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7850c8 No.837722 [Open thread][Last50 Posts]

Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Threads

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1e92e9 No.855612

>>855604

Clearly being loyal to a mate is of importance for everlasting life, else He wouldn't even have mentioned it.

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16adea No.857036

>>841907

>>841907

What book should I buy to learn more? I only know about how Aquinas proved it’s possible for creation to have started with God rather than an infinite amount of creators creating new creations and creators… if that makes sense. Saw it years ago on /pol/. I’d love to read more.

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0b5f3f No.857040

Where did everyone go? Was there ever anbody on this board to begin with?

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868370 No.857043

>>842056

>I disagree that hell is eternal. With how merciful, loving, and forgiving God is, why would anyone believe such a thing?

Human souls are eternal. After you die, your soul will leave your body and face god. If you sinned during your lifetime, you soul is tarnished and you cannot be with god. This state of exclusion from god's presence is the greatest of all torments, because god is the source of all holiness.

If you were righteous during your lifetime and followed god, he will let your soul be with the heavenly host, and you will be able to "see" god personally (the beatific vision). Being able to gaze at and worship the greatest of all divine beings for eternity is the ultimate reward for a faithful, righteous life.

"Time" as we know it simply means change. Because humans are made from matter+energy, and matter+energy is constantly changing, we experience time. Beings that do not change (souls, angels etc.) do not experience time. When your soul leaves your body, you stop experiencing "time" as we know it and you face the consequences of whatever state your soul is in at your death (sin or righteousness) for eternity.

>Are most Christians really okay with never seeing the majority of the people they know and love ever again?

Even if the majority of people you know are not Christian, that doesn't mean that they will not one day see the truth. There have been cases in which Jesus and mary appeared to people in a vision, so it could also mean that Jesus or mary might visit someone on their deathbed and let them see the light.

I pray that my atheist grandfather is with god and that he knew god before he passed away.

Rev 21:4 states that there will be no more death, mourning, crying, or pain.

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868370 No.857044

>>842056

>I disagree that hell is eternal. With how merciful, loving, and forgiving God is, why would anyone believe such a thing?

Human souls are eternal. After you die, your soul will leave your body and face god. If you sinned during your lifetime, you soul is tarnished and you cannot be with god. This state of exclusion from god's presence is the greatest of all torments, because god is the source of all holiness.

If you were righteous during your lifetime and followed god, he will let your soul be with the heavenly host, and you will be able to "see" god personally (the beatific vision). Being able to gaze at and worship the greatest of all divine beings for eternity is the ultimate reward for a faithful, righteous life.

"Time" as we know it simply means change. Because humans are made from matter+energy, and matter+energy is constantly changing, we experience time. Beings that do not change (souls, angels etc.) do not experience time. When your soul leaves your body, you stop experiencing "time" as we know it and you face the consequences of whatever state your soul is in at your death (sin or righteousness) for eternity.

>Are most Christians really okay with never seeing the majority of the people they know and love ever again?

Even if the majority of people you know are not Christian, that doesn't mean that they will not one day see the truth. There have been cases in which Jesus and mary appeared to people in a vision, so it could also mean that Jesus or mary might visit someone on their deathbed and let them see the light.

I pray that my atheist grandfather is with god and that he knew god before he passed away.

Rev 21:4 states that there will be no more death, mourning, crying, or pain.

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a33fed No.856828 [Open thread]

If you trust in your own works you are not trusting in Christ. It is one or the other.

The Gospel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ESTzGnBUM&ab_channel=imsmarturnot

Matthew 7:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVCUNkELCjA&ab_channel=imsmarturnot

James 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-OXt65UNdA&ab_channel=imsmarturnot

Romans 11:6

And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

Ephesians 2:8-9

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

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f66197 No.857006

>>856983

>But those "moral standards" are not necessary

'Without holiness no one will see the Lord'.

"Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me."

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.'

And behold, a man came up to him, saying, “Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?” (…) If you would enter life, keep the commandments.”

"God’s Will: Your Sanctification"

While it is correct that is by grace that we are able to keep the commands, as we cant do nothing good by ourselves, if we are sinning it means we are not accepting grace.

The process of becoming holy is God working in us, and we accepting it.

