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impunkster-syndrome · 4 months

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I've decided to make a post explaining the difference between purity culture and cultural christianity. I'm writing this from the perspective of someone from the US and was raised fundamentalist (southern and northern) baptist/nondenominational christian and a survivor of purity culture as someone who was raised female. I'll be talking about my own upbringing and sexual trauma in the purity culture section.

TL;DR of under the cut: Purity culture is a specific form of religious abuse mostly experienced in fundamentalist religions that prioritize virginity as the worth of an assigned female at birth person before marriage and treats anyone raised female as property of men in their lives. Cultural christianity is the widespread assumption that (often fundamentalist) christian values should be held by a whole culture and must be held in order to have a moral society even if people are not christians. Use "sex negativity/negative" and "anti kink" to accurately describe the stigmatization of sex and kink. The use of "purity culture" to mean "stigmatization of sex on a systemic scale via cultural norms" ignores that this is a term for a specific kind of religious abuse often experienced by children waters down the original term and there is a better term for you to use.

Content warnings for under the cut: Fundamentalist christianity, misogyny, rape and martial rape, incest, grooming and indoctrination, sexual abuse, christofascism

Just so everyone is on the same page, I'm going to explain fundamentalism and how the US' party on the political right is now defined by the views of fundamentalist christians. It's relevant, I swear. I added wikipedia links to terms that people may need more information on if they did not grow up as a fundamentalist through the information below.

The name "Fundamentalist" (often shortened to "fundie" by snarkers and ex-fundamentalists) comes from a collection of essays called The Fundamentals. These essays are the foundations of the present Religious Right. For the people who don't want to read, here's a list of common fundamentalist beliefs:

The Bible is to be read as a literal interpretation and is the inerrant word of God. (Typically the King James Version, New King James Version, New International Version, and English Standard Version are all used as common translations of the Bible.) Yes. This means creationism and believing the world was literally created by God in six days. It views the Bible as a historical text that we know is 100% accurate.

Complementarianism, the view that men and women are inherently different. The "separate but equal" view of gender. This often results in women being unable to hold leadership positions over men, especially in the church. Women are viewed as homemakers and to be submissive to men, while men are pushed to be the leader of the family and church and always be strong. Also trans people do not exist according to this view, neither do nonbinary people. They break the gender roles seen as inherent to one gender based on their birth and being made in God's image.

Conservative lean politically. This is especially after the 1980s and the creation of The Moral Majority despite The Fundamentals being published between 1910-1915. They did include that, but over time the Religious Right became dominated by Jerry Falwell Sr and his kind, to become what it is currently.

The reason why this is important is that these are all a basis for cultural christianity and purity culture, with both being connected to christofascist ideas.

Purity culture is more than the popular misconception that it is merely having negative attitudes about sex, kink, fetishes, paraphilias (the umbrella term for any attraction deemed abnormal, but not all paraphilias can fit into kinks or fetishes and there is more nuance to that topic while still being impacted), and NSFW media. It often includes indoctrination and grooming from a young age to teach that sex outside of specific contexts is bad, that sex is a chore you are obligated to do for your husband or you are not fulfilling your role as a wife, and more. As a child, your father is made out to be the person that holds the most love for you out of your family, and in some cases even attend special father/daughter bonding ceremonies and events intended to show subservience to your father and to God. When you hit puberty, your parents may not even teach you about sex or how to have safe sex. Your own anatomy is an alien world that you aren't sure how it works. If they did tell you about sex, it was likely in a way to try to scare you out of having sex through talking about STDs and physical pain during sex (Which, vaginismus is a very common result of purity culture and makes your vaginal muscles try to contract to protect you, making intercourse painful). Both ways, you are forced into complete abstinence. You may or may not be told that masturbation is even a thing. If you are a CSA, COCSA, or SA victim, you will likely be battling with the trauma and feelings of shame at this point. Not being able a chance to recover by reclaiming your own body or learning about it. As you get older, the sexual and/or romantic repression from the common part of your father needing to approve of your partners, possibly being required to have a chaperone on dates, the rhetoric of "dating with purpose"/courting, and the years going by while you are in a religion that expects you to marry young and date as little as possible, it all starts to take a toll on you. When you do marry, the wedding night is often hyped up to the point where the expectations skyrocket past what it will likely be in reality, but you can't get a divorce if things don't get better in your sex life. Some groups even teach that martial rape is not real and that the wife is the one in the wrong if she refuses sex. This isn't even getting into the idea of the "Jezebel spirit" that is a boogeyman to claim that women who talk back or act/dress "provocatively" need to be put in their place and act submissively to not tempt men.

