#Gospel Topics

[lemuel-apologist]

you heard it here first, kids: have kids as soon as feasibly possible or you're making god angry

#exmo #source: gospel topics #the question is what constitutes selfishness. is it selfish to wait until you're financially stable? #is it selfish to wait until the mother has her degree? is it selfish if neither of them WANT to have kids yet? #etc etc

[diteach]

hmmmm not sure i like where this is going

#this post's got the morms #teach says #ldsconf #genconf #general conference #talks about gospel culture and families are already in danger of degenerating #but those two topics in the SAME talk? #HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[queermagdalena]

"So, I'm not a Christian, or if I am, it's a Christianity that we haven't tried yet, one that includes Mary Magdalene. It's the Christianity that existed before the church. It's the church whose doors are ripped off at the hinges. It's the Christianity that includes all that has been left out."

Mary Magdalene Revealed, Megan Watterson, p.18

#queer catholic #mary magdalene #st mary magdalene #this book!! argh #absolutely obsessed with the following verses of her gospel: #'then peter said to him “you have been explaining every topic to us; tell us one other thing. what is the sin of the world?” #the savior replied “there is no such thing as sin” #mary 3:1-3

[thefaestolemyname]

Internet Archive just sent me an email reminding me they have tons of free audiobooks and uh I figured I should pass the message along.

The Internet Archive has tons of free audiobooks

Universal Access to All Knowledge for the win!

#I freaking love these guys #God's work honestly #Most noble causes are like 1 gettin people water 2 gettin people food 3 gettin people clothes and shelter 4 gettin people healthcare #5 gettin people time off work and 6 gettin people knowledge #So like 6th most moral thing a person could possibly do #Internet Archive and Wikipedia people are True Heroes fr #🐸 #Although I guess as a Christian gettin people Salvation is pretty important too #But like... The truth of Christianity is highly debatable how important is it really to convince people of your own religion? #Besides who's right on the what happens to ppl who've never heard the gospel and ppl who've heard incomplete or erroneous versions #And how Salvation worked for Jews before Jesus like Abraham and all that? #There's so much disagreement and everyone's answer has problems! #Surely a person who looked at all the arguments and reasoned logically that Christianity is not true won't go to Hell? #Ah well one theological/philosophical topic at a time I'm still figuring out the deal with the garden of Eden & the fossil record #If humanity & the Universe wasn't actually originally perfect before a human-triggered fall from perfection that cursed the Universe #Then that's a big problem #Well I'm off topic #Does anybody even read this far into the tags? #Human posting

[nightmareforsale]

TW d**th and existential crisis kinda

I have just watched a video about a show called "The midnight gospel" and its made me think a lot. growing up I didn't understand that life was short and I had a period in my life where I constantly had panic attacks about death and it made me really scared. I wouldn't know how to carry myself and it made me feel so small. but watching that video and rethinking on my life has made me feel less scared. I know deep down that I'm afraid of death. everyone is to some point but man I think I get it. being into fossils and other things that's have lived and died has shown me that ill truly never be forgotten at least in the way that is the existents of human beings. my name will be said one last time and that's the scariest thing I know that. but I know we as a people, as a species will leave a mark on this world for a long time and I'm ok with being forgotten. I know who I am and what my purpose is and that's ok. is my purpose something that will bring in lots of money and ill be able to survive off of it. no, never but do I know that what I do makes the people around me feel seen and make people know that they are loved, yes. my purpose in life is to be there for people and to make them aware that yes we die but living is the most beautiful thing a person can do. just existing is a wonderful thing and that we need to live in the moment and be at peace with ourselves. death is something that the human mind can not understand because it can not understand not existing. that's ok we will all in the end come to terms with it in our own time.

#midnight gospel #important #tw death #tw heavy topic #nighty babbles #sorry for the long ass post i just wow my brain is so full of worms because of this fucking show and it makes me feel seen #tw existential crisis

[trapezequeen]

Song of the Day-“Wes”nesday (4/5/23)

“He’s Alive” by Wes Hampton

Reblog or Comment if you listened to it

#song of the day #Wes Hampton #Wednesday #wesnesday #it is well with my soul #Gaither vocal band #gvb #Steve green #a man like me #Gaither gospel series #Wes Hampton topic #YouTube #YouTube link #reblog #comment #like #signal boost

[wasmormon]

Was the first vision a “vision”? Was it the “first” one? Which one is “The” first vision? There are so many different accounts. The gospel topic essay mentions some of the main versions, but they also gloss over the differences and dismiss them all. The First Vision is a total misnomer and can be completely debunked with some simple reading and thinking. Something the church does not want members to do, they do everything they can to keep members from looking at the accounts. They first tried to hide them, and then they dismiss them by saying "we’ve always been honest and transparent about these accounts, and they all tell the same consistent story anyways, so don’t worry, trust us" ...

#church history #con artist #first vision #gospel topic essays #Heavenly Father #Jesus Christ #Joseph Fielding Smith #Joseph Smith #lies my prophet told me #mormon truth crisis #restoration inconsistencies #sunday school #treasure digging #truth claims #truth crisis #exmormon #exmo #former mormon #was mormon #post mormon #mormonism #deconversion #faith crisis #ex lds

[scary-senpai]

Sometimes I think that nobody else on the planet could possibly share my bizarre Venn diagram of niche interests, but I am always pleasantly surprised.

I was listening to The Apocrypals a few days ago (“a podcast where two non-believers read through the Bible and try not to be jerks about it”) , and:

Benito: so here we have the Coptic word ⲅⲉⲛⲟⲥ, which is a loan word from the Greek γένος, which seems to mean “generation,” similar to the Latin word which gives us “Genus”—

Chris: So when he’s talking about “the generation,” he’s talking about, like, One Punch Man’s friend?

