myTakes: Religion & Spirituality

The bible says he who exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbled himself will be exalted and many formerly rich people have ruined their lives by ignoring this principle. My cousin’s ex husband was raised by a...

Gospel - Good News Hi, I am anonymous. Today I want to talk to you about Mark 11:24 and we are going to take a deeper dive. A quick dive but deep. 23“Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted...

I don't like to watch a lot of movies or shows, like "The Bible" by the History channel, or "The Chosen" by Angel Studios. Why? Because they only show half of Jesus. Jesus is the most complex, interesting, intelligent man...

I try to keep the Jewish parts of the bible as a non-Jew by converting all the physical customs into allegorical principles and I refer to myself as a Christian and not a Jew. In Genesis, Jacob says, “Naphtali is a doe...

Before I became a Christian I thought I had two purposes in life: To glorify myself and to experience sensory happiness, I loved Burger King and McDonalds and Pink Lunch Boxes and Cartoons and Books About Popular Girls...

The book of proverbs lists two obvious punishments to those who lie: 1st - Is that they they will be blocked from reaching their goals in life 2nd - Is that they will have health problems or poverty issues and there will...

The Bible has this quotation on honour: Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.’ But now the LORD declares: ‘Far be it from me! Those who...

To me, songs of songs is a book about the romance between the human beings and Jesus and the the physical descriptions are allegory. When the bible says, my breasts were like towers, I believe it means, my kindness was...

Mark 2:21-22 says: 21 “No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse. 22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the...

The book of Matthew 6 gives 3 rules for practicing faith and spirituality People who practice kindness to get attention receive no reward for their kindness which is why you must privatize both your kindness and your...

I find, it is essential that successful people adopt a humanitarian cause or a religious pursuit to avoid being contaminated by a faulty sense of self-entitlement. A person, must always seek to challenge themselves and...

The bible says the leech has two daughters, “give,” “give,” they cry. So daughters in the bible represent distinct classes and types of people, they signify the protected class, the beautiful class, the harmless class,...

One thing God forced me to accept is that a lot of people are going to avoid me because I follow God. I had disabled girls reject me because I was too intelligent for then. I had cynical people reject me because I was too...

The bible says it is better to give then to receive and that the leech has two daughters, “give, give,” they cry. During the pandemic I went around 2 years without talking about my feelings because there was no one to...

In 2020, I had very little social interaction and I read 10,000 pages of books after getting laid off from my full time job because of the pandemic. In 2021, I had very little social interaction and came up with over 200...

The bible says no other Gods and the way I understand that verse is, that you have to mute out your desire and interest in gods of power and money and praise so that you can devote all that higher energy to the worship of...

Our relationship ended for multiple reasons but one of the things that prevented it’s success was that he asked me what first drew me to him and I said it was his looks. He told me he did not want to be with a woman who...

The bible says when you forgive your enemies or ignore their offences, God compensates you for the things that were stolen from you. Like I emailed somebody with a question and they refused to answer, but then God...

In the bible Jacob chose Rachel while his circumstances and father in law chose to give him Leah and Jacob had more children, a happier marriage and a longer marriage with Leah than he did with Rachel who was inferior as...

When I was in university, the people I met were almost always incredible and amazing, In my whole time there, I only met three people I did not like and one person that was racist. When I left school, I met racist people...