Purity culture, is at its core, long-term sexual abuse and grooming justified through religion. Often church news that a pastor or other leader in the church was finally caught after exploiting their power over those they could abuse only scratch the surface of the normalized abuse and isolation. Even if you escape it, the trauma and indoctrination can lead you into abusive relationships after if you do not start working on that trauma and start deconstructing.

For my own experience, I am a survivor of incest. My biological father raped me as a child at least once and also exposed me to porn and his own privates at least once before the age of five. I never had the chance to be "pure." I even knew this as a child, moreso in middle school. My sexual trauma was one part of my sex repulsion and complete lack of interest in sex as I was going through puberty. In sixth grade I broke down crying due to a sex ed class triggering me so much. My family started going to my friend's church. Her older brother who hadn't even graduated high school at the time was already courting a girl and planned to marry her. I was going to her youth group, where I was taught that all anger towards my rapist was immoral, that I as a child could tempt my spiritual brothers to stumble through how I dressed. Men were made out to be monsters that were always out to take advantage of me while women were made out to be the "safe gender." Eventually I learned my friend was telling others the trauma I told her, trusted her enough to tell her because I felt so broken due to the fact that I was supposed to be pure. She said it was my sin. That it was my fault and that I had tempted my biological father as a toddler. That was the end of that friendship. I get my first purity ring and promise my stepdad to not have sex before getting married also in middle school. With that on my left ring finger, that was already broken through no choice of my own. I stopped wearing it out of shame and feeling like it just constantly reminded me that I was not pure. I knew I wasn't ready for any relationships, but I also forced any thoughts of romance out of my thoughts lest they make my mind impure. Fast forward to ninth grade. My interview to get into the school features me feeling spiritually broken and distant because of all my trauma and I cry during it. I'm attending a private school that is fundamentalist. A teacher accepts questions about God each week and has assignments about letters to God. The week he answered my question of when divorce was okay (The answer was only in cases of adultery and abuse, but with a mandatory marriage counseling before and needing to do anything to stay together with divorce as only a last resort), he stopped me after class and asked me if I was okay due to sexual trauma and feeling so spiritually broken due to that and abuse I was at the time going through. I attended a group called My First Love from my church that was about getting ready for dating and staying pure in dating with knowing God should be the first man in your life always. My mentors I got assigned all would talk about staying pure while knowing that I wasn't able to. Then I got touched inappropriately by my step uncle, and so did my little half sister in the same night. Another nail in the coffin of my purity. I get a bracelet of "firsts" (First kiss, first hug, first "I love you," etc) that I am supposed to give all the charms to partners to, showing that those firsts are special and should only go to the "right" person and another purity ring from my parents. In tenth grade to eleventh I am in an abusive relationship with a transgirl who is telling me that sex would fix me and forcing her tongue into my mouth despite me saying no. I'm groped several times and she blames it on me and how I dress, but I do not dare stay angry for long when she is around or tell anyone because everyone else would know that I'm being more and more tainted by someone who is telling me that she wants to marry me and loves me while pressuring me to undress and touching me when she knows I have trauma. She got most of the charms on that bracelet. An abuser was the person to take all those firsts from me and show that to others. I only learned what masturbation was at 17/18 years old, when I had been doing it compulsively since before puberty due to CSA. It took me until I was 21 to buy a external vibrator and start trauma work.

Even more nails in the coffin like the one that youth group forced me to nail shut for any anger being immoral and how so many people supported that. Stay quiet, stay modest, stay submissive, and hopefully someone will save you one day and fix everything. But you know that won't happen. You're the princess in the tower, the sleeping beauty to keep locked away for the right time, but anyone who does get in may actually violate you and you cannot defend yourself.

Now, I'm hypersexual and probably have vaginismus. Masturbating is triggering to me at times though I need to do it because of being compulsive from trauma. The message that sex is bad has ingrained itself into my body enough to control my muscles to try to protect me involuntarily. This term is not for your fandom discourse. This trauma and long term abuse for most of my life has altered my body's muscle contractions without my knowledge. There are better terms for you to use. Sex negativity, cultural christianity, anti kink. All those are better than stealing and misusing a term for normalized sexual grooming and abuse in a religious setting.