If we die not having allowed for our sanctification and knowing that 'without holiness no one will see the Lord', we'll get problems.

If we are repentant we get purgatory, if unrepentant hell. If fully sanctified we go directly to heaven.

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a33fed No.857010

>>857006

> 'Without holiness no one will see the Lord'.

If you are saved then God has given you a new heart to know him. He has resurrected your spirit. That spirit is holy. My flesh is not.

Romans 7:14-25:

> 14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

My flesh will wither, die and rot. In my sinless redeemed spirit I will see God.

> "Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me."

We are saved because of God's love and mercy towards us, not our love towards him. None of us love the lord as we should.

> “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.'

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12e17c No.857015

>>856925

>Matt 7:20

That's talking about good/false prophets if you actually read the whole passage, and not one verse

15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

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12e17c No.857018

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f0fedb No.857024

are jesuits more powerful than j3ws?

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a376c6 No.855793 [Open thread][Last50 Posts]

I'm a Methodist deeply considering converting to Catholicism.

I sincerely believe God is pulling me in this direction.

Through constant deliberation I think I'm convinced of the primacy of the Apostle Peter and the succession that leads to the Papacy. And I believe that there does need to be some sort of universal authority to be the mediator in doctrinal disputes; the Papacy fulfills that.

Praying to Mary and the Saints is an easy hurdle for me to overcome in that I understand the concept and that there is biblical basis for it.

The idea of Purgatory I'm still a bit iffy on. I'm not quite sure I subscribe to it yet. Same goes with the idea that a saved Christian can completely fall out of grace with God and be damned to Hell if they don't confess certain sins before death.

If any Catholics here can point me to some good readings, podcasts, or whatever else on the latter two points to convince me on those that'd be great.

If any Protestants here wanna try to talk me off the ledge, I'm open to hearing your arguments against Catholicism.

Lastly, I do plan to visit a Catholic church near me. They all seem to do Novus Ordo; none do the traditional Latin Mass.

CatholicAnons, what are some things I should look into when selecting a Catholic church to go to?

Personally I'd like to stay away from anything that does modern music like drums and guitars.

As an aside, why do Catholic churches offer daily mass? Is there any difference between a mass on Tuesday and a mass on Sunday?

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ac1fbc No.856966

>>855793

>>856965

You never see saints in the Bible praying to ones in heaven. You never see Abraham praying to Noah, Moses to Abraham, David to Samson, Peter to David, etc.

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e35835 No.856971

>>856966

Noah, Moses, Abraham et al were not in heaven until Jesus was crucified and descended into hell (limbo is the highest level of hell) to free them of original sin and lead them to heaven.

You can't ask the Church Triumphant to pray for you if they're not Triumphant (in heaven).

Praying to known servants of the Lord is in the Book of Job.

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da7b10 No.856997

>>855934

There will be no unity until Jesus comes.

More likely it will be underground catacomb churches

Just give up on ecumenism, it will only lead to the antichrist and setting up his kingdom

Sergius, there are many who follow in his footsteps especially in orthodox churches in Russia and Eastern Europe

I honestly think end times christianity (we are already at the beginning of the one and only End Times only a few years to a few decades to the tribulation, not the 'end times' since pentecost) is more like Orthodox Spirituality and Orthodox Theology without the trappings of having priests, liturgy, things like that sort combined with house churches of persecuted countries/the apostles

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da7b10 No.856998

There is a certain bar set for the Word of God/"True Christianity" (many are called few are chosen, endure to the end to follow God with all your effort every waking second of your life, all that highlighted Red Letter Text.)

Just think about what situation you could find this in, hint: it will be the exact texts Jesus says in the New Testament Bible.

LIFE OR DEATH you live according to these very words, as a start for being a christian.

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15614e No.857016

>>856971

>Noah, Moses, Abraham et al were not in heaven until Jesus was crucified and descended into hell

I don't believe the Abraham's bosom/Paradise thingy either.

>free them of original sin

They were freed when they got saved

And Jesus' death counts backwards too. That's why it says he was slain from the foundation of the world

8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

>Praying to known servants of the Lord is in the Book of Job.

verse

Also you then don't see them doing it in Acts or the epistles. So bad point either way

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e3642e No.856979 [Open thread]

I've had a falling and nearly converted to Pure Land Buddhism last year. I even prayed to Buddha and stuff like that, but didn't go through with the conversion.

