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literally me after today
I be seeing verses sometimes that completely align with my problems on specific days and in my head I'm like "whooooaaaa dawg I literally needed the timing is insane 😱😱😱😱😱😱"
But there really ain't a need to be shocked because I know it's God doing what He always does . Helping me. And simultaneously everyone on the planet 😀
I like to think He looks at me when I have those little "🤯🤯🤯" moments and He laughs because I know exactly what's happening yet im still absolutely flabbergasted.
My Church's Pastor often says God sees us in the same way we see ants or babies. We do stupid things (not sin) and He just looking at us like "aww, look at them. what are they doing??"
kinda crazy how there's a Big God somewhere (everywhere actually 💀), who created out of His Hands reality ITSELF and He delights in us; people who literally, 69ish percent of don't even believe in Him.
God is a Real One fr 😭
thank you for listening to my yappening, good night
today’s verse ✨
“I waited patiently for the LORD; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.”
Psalm 40:1-2 KJV
Issues with the KJV; Part II - Veneration of Mary and Saints
Worship and Divine Service
In modern English, the term "worship" (like the term "prayer") has mainly come to mean "an act offered exclusively to God." However, the original and official meaning of this word used to be much broader - as was the case of the Greek word proskyneo (προσκυνέω), which is normally applied to God, but also to human beings.
The idea conveyed by proskyneo is that of "offering obeisance," "making a physical demonstration of veneration and respect," or "prostrating oneself." (To put it extremely casually, like a curtsy.) In contemporary Orthodox terminology, the equivalent of proskyneo is often "venerate."
In the EOB, proskyneo is translated as "to express adoration" while it is often translated in the KJV as "to worship."
On the other hand, the Greek word latreia is exclusively used in reference to God.
In the EOB, latreia (λατρεία) is translated as "offering divine service" while it is translated in the KJV also as "to worship."
The Problem
So there is this issue of the KJV as it is today - with its immeasurable influence upon modern theology, the English language, and the Sola Scriptura doctrine professed by Protestant Christianity (and therefore the world) - combining two different words, proskyneo and latreia, under one translation: "worship."
The point of dissension that now comes up is that when those of the Old Religions, which existed before the King James Version, venerate the Blessed Virgin Mary, Protestants often denounce the Old Religions' disposition towards the Blessed Theotokos because their theology relies either wholly or partly on the KJV and the KJV tells them that proskyneo and latreia are the same thing, when historically - as attested to us by the oldest translations of the Bible - veneration and worship have never been the same thing.
To argue that veneration and worship are the same thing is like saying that criticism and insults are the same thing, or complimenting and confessing undying love is the same thing. They are markedly different.
The Old Religions -- the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Roman Catholics, and Church of the East -- don't offer latreia (worship) to the saints but they offer proskyneo (veneration).
As a last exhibit, I will show to you Matthew 4:10 and Luke 4:8 where Christ quoted the Ten Commandments and said "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." (KJV) / "You shall express adoration to the Lord your God, and to Him only shall you offer divine service." (EOB)
For the sake of understanding, I will adapt the KJV to this:
"Thou shalt proskyneisis the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou latreusis."
That said, proskyneia or veneration for humans, saints, was never forbidden, but it is clear to all of us that latreia or worship is offered only to God.
Hey, you know what is best?
2 Timothy 3:16-17,
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
All your research has done is blind you to the reality of conception and pregnancy. Your eyes were always closed. Pro choice just put another blindfold over them
Christians, or far-right zealots?
Cleanliness reflects your moral and mental state by being a tangible sign of the benefits of following God's commandments.
Leviticus is not AT ROOT a health code. It is a spiritual code at root which has tangible results if followed.
Progressive christians: David and Jonathan were obviously gay like it says they loved each other right there, it couldn’t possibly mean anything else.
Progressive Christians: when the Bible says [lit.] “it is an abomination to lie with a man in the bed of a woman” this is not a way of referring to gay sex, but only specifically having gay sex in a bed belonging to a woman
Deuteronomy 22:25 kjv
25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.
Rape is a crime punishable by death under God's Law. Which raises issues with the pro-choice argument that rape justifies abortion.
The bible does not teach 'marry your rapist'.
Bible law is superior to modern law because rapists are to be executed, not imprisoned, fined, or caned.
Under biblical law, the rape victim isn't under threat from the rapist because the rapist would be dead. Further, in Deuteronony 22:26 it states:
26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death.
Therefore, abortion would be unnecessary since the woman is protected by the biblical law.
Additionally, the abortion/rape issue is a matter of legislation. A fight on legislative drafting that would not be affected by the abortion of a child uninvolved in the process of the crime.
In fact, based on other pro-life posts on tumblr, a child may be the best evidence tying a rapist to the victim.
Ultimately, abortion as a protective measure against the rapist for the woman becomes unecessary because:
Under biblical law, the woman is guilty of no crime and the rapist is executed for his crime and:
Under modern law, abortion has nothing to do with the fight for harsher punishments against rapists.
This is amazing! *immediately goes to research everything about this*
This is the greatest progression of events I have ever read, where’s my historical gay romance novel about this