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he/him • Chinese-American • M.A. Theology • evangelical Episcopalian • Jesus says LGBTQ rights, I don't make the rules • Romans 5:8 • trying my best • benofcommonprayer.substack.com • (my handle is absolutely my real name)
i think it's a lazy attempt to harmonize the geneaologies
This is good theology. "The cross stands while the world turns."
unvaccinated 😂
“Jesus fed the poor without using government or raising taxes”
Yes, to feed the poor without those things, we should simply perform our own miracle of loaves and fishes every day, as the literal son of God did.
This new book even argues Josephus interacted with people who *attended Jesus' trial*
academic.oup.com/book/60034?l...
"From Ehrman"
wonder whether he argues Jesus existed. Guess we'll never know
to be clear, the earliest of the Vedas is usually dated ~1500 BCE and most scholars view Krishna as a mythical figure, with the Bhagavad Gita being written between the 1st c. BCE – 1st c. CE
Yes but this Reformed bro encourages you to live your best life in Christ
omgggggg
I love Hindu and Buddhist timespans because they're always swinging for the fences
a lot of devout Hindus believe Krishna lived in the 3000s BCE and that the Vedas were revealed anywhere from 5000–10,000 years ago (that's 3000–8000 BCE)
Being trans forces you to self-actualise in a way many people just don't. Once you've interrogated something so fundamental in yourself as your sex and gender, you start seeing yourself and your relationship to the world differently, and embracing yourself becomes much easier
Bart Ehrman, who is no Christian apologist, literally wrote a book on this over 10 years ago. How about we just read it and move on
ok something I notice frequently is how they say the evidence is nada bc all the sources for Jesus' life are Christian
So what's really going on is a presupposition that "real historical sources" are free from ideological commitments (religion icky!) and that's not how history works
Jesus Christ, our only Mediator and Advocate.
This is the foundational belief of almost every American outside of Manhattan and certain parts of the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens.
correct
who wrote Hebrews
To be fair we'd have to suspend methodological naturalism for dating or articulating the origins of all religious texts
My most problematic take: I believe Jesus was a historical figure and also the Son of God.
Jesus mythicism is just young earth creationism for atheists
I think there's a new scholar arguing for a pre-70 dating of the Gospels bakerpublishinggroup.com/products/978...
is there nothing more apostolic than being sent by Jesus?!
i forget that this is what Christianity is for so many people
insofar as I have believed the Gospel, proclaimed it, and lived it, then I "have" apostolic succession, or rather, been drawn into it
i can comfortably lead liturgies, some of which I even designed myself. doesn't that make me a "worship leader"?
"worship leader" to mean "dude in charge of the CCM" is also so evangelical-coded
this is a nondenom thing for sure