Can I be forgiven? Have I committed the sin against the Holy Spirit? Have I committed apostasy?

When I was practicing Christianity before my falling I had a constant struggle, and a constant cycle of falling into old habits and forgetting about prayer and then starting over just like Jesus said some people will believe for a while and then stop.

Can I believe again? Can I make it this time? I want God and I want to be forgiven and I want to be saved.

I'm Eastern Orthodox btw.

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20dd29 No.856980

Well if you were saved before I don't know if you can be saved again, nor do I know that you can even lose your salvation in the first place.

Personally I don't think you technically can, because I think God only saves those who he plans on taking to heaven, he already knows their future but he chose that person anyways.

If you can be brought to an unsavable state and a position where God doesn't forgive you I don't think you'd even think about it.

The only person who can't be forgiven is probably the person who has a heart so hard they don't even ask for forgivness.

And maybe you do have a hard heart I don't know. But clearly not hard enough, because you are still seeking God and that's what is important. The improtant thing is to finish the race now keep going. I think God has a special love toward people who will keep running the race even when they are worried about their own salvation. You show God that you don't even care. Save me or don't but I want to continue the race and I want to live Christ like and do what is right.

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20dd29 No.856981

>>856980

And of course you can believe in Jesus again. Jesus said you can speak against him all you want and be forgiven if you repent.

People get very scared, I've been scared of course of the idea of unforgivable sin which is against the Holy Spirit. I don't know any examples of someone some how knowing they've done this.

One of the saddest verses in the Bible Judges 16:20 The Lord leaves Samson and it says Samson didn't even know it. That's a scary idea. Many rainbow flag churches are like that, no idea that the Lord has probably left them. Clearly they're not concerned though.

I think speaking against the Holy Spirit is a genunine serious eternal rejection that needs to happen. In a way you probably should never worry about it because if the Lord leaves you, you wouldn't be concnered about it. You wouldn't even think about it. I don't think so.

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b43972 No.856990

Hello friends I have a question that is not relevant but is similar.

After nearly a year of being on the wagon I had too much to drink and scrolled though porn thumbnails after my wife went to bed. My conscience wouldn’t let me do more.

I’ve asked forgiveness from the Lord but I have not confessed to my wife. In part because her reaction will be disproportionate to what actually happened, she believes that for me to have any attraction to other women is equivalent to cheating and therefore anything involving porn is worth days of crying and not talking to me.

I am deeply conflicted, on the one hand I feel the need to confess, on the other I am afraid I will be doing more damage to her than is warranted for the sake of soothing my own guilt. And further still I worry the later concern is just a mask for avoiding the consequences.

Can I be forgiven without confessing to her directly?

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4c9c50 No.856992

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>>856990

It doesn't matter what your wife thinks.

women don't have souls.

God made women to serve men. He only breathed life(souls) into man(males).

What you should do, is not waste your time with women.

Since you already own a woman, you should start reprogramming her to turn her into a proper housewife and servant to you.

A woman should never speak and should always follow every order of her owner(husband).

You shouldn't waste your time feeling guilty. What matters is that you recognize that what you did is a sin, and that you understand why it's a sin. Then you have to keep picking yourself up every time you fall. Eventually you'll completely overcome the sin and look back at how ridiculous and silly it is, and how stupid those that commit it look like.

Remember to help others overcome their sins.

It doesn't matter if you have only a few answers - share whatever you've learned.

Remember that learning isn't going from A to B, but going from A constantly towards B.

Every lesson is another step to step on to get to B.

It doesn't matter if a lesson isn't perfect, because it's only there to step on to move forward.

Never attack someone for being on one of the previous steps, but rather help point them towards the next lesson.

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68d323 No.856996

You might have to repent at a deeper level than you had ever imagine.

Just repeatedly saying prayers and confession I don't believe actually cuts it from my own dabbling in occult garbage.