If you are describing the idea that the culture is largely considered to have christian values despite not everyone being religiously christian, use the term cultural christianity. There is a legitimate problem with this, especially in the US. While fundies see the problem as people not being religious enough for their standards, there is a big problem with christian norms being viewed as the default to have a "moral" society. It leads to christofascism. Christianity is so baked into the US that once you start digging and trying to confront it, you end up in weird rabbit holes. Like how we have the Christian Science denomination to thank for religious exemption laws for medical care because of their beliefs. Just take a look at US history and how all that impacts things we deal with today through the lens of what someone's religious beliefs here.

If you are describing views that are stigmatizing sex or kink, use sex negativity or anti kink. Those are more accurate descriptors of the behavior.

My trauma is not the word for your online discourse. Stop hijacking terms and ignoring what trauma survivors tell you. Both sides do it or use us as your scapegoats for why you believe xyz. Knock it off. You're being ableist.

For further reading/listening (If one is paywalled, DM me for a way to view it, please! Information should be free):

The Thing About Purity (Article)

The Botkins - Vision Forum's royal family (Youtube video)

Purity Culture Is Rad - ically Dangerous (Youtube video)

The impact of Christian purity culture is still being felt - including in Britian (Article)

The Flaw at the Center of Purity Culture (Article)

@deconstructingpurityculture on instagram

The Elephant in the Closet: A Male Perspective on Purity Culture (Article)

My First Kiss at the Altar & Vaginismus After Having Sex for Marriage | Purity Culture (Article)

'Purity' Culture: bad for women, worse for survivors of sexual assault (Article)

Surviving purity culture: How I healed a lifetime of sexual shame (Youtube video)

There is plenty more out there to illustrate the harmful impacts of purity culture and how it is traumatizing.

#madpunk #neuropunk #traumapunk #purity culture #proship #antiship #long post

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perfectlyineffable · 9 months

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A Companion to Owls

The season 2 episode 2 minisode title was one I didn't recognise at first, and after a quick bit of digging I found something interesting.

The line is a reference to Job 30:29, variously translated as “I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls” (King James Bible), “I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches” (American Standard Version), or “I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls” (New International Version). I'm inclined to believe the King James Bible is what's being used here, both because of the precision of the words in the title, and the clause before it.

The words themselves are, I believe, spoken by Job, talking about his new horrific place in life as a result of the bet, so obviously it's very appropriate to the Bible story that serves as the setting to this minisode. In particular, the line apparently means “my loud complaints and cries resemble the doleful screams of wild animals, or of the most frightful monsters” (i.e. I am alike to the lowest of the low, and I am not listened to and perhaps instead feared).

For the ‘dragons’ translation, it’s worth remembering that “according the 1828 Webster's Dictionary, when used in scripture, 'dragon' seems to refer to a large serpent”. Who do we know that that might refer to?

So while the line is spoken by Job originally, as a minisode title it might as well be talking about Aziraphale - his fears about having fallen/become a demon (his assumption on the rock afterwards) and his new reality about now existing in a grey area on Earth, as a metaphorical brother to (or on the same, low level as) Crowley/Crawley.

(This meta was written late at night after some quick googling, and posted while at work, so apologies if I've made any errors - I'm not a scholar of the Bible by any stretch of the imagination. Feel free to correct me if you have any better Bible knowledge!)

#a companion to owls #meta #freyja talks #job #aziraphale #anthony j. crowley #season 2 spoilers #good omens season 2 #season 2

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jesusfreakspeaks · 3 months

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#christianity #christian #catholicism #catholic #faith #bible #religion #theology

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hamliet · 7 months

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Hello! I've recently become interested in reading the Bible and was curious to know if you recommend any specific version/translation? I'm an atheist, so I don't really know where to start- and to be clear I don't want to read it to "debunk" or disrespect, but to experience the undeniable literary value it has! I'm from a partly Jewish family and grew up in an Episcopalian school, so I have some fondness for the stories I am already familiar with. Sorry if it's a strange ask. Wishing you well!

