#God knows your sin

[yeslordmyking]

Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. [ Read devo thought and prayer for this Bible verse ]

#God #Jesus #christianity #faith #sin #shame #wickedness #wordiness #call your sin by it's name #acknowledge your sins #confess your sins #repent of your sins #God knows your sin #you can't hide from God #you can't escape God #God knows you #God wants to hear from you #God wants to help you #God is my refuge #God will guide you #God will deliver you #relationship with God #intimacy with God #be honest with God #lay down your burdens at Jesus's feet #deny flesh #deny self #live for God #bible verse #heartlight

[immediatebreakfast]

The theological implications of this novel are terrifying, truly terrifying.

God is absolutely real, not if nor buts, it is as real as it is because its presence is known through acts of holy violence. It's known because there are inmortal creatures who feed on humans surviving without being cloaked in its light. These creatures are repelled by holy symbols as a way to signal how neither their unliving bodies, nor theirs souls will be welcome in heaven, nor granted eternal peace.

Then, a warning is burnt into Mina's forehead. A god fearing woman in all of the weight of those words is not spared. Mina who cried for god to give her mercy, to save her, to answer her why she deserved this punishment, this torture if she has always walked in its light, if she has followed everything in fear of your rage, god why do you let evil happen to your followers. God why did you abandoned this pitiful woman in her suffering, and at the hands of a demonic creature who exists to opose you. Have mercy god! ANSWER HER PLEADS, DO NOT LEAVE HER IN THIS DESESPERATION! HAVE MERCY FOR HER SOUL BEFORE SHE CHOOSES THE PATH OF SELF DESTRUCTION.

And the only answer is the burning of the host in her forehead, a burn that is seen as the mark of a trial. No angels, no heralds, no voices, nor holy light. Just a physical warning that reminds Mina that the clock is ticking, and it will always move forwards.

Then, there is Jonathan who saw all of this, and still chose to renounce It. He saw the proof that this all powerful being was there with him this whole time, observing him in every attack, every night, every ink drop in his journal, every nightmare, every drop of blood. And he still rejected it, because if Mina isn't deserving of that holy light anymore, then he will grab her hand and walk in Hell forever as long as Mina knows she won't be alone. His soul be damned because Mina is who is the holiest of them all.

With her tears, her sorrow, and her pain, Mina is who Jonathan pleads his soul to. Because that allows Mina to suffer is not a god at all.

#It's unreal how terrified I would be #To know for sure that god is watching you #And warns you of your sins even if those sins were not yours to commit #dracula daily #dracula #mina harker #mina murray #jonathan harker #cw catholicism

[shinigami--apples]

#ultrakill #gabriel #meme #he's telling god on you #he knows your sins

[queenerdloser]

i just finished dark heir

#me foaming at the mouth during the last chapters: HE IS! FUCKING! SAVING YOU! #i am huddled around will kempen hissing like a mama cat none of these fuckers are allowed to look at him #dark rise #okay but like. cyrian at literally every moment in the book you see will anticipating things and making connections #that you never make. doing things like a leader & being fucking smart and strategic. and your dumb ass really thought. #hm. must mean i shouldnt listen to him about the magic staff that can literally stop the end of the world. must be evil. #me: [screams into the abyss] #i know i cant expect characters to react like readers and they DID all react like i knew they would but god it was so infuriating!!!!! #and heart breaking! god!!!! god!!!!! will reliving his mother's initial betrayal over and over and OVER again #and thinking about all the little moments we get where the novel tells us: if these 'evil' characters had just been accepted #instead of tossed aside maybe they wouldnt have fallen. if they had been protected instead of killed maybe they would have #become protectors instead of killers. maybe if will's mom hadn't tried to butcher him for the sin of his own birth #he wouldn't have been so scared to tell people he lied to them. #anyway im not normal about will kempen and if book 3 doesnt give me his friends fucking accepting him i'll kill someone #me looking directly at visander: i dont care how charming you are i'll murder your ass about it #i read this book in like 5 hrs im being very normal about it