It will take a lot of humbling doing tremendously laboring works in your sanctification to purge out all traces from your soul. Since dabbling in such stuff already heavily tarnishes your soul, or if you were in that mental place in the beginning to try out that kind of stuff, even in adolescence

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2ee491 No.856751 [Open thread]

We are a community of non-denominational Christian nerds looking for other based bros to hang out with. We're always discussing theology and helping each other out to expose false doctorines, help us save people and save each other from satan's deceptions

https://discord.gg/hYGvHW2SCx

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977bcf No.856752

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I hate to s— on Christians coming together for their community, but discord is spyware. There has got to be a better application to use, just because it's popular doesn't mean it's safe.

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ac71af No.856771

>>856752

Status might be a good idea. Good be a honeypot though…. As with anything.

Ideally encrypted p2p is safest but of course risky if one of the two leers cannot be trusted.

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421a73 No.856819

Hi, I run a Matrix and XMPP server (Think decentralized Discord/Telegram)and would be glad to setup a Christian room. HIt me up on either platform if you want a Christian room

Matrix: https://url.rage.lol/matrix

XMPP: rage.lol

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3c59e2 No.856830

>>856751

The link is invalid.

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552f0c No.856995

File: 423e6493d418b72⋯.png (8.62 KB,260x255,52:51,Untitled.png)

Link doesn't work anymore for me either.

Got a new link?

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520712 No.854221 [Open thread]

> “ First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people” (1 Timothy 2:1)

Let’s pray for one another, so that by prayer we may increase in goodness and charity.

>My Request: that my friend who keeps flirting with me finds a girlfriend and gives up homosexuality

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c6b602 No.856801

4-year-old vanished from camping tent at night, still missing days later

https://archive.ph/JE9o1

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c6b602 No.856881

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c6b602 No.856882

>>856801

Forgot to follow up on this, but the girl was found alive and well

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6a9ddf No.856905

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b6b5b2 No.856994

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Pray that God shows Himself to me soon.

I'm losing hope.

I told Him to show me He exists, or at least perform some small miracle.

All I need is a little bit of hope, but that seems to be asking to much of Him.

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d18f98 No.856281 [Open thread]

>Pope Francis cracked down Friday on the spread of the old Latin Mass, reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI’s signature decisions in a major challenge to traditionalist Catholics who immediately decried it as an attack on them and the ancient liturgy.

>Francis reimposed restrictions on celebrating the Latin Mass that Benedict relaxed in 2007, and went further to limit its use. The pontiff said he was taking action because Benedict’s reform had become a source of division in the church and been exploited by Catholics opposed to the Second Vatican Council, the 1960s meetings that modernized the church and its liturgy.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/pope-francis-reverses-benedict-reimposes-restrictions-latin-mass

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8f855e No.856865

>>856296

> I would attribute it more than anything else to a lax attitude regarding the matters of faith and doctrine.

No, it's because the catholic church is in a state of deep capture by the satanic elite. Lucifer is commanding the pope now.

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f138ce No.856870

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>>856283

Have you ever read Machiavelli's "The Prince" or his longer rough draft "The Discorces on The 10th Decade of Livy"?

In both works he warns of this attitude, that men will open the gates to an enemy hoping for a better master, only to learn that the new master is no better, or is even worse than the old.

Hoping for a new pope because you dislike the current one could be very similar.

This especially, since Pope Francis has selected a little more than 50% of the elector Cardinals.

I'm still in RCIA, due for confirmation around Easter and I feel like I showed up just in time to board a ship that is going to sink.

I'm getting on, anyway.

Call it faith.

Call it madness.

Call it stubbornness.

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763155 No.856923

"pope" Francis is an apostate for his defiance of the Council of Trent and the prohibition against Changing the mass set in place by Pope Leo XIII.

Catholics don't listen to apostates, they shun them. To listen to an Apostate is disobedience against the Church. An apostate could never be the Vicar of Christ; that's an oxymoron, you can't be the Vicar of Christ and be cursed by God.

They've corrupted the faith often using a good cause e.g. removed the reference to the "perferious Jews" that was in the mass because it offended Jews. While Pope Pius XII refused to change the words in the mass, he said the Latin should be 'translated' in a way that doesn't offend the Jews. That was profoundly weak, and opened the door for Bugnini to corrupt the mass by changing the music. This Bugnini called a "master stroke" as it allowed the 1962 corruption of the Latin mass and the later Novus Ordo abomination

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4232ad No.856961

>>856287

Even worse Popes in the past! Yet the Church lives on!