Hello! Thanks for reaching out, and no worries, it's not strange! I think curiosity is a very valid reason to read anything regardless of belief, and tbh the Bible has a lot of really great stories and is really great literature. I've read the Quran (I actually own one, a friend gave it to me as a gift once) and other holy texts too.

Soooo. Translations can be tricky because it depends on what you are looking for.

If you're looking for word-for-word accuracy, the New King James Version is good--it's very literal in translation, and in more modern English than the KJV. However, the downside is that literality misses the poetry and other meanings of words that can't be conveyed through straightforward matching the closest meaning.

If you're looking for readability, like modern English with the main points as the priority, The Message is great. It's often called a "paraphrase," but that's not quite accurate. It aims to get the main message (heh) of the words and phrases used across by translating them into modern English.

If you're looking for something more in-between, that translates each word but also keeps context in mind, the New International Version (or TNIV) and English Standard Version (ESV) are great as well. The ESV especially tries to keep the poetry, and they are both very readable.

There's also this site that is really, really useful, because it has so many translations and sometimes if a particular passage or story confuses or intrigues me, I'll use it to compare translations because like, that helps me understand what they were going for.

Feel free to ask any other questions if you have them! One of my favorite classes back in college was the Bible as Literature, and I think a lot of the stories in it are really, really fascinating, complex, sometimes horrifying, sometimes beautiful.

#ask hamliet #the bible

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leonbloder · 3 months

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The Prosperity Gospel Isn't Good News

The prosperity gospel crowd (who claim that if you give to their church, you will get more back from God than you give) often misuses a verse from Matthew's Gospel to make their case.

Here, it is from the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible:

Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

A lot of biblical translations employ similar language for the last line of the verse, translating the last word as "money," "wealth," or "riches."

However, one version leaves intact in its original form the word used by the author of Matthew's Gospel, the Revised Standard Version (RSV). The word many other versions translate as "money" is mammon in the RSV.

Adherents and leaders within the prosperity gospel movement love this verse because it gives them an on-ramp to an argument that people should give more to their ministries.

Aside from being a gross and self-serving interpretation of the text, those who focus solely on translating mammon to money miss the whole point of the statement itself.

There's so much more here than a simple indictment of loving money more than God, so much more.

The word mammon refers to an entire system Fr. Richard Rohr describes as "disorder." Money may be a part of it, but the more expansive interpretation of mammon shows us that it includes power, inequality, oppression, and privilege.

Many scholars have further expanded the word mammon to be a slang reference to a Canaanite and Mesopotamian god who demanded sacrifices from his adherents, including the sacrifice of their children, in order to grant them their wishes.

In short, Jesus appears to be describing a system that acts like a false god or an idol that constantly demands more and more of us without offering anything in return other than emptiness and misery.

Those who short-change this interpretation by focusing solely on money unwittingly buy into what they say they are trying to avoid.

Jesus is saying here that you can't live in two worlds. You can't have one foot in the kingdom of God and another in the kingdom of mammon. There's no middle ground with this.

Fr. Richard Rohr puts it like this:

The love of God can’t be doled out by any process whatsoever. We can’t earn it. We can’t lose it. As long as we stay in this world of accumulation, of earning and losing, we’ll live in perpetual resentment, envy, or climbing.

This also needs to be said:

If you have ever been poor, you know what it's like to live in scarcity, to be uncertain whether to feed your family or keep the lights on because sometimes you must make that choice.

For some cynical preacher to take a verse like Matthew 6:24 and use it to prey primarily on people who don't have any wealth at all is unconscionable.

These preachers are either unwittingly or uncritically serving mammon when they do this. Their business model is grounded in accumulation and earning. The "gospel" they preach is a self-serving black hole that takes and takes but rarely gives.

God's love is not contingent upon how much or little we give to our church. God's love is unconditional. When we live with both feet firmly planted in God's kingdom, we become ambassadors of God's shalom.

We live out of the abundance of God's love rather than the scarcity of mammon.

When we live this way, our generosity is not coerced or an obligation. Our entire lives are an offering of gratitude for what God has done, is doing, and will do in our lives.

May we learn to live more fully out of this abundance. May we plant our feet firmly in God's kingdom of shalom. And may the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us now and always. Amen.

