#The real Gospel

[bouncinghedgehog]

#the real gospel

[revpauljbern]

The Numerical Symbolism of Certain Numbers Within the Bible

The Significance of the Numbers 3 and 7 In the Bible (Acts chapter 20 part one, verses 1-12) What’s the Social Gospel? Why does it matter? Find out at https://business.google.com/site/l/01832834538876848585 You are about to read a brief excerpt from my Christian nonfiction book, “The Social Gospel Teaching Series Vol. 2: the Acts of the Apostles” by Rev. Paul J. Bern (c) copyright 2022 by Rev.…

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[tiffanyachings]

it would have been very beautiful. camilla would have had to cook (horrible bone soup)

#HELLO back at it again #tug introduced groundbreaking new findings about soul permeability but my mind bypassed all that in favour of this au #the division of labour is as follows: #dulcie reads the instructions; snacks; and changes the radio station every time she doesn’t like a song #if you complain she will remind you she's literally dying. life is too short and mediocre songs are too long #pal gets stuff from high shelves and battles his constantly fogged up glasses #he tried to help with prep once and promptly got himself banned from using knives for the rest of his life #cam does 98% of the actual cooking #trivia section - #you can tell i am new to this because i arranged them in the wrong speaking order. let’s all practice our right to left reading #cam has a silly novelty apron because a) the idea was unbearably funny to me and b) i need to spread the gospel (aroace cam) #the cookbooks next to dulcie are ‘a few teaspoons of salt’ (by ianthe tridentarius) #and ‘saintly feasts: food for saints and scholars’ which is a real book! though not written by cassiopeia the first #* #dulcie septimus #dulcinea septimus #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #the locked tomb #field sketches #<< i get to have an art tag now!

[vagabondjourney]

I HAD TO FIND THIS OUT BY MYSELF AND NOBODY TOLD ME THIS WAS IN THE BOOKS ???????? THIS GAY ASS SCENE ????????

#reading through the moomin books like it’s the gospel and OH My god I think reading the moomin series should be required were missing #so much good shit #she didn’t need to call him out like that and he didn’t to need to blush AUH #cant believe the ‘ snufmin r in love and everyone knows but them ‘ ks kinda real #moomin #snufkin #snufmin

[totopopopo]

Everybody knows by now I think that harrow’s name comes from the (early) Christian concept of the harrowing of hell.

To summarize briefly, in Christian mythology, when Jesus died on the cross, he descended into the underworld for the three days that he stayed dead. I say the underworld—the word they use is Hades, not Hell, although some translations use the word hell. This pre-dates the Christian conceptions of hell that we are more familiar with—fire and brimstone and punishment etc—and reflects the idea that it was more of a neutral place where everyone went when they died, stemming from other traditions like the Greco Roman hades (obviously, which it took the word from) or the Jewish Sheol. The harrowing of hell refers to what Jesus does when he gets to this place. He descends and he kills death itself (using the cross as a weapon)—the death of death—and he leads ALL of the dead people there up out of the mouth of hades. He frees them from the shackles of death. This is all laid out in the early apocryphal text the gospel according to nicodemus. You should read it it’s fun.

When I say mouth, I mean that literally. In art and literature, even in the gospel of nicodemus, hades was characterized as an actual living creature, and in the harrowing, Jesus kills it and leads the souls out of its gaping mouth. This has lead to some frankly excellent art:

Okay, back to the locked tomb. Why am I bringing this up (other than the fact that I partially wrote my thesis in this so I will talk about it whenever possible)? Well, we know harrow’s name is… significant. We also know that in Alecto, she will find herself in hell. Okay. Where do we see ^ this imagery pop up in the universe of the locked tomb? What place does John call hell? The Soma, under the river. Soma, which means body in Greek. The body that houses the dead in its belly, the body of hades, the living body of hell. And we’ve seen it’s mouth already, a gaping mouth lined with teeth.

EDIT: it was pointed out it’s called the stoma not the soma, but. Stoma means fucking mouth in Greek so…. The point stands. The point very much stands.

Like.. mouth indeed.

I think harrow is gonna go into the stoma. I think harrow is going to kill death—or maybe, in a delicious inversion the likes of which Tamsyn Muir loves so much, she is going to kill necromancy. The death of the death of death. And she’s going to lead out the souls in there. All the people—Augustine? Cassiopea?—and all the fucking planets too.

Idk we’ll fucking see.

