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>>14920007

Half expected Donte to appear

Well he lost an eye, but he got his Super Nintendo!

How fucking boring. I thought it was B^U trying a new style at first.

What's the fucking point? Is it a "lesson" to always give your kids what they want, otherwise they'll start summoning demons? Is it supposed to be a scary monster story? Some romance thing?

It's too short and too boring to be any of that.

The lesson is shit, and you'd have to have real repercussions to drive that kind of point home. He lost his eye and the. girl got a scratch on her face. Big "oh no, we should have known better" ending.

The monster looks cool, though a little derivative. It also is never framed as a real threat. Nobody shows fear, it does some small surface-level damage to two of them. A swipe from it is apparently enough to break the skin on somebody's face and take out an eye, but nothing more. Even though they're out of the line, it only takes some inept swipes at them? No attempts to really kill or eat them? What kind of fucking monster is this? It's shown as being less menacing than a kid with a knife would have been. It could have been a story about fucking with drugs to get cash to buy Super Nintendos and nothing would have been different. It would have just been less ridiculous than having a giant monster with giant claw hands that apparently can't do more than scratch a kid's face with a swipe.

The romance thing is fucking stupid. It tries to sell the feelings they have with some sideways glances, but big fucking deal. Am I supposed to feel some connection for these characters I've literally just met and don't give a shit about? It's like a romance story that goes "Dave and Jen liked each other. They looked at each other shyly sometimes. Then Dave was brave for Jen. Then they got married, the end." I'm in fucking tears from the overwhelming emotions here.

Why even give the characters names if you never say them again after the first two fucking pages?

What a shit story. It's got potential, but it's something that needs to be told over a hundred or more pages, not a dozen. It needs more fleshing out of characters for us to connect to them. It needs us to give a shit about the characters and have more buildup for me to care about the emotion. The demon needs more forboding and build-up, and more threat when it actually shows up. Somebody should be fucking maimed or killed to demonstrate that yes, it is actually a threat. We need something to actually give a shit about these characters for anything to matter at all.

It doesn't matter if the goal is a Super Nintendo, it could have been anything, it wouldn't matter. The story is obviously going for some shit Stranger Things knockoff and vibe, but there's no reason to give a shit about anybody in it at all, or anything that they're doing here.

>>14920003

its not even that bad

i mean its not good but its not awful

Someone post more garbage so we can get mad already.

>>14920003

Is this an IT type of story, cause if that demon doesn't come back to fuck with them then the comic is stupid on its own.

>>14920084

I would personally go in a completely different direction of making the kids end up in a lovecraftian realm of flesh and bones, suffering constantly until their bodies and souls are torn apart to shreds for fucking with dark forces to get something as stupid as a Super Nintendo.

The demon is non-threatening as fuck, I mean holy shit, the kid literally threatens to burn his picture in a book if he doesn't give him a stupid console and it fucking works? That's just fucking silly. Besides how are those kids not shitting their pants and crying like little bitches while that monster is tearing them to shreds? What a stupid fucking comic.

>>14920105

Yeah, there are absolutely no consequences for what they did, because it's implied, that it all fucked up because the girl stepped out of the line. Fuck, what fucking price is the protagonist talking in the end? He only paid any price because they fucked up.

Remember, this is the generation that commits suicide for losing ipods.

>>14920133

an hero

>>14920003

>having your summoning circle go THROUGH the pentagram

big mistake

>>14920135

I got dubs at least.

Loss will never be topped. Quit trying.

>lol threads

I honestly missed these, OP's choice of comic be damned. That's something you woulf post midway, not an opener.

>>14920115

Whatever direction it goes in, it needs to go in some direction that is fleshed out. It's boring because there are no stakes, there's no connection to the characters, there's no threat, and everything looks so flat. It tried to hit like 5 angles in 12 pages, including introduction of the characters (the main character didn't even have a fucking name). I don't think anything it's doing can really be done in 12 pages. Maybe if it was one character and the monster, or two characters and the romance story, or something about the connection of the friends, or some lesson about not withholding too much from your kids, but not fucking all of it; even one of those would be really pushing it in so few pages. Even a real short story wouldn't try doing all of it in 12 pages, let alone a comic book.