[pastelhooman]

what's better than one Va - TWO VASHES!! >:D

#cant believe i forgot to post on tumblr out of all the places #feels like ive committed the great sin of betrayal aslidfklsj #no but really every vash is a vash deserved of loving #see a vash in your area? GO GET HIM A DONUT WHAT R U DOIN #pray to god there are vashes in the next local con #did you know a bunch of vash is called a stampede #(not original) #vash the stampede #vash #vash23 #trimax vash #tristamp #trigun stampede #tristamp vash #trigun maximum #trimax #trigun #i should probably get on the tri98 soon #vashvash #i dont know if this is ship art but yee

[a-story-teller]

Seriously one of the most confounding things in the world is pop-Christian moralizing.

"Is ASMR ok for Christians?? 🤨🤔😧" I'm not sure in what world it would be sinful to listen to soothing brushing, ocean sounds, and tapping, yet someone felt the need to ask the question, and someone else felt the need to make a YouTube video answering it. (I didn't watch it, so I don't know the verdict, but somehow you're trusting the verdict to a rando on YouTube and not Discernment from God?)

"Christian facials" because having a hot towel on your face and putting on serum is in any way aligned with a religion or lack thereof, and therefore needs to/even Can be made Christian?

"Christian-friendly sex positions" and the only difference is it's stick figures instead of realistic drawings, and instead of male/female or penetrator/receiver, it's husband/wife. Because you know those goofy health-book illustrations were distracting you from the righteous goal at hand: eating your girl out. But you can't call her your girl, you have to make it clear to everyone seeing you have sex (which... is just the 2 of you, right?) that you're having Good and Not Sinful sex, because you, a Husband, are Married to your Wife. Side note: the stick figures actively make it harder to figure out the intricacies of any of the positions and therefore are objectively shittier at doing what they're made to do.

Christian soap, christian mints, christian calendars, christian music, christian curtains, christian fiction, christian restaurants, christian news, christian shops. There are things in the world that are OK being secular. The fact that your soap does not have an icthus sign etched in that washes away in 3 days anyway does not make you a bad person, or even a bad christian. Your home does not need something Christian™️ in every room for people (or yourself!) not to forget you're christian... I assume?

The king who must say he is king, etcetera. This kind of mindset is so boggling to me, and reeks of nominative faith and deeeeep insecurity. Retail therapy but instead of buying temporary happiness you're buying temporary grace. Being so beholden to the dogma of organized religion that you go to any person feigning authority on the subject rather than using your own brain to make a decision. The idea that things can only be okay to interact with if they're explicitly christian, as though interacting with it as a christian doesn't inherently put it through a christian lens; as though you can only get things trickled down to you from church authority figures with robust enough constitutions to judge what's ok for you because you don't have the ability to think critically; as though you should stay away from what's "sinful" rather than, LIKE JESUS, be able to go into it and be a good example; as though instead of learning to be capable of handling it, you should be as weak to sin as possible; as though you have to go through the world with kid gloves because touching something dirty would soil your soul (which, of course this implies, is sparkling - impossible, arrogant, and kind of denying God, lol [actually, not lol, I'm expanding on that. Denying God by refusing to admit your own sin. Denying God by refusing his grace because you won't admit your own sin. Denying God by acting like his power couldn't absolve something as simple as being exposed to sin, let alone if you did end up making a miatake. Denying God by keeping yourself in Good Christian spaces and not being there for people who need outside help. There's more but I digress]).

Also, the childish áffect of refusing to say things as they are because that would be bad, but referring to it in euphamism is fine - or, transversely, that using colloquialisms is bad, but medical speak is fine, depending on what breed of crackpot christian you're dealing with. "Hanky-panky" just say sex. "Adult drinks" just say wine, beer, liquor. "Flower" for the love of all that is holy just say vulva/vagina/virginity. "Breasts" is fine to describe your chest but "boobs" is not. You can say "buttocks" but not "butt". Discussing bathroom activities is decisively not cool but if utterly necessary you must say "urine" and "feces" because pee and poop are too pedestrian.