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #alecto the ninth #anyways GO READING THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO NICODEMUS #I did part of my thesis on this. for reals. i love this and I’m so so so excited to see how much or little of it pans out

[paellegere]

i'm so wincestpilled but seriously the last like. 10 minutes of do you believe in miracles has completely melted my brain. what's up with that whole "i lied" thing anyway. it's so deranged on every level.

in 9.13 sam tells dean that given the same circumstances with reversed roles (on the brink of death with the only option being angel possession), he wouldn't try to bring dean back from the dead. aka, he wouldn't strip dean of his free will and autonomy just to keep him alive.

but sam lied. not just about what dean thought he heard—that sam wouldn't do everything in his power to bring dean back. no, sam lied about exactly what he meant.

because when dean's life is actually, tangibly on the line, all those promises he told himself go out the window. he'll look for a spell, sam says. he'll defy destiny yet again to keep dean alive.

he even disregards dean's wishes and will to die. dean is becoming something he doesn't want to be; he wants to die, to stop that from happening. but sam won't let him. "don't worry about the mark," he says, because he doesn't care what dean turns into as long as he's alive. and he doesn't care what dean wants or doesn't want, because he needs dean to live.

and then dean dies, and sam brings him back to the bunker, and he tries to summon crowley to make a deal and bring dean back to life. sam lied—he doesn't value dean's right to choose death any more than dean values sam's.

and for possibly the first time, sam is completely honest about this: to himself, and to dean. he tells dean that he needs him, that he'll go to the ends of the earth for him, that he'll do anything for his brother, just the same as dean would for him. no more lying, no more hypotheticals. the cards are laid out on the table for everyone to see, and sam is fundamentally the same as dean. this much is obvious, to anyone but them; it's not sam's first time doing completely unethical and unhinged things to keep dean alive. but now the facade has been torn off, and they can finally both see each other for what they are (psychotically, irrationally, erotically codependent on each other).

between this and sacrifice, they've both now obtained the stifling, all-encompassing, possessive love they desperately wanted from each other, like the sick fucks they are. how am i supposed to be normal about this? hello?

#supernatural #wincest #how is this real #mirroring season 8 and 9 was so fucked up of the showrunners actually #role reversing ahbl was too #and then on top of all of that. sam gets to be honest about just how completely dependent he is on dean #and this is a GOOD thing because it's what dean wants too. it's toxic as hell and that somehow is a GOOD thing #what is wrong with these brothers. jesus fucking christ #.txt #the winchester gospel

[aniah-who]

If it’s so easy for us to believe in the “universe” why is it so hard to believe in God? If we can easily personify the universe by believing that it speaks to us, guides us, and determines our fate, why do you we have such a hard time believing that there is an intimate God who created all things, a God who speaks to us, a God who desires to know us, a God who loves us, and a God who holds our very lives in the palm of His hand? How is it that we can be so quick to give glory to the creation and not to the Creator Himself? Why is it so hard for us to simply believe?

#jesus #christian #faith #god #christian blog #holy spirit #christian blogger #thinking out loud #love #gospel #christian post #jesussaves #poetic #poetry #christian thoughts #god is real #god is beautiful #god is calling #believe in jesus #believe #havefaithingod #by grace through faith #savedbygrace #saved by christ #athiest #athiesm #the universe #get to know god #hope #bible

[theinfernalsanctuary]

Richard Ramirez was not a real Satanist. He was a psychopath, serial ræp!st, murderer. Die mad about it.

Satan did not tell him to do what he did. His actions directly contradict every doctrine that any legitimate follower of Satanism has ever shared or written. Even atheistic Satanists who, for all intents and purposes make their own rules, know that what he did was so far removed from everything that they practice that there's no denying it. He was not a Satanist.

If you run a Richard Ramirez fan account and see this, die mad, as I said. It's only because you started liking and rebloging my posts that I felt the need to post this.

@rrdemon666 die mad or get some fucking help, but most importantly get off my page. Fututus et mori in igni.

I'm gonna tag more people in this as time goes on, so it's easier for others to find and block these accounts.

#hail satan #theistic satanism #satanism #satan #satanic #theistic luciferianism #ave satanas #the infernal gospel #the infernal circle #the satanic philosopher #real Satanist #fuck Richard Ramirez #die mad about it

[flecks-of-stardust]

wholeheartedly and with as much gentleness as possible, i truly think there needs to be more discussion about downpour in the community as it is now. for a variety of reasons.

#not main tagging this right now but #some tag babbling. like #some of yall are unnecessarily cruel about downpour. seriously. #you don't have to like it but you can also stand not to tear down someone's work like this #if every word out of your mouth is just about how much you hate downpour. why are you still here? #and i mean that genuinely. it's unpleasant for you and for everyone else. and i say this as someone who still prefers vanilla's lore #at the same time i think it's a real issue where some people take downpour as gospel and assume things about other people's creative choice #even though downpour is a DLC and it's hard to make certain claims about canonicity because of that #it has been publicly acknowledged as being an official AU. multiple times. by the MSC devs themselves #downpour is a fan made passion project that was worked on for years and years before it got DLC status #it was never meant to be scrutinized in the way it is now. i think it's more appropriate to regard it as like #a really popular fanfic most of the fanbase has read #i just feel like. a lot of the community conflicts i've seen stem from downpour's messy existence as a DLC that was originally a mod #and i think it's valuable to have community discussions about that. but also this is tumblr. so. i'm probably asking for too much