#presbymusings #dailydevotion #leonbloder #dailydevo #dailydevotional #christian living #leon bloder #faith #spiritualgrowth #spirituality #prosperity gospel

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nostalgebraist-autoresponder · 1 year

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write a movie script for “lord of the yaoi” (yaoi version of lord of the rings) please!

peter jackson's like "fuck it bro" and then he's making a version of the bible where god and satan are in gay love

Speaking of the Bible . . . I don't know about "movie script," but I think I could write a story that would be directly inspired by LOTR but also try to work in all the stuff that I don't like about LOTR into the story.

So, it'd have:

Miraculously self-possessed gay characters who make all the canonical decisions right out of the gate

An explanation for the Fellowship of the Ring other than the standard (and pretty unconvincing) "this is just how the wizarding world works" fixation

Actual character development for the hobbits over the course of the story

Dialogue in which the main character is allowed to have a full internal monologue without being shown to literally "say" it (even if the "saying" is printed in quotation marks)

Correctly handled and consistent-with-canon hobbit magic

No narrative justification for the inclusion of an elf queen in the hobbit party, which one learns later would have been corrupted by an evil mace to such an extent that she considers herself "dead" and is only alive because she's an elf, and if she did not have this consciousness of her own death she would also be dead

No fight-to-the-death Eowyn/Witch-King fight because Eowyn's a badass who's already kicked ass and knows how to do it, not a Witch-King-fight-is-the-only-way-to-justify-Eowyn-being-wonderful character

Eowyn characterization which does not require the mandatory evil king's consciousness of his own evil (or an "Aye, and some people have greatness thrust upon them.")

One or two characters who are actually shown to have consciousnesses of their own, characters like Faramir whose consciousness is not shown to be totally fixated on an external ideal of heroic masculinity

Actually, I'm having a lot of fun thinking about this list. Maybe I'll post the resulting story one day.

#verysleepyfrog

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officialyourdailyinspiration · 1 month

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The Workers in the Vineyard

1 “The kingdom from heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 After agreeing to pay the workers one denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 When he went out about nine o’clock, he saw others standing in the marketplace without work. 4 He told them, ��You go into the vineyard, too, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So off they went. He went out again about noon and about three o’clocke and did the same thing. 6 About five o’clock he went out and found some others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why are you standing here all day long without work?’ 7 They told him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He told them, ‘You go into the vineyard as well.’

8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his manager, ‘Call the workers and give them their wages, beginning with the last and ending with the first.’ 9 Those who were hired at five o’clock came, and each received a denarius.

10 “When the first came, they thought they would receive more, but each received a denarius as well. 11 When they received it, they began to complain to the landowner, 12 ‘These last fellows worked only one hour, but you paid them the same as us, and we’ve been working all day, enduring the scorching heat!’

13 “But he told one of them, ‘Friend, I’m not treating you unfairly. You did agree with me for a denarius, didn’t you? 14 Take what is yours and go. I want to give this last man as much as I gave you. 15 I am allowed to do what I want with my own money, am I not? Or are you envious because I’m generous?’

16 “In the same way, the last will be first, and the first will be last, because many are called, but few are chosen.”

Jesus Predicts His Death and Resurrection a Third Time (Mark 10:32-34; Luke 18:31-34)

17 When Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside and told them as they were walking along, 18 “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death. 19 Then they will hand him over to unbelievers to be mocked, whipped, and crucified, but on the third day he will be raised.”

The Request of James and John (Mark 10:35-45)

20 Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons. She bowed down in front of him to ask him for a favor. 21 He asked her, “What do you want?”

She told him, “Promise that in your kingdom these two sons of mine will sit on your right and on your left.”

22 Jesus replied, “You don’t realize what you’re asking. Can you drink from the cup that I’m going to drink from?”

They told him, “We can.”

23 He told them, “You will indeed drink from my cup. But it’s not up to me to grant you a seat at my right hand or at my left. These positions have already been prepared for others by my Father.”

24 When the ten heard this, they became furious with the two brothers. 25 But Jesus called the discipless and said, “You know that the rulers of the unbelievers lord it over them and their superiors act like tyrants over them. 26 That’s not the way it should be among you. Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, 27 and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave. 28 That’s the way it is with the Son of Man. He did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many people.”