Like, entire side tangent, but the weirdly widespread christian-ism of not discussing things frankly or discussing them super detachedly, but both preferring to never discuss them at all, regarding anything "potentially sinful" or "not spiritually uplifting" (usually boiling down to "anything physical") is so whack to me. Do not discuss your period, even in female spaces, because it's tmi. Don't talk about your health issues if they're not Clean enough subjects, even as something to pray about (like breast/prostate cancer, shitting diseases). Don't ever talk about your sex life except to wiggle your eyebrows at your kids when they're old enough. Don't hug your male friends, daughter. Don't play with your little cousins, son. Sex is so so bad but everything is about it, actually. Sex is so so great which is why you should feel guilty about ever wanting it. All nudity is sexual. Dress so they know you're a woman but also that you're a lady. Fart jokes are not allowed. You must remember that all men are looking at you with lust at all times but you can't hold that against them. All things that get you sweaty or muddy are bad. Hair on women is unnatural but just dandy for men, except we can't talk about pubic hair so you're just going to have to figure out on your own if it's less sinful to not think about your vag enough to do anything to it or to ensure you're free of all sinful hair. Here's how to do makeup in a god-honoring way, because you couldn't know on your own, and you must both jump through this hoop to be acceptable to your men but not have enough fun and personal expression with it for it to become anything other than a chore. It is wrong to kill, which is why we support the troops. We are supposed to help the poor, which is why I drive past the beggars that are dirty and ragged and smelly. We are supposed to celebrate God with our bodies, which is why my most spiritually moved state equates to slightly raising my arms.

I can't close this post without including my oft-quoted favorite example of this weird-ass pop-Christian phenomenon translating to real-life people in real-time thoughts: my mom saying she had to take into account "which ice cream flavor is most glorifying to God" at a froyo shop. Either it's raspberry, or she chose sin that day.

#to be SLIGHTLY fair to my mom she was trying to give an example of ''having God as priority 1 all the time'' to middle school me #Who thought (correctly) that there are plenty of things which God has no direction relation to or care towards #What color you wear or what sandwich you eat having no impact on your relationship to God #And mom tried to illustrate that it's about the intention to be mindful of God 24/7 by using the most batshit method available #thus cementing my point and giving me the best example of the effects of this thing to date #christianity #christian #theology #in which I read a book with a really problematic fanbase #religion #So much of ''christian'' culture is alien to me... so much of it I hate with a deep fervor... #I will raise my kids to be okay with the fact that they are physical beings with bodies #I will raise them to make their decisions themselves based on their own interpretations and direction #And I will raise them to know that the world will not sully them without their consent - that to be good does not mean to be free of sin - #and that they take from the world what they bring to it and can face ''bad'' things without turning to stone

[kaeyapilled]

kid kaeya sitting quietly on a pew during mass in the favonius church feeling so distinctly alienated from everyone else in there that it borders on despairing

#yknow? #what are our thoughts on how religious the ragnvindr family was btw i need to know what you think #i cant picture them going to church super often. ljke take jeans family for comparison they were definitely in there more frequently #but yknow maybe every sunday? or every special occasion. do mondstadtian holidays include mass too #unclear tbh all of the ones we know about just include day drinking and singing #but there HAS to be more solemn/serious holidays. where youre supposed to go to church #they're catholic coded after all #barbatos died in the cross for our sins etc. ok enough. can you imagine though #Is Venti/Barbatos Jesus-Coded? #this was NOT MY ORIGINAL POINT uhhhhh #yeah kaeya and the gods man. kaeya and religion #kaeyaposting #kaeya alberich #my posts #this post is projection but only mildly because kaeya has such worse relationship to going to church #like im normal about it i just remember sitting in church camp while everyone was having a Moment With God and thinking #(not feeling god's presence at all) Man ... what the hell am i doing here..

[egharcourt]

As far as I've gone in my journey of deconstructing the fundamentalist Christian beliefs that I've been raised with, one issue that I haven't gotten over, and probably never will, is the notion of how letting humans exercise their free will would make God more just, while that also makes people more deserving of their damnation.