At the very best, this lacks focus.

>>14920164

But I can eat squids

>>14920164

>9k1

Hilarious

I wish I could post "TEST" by the same author, because it's one of the most pretentious shit I could have ever read, but I cannot find it anywhere in a fashion that I can post.

>>14920208

>>14920211

I fucking hate the theme of moraly surperior aliens coming to judge humanity for our wrongdoings. It's like a college student putting his head up his fucking ass while talking about how horrible humanity is while never adressing any of the actual issues we have, nor even understanding why those issues exist in the first place.

>>14920211

Now that's just gay.

>>14920208

>>14920211

>Here's a monster ready to destroy an entire sentient civilization because… he was a homeless man and was treated badly? Countless works of art, billions of lives, on the balance of a single person's experience?

>BUT HUMANS ARE THE REAL MONSTERS

>>14920211

>>14920208

Oh boy, it's just The Day The Earth Stood Still yet again. How creative.

fuck off with this garbage.

>>14920211

Why do the cops lips go from black to normal in the last page?

>>14920224

>I fucking hate the theme of moraly surperior aliens coming to judge humanity for our wrongdoings.

you could make their morals alien to us, but haha effort

>>14920234

The worst part? The author couldn't even help but condratict himself in the last part with the "BUT HUMANS ARE ALSO SPECIAL" because the cop was the first to pass the test, while bitching about how horrible the humankind is. They can't even decide whether we're a horrible fucking species or special magical snowflakes in the end.

>>14920253

I think that's just him opening his mouth.

I get it. It was Hebrew chanting, and Hebrew writing. The comic was written by Jews, Ehud Laevski and Yael Nathan. The moral of the story is to obey mass advertising and give up your hard-earned shekels to buy valueless diversions. How are you guys not picking up on that?

>>14920299

I actually like this one because of calling out the stupid trend of people trying to elevate animals above humans because it sounds deep.

>>14920208

>>14920211

>Implying aliens are any better at saving the planet or whatever hippy crap is cool at the moment

>Chickens out of going full edge and killing everything

Now this is LOL

>>14920356

Then you get to "purge" them.

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>>14920009

I feel like I'm missing something.

>>14920356

Fuck them in the cunt and cum inside them

>>14920003

>nintendrones performing dark rituals to get what they want

How shocking

>>14920448

There's some pretty good stuff hidden in the Bible

<1 Timothy 4 verses 1-5

>Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

>commanding to abstain from foods

>God says that vegetarians are wrong

>>14920043

>>14920084

CONSUME MORE GOYIM

I don't know what's worse, that nigger has made this intentionally, or that he's so conditioned he makes propaganda without thinking.

>>14920115

>>14920211

<ha ha, humans are shit xD

No, it's just you. Without a fault.

>>14920267

That's because le enlightened freethinkers are good, and ebil backwards nazhees are behind all of the evil in the world. Humans are whatever suits their needs best at the moment, similar to doublethink.

>>14920299

>Dolphins are fuckers

In fact, they're rapists, masturbators and necrophiliacs.

>>14920448

Wouldn't be surprised by this, by diluting and bastardising religion Jews can go very far, as it makes people eventually stop caring, which is the worst case.

>>14920469

Could also be interpreted as processed shit being literally blasphemous.

>>14920484

>In fact, they're rapists, masturbators and necrophiliacs.

They also have a fetish for their trainers.

>>14920423

In my experience, white people tend not to abuse people for the fuck of it; especially not other seemingly white people. Now, if this had been in some leftist shithole of a pop center, and it had been black cops, it would be more believable.

>>14920505

That would be (((Saul of Tarsus))), my friend.

>>14920469

Yeah, haven't gotten to that part of the Bible. Still a ways away (Over half-way through Joshua).