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763155 No.856972

>>856961

Not really. There were no heretical Popes before Pope , but there were wicked Popes. They (mostly) kept the faith even if they knew they were doing wickedness, until the first Heretical Pope John XXIII.

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663ffb No.856869 [Open thread]

How do you categorize the importance of the book of Enoch? It was very influential in early Christian believers and it was seen as scripture in the the early Ethiopian Church… perhaps we should see it as scripture as well.

I would like to learn more about the book of Enoch and some links to learn about the history of it would be amazing. I see how aggressive Rabbinic Jews attack it and call it heretical but I do not care for that. Enoch is mentioned in Genesis and even in Islam hadiths… "(Mary 19:56–57): "And remember Idris in the Book; he was indeed very truthful, a Prophet. And We lifted him to a lofty station". this seems reminiscent of Genesis quote on Enoch..

Genesis 5: 23-24 "23 Altogether, Enoch lived a total of 365 years. 24 Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away."

My final question to you is how legitmate is the book of Enoch and should it hold the same standard as the other biblical books.

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63e213 No.856872

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>>856869

>How do you categorize the importance of the book of Enoch?

It is an apocryphal book that was likely written in late antiquity or thereabouts. It probably has multiple versions floating around, some or all of them being modified later. As far as the general content of the book goes, it contradicts numerous parts of the Bible, insomuch that both cannot be true at the same time. Its influence was primarily on gnostic sects in the early church era, so not strictly Christians, but merely offshoot sects that borrowed some ideas from Christianity. But scholarship today would have trouble distinguishing the two, and this is perhaps intentional. For this reason you might see nonchristian modern scholarship classing it as a "Christian influence," because those modern scholars are generally against the gospel and this is another way for modern scholars to cause confusion and just to generally confuse people about it who might not know any better.

>It was very influential in early Christian believers

The gnostic sect of the Manichaeans (founded around 240 AD) originally had a book called the "book of Giants," which was based on this, and this second book also had an influence on the Babylonian Talmud, which was written in the early middle ages (finished around 499 AD) and formed the basis of what we know as Judaism.

However, despite the above, the book did not have a proper or formal influence on the church of Jesus Christ. The doctrine of the church was determined by the Bible, which is inspired and God's word according to them, and contrarily not by any apocryphal works which are not considered inspired by God.

>Enoch is mentioned in Genesis

This is true, but if some random person wrote a book claiming to be from Enoch, how much should anyone be so easy to believe it? Many writings claim a false origin.

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1ff198 No.856967

>>856869

>How do you categorize the importance of the book of Enoch? It was very influential in early Christian believers and it was seen as scripture in the the early Ethiopian Church… perhaps we should see it as scripture as well.

I do

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1ff198 No.856968

>>856872

>The gnostic sect of the Manichaeans (founded around 240 AD) originally had a book called the "book of Giants,"

and the fragments we have are interesting. The book of Enoch said the fallen angels sinned with animals and the book of Giants clarifies that saying the fallen angels interbred with different species of animals.

>However, despite the above, the book did not have a proper or formal influence on the church of Jesus Christ. The doctrine of the church was determined by the Bible, which is inspired and God's word according to them, and contrarily not by any apocryphal works which are not considered inspired by God.

The book of Enoch was also quoted by James. It was clear that the book of Enoch was a religious text that early Jews and Christians (including Jesus) considered to be scripture. Why would a decree by an ecclesiastical council hundreds of years later have priority over the beliefs that Jesus and the apostles all had?

The book of Enoch was written for our time period and it says that right at the beginning. it was gone from the early catholic church until the 17th century before being rediscovered in an ethiopian jew community

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205a53 No.856960 [Open thread]

I never noticed the original Latin actually rhymed lol

Is there special sacred power conferred to prayers that rhyme?

Is their effect powered up by also playing a guitar rhythm while chanting it?

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ba127d No.856959 [Open thread]

I never noticed the original Latin actually rhymed lol.

Is there special sacred power conferred to prayers that rhyme?

