On Faith - Tumblr Posts
yes yes jsdhofiaueu. here's the verse if you're curious:
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So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today. Matthew 6:34 NLT
Μην αγωνιάτε, λοιπόν, για το αύριο, γιατί η αυριανή μέρα θα έχει τις δικές της φροντίδες. Φτάνουν οι έγνοιες τής κάθε μέρας. ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΤΘΑΙΟΝ 6:34 TGV
that bit in the bible where jesus is like "tomorrow will have to take care of itself, today is hard enough", you just know that was a man who suffered from anxiety
The profession of true Christianity not only excludes the possibility of recognizing the state but even destroys its very foundations.
Christianity in its true meaning destroys the state. Thus it was understood from the very beginning, and Christ was crucified for this very reason, and thus it has always been understood by men who are not fettered by the necessity of proving the justification of the Christian state. Only when the heads of the states accepted the external nominal Christianity did they begin to invent all those impossible finely spun theories, according to which Christianity was compatible with the state. But for every sincere and serious man of our time it is quite obvious that true Christianity — the teaching of humility, of forgiveness of offences, of love — is incompatible with the state, with its magnificence, its violence, its executions, and its wars. The profession of true Christianity not only excludes the possibility of recognizing the state, but even destroys its very foundations.
Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
Chapel.
St Mary’s, Reigate, Surrey.
Baie | she/they | unlabled | minor
— currently listening to: 'who we are' by hozier and 'hate to be lame' by lizzy mcalpine feat. finneas
— currently reading: 'hamlet' by william shakespeare
hello :> welcome to my little blog! I mainly just reblog things that i love or that resonate with me. Otherwise i’m talking about current reads or school. i’ve kinda got my foot in the door of studyblr and bookblr.
about me: australian!! 2006. lover of love and life. infj 4w5 unlabeled and very much in love <3. chaotic good! and recently chronically ill. rediscovering and building my faith :)
academia: graduating class of '23. atar + headstartx2, [english, general math, legal studies, psychology, chemistry] I love learning languages!! currently self-teaching japanese [mother tongue is english, small talk in japanese, very minimal french and korean]
the goal: double bachelor of criminology and criminal justice + psychological science
fandoms here! they don't have huge relevance here, but i love them dearly <3
sherlock!! acd and bbc (currently consuming all other adaptations like a starving victorian child)
rwby!! yes my favourite character is qrow, moving on.
bts!! army since 2018, bias: v :)
bee and puppycat!! seriously in love
the osemanverse!! esp loveless, radio silence <3 and ofc heartstopper
arcane!! obsessed.
monster high!! grew up on gen1 :)
it's honestly kinda hard to think about these off the top of my head ngl
now books!! favourites that have stuck with me :>
the midnight library by matt haig good 4 the soul
the inheritance games by jennifer lynn barnes NEWBOOKSOON!!
i fell in love with hope by lancali
song of achilles by madeline miller no elaboration needed.
embassy row series by ally carter reread too many times
hamlet by william shakespeare
sparrow by sarah moon beautiful
⇢ i love you whoever you are, and i'm always here for you :)
thank you for reading all this <3
Source: cafekitsune
There are moments within my faith that I can feel my soul standing on top of a hill in a wild natural place, shouting with joy
“Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life’s fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. (+)
always rooted in love / come home love, nestle into my heart, take rest here / their hearts entwined
rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. [colossians 2:7]
i think immortal beings wouldn't think that love is a "small" or "trivial" thing as is often the case in fiction. i think if you lived to be more than a few human lifespans you'd either think love is a terrible fate, like a plague; or the most natural, inevitable thing like finding an old complicated friend and going "ah yes, i might as well run into you in this situation" or like "took us long enough to cross paths again". maybe you'd see it in everything, even when mortals couldn't, even when they'd refuse to accept it you'd know, because you've seen it way too many times
oh, you think this is one of those silly challenges? i've seen those. and i hate to disappoint but this is not a God-given test.
trust me, i could recognise Their handiwork in an instant.