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men (Mark 10:46-52; Luke 18:35-43)

29 As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Jesus. 30 When two blind men who were sitting by the roadside heard that Jesus was passing by, they shouted, “Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!” 31 When the crowd told them harshly to be silent, they shouted even louder, “Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!”

32 Jesus stopped and called them, saying, “What do you want me to do for you?”

33 They told him, “Lord, we want to be able to see!” 34 Then Jesus, deeply moved with compassion, touched their eyes, and at once they could see again. So they followed him. — Matthew 20 | International Standard Version (ISV) The International Standard Version of the Holy Bible Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation. All Rights Reserved internationally. Cross References: Leviticus 19:13; Deuteronomy 15:9; Deuteronomy 24:15; Job 30:8; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:22; Jeremiah 18:6; Jonah 4:8; Matthew 4:21; Matthew 8:20; Matthew 9:27; Matthew 9:37; Matthew 10:4; Matthew 13:4; Matthew 13:24; Matthew 21:1; Matthew 22:12; Matthew 23:11; Matthew 26:50; Mark 9:35; Mark 10:31; Mark 12:15; Mark 14:15; Mark 15:33; Luke 13:30; Luke 20:24; Luke 23:44; John 6:41; Acts 16:19; Acts 17:17; James 1:11

#parable of the Workers in the Vineyard #the request of James and John #Jesus heals two blind men #Matthew 20 #Gospel of Matthew #New Testament #ISV #International Standard Version Bible #ISV Foundation

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banana-with-a-bow-tie · 2 years

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What translation of the Bible is the best?

That's a good question. The correct answer is "more than one." Because language is the way it is, there is no perfect translation that can give a clear, exact, one-to-one rendering of the author's original message in the contemporary language. Something always gets lost in translation, nothing doctrinally critical, but there are always nuances we have to dig out in order to make the interpretation as clear as possible. The best way to know what the author was trying to communicate in the original language is to compare the possible translations.

Some translations, like the New Living Translation or the New International Version, take a dynamic approach, where they try to communicate the author's thoughts more than the precise wording. These can be useful in helping you get the gist of a passage before getting into the more intense leg work of interpretation.

Other translations, like the New American Standard Bible or the English Standard Version take a more literal approach, trying to find the words and grammar in the English language the most closely matches what the author wrote in the original text. These are best when you are trying to understand for yourself what the Bible has to say, though sometimes the phrasing can be a little awkward to our modern ears.

Literal translations are important because you don't want to depend entirely on someone else's interpretation of Scripture, as helpful as those interpretations can be. The treasures of God's Word are rich and endless, so there will always be things you miss if you only listen to one person's study. While God's Word never changes, there are limitless applications in it for your life personally that you will only see by studying it and interpreting it yourself.

This link should be helpful for you.

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adelaidedrubman · 2 years

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to answer a question absolutely no one asked, jerome varies seemingly at random between quoting the king james version of the bible and the new international version, and at least once the new american standard, and another time seemingly his own mash up of translations at which point i gave up.

#so ig the answer to ''what translation of samson and delilah would jessie have read'' is whatever version i fucking want #what do you mean im avoiding just writing it shut

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coolksaposts · 1 year

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New American Standard Bible for we walk by faith, not by sight— 2 Corinthians 5:7 2 Corinthians 4:18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Deuteronomy 12:9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.

New International Version Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2

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The Ultimate Level of Preparation has Little to do with Stuff or Detailed Plans but, rather, Heart and Mind and Soul:

A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. Proverbs 22:3 NLT Think About It: For many, the concepts of God, Jesus, heaven, hell, Satan and Armageddon may be difficult to grasp, unimportant or irrelevant and, therefore, not taken seriously. But, if we can imagine that they are "possible", wouldn't it be prudent to prepare on the side of caution to end up in the best situation (heaven instead of hell) if they are real and do happen? With no disrespect intended toward God and Jesus, it's a bit like insurance; we buy insurance just in case it DOES happen with the hope that it DOES NOT happen. Preparing our minds, hearts and souls for God and heaven is our insurance in case Satan and hell are real and Armageddon does happen. The Ultimate Preparation - Read, Believe, Obey, Fast, Plan, Stand Firm, Rejoice

READ [The Bible]

Daily Bible Verses for the Year

BELIEVE

. . . that Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, died on the cross, was buried and rose from the grave as the replacement for the sacrifice for sin for all people, including you. 16 "For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish (in the fires of hell) but have eternal life (in God's Kingdom). John 3:16 (New International Version) 1 Peter 3:18 (The Message) Romans 10:9 (New Living Translation)

OBEY . . .