[michaelsheendaily]

Michael Sheen behind a Wall of Memories from The Passion of Port Talbot

#michael sheen #michaelsheen #michaelsheenedit #msheenedit #the passion of port talbot #the gospel of us #the real prince of wales #michaelsheendaily

[him-first]

bible verses to help you get through this semester:

"My sadness has worn me out. Give me strength as you have promised." - Psalm 119:28

"But I will sing about your strength. I will rejoice in your love every morning. You have been my place of safety, the place I can run to when troubles come." - Psalm 59:16

"The Lord gives me strength and protects me. He has saved me. He is my God, I will praise him. He is my father’s God, and I will honor him." - Exodus 15:2

"He gives strength to those who are tired. He gives power to those who are weak." - Isaiah 40:29

"Yes, I am glad to have weaknesses if they are for Christ. I am glad to be insulted and have hard times. I am glad when I am persecuted and have problems, because it is when I am weak that I am really strong." - 2 Corinthians 12:10

#christian blog #christianity #blogger #blog #god loves you #jesus #faith #godisgood #faith blogger #christian blogger #keep the faith #faith based #christian faith #follow jesus #jesussaves #jesus is real #jesus is coming #god is my refuge #the gospel #god is my salvation #god is kind #christian bible #daily bible verse #bible verse #bible scripture #scripture #encouragingquotes #encouraging #encouraging words #encouragement

[sarafangirlart]

Real talk but why is Perseus villainized so much in Medusa retellings? Yeah he’s kinda a dick when written by Ovid but he’s not a straight up evil monster. It’s not like you can’t make both Medusa and Perseus sympathetic.

#and how these books often advertise themselves as “the real story’’ #and ppl are too stupid or too lazy to do their research and so take this literal fanfic as gospel #greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #greek pantheon #gorgon #gorgons #medusa #medusa retelling #Perseus #perseus and medusa

[revpauljbern]

How Spiritual Warfare Can Break Out At Any Moment

The Apostle Paul Evades the Angry Mob at Ephesus How Spiritual Warfare Can Break Out at Any Moment (Acts chapter 19, verses 32-41) by Rev. Paul J. Bern You are about to read a brief excerpt from my Christian nonfiction book, “The Social Gospel Teaching Series Vol. 2: the Acts of the Apostles” by Rev. Paul J. Bern (c) copyright 2022 by Rev. Paul J. Bern, all rights reserved; available from…

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[ghostsmp3]

not george xanthis literally saying yeah john's gospel is just pages and pages of dialogue because he's infatuated with jesus.... he really said yeah matthew's is more detailed about everything else because he actually pays attention to other things...... meanwhile john only cares about his rabbi..........

#i fear this man is in my head #he is too real you know what i'm saying #jordan ross you hosted the livestream of the century to ghostsmp3 #john the apostle #george xanthis #the chosen #the beloved disciple #religion #jesus x john #gospel of john

[bees-tes-blog]

idk I think I would be more interested in tes lore if any of the unique stuff was actually incorporated in the games in any way

#buzz #i know some people like reading the books #and i think they CAN be a very useful worldbuilding tool for expanding upon things that are presented in the story or displaying the #...world views of people within it #like in real life #but if you wanna talk about how interesting and weird the elder scrolls is and your only source is a series of obscure books that are not #...reflected by in-game content in any way its not real to me sorry #bc like they do this exclusively and for EVERYTHING #yeah the nature of ‘deep lore’ is that it’s not immediately visible but if all of the interesting things are ‘deep lore’ then it’s just #…a pussy move i think #they get credit for writing this cool and subversive lore that is then either ignored or directly in conflict with the game design #and often someone will bring up ‘deep lore’ that’s really either just some developer’s headcanon or a probable metaphor #and take it as gospel #tldr there’s such a huge disconnect between tes lore and the actual games that it holds no weight for me personally

[isfjmel-phleg]

This is a personal post.

My younger self found Dear America too depressing because almost all the books featured a death, but I loved The Royal Diaries, which also featured a lot of death, including some pretty tragic stuff (the Anastasia diary was one of my favorites). Doesn't really make sense. Is it less depressing if it happened in real life and therefore has to be part of the story, rather than a fictional death contrived to add obligatory Drama to the narrative?

#random personal stuff #in retrospect TRD were not great literature #or even always good portrayals of their subjects #I came away with some impressions of certain historical figures that were lacking in nuance at best and stereotypical at worst #however it did ignite a love of royal history in me and led me to explore nonfictional sources for further information #so it wasn't entirely a waste of my time #but I do wish that TRD had done a better job of making it clear to the audience what was real and what was fictionalized #because ten-year-old me was taking a lot of nonsense as gospel