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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
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Lessons from the Rescue: What Rescue Teaches Us About God's Mercy
Amidst the chaotic rush of our everyday schedules, we frequently miss the profound insights waiting in unlikely corners. The rescues serve as one such sanctuary of wisdom, where dedicated caretakers labor without ceasing to preserve life and extend comfort.... I love this line: Grace is our collective safeguard against the society becoming drenched in sin. I grew up Christian on the East Coast of America and tasted many varietals of the sin/shame/damnation Christianity.... We need to recover the idea of the Soul from its destruction at the hands of modern metaphysics and its distortion in traditional Christianity.
Modernity dismantled the notion of the soul. It took the human being apart to see how we work and said "well, there's no part labelled soul in here, so I guess that's not a thing." But we actually implicitly live as if there were such a thing as a soul.... - Soulchef22...
I do a little side hustling with Uber and had a Bob Jones Student in the car the other day. Biblical studies major who basically confirmed the below in as much that practicing the teaching of Christ is secondary to just having faith in his death, salvation and resurrection.... - bejai89...
Beyond the Third-Person Gospel: Articulated Metacognition, the Crucible, and the Weight of Lived Faith By Brynel Begishe Abstract & Introduction Abstract Modern religious discourse, particularly within digital media and institutional frameworks, frequently suffers from a... - bejai89...
~YOU ARE YOUR LAST HOPE~
Every system eventually fails you. The institution closes its doors, the preacher falls from grace, the doctrine crumbles under the weight of lived reality. The prosperity promise goes unfulfilled. The fear wears thin. The outrage finds a new target.... - bejai89...
THE GLORY OF LONG SUFFERING
The Glory of Long Suffering By Brynel Begishe I have learned that darkness does not always conquer by sudden assault. Sometimes it creeps in slowly, when I learn to ignore my own inner shadows.... - xander...
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"In my Christian upbringing, I was taught that I AM a soul, not that I possess one. In this scheme, my Soul is fatally marked with Sin, incapable of pleasing God, and must be redeemed." You would know better than me, but: People might have said "You are a soul", but I don't... - curiousdwk...
No. Nothing in the Bible is a "verifiable fact": Not the story of creation, or of Jonah and the whale or any story within the Bible. The Bible is book of stories with wisdom and morals but not facts.... - Sassiebrat67...
I've heard of this theory. As well as demiurge who were created by SOPHIA and believe THEY are the creators but when creating us we received the Divine Spark that they don't have. That they and their archons suck our energy to survive and cause us to reincarnate.... - Jwhite6783...
Hello! One continuous topic that stays on my mind is the correlation between the seen and the unseen at a molecular level. How it is energy and frequency that holds our universe together. How there is no empty space.... - Doug Kirk...
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The Engineer’s Observation of Internal Architecture: The Unforgiving Reality of Human Nature
The Engineer’s Observation of Internal Architecture: The Unforgiving Reality of Human Nature The Mechanics of the Crucible and the Integrity of Structural Welds There was a season in my life when everything I trusted seemed to collapse.... I really liked the secular application of grace near the end of the film. I suspect there is some overlap there with the beautiful truth vs terrible lie choice.... - [deleted]...
The Born Again Gospel
The Born Again Gospel You are a created being, made in the image of a Holy God but, no one on Earth can be Holy so, God sent His Only Begotten Son Jesus, to take the punishment for our sins by dying on a cross.... Sodom and Gomorrah: Why This Story Is Not About Homosexuality
Sodom And Gomorrah: Why This Story Isn’t About Homosexuality | Rebecca Wallace Keene The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is one of the most famous in the Torah. It tells the story of two cities that G-d chose to destroy with fire and brimstone....