Is their effect powered up by also playing a guitar rhythm while chanting it?

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dcebd8 No.856904 [Open thread]

If you are successful or even become prominent in your society, and if your daughter wants to marry a poor young man who is nice but you don't see much future, would you give consent?

What would Christ say?

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590aca No.856920

>>856916

Just speak from your heart, be honest, what's your answer?

If you are successful, do you want to witness your daughter choosing to live an unsuccessful life?

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845c63 No.856939

>>856904

Is it that hard for Christians to answer?

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3e81e8 No.856940

>>856904

Parents have no rights over their adult children. If you as a parent want your children to respect your wishes, take care of you in old age, and make good decisions, then you should raise them right. Too many people are wanting to reap what they haven't sown. Do right by your kids and they'll do right by you.

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845c63 No.856945

>>856940

>Parents have no rights (power) over their adult children.

You don't think children need a parent's consent when they marry someone.

>If you as a parent want your children to respect your wishes,

But you think a parent can expect his/her children to respect his/her wishes.

Don't you think the above two contradict?

>take care of you in old age

Should it be the purpose when someone wants to have children?

“Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him.” “Jesus said, …

Did the Lord mean Christians should have children to serve them when they are old?

What if a Christian doesn't have children? Is it a punishment from God?

>then you should raise them right

If children refuse to take care of their parent(s), but devote everything to their own children and serving God, is it a failure to raise them?

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8636d9 No.856954

>>856940

>If you as a parent want your children to . . ., take care of you in old age,

None of the Christians I know have ever said something like that. What all of them want is afterlife in Heaven with God.

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a20cf5 No.856948 [Open thread]

Judaism is the antichrist. Revilation—3:9 says they're a synagogue of Satan. There Talmud says that Jesus is in hell boiling in his own escrimin. These people worship molek and there "star of david" is actually the star of remphan, another part of molek worship. Molek is the type of angelic being that fell from heaven when Satan fell. They were originally damned when one molek named Saturn admired the golden calf as they admired there own symbol , horns. When the molek fell they went out and took a race of people , who's name is lost in time, and empregnated them all, men and women. The spawn that were born had horns, scales, tales, and were hairless; they had a humanoid image being born of humans. These children became the first rabbi. After there abominate children were born the molek went to Israel and dug a tunnel to hell and created the bottomless pit and then continued to build the first synagogue on top of the bottomless pit and sealing it shut with the structure and the only people who could travel through the lowest layer into hell were the horned rabbi. Once the temple was finished they began to design the antichrists new religion, Judaism. Then rabbis took Jewish women and empregnated them to create these fake jews as the imagery of a jew, in efforts to hide them among the jews to decieve them. At the 5th year of there wicked synagogue they made the plans to crucify Jesus. Now days you can see there influence in the media. Jewish people of the tradition of Judaism normally hold the final say in our media rendering our home in America the new babylon.

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09c63d No.856951

>>856948

Interesting story.

Source?

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5f9914 No.856936 [Open thread]

Imagine what it was like to live in the BC age, seeing the year number decreasing wondering what this "countdown" was for, then year 0 passes and nothing special seems to happen! People must have wondered, did someone special get born this year or something? Then you would only find out much later, if you even lived long enough….

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4b6978 No.856938

>>856936

Stop ridiculing Christians!

They have faith. And you?

They believe everything the holy Bible tells them. What do you believe?

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9fc6ee No.856942

>>856938

Speak for yourself, I don't believe every single thing the Bible says. All that's necessary is the core truths.

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4b6978 No.856944

>>856942

You don't think the Bible is holy. You think it's a book that is helpful or maybe enlightening. You are not a follower but try to make up your own mind.

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a8ba89 No.856947

>>856944

I follow Christ, not a book written by men. I have yet to find a good reason to put my faith in a book written by men. It was my understanding that the Bible exists only to point us to Christ and give us an idea of what God is all about. It's good reading material and I have a lot if respect for the wisdom it contains and the men who wrote it down, but it's blasphemy to claim that David or Paul or Peter couldn't have possibly been wrong about something.

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5378f5 No.856950

>>856947

A very good point.

Would you write something like "a critique of the Bible"? It may help a lot of Christians.