I'm talking about this reductive rhetoric often preached in evangelical sects, which goes like this: "God gave humanity the gift of free will, and we all have the choice to obey him or not, so if anybody chooses to defy God or reject him they shall bear the consequences of their own actions (with this often referring to condemnation to hell)". While this could apply to behavior (i.e. murder, assault, greed, adultery etc.) which is morally and ethically unjustifiable, it's also used to denounce morally neutral facets of being human that the church just deems wrong– like being queer, or exercising bodily autonomy.

All debates on the logical fallacies present and how hell is an ill-defined concept (trust, I can write a whole spiel on this) aside, this assertion would make the nature of God...truly confusing.

The implication that having the agency to sin equates to having full comprehension of its consequences is just false, when the consequences of sin aren't even defined so clearly. I guess the most prominent example would be the original sin AKA Adam and Eve eating from the Tree of Good and Evil. Sure, we know it's forbidden, "when you eat from it you will certainly die" (Genesis 3:17), and that's about it. Why? How? What does death mean? What would it be like? So many questions about this command are left unanswered. That's partly also why the serpent could tempt Eve into eating the fruit— because she had misunderstood its connotations. The choice to sin is not an informed choice at all, when its repercussions are incomprehensible to humans. And yet God's children are supposed to bear full responsibility for this?

If this is true, I can't reconcile this notion with an all-loving, merciful God.

#also romans 6:23 “for the wages of sin is death” #again: what is death? #humans barely know what happens in the afterlife so if the result of sin is “you'll die” or “you'll go to hell” #this is not knowledge based on information. this is knowledge operating on fear #would a just God ask for veneration based on fear? #on theology with egharcourt #unless it's braindead “just obey God and turn to Jesus” comments I wholly appreciate your take on this #debate me #I really want to wrap my head around this #truly #religion tw #theology #christianity #progressive christianity #queer chrisitian

[snekmadehorrors]

Snek's pick-up story

#my art #sketch #fanart #boyfriend to death #btd lawrence #this makes no sense i know #hes my wife #my sona is a little eldrich critter #brain goess brr #lawrence oleander #be cafeful drinking with strangers #insane girlie #artist on tumblr #this fucking brain rot #your hair is beer #can i be a plant? #IM THE ONE TRUE GOD #*marriage* #forgive me father for i have sinned #actually #im not sorry

[ratinthevoid]

why did i believe i can ever come out to her

#i need to move out i need to move out i need to move out #i hate this #i can't do this anymore #i hate them but i feel like i'm not a loved to bc they care about me #fuck christiany and your stupid god #i was trying so hard and i can excuse a lot but what's even the point if they never understand #christianity is so evil so fucking evil it rots your brain #she tak about leftist propaganda and cults like she didn't let one control her for years #she want me to tell her stuff promises she can support me but it's simply a lie #she can only accept me if i'm the daughter she want me to be if i bend in the ways that are comfortable #just a little more but every day is so fucking hard #i know i'm gonna suffer and that i may be alone my whole life #but i prefer to be alone and suffer in a different place than be stuck here #and maybe i don't have to be alone maybe other people can have friends that actually care about them #fuck i believed for so long she won't have problem with me being aro like it's not even a sin right??? #i keep doing that i'm trying to tell them everything so they tell me what they really think and i'm not the bad person #but it doesn't matter if i'm the evil here i can accept it i was trying for so long #i know i'm difficult but maybe it can be easier for everyone if you just give up on me

[brightclaws5tudios]

Although nobody likely cares, I'll post some OC lore. Because I have COVID and will be confined to one small room for many days, and my neurodivergent ass can't handle that.

The character's name is Nairin Chauveron, and he's from a species called Shadows. These creatures have the ability to use magic and live for a very long time, and can also become Beast creatures. His, for example, is some weird giant white fox thing. However, Shadows are prone to a disease widely known as Corruption, which screws up their magic and can alter their forms.

They have crystals on their bodies, usually their chests, made of similar materials to their bones and horns. When a Shadow has Corruption, these crystals, or Cores, as they're known, fill up with dark magic when they usually contain regular life force. This makes the Shadow have a lot of negative effects, which I might explain later if prompted. (Although I most likely will not be prompted.)