Benito: Basically which generations have an immortal soul inside of them and get to ascend to the spiritual plane when they shuffle off the mortal coil.

Anyway, they’re super cool and I love to plug them any time I can.

#off topic #ish #I mean technically friend is kind of an understatement #but the comment was beautiful in its simplicity #I hope I got the Coptic right #as you can imagine that was kind of a bitch to look up #the gospel of Judas was a great episode but I think infancy gospel of Thomas is my favorite #because it has the baby Jesus killing people and then bringing them back to life

[bills-bible-basics]

The Gospel of Christ Graphic 07 "The Gospel of Christ" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse683.html "The Gospel of God" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse684.html "The Gospel of the Kingdom" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse682.html "Our Great Commission" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse100.html "Boldly Preach the Gospel" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse004.html "Don't Be Ashamed of Your Faith" KJV Bible Verse List: https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/verse159.html Article: "Are You a Burning Ember for the Lord?" https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/ember-01.html Article: "Christian Witnessing: Winning the Sheep and Waging the Warfare!" https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/endwit-1.html https://www.billkochman.com/Blog/index.php/the-gospel-of-christ-graphic-07/?feed_id=160435&The%20Gospel%20of%20Christ%20Graphic%2007

#All_Posts #Bills_Graphics #bible #bible_study #bill_kochman #bills_bible_basics #boldly_preach_the_gospel #gospel #gospel_of_christ #great_commission #king_james_version #kjv #list #scripture #scriptures #topical #verse #verses

[sandokanidae]

In my first week of my addictions paper at uni and I'm contemplating making my first assignment topic about how maybe the DSM needs to reevaluate its view on addiction entirely.

#icarus eat your heart out #We're supposed to pick a niche modern addiction that's getting considered for the next DSM #and argue whether it should be included or not #like 'internet gaming addiction' or 'tanning addiction' #high key topic is the discourse around 'they're just overdiagnosing/making labels for anything' #and I just think it's all uphelpful nitpicking within a system that's not fit for being gospel in the first place #I'll see how much wiggle room the 2000 word limit allows me

[jadenvargen]

free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources

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James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.

---NOVELS---

Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."

Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."

+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)

Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."

Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."

If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."

also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins

Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. 

---ESSAYS---

Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film

--DOCUMENTARIES--

Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.

Meeting the man

--DEBATES:--

Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )

Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )

Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)

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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.

#james baldwin #motivated by i think people here think it's harder to find resources and read than it actually is. so much stuff online! #motivation nr 2 wtf

[killbaned]

found a youtube channel i fell asleep to that does video essays about amusement parks and rides and i'm surprised yet pleased to see it's got over 100k subs. so much of the youtube landscape is click bait or just the same people rehashing the same drama or something over and over so it's nice to stumble on someone with a more niche topic that's getting their own success with it.

#narrator: now this is just my opinion about this ride but- #me half asleep: i am taking your opinion as gospel as someone who knows nothing about this topic

[quranindex]

Discover Quran Verses about #Gospel @ https://quranindex.info/search/gospel [3:3] #Quran #Islam

#Gospel #Islam #MP3 #Quran #Reciters #Surahs #Topics #Verses

[brightgnosis]

#Religion and Magic #Mormon Folk Healing #Gospel Topic Essays #Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints #Church of Jesus Christ #Joseph Smith’s Teachings about Priesthood Temple and Women #ExMo #ExMormon #Bookshelf #Tumblr Staff Has Ruined Links Now And I Hate Them For It

[queerbluefae]

Me: *says something reasonable but progressive/not well known*

My mum: how can I just believe u? Where are ur sources?

Me: *shows studies and other sources*

My mum: yeah but who FUNDED the study, hmm?

Me: *just gets frustrated and an argument ensues*

#a bad actor could have funded it #she hates thinking I know more abt certain topics than her #bc she obviously has more life experience #pretty much now everytime I say something mildly controversial #an argument ensues #half the time I didnt even realise it was controversial #till she flat out didnt believe me #she thinks i see one tiktok and start taking that as gospel #but I actually look into things #and she's wary of studies bc #which is fair but not EVERY study is that way #she just uses it as a way to deny what I say #and feel superior #just mum things #my rambles #like she's saying all the right things #but its EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME

[cryptotheism]

Hey, CT, I've been following you for a while and I really admire your dedication as a scholar, but I was wondering about your practice of "occult red herring traps" as you put it a few posts ago.

I understand that you're trying to get people to think critically, even skeptically, about their sources of information—which is particularly important given the subject material—but since people are treating you like an expert, don't you think you have an obligation to give them correct information? If you aren't a practicing occultist purposefully trying to be obscurantist, but are writing about the topic for the elucidation of others, what is the point of inserting falsehoods into your work?

No disrespect intended, just curious about your intentions.

Few reasons:

Im not going to claim any higher educational goals here. I do this because I think it's fun to fuck with people sometimes. That said, I have rules:

I'll never lie about anything serious. When I do spread deliberate red herrings, it's things like "Goku was present in Andalusian Spain." Or St. Christopher drove to the council of Nicea in a Dodge Charger." Things that if believed would only cause minor embarrassment.

When I do lie, I always make sure it can be easily dispelled with a simple Google search or a basic fact check. Or even just thinking about it critically for two seconds. Like hold on, I don't think Goku was in Andalusian Spain because he is a cartoon character.

I generally consider it in the spirit of Occultism. I find it fun, but its also a fun way to encourage people to not take everything I say as gospel. I don't want to be seen as "person with all the right answers and correct opinions" my opinions are often dogshit. I want to be seen as "person who can point you towards actual historical sources."