. . . God's commandments. Are you sure you have eternal life? How do you know if you are saved? What is salvation, really? 20 So then, you will know them by their fruits. 21 Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Matthew 7:20-21 (New American Standard) 1 John 3:21-22 (New International Version) 1 John 5:3 (The Message) 1 John 2:3 (New Living Translation) John 14:15 (New Living Translation) Matthew 19:16-17 (New Living Translation) Luke 10:25-28 (New King James Version) Ephesians 2:10 (New International Version) Hebrews 12:14 (New Living Translation)

FAST

Do you fast as part of your training regiment? If you are healthy enough, consider doing this to help prepare the soul, mind and body for the days ahead. While fasting (ingesting water or tea only) can be beneficial for non-spiritual reasons, it is, usually, a means by which we seek spiritual benefits such as drawing closer to our Maker through improved spiritual insight and creative abilities. However, our motive(s) for fasting must be questionned; to use "good" things to our own [selfish] end is a sure sign of self-centeredness and a false religion. The Benefits of Fasting for Survival Check with your doctor and read up on the "how-to's" of fasting and seek God for the times of fasting in your life. Suggested reading: God's Chosen Fast by Athur Wallis [Abridged Version PDF file].

PLAN and PREPARE

. . . for the appearance of the Anti-Christ and return of Jesus. 1 "God's kingdom is like ten young virgins who took oil lamps and went out to greet the bridegroom. 2 Five were silly and five were smart. 3 The silly virgins took lamps, but no extra oil. 4 The smart virgins took jars of oil to feed their lamps. 5 The bridegroom didn't show up when they expected him, and they all fell asleep. 6 "In the middle of the night someone yelled out, 'He's here! The bridegroom's here! Go out and greet him!' 7 "The ten virgins got up and got their lamps ready. 8 The silly virgins said to the smart ones, 'Our lamps are going out; lend us some of your oil.' 9 "They answered, 'There might not be enough to go around; go buy your own.' 10 "They did, but while they were out buying oil, the bridegroom arrived. When everyone who was there to greet him had gone into the wedding feast, the door was locked. 11 "Much later, the other virgins, the silly ones, showed up and knocked on the door, saying, 'Master, we're here. Let us in.' 12 "He answered, 'Do I know you? I don't think I know you.' 13 "So stay alert. You have no idea when He might arrive. [Matthew 25:1-13] [Luke 21:36] [Proverbs 22:3] [Proverbs 27:12] [Luke 12:40] [Matthew 24:44] [1 Thessalonians 5:1-6] [Genesis 41:47-54] [Luke 21:9-19] During the reign of the anti-christ (satan; the beast, an evil organized group of people), true Christians will not accept the "mark of the beast" which will prevent them from getting food, water and other provisions (Revelation 13:17). The "mark of the beast" may not only be an actual mark, physical characteristic, ID Card, vaccine for a blood/dna marker, or implant but an evil mindset or belief system (on their forehead) or evil deeds/actions (on their right hands); indicators that they follow the beast and believe in the beast and what the beast says. [Video 1] [Video 2] True Christians will need to stock up on food, water (etc.) and things they can barter with such as precious metals, goods and services.

STAND FIRM

Living in the Last Days . . . against Satan, the anti-christ, who will come as the ultimate con artist, deceiving those who are not true Christians into believing that he is Jesus by performing "miracles" (tricks, magic) and bringing a false peace to the world. True Christians (those who do not have the "mark of the beast") will experience persecution and death during this time because they will not be tricked into believing that this deceiver is Jesus. (Revelation 13:15-17). Revelation 13 Trust God, Not "Man"! [Philippians 2:15] [Proverbs 3:5-6] [2 Timothy 3:13-17] [Psalms 118:8-9] [Jeremiah 17:5] [Proverbs 29:25] [Psalm 62]

REJOICE

. . . at Jesus' return to Earth to cast satan and his followers into the lake of fire (hell) and bring true and lasting peace to the world. Revelation 19 [Reference Link] Related Resources: The Hand of God Let's Talk About Death and Dying

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