Anyway, Nairin is pretty much the new king of the mountains, and I call him the bean man because he has paw feet with toe beans. He's also a slut. If you want to read the story I wrote featuring him, here's the link: https://www.wattpad.com/1318871197-mirror-dreams-not-this-dream-again-chapter-1

The story posts irregularly and it's mostly so I can get myself to do things. The first pic was drawn by me a while ago, the second is in a Picrew, the link is here: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1414503

I might post more about him later, and I had another, newer image somewhere, but seeing as I can't find it, that'll have to wait.

#ocs #original character #oc artwork #royalty #picrew #fantasy #story #lore #oc lore #silly old man #creature #I do NOT care I made the Cores BEFORE watching Steven Universe and I refuse to change it so go suck an egg if you think it's copying it >:( #marker art #long nose #he can smell your sins and knows what you had for breakfast four years ago #demon? #he regularly breaks into a human-world church and at this point the priest has just surrendered completely to give him yogurt #but his lactose intolerant ass cant handle it #so he ouch tummy taking a crap while swearing at god

[romaritimeharbor]

guys i have no idea when this happened but i have like, multiple new genshin ocs bouncing around in my head

#✧— aphe's musings. #hestia is the name i've chosen for one! #she was la signora's personal assistant before she died and has since deserted the fatui. idk if i talked about her yet or not #the others are unnamed #i've got an expelled vahumana scholar. truth is they are just a silly little guy (gender neutral) who cannot be constrained + #+ they were never going to hurt anyone!!!! they just got a little carried away bro they SWEAR on it!!!!! it was an accident they + #+ really didn't mean to commit like. all of the sins :( they didn't mean it :( (they did mean it. btw. yeah) #(^ they *genuinely* are just a little silly and they happen to have a very strong moral compass. they were *never* going to hurt anyone.) #i have like 5 million fatui ocs HAHA #anyways :) another fatui oc upon ye: #alongside the one who got their limbs torn off and then replaced by dottore there's another fatui agent oc + #+ who joined the fatui following an altercation between pantalone and their former rich guy boss who was in + #+ massive debt that he had not repaid. and they did not know anything about it? and they were basically like + #+ “get fucked loser” they did NOT like him. uhh something something that one quote from yelan's story quest + #+ “give a dog a bone and it will guard your home for the rest of its life” pantalone & oc-core #you guys can pronoun assign all these ocs (except hestia) because idk what pronouns to give them LMFAO #anyways how do you guys make those cute genshin oc posts that make it feel like a canon + #+ character profile..... please teach me 😔 #also expelled akademiya student ended up falling into the abyss prior to their expulsion; it was learning of the sins the gods committed + #+ that made them intentionally do things that the akademiya forbode. they and hestia are friends also btw! #they both are working towards the same goal so they help one another out sometimes #they probably kiss idk. maybe queerplatonically i think.

[cosmoboba]

#heart. heart why #why heart . #there are so many other characters why . #why him . #why did he have to be the one . #why is he your highest character obsession . #I think I need to be CHECKED for every disease he's given me . #blonde SOLDIER boy #blonde SOLDIER boy don't save me . #blonde SOLDIER boy you've ruined my life . #look bitch I just KNOW that mofo canonically taken someway somehow and if not someday he might . #I mean hey listen. hand to god no hate on Clerith nor CloTi those are some great/cute dynamics that I also ship . #but can I just confess my sins on this internet on how I . sometimes. SOMETIMES . get a bit jelly #they're like...phases mk . #they come n go . in n out of me . #BUT LIKE....WHEN I DO GET JEALOUS I LIKE....YANNO... #DJ SPIN THAT IM SERIOUS BY DAY6 SHIT #(good song btw I recommend if you like kpop. it's an angst one-sided song basically Clexis/Clomina theme LMFAO) #and no im not just referring to Cloubri as I'm typing this(well. kinda both since Aubri is technically a self projection too) #but I also do selfshipping too so. keep in mind of that . #YES. YES IM THAT MENTALLY FUCKED UP THIS IS WHAT YOU SIGNED UP FOR WHEN YOU HIT THAT FOLLOW BUTTON #but GOD Cloud Strife why do you hate me to the point you made me love you . #what is this curse you have casted upon my very existence you are a DANGEROUS fuckin man . #Cloud Strife I hate you #Cloud Strife I love you #Cloud Strife go fuck yourself I can't believe you did this to me/affection #Cloud Strife you can also fuck m-/JJJJ.....unle- #I'm not gonna survive through rebirth am I . #MOM GET MY FUNERAL READY I'M PRECISELY GOING TO DESEASE ON FEB 29TH 12 AM O CLOCK SHARP

