
Praying for you 🙏

I've learned and read too much and I've outpaced my spiritual maturity and im turning into a fucking schizo about life and i keep listening to the wrong things in my mind
please help pray for my wayward heart and eyes and desires

I asked god to perform a miracle today.

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Tolkien's abandoned sequel for the events after LOTR.

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>>25745
If you can get your hands on it (New Martyr Press sells an edition of it, last I checked), St. Paisios' The Signs of the Times talks more about some of that. That was the book everyone passed around excerpts from during Covid, as in it he discussed a forced vaccination as a sort of prelude to the mark of the beast.

>>27419
Been meaning to read this bevause I'm a pulpfag

Anyone know where one can find Facing East by Frederica Mathewes-Green online for free?