“And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.” - Matthew 18:9
Christian men, would you gouge your eyes out if you sinned with them?
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No, they would rather shave a hooker's head and then marry her. 1 Corinthians 11:5-15 New International Version 5 But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is the same as having her head shaved. 6 For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head.
7 A man ought not to cover his head,[a] since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. 8 For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; 9 neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 10 It is for this reason that a woman ought to have authority over her own[b] head, because of the angels. 11 Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. 12 For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.
13 Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14 Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, 15 but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.
Lol yeah, I’m curious if Christians actually read scripture or only pay attention to the parts they do like cause reading and studying scripture is the reason why I’m atheist now 🤷🏽♀️
Exactly. They love to cherry pick things that feel good and ignore everything else. Like how God said he created good AND evil. Or how mosaic law strictly advocates for slavery, rape and genocide.
Hell one lady on here told me that the Bible isn't meant to be fully read cover to cover. So I'm like... how the fuck do you think books work?
Lmao fr, not to mention the Bible contradicts itself so many times.
“… I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” — Genesis 32:30
“No man hath seen God at any time…”– John 1:18
Or
“… with God all things are possible.” — Matthew 19:26
“…The LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.” — Judges 1:19
Yup I used to be religious as well but after living on this world and seeing all the shit and pain that exists and the things that are allowed to exist or happen I became convinced that either God and the Devil are two sides of the same coin like God is one sadistic son of a bitch or he doesn't exist. So I then became atheist lol
There are two sides to everything God devil Right wrong Positive negative Yes no Hello goodbye Love hate Good bad So on and so on. I have never read the Bible but for some reason I know a lot of things that are in there I would think that it would be a guideline of some sort of teaching of Common Sense in a roundabout way and also how everything is linked together I do know one thing that he all gave us one gift and that's called choice and what that means is on the two sides to everything it's a choice what you want to pick who you want to be we become the people we choose to be by the things we say and do also cause and effect people say there is no God because he would not allow people to starve genocides everything that people are going to right now but I would also think somewhere in that Bible it says choice your choice and cause and effect there are people that create situations in this world that affect everybody and when they do bad things bad things happen I wouldn't think the gods would come down and say you can't do that I think it's probably written in that book and I'm probably sure it says some place in there the outcome I was negative choices will affect everybody and something that we all have to live with our change but no matter what all the above two sides to everything even people look at our elections it's always a 50/50 vote more or less same with all the above people either believe in one side or the other that's our choices our choices cause cause and effect and we have to live with that until we change it
P. S to answer your question I am a sinner I s i n each and every day. One way or another it's considered a sin I'm sure. But I'm also a human being he wants to explore wants to experience wants to gain knowledge wants to experiment what's understanding and there's just things in life in order for me to experience or to understand it or treating become it there's always going to be a negative involved the sin of sort and I have to make that choice and was given that gift of choice I'm going to use it as long as I don't hurt anybody with my choices I'm good by that I'm also good with the things that I do in my life and if God wants to punish me for looking had a girl with a nice butt are beautiful eyes our beautiful heart do what you want with me I am a sinner
That's completely fine to have negative effects but if God exist and he is a caring and good God why does he not introduce only the most minimal negative consequences for our actions to learn from also why do natural evils such as natural disaster exist? How can anyone learn anything if they are dead?
Also God made us sinners to begin with he purposely made us imperfect. Would you punish your biological children if they made a mistake such as playing with fire and burning the house down or hurting themselves if you never taught them otherwise or you were never there to supervise them?
Or hell, would you allow horrible things to happen to them, in the expectation that they would be stronger for it? Or would you actually protect them from atrocities?
I'm not a good person. I don't like kids. I have issues with empathy. But even I would never allow someone to abuse a child. But thats just me.
@Agape93 Exactly!! If god wanted us to be stronger he could have made us that way! If he wanted us to be perfect he would have made us that way! Who the hell is he to blame us for our imperfections and damn us to a burning lake for all of eternity when he MADE US THAT WAY!
All of this is so he can be like see their love for me is genuine! Even with all the pain and torture I make them go through and they still love me! God is just a selfish sadistic narcissistic asshole at the end
Exactly! What the hell are those children going to learn from that? That God and the universe hates them and wants them to suffer horribly? What choice did they have? And that's why I am atheist now
I am more likely to believe that this is all an experiment and a simulation by aliens than a benevolent all knowing God that loves us! What a bullshit story if I ever heard one! Lmfao 😂
I believe in some arguably weird shit, but I can't square the notion of an all loving benevolent God that admitted to creating evil and punishes us for the nature he himself instilled in us, knowing exactly how every person will end up being like.
That's because I'm not. I haven't identified as any form of Christian in 11 years, and haven't believed in it in general in around 20 years. I'm a thelemite, and couldn't be happier. But nothing went wrong, I just stopped bothering to hide myself like I felt compelled to
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No. I wouldn't cut my arm off either.
St Paul wrote about the lunacy of extreme legalism - what Christ is speaking about here. He said about insisting on circumcision by one of the early churches that he wished they would just go ahead and castrate themselves. The act is meaningless.
Similarly, the consequence of our sin - death - was born by Jesus Himself in His sacrifice on the Cross. When Jesus said about plucking out our eyes etc is it possible that He had a twinkle in His eye and a tone of voice that was saying how ridiculous the attempt to keep the Law was? Could this individual who was called a "winebibber" and hung out with hookers and tax collectors - who actually *wanted*to be around Him - have been so condemning?
I'd seriously doubt it.
The Christ I follow is the embodiment of Love, and a Love far beyond anything I'm capable of.
And incidentally, my eyes tend to be where sin starts for me. Especially in the summer.
But I've never, ever felt God wanted me to blind myself. Just to take my thought life captive and submit it to Christ.
It's hyperbole. Jesus used that language to let us know it's a serious matter. It means cutting off our ability to do something if it leads to sin, like having our phone with us all the time without any blockers so that we can access porn easily.
This is the problem with Christians now a days. You don’t understand the real Bible, you just understand the white washed mistranslated version of it?
The Bible was never meant to be religious, it’s always been spiritual. And either way, calling someone stupid just cause you don’t believe them isn’t very Christian of you
I'm not an Atheist bud. If you think you can live your whole life being a man whore, selling drugs, getting into fights, etc you dont just wait till your death bed confession and magically get through the gates of heaven. Lukewarm Christians dont get in, read the Bible.
Can a Good Christian Be a Good Liberal? ↗ ^scroll to what i said here for starters and watch the video under it. A good example of what i believe, what my core values are.
In North Africa, Christianity spread more broadly and more quickly than other parts of the Roman Empire, and as several scholar know, it was through Africa that Christianity became the religion of the world.
The original Bible was mistranslated and perverted by the Catholic Church for their own gain. You should really do your research on theology before blindly reading a mistranslated book.
The original Bible was always meant to be spiritual not religious.
oh no you are black pilled. Sorry for your hatred of women. You'll either need to experience a good woman in your life or have some traumatic, life altering event that makes you see what's really important in life.
To insist that the description of the sky in Genesis must conform to contemporary science is a theological problem. It is important to remember that God speaks in ways that people can understand.
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