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a79b09 No.856929 [Open thread]

If I treat my relationship with God like any intimate relationship with a human, I realize why private prayer is so important. If I don't talk to him unless there are other people around, I'm an asshole.

Now, on the other hand, if he just gives me the silent treatment literally my entire life whether I try to actually talk to him or not, doesn't that make him the asshole? I know I'm being ungrateful but I'm human, I can't just ignore how his behavior makes me feel.

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fb293e No.856930

God talks to us through our lives. Things happen to us, meaning God wanting us to grow in certain virtues through those opportunities. There are two thieves at the cross, both subject to the same circumstance, one uses it to grow in sanctity, the other uses it to decrease.

Also spiritual dryness is good. Go to page chapter VI page 60 - Consolations and dryness. Its a book on mental prayer by a monk.

http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/books/Lehodey--MentalPrayer.pdf

Its also in print if you want to buy it instead.

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47ca96 No.856932

I never understood the protestant/evangelical thing where the put themselves as apparently equal buddies with God Almighty, creator of Heaven and Earth; the Triune God who is knows all, created all and gives us all.

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47ca96 No.856935

Now I recall why I stopped visiting this board.

The only banned people are the Christians.

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4d657d No.856535 [Open thread]

Thoughts on this?

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8c181e No.856561

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>>856559

>Joy to the world

>The Lord IS come

I'm sorry but saying this is post-mil is wildly inaccurate.

In 1 John 4:3, it says:

>And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

And again in 1 John 5:20,

>And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

It refers to the fact that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, as specified by John. He has already manifested, and is currently sitting at the right hand of God, as it says, "until I make thy foes thy footstool."

That in no way implies a post-millenial or amillenial belief system, which is highly allegorized, saying that most of the Bible is just an allegory, and basically teaches that man will actuate Christ rather than Him being a real person.

Your larger point about amillenialism/post-mil being more widespread at one point may or may not be true, but it doesn't matter because of pic related. Various heretical beliefs have had their momentary time in the sun of being popular in this world. The truth is that Christ is coming back, no matter how many or how few in this world believe it.

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6b9578 No.856563

>>856561

>I'm sorry but saying this is post-mil is wildly inaccurate.

The hymn writer Isaac Watts was explicitly postmill. A lot of his hymns were in the same spirit. I'm just using a famous one. And people of his own day were keen on his wording there. They disliked it. It's why some premills of the time vandalized his lyrics and rearranged them to "The Lord will come". Among other things.

>>856561

>The truth is that Christ is coming back, no matter how many or how few in this world believe it.

No one said Christ isn't coming back. That isn't what either Postmill and Amill is about. Whoever told you that is misinforming you greatly. Both teach the second Advent. The difference is they place as much importance on the First Advent.

Jesus' foes have already been made his footstool. Before he ascended he said, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and earth." - Matthew 28:18. What part of that don't you understand? Paul also described Jesus' ascension as a royal Triumph parade, "When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men." -Ephesians 4:7. Yet you're off in lala land interpreting a Davidic psalm written 1000 years prior as still being unfulfilled, when Jesus told you he fulfilled it.

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8c181e No.856564

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>>856563

>No one said Christ isn't coming back.

Yes but I say he is a real person, not an allegory.

>That isn't what either Postmill and Amill is about.

It's about saying that man will actually corporately become God, and that everything in the Bible is just an allegory for inner enlightenment, or some such thing. It's about letting you define what you think these things mean to you rather than believing and having faith in the Savior straightforwardly. If you entertain doubts about God, then its the easiest, most morally relativist and subjective to interpretation way you can possibly go. Yet what did the apostle Peter write in 2 Peter 1:20—

"Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation."

>Before he ascended he said, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and earth." - Matthew 28:18.

It also says in Hebrews 2:8-9 this:

<"Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

<But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man."

It also says in 1 Corinthians 15:

<"For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

<The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

<For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him."

>Yet you're off in lala land interpreting a Davidic psalm written 1000 years prior as still being unfulfilled, when Jesus told you he fulfilled it.

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eb650e No.856667

>1 hour

Could I get a summary?

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7a8e46 No.856927

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Islamic Eschatology Based

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