[maaaahri]

Oh no I’m thinking about VtM npcs again

#text #screaming into the void #vtm #I started doing prep :) #they’re all such horrid beasts #god hates some of them more than the average cainite #Davis just wants order she just wants things to be civil #she’s so human in her push to maintain and so ventrue in her enforcement of edifice despite being an anarch #what decent bulwark is so prone to cracking #I think she thinks about that a lot #the sins of her clan eat her alive and she can’t escape from them no matter how hard much she fortifies her defence #Saoirse is so similar but refuses to lock people out in the same way #she WANTS To see her clan used for good! she does! but she’s self-loathing in the extreme #and it’s easier to turn that hatred outward and pretend all of your loneliness isn’t the fault of a century of trauma #but could easily be fixed if your kin weren’t essentially an MLM cult supreme in a world filled with MLM cults #Mavka who is just. a freak. and knows it. knows that god hates them and hates god for it #perpetually confused in their own ostrasization until they have no choice but to revel in it #it’s funny to me at least that every time Mavka sees Sybil it’s just :> yay Sybil my friend Sybil #Very clearly they could try to be more normal but it’s also absolutely out of the question for them to do anything but wage slow war #against a god that they hardly know outside of resentment #I cannot talk about major villain themes bc that would be telling :)

[friendrat]

The fact that Abel believes humans and vampires are all God's children is such an interesting detail. Like Abel has enough guilt already, but the fact that he doesn't see vampires as soulless beings just seems like it would add additional layers of guilt to him.

#ok i get that he can survive without vampire blood #although that is never satisfactorily explained... maybe the answer is in the books which i really need to read #and he also only ever feeds on evil vampires #but i still wonder if he feels sadness because they won't get a second chance because i feel like second chances are important to him #like his whole shtick is that he is penitent of his past sins so i feel like he probably regrets taking that chance away from others #but at the same time i think he also knows that he's doing the right thing which is probably a little bit comforting #there's just something sad and poetic about his acts of penance making him more guilty #it kinda drives home the idea in the Bible that your good deeds are as rags and salvation is only by the grace of God #trinity blood #abel nightroad #film analysis

[chappellrroan]

it's almost like if i dont let the whole world know about my new hyperfixtation i will burst into flames

#preacher's daughter both family tree songs #how she says in family tree “heaven hath no fury like a woman scorned and baby hell don't scare me i've been times before” #and western nights “i would hold the gun if you asked me to but if you love me like you say you do will you ask me to?” #the whole house in nebraska song UGH #the outro of hard times i am tired of you still tied to me bleeding whenever you want too tired to move to tired to leave #american teenager gracie's cover i love you so so so so much i do it for daddy and i do it for dale i am doing what i want DAMN i am doing #it well #ptolemaea that stop scream i am the face of love's rage blessed be the daughters of cain bound to suffering eternal through sins of their #fathers commited long before their conception that whole outro in general #i tried to be good am i no good? am i no good? am i no good?....i just wanted to be yours? am i yours? am i yours?...if i am turning in you #stomach and making you feel sick am i making you feel sick? am i making you feel sick? am i making you feel sick? is just SO AGH #also god loves you but not enough to save you I FORGIVE IT ALL AS IT COMES BACK TO ME #we know how it goes the more it hurts the less it shows but i feel like they all know and that's why i can never come back home and i spent #my life watching it go by from the sidelines and god i have tried but i think it's about time i put up a fight #and the instrumental songs their production is so so good #anyways yeah now i feel better if anyone is reading till here go listen to it thanks <3 #it's great for people with family issues #v.txt