Yes!! what a good way of putting it!!
this thought is still Under Construction but i think how christianity is practiced, or better yet used in todays world, is a very sad tragedy… not sure how to articulate this well yet.
i thought you were crying wolf, but you weren't. who am i to be so sceptical of your cries? dilapidated by my hands, your life was terminated by my faithlessness in you. is forgiveness something the insentient can give? but how am i to be deserving when i heard your cries so irreverently.
to solidify point 2. (a) 1 Samuel 20:30 NLT “You stupid son of a whore!” (b) 1 Samuel 20:30-31 MSG “You son of a slut!"
regardless: from the original hebrew, he means to imply that jonathan was stubborn from his mother's womb, not to insult his mother but to insult jonathan, as to disappoint your parents (or ancestors) was highly offensive.
all things considered, if we seriously want to make an accurate modern language translation "son of a bitch" is as accurate as it gets.
"none of those words are in the Bible" i mean 1. the Bible is originally hebrew and ancient greek and translation is inherently messy 2. "son of a perverse and rebellious woman"? he's saying son of a bitch 3. there is very much sex in the Bible. most of the people in the Bible were conceived via sex. not all, granted, but a vast majority
What do you think about Christian witchcraft or folk Christian practices? <3
love it! i believe that magic is inherently central to religion in general. and the word ‘witch’ in the bible is often not the full context of the original words. I also believe that because of new age spirituality and wicca, being a witch, now, means what christians have already done for centuries, but because the meaning of the word has changed, people jump off the gun to call it a sin, when it really is not!
i hope this makes sense! this is really just an abridged version; i can go more in-depth about what i mean if you’d like!
Baie | she/they | unlabled | 18
– currently listening to: 'david melrose theme' by hauschka, smokey eyes by lincoln, along with elias hix, hozier, noah kahan, gang of youths – currently reading: all the light we cannot see by anthony doerr and phosphorecence by julia baird
welcome
hello :> it's general chaos around here. possibly some web weaving of my own floating about. but there's not much else to it
about me: australian!! 2006. lover of love and life. infj 4w5. very in love ᰔᩚ chaotic good! rediscovering and building my faith :) lqbtqia+
academia: graduated '23!! starting my double degree in ‘24! slowly self-teaching japanese ᰔᩚ. chaotic academia by blood
the goal: bachelor criminology and criminal justice + psychological science (and maybe cybercrime in the future?)
master list
(links are broken atm, but the tags are correct)
#poems and quotes
#ineptias loqour (my posts)
#study log
#media
#artwork
#music
#musings (a fav of mine)
#meme
#not a meme but that same category of posts
#on christianity
#letters to myself
#that one type of green
#web weaving
#anderson don’t talk out loud. you lower the iqueue of the whole street. (queue tag)
added this section with the tags i use most often so i can find posts later, everything else is just #on *thing* and frankly i can't be bothered with that.
will possibly add links to fandoms and reads... not sure yet. it would be good to have an active list of all the books i read and enjoyed enough to keep a list of…. here’s a short list of fandomesque things tho: sherlock, rwby, bts/kpop, d20, sk8 the infinity, good omens, epic the musical, lore olympus webtoon, loki series, fnaf,
books would include: archives of despair by caleb finn, hamlet, good omens, throne of glass series, embassy row series, the song of achilles by madeline miller, they both die at the end duology, the inheritance games series, shadow and bone+six of crows, everything by alice oseman
music as well perhaps? hozier, bts, ericdoa, noah kahan, glaive, cage the elephant, lizzy mcalpine, cave town, mccafferty, chase atlantic, brakence, eden, the front bottoms, (it’s all over the place… just not much country music tbh)
here’s the old intro post, haven't decided what to do with it yet
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ik this is a new account, but i’ve been here since july 2020 <3
for what i have done and failed to do i am sorry.
gUYS OMG i heard this girl on insta talking about faith and Jesus and i absolutely loved her take, hold on i have to transcript it bc i need to have it existing here.
“Whatever God’s love is, it is not exhausted by our concept of it. It transcends our best efforts to describe it. It is higher than our loftiest notions of it.”
— R C Sproul, Loved By God (via cocoandkahlo-blog)
— Forfeiting My Mystique, Kaveh Akbar, in '100 Queer Poems, an anthology' (2022)
[text ID: Some saints spent their whole childhoods biting their teachers' hands and / sprinkling salt into spider-webs, only to be redeemed by a fluke shock of grace just before death. May I feather into such a swan soon.]
Girlhood is a spectrum: biblicially accurate angel <--> gregor samsa