>>14920490

But, everything is processed:

>The sun consumes elements of the universe and converts it into energy (which produces light and radiation)

>Plants process the sunlight into nutrients and specific compounds

>Animals process the plants into different/expanded/filtered nutrients and compounds

>Then humans eat the animals

>>14920506

Don't forget their obsession with feces and other degeneracy.

>>14920506

I think you're overthinking a stupid horror story a bit anon

>>14920448

Christfag here, and you're correct. We're lucky to have a very scholarly pastor at our church, who does a lot of research on his own for our bible studies, even going back to the original Hebrew and Greek and explaining how words can be translated different ways. A common refrain of his is that anyone can just pick and choose certain verses or passages of scripture and use them to justify all manner of un-Christian practices. Or someone can take two passages that seem to contradict each other and feel justified in writing off the whole thing entirely. The Bible should be read and understood as a whole, not piecemeal.

Your second pic is also relevant, because we've just gotten up to Revelation (not Revelations) in our New Testament studies. It's 100% correct in that the "Rapture" makes zero appearance in the text of Revelation. That the Rapture is so ingrained in our pop culture goes to show how few people even bother to look into these things.

>>14920469

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>>14920505

I believe that's more in relation to the Jewish dietary laws that were done away with by the early Christian church. Yeah no shit you shouldn't eat something poisonous, but it's not unlawful by the church to do so.

>>14920506

>saturday shit

This is satire.

>>14920529

>Yeah no shit you shouldn't eat something poisonous, but it's not unlawful by the church to do so.

It is if you knowingly do so, which would be considered suicide - and your soul would be condemned to hell.

>>14920541

I should hope so.

>>14920539

>Drunk bum called Jim 69

>Can you spare a dollar I need to buy meth.

>>14920505

dont eat the poisoned part, silly.

>>14920448

are bisexual girls halal? i want to build my harem.

>>14920208

>>14920211

>haha aliens aren’t apex predators on their world

>lolololol bad hoomans xddd

>HAHAH LOOOK IM SMART WORLD BAD UNFF XDDDD

>I AM ENLIGHTENED AND YOU NOT YOU PITIFUL HOOMANS

>haha like fuck borders and shit lol fuck the system hehe teeeheee

>what if we have no weapons like hha no murders anymore haha so silly lol

>>14920562

That's another thing, what's "deep"about it? What gives Auditor the right to play judge, jury, and executioner when even his own race couldn't pass the test?

>>14920566

>are bisexual girls halal? i want to build my harem.

It appears to be. In the sections on sexual morality in Moses books, he states that God finds incest, NTR/adultry, bestiality, faggotry among men, some instances of fornication, and crossdressing to be immoral, but there is nothing in there stating that faggotry among women is outlawed. Also, even the Jews had harems, so…

>>14920539

>you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it

Did the bible predict cucksheds?

>>14920211

This reminds me of that short story about humans getting ascended to super space tech by benevolent wandering aliens. Turns out humans were great and combined their Earth technology with biotech and controlled evolution and all kinds of other wild shit. Oh, but then this other race comes along, and they're the only race that's still violent and hostile because everyone else is so enlightened and pacifist. And the new race decides to fuck up humanity, almost wipes them out. So to ensure their survival, humanity fights back and genocides the only actually horrible species that even still exists in this perfect space utopia. The story ends with 'omg what did we do, these fuckin humans. other races, don't come to space, too spooky, there be humans here.'

>>14920633

come on, anon, that pic looks like shit.

>>14920633

>human legs

>alien body

Low tier

How come his art has gotten so much more tame over the years?

>>14920633

Nice dubs but

>worm ayy with pussy and legs

What the fuck is that?

>>14920633

For what purpose would a seemingly aquatic worm species have legs like that?

>>14920631

I miss HFY threads.

>>14920647

God's intention I guess

>>14920539

I went ahead and read Deuteronomy 28 im not christian and it reads like the fucking navy seal pasta.

>"All these curses will come on you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity … you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you."

>"If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo."

>>14920647

To continue the search for cock on dry land once it's exhausted every cock in the deep blue sea.

>>14920663

You want to read the original draft? Look up Leviticus 26

>>14920211

Can't wait for when we actually meet alien life and find out it's beneath us in every possible way. Likely just animals without sentience. Or, hell, maybe even a sentient civilization, but one with morals so different that they decided to stay in their caves. The fact we cannot locate traces of any clearly suggests that there is no space faring civilization in the vicinity

>>14920105

Not only does the thing not come back, but it doesn't even demand a price. Demon's don't do shit for free.

Its like he said "good enough" and put it out. What a waste of a decent premise.

>>14920631

Shit, I remember that on tvtropes and I can't find it again

>>14920663

Bible is the original navy seal pasta

>>14920544

Fun fact, there is literally nothing in the Bible that expressly condemns suicide. You might make the argument that the Fifth Commandment, "You shall not murder," could apply, since you would be murdering yourself, but it's not explicitly laid out that suicide is a sin, no less an unforgivable one. It also wouldn't make sense for God to condemn someone just because they killed themselves in a time of mental anguish.

Obviously, Christian teachings on suicide are that it is wrong, but many don't condemn the suicidal as they did in the past. One of the reasons they did in the first place was because there were groups that were killing themselves because they thought they would achieve martyrdom that way. That's less of a problem nowadays.

You're might also be thinking of Dante's Inferno, in which suicides were cast into one of the lower circles of Hell because of their violence against themselves.

>>14920700

>The fact we cannot locate traces of any clearly suggests that there is no space faring civilization in the vicinity

Which is why if we do meet any within the next few thousand years, it'll be because they came to visit us, and did so from very fucking far away, which immediately puts them way ahead of us (barring some highly implausible situation where they're actually just a bunch of niggers who somehow got their hands on some other superior race's technology and accidentally warped a spaceship into our moon.)

>>14920744

Of course it is. Some people take things like the Divine Comedy or Paradise Lost literally when they're often nothing better than tangentially Christian. Hell, the Divine Comedy is really nothing more than an allegory for man's recognition of sin and turning to God for forgiveness. Sick imagery though.

>>14920756

>Deuteronomy 32:43

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+32%3A43&version=NKJV

>“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His [a]people;

For He will avenge the blood of His servants,

And render vengeance to His adversaries;

He will provide atonement for His land and His people.”

<A: DSS fragment adds "And let all the gods (angels) worship Him"

>>14920009

>>14920003

If you knew such things existed in the world would you have children?

>>14920756

He's not wrong. In Genesis 6, there's mention of angels coming down and fucking humans, creating the giant Nephilim. They would later inhabit Canaan before being wiped out by the (((Israelites.)))

>>14920784

Who cares bruh, just play some super nintendo and lighten up

>>14920786

That's the exact line where "Sons of God" I wrote it as Sons of Man in that post, whoops appears, right?

>>14920786

>>14920800

"Sons of God" could also refer to Seth's descendants.

>>14920755

Or because WE come to visit THEM and find out they're ridiculous shitters that might be good for slave labour after a few decades of selective breeding. I aliens didn't find their way to us in the past 14 billion years, it's unlikely they'll choose near future to do so

>>14920710

>>14920631

It's The Damned trilogy by Alan Dean Foster, I think.

>>14920800

Yep. The Bible really does have a lot of interesting shit in it.

>Samson pulls down a temple and kills off a ton of Philistines all in one go

>some kids make fun of Elijah for being bald so he sics bears on them

>Ezekiel sees an angel and it's a bunch of rotating rings with eyes on them

>>14920816

they learned that if they started celebrating christmas, there was at least one day of the year that people wouldnt question where all their their stolen goods came from

>>14920818

>>Ezekiel sees an angel and it's a bunch of rotating rings with eyes on them

What the Hell? Source, please.

Also, there's the book of Job where it states that fire-breathing dragons and dinosaurs existed the same time as man.

>>14920693

>>14920710

>>14920818

I might start reading the bible just for all this crazy shit.

>>14920828

There's a good reason Japanese fucking love referencing Christian mythology in their vidyas.

>>14920448

So which version should be the one I read then?

>>14920744

>angels

I'm pretty sure the term used was Elohim which doesn't mean angels. It means gods, plural, because the book of Genesis was plagiarized completely from the Sumerians who had multiple gods all living on Earth at the same time.

>>14920211

>>14920208

That was just dull, it was like a wet fart, nothing interesting happened.

>>14920838

(New) King James Version

>>14920806

>I aliens didn't find their way to us in the past 14 billion years, it's unlikely they'll choose near future to do so

Anon, that's way too big o a stretch of time. For those first few billion, no planets had formed at all yet. Then give those aliens a few billion to evolve. Then give us a few billion to evolve. Then also make this all moot because humans as a species have only existed for a few million years, and have only had civilization for a few thousand, and have only been able to send out radio waves for a few decades, and have only been able to go into space in the past fifty or so years. On top of that, factor in the speed of light, so if they are observing the galaxy with any form of EM radiation, we won't look like anything special to them depending on how far away they are observing from. There is no reason at all any hypothetical aliens would know we exist, let alone want to come visit.

>>14920844

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>>14920849

Fuck off, faggot. KJV has some of the most offensive and egregious mistranslations ever seen in religious text.

>>14920818

>kids

That's a translation issue, they were much older.

>>14920838

The KJV is pretty comfy if you don't mind some archaic English it's much more readable than normalfags claim, and the NKJV is basically the same shit with some slightly updated English. If you want a decent modern translation, the ESV is pretty good too.

>>14920825

>Ezekiel 1

>Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them. As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of a chrysolite; and the four had the same likeness, their construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel. When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went. The four wheels had rims and they had spokes; and their rims were full of eyes round about. And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose. Wherever the spirit would go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

Dunno it seems like the drawings are a perfect match.

>>14920700

>vicinity

The nearest life-supporting planets are incredibly far away. We can't get there so it follows that they, with equal or lesser tech, can't get here.

>>14920851

I mean, everything's possible. But the idea that aliens just straight up went to be incredibly intelligent stright off the bat seems dubious to me. It's quite possible that humanity is one of the earliest sapient civilizations to come to be, and that we'll be dealing with primitives for the most part.

>>14920870

>We can't get there so it follows that they, with equal or lesser tech, can't get here.

Sad thing is, we never will unless we can break the speed of light, because that's no where near as fast as you need to go to get anywhere in the universe in a reasonable amount of time.

>>14920871

It's more than likely in my opinion, but I'm just saying that if ayys do exist, they haven't come to us because they don't know we exist.

>>14920043

>>14920057

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>>14920075

fuck off

>>14920849

>>14920859

Okay thanks anons

>>14920562

You'd think someone getting a tattoo would at least pick a patch where they didn't have gross pockmarks and spots but by the looks of 'her' that'd be a tall order.

>>14920915

Don't read KJV unless you want kiked nonsense. You want something as close as possible to the original Greek version.

>>14920816

The implication is that the demon made them since the exact request was a Nintendo for Christmas.

>>14920700

Even if we had lightspeed ships it'd still take 100+ years to get fucking ANYWHERE interesting.

>>14920940

Kiked how?

also what version do you recommend instead

>>14920711

>groups that were killing themselves because they thought they would achieve martyrdom that way. That's less of a problem nowadays.

Ah-err, anon I..

>>14920885

>more than likely

in the infinte expanse of the universe? Yes. In the surrounding of our planet to be even theoretically relevant? No. The chances of intelligent life appearing are insanely low. It is wholly possible for entire species to come and go without ever meeting one another in the vast expanse of space.

>>14920957

They mistranslated some fairly significant parts, largely in the New Testament. Unfortunately, that's the important one of the two. I'm doing a little research to find a better version for you. Alternatively, you could just make some mental notes of where all the fuckups are and correct them in your head as you read.

>>14920940

KJV is not kosher, that'll its new translations or NIV.

>greek

Unless you dont belive in the Holy Spirit, when the Pentecost happened people are able to know God in their own language.

>>14920957

Its a trap, anon.

Best way to know is to validate what texts were used, if things are ripped off or added. And who translated it.

KJV is the most reliable, because it doesnt leave things open "interpretation" for it being able explain itself(OT and NT do connect in it).

>>14920955

What the fuck do his parents have to do with some shit a retarded teenager barfed up?

What about all the IEDs they were busy setting up in shopping malls? Are they gonna go and disarm them all now?

>>14920003

>Buy anything your children want.

That's a shitty fucking lesson. They should have become 'bible thumpers' themselves after seeing that shit.

>>14920993

the KJV is not the most reliable, and in the translator's introduction to the KJV they explicitly stated this. the fact that translations like NIV, NKJV, NESV, and the whole slew of modernist interpretational trash are somewhat worse in certain areas doesn't make the KJV good.

if you actually give a shit about the subject then just compare the greek word 'genea' and how it's translated in every single mainstream translation.

if you lookup the word 'genea', which comes from 'genos', in an ancient greek lexicon (such as L&S), it clearly means 'race', 'folk', 'genetically-kindred people'. yet when christ calls the pharisees a genea of vipers in the original manuscripts, modern translators render this as 'generation of vipers' instead of the correct 'race of vipers'. and the KJV is no different, it mistranslates this word just like most other modern translations.

https://christogenea.org/CNT/contents

>>14921016

Isn't the NKJV a translation of all the Biblical texts found up to the 80's?

>>14920993

The KJV was one of the first to fully propagate the word Jew, which doesn't actually appear in the original Greek text. It's a lazy mistranslation of the word Judean. This means that when Christ denounced the Pharisees saying to beware those who claim to be Jews, he meant to beware those claiming to be Judean. He was telling everyone that the Pharisees were imposters, posing as fellow countrymen while really being Satanic foreigners. Jesus was also never King of the Jews, he was labeled King of the Judeans, since he was, after all, starting a political insurrection against the government at the time, ie. the Sanhedrin. Then there's the word Gentile, which also doesn't exist. It's a mistranslation of the word Hellenic, which is weird because the same word appears correctly translated elsewhere in the text. Instead of referring to every single non-Semite on the planet by saying Gentile, the word Hellenic specifically singled out the Greeks as being where the disciples would find the lost children of Israel.

i like how a LOL thread suddenly gets derailed to bible shit

not complaining, i found it funny somehow

>>14921078

LOL threads were very usually comfy about halfway into the thread until furfags came along to ruin it

>>14921085

the furfaggotry was the best part.

>>14921085

The entire point is to laugh at the disgusting tastes of Furfags.

Aswell as discover a basic human action you are doing right now is probably someone's fetish.

Stop it.

>>14921111

Fuck, give me a minute…

>>14921057

Gentile is derived from the Latin root word "gentilis" meaning "a distinct [sic] other clan, tribe, nation". It's also where we derive gene, geneology, generation from. It makes sense in English because the inhabitants of the Levant at the time refered to everyone who wasn't them as "Greeks/Hellenes" because it was the lingua franca (economic language) of the time period, hence why the original texts are in Koine Greek.

>>14921128

Looks like early 2000's.

>>14920816

You need one person per point on the pentagram, duh.

>>14921128

Is this meant to prove your point? Because it's not helping.

>>14921428

Oh wew, sorry I thought this was the E3 thread. I have the tabs right beside each other on my browser.

>>14921347

Tell me about it

I'm still confused about which version to go for

say what you will about lol threads, but they were always a great source of OC, camaraderie and culture

fuck brown for bumplocking the thread

>>14921482

Shit, even I got interested in actually reading the Bible and see how much bullshit was generated from it, intentionally or not. Should we ask the guys from >>>/christian/ for help or should we just continue in the next LOL thread? It's just that I found some interesting stuff about Hell on tvtropes of all places that states that it's severely misinterpreted mostly because of KJV.

>>14921529

Forgot to add the Divine Comedy in the end, but the point still stands.

>>14921446

what is this furry rat thing and why is it cute

>>14921584

Well, that is out of the question, then. I'll be reading the Bible and will be back in the next thread or two, assuming they won't get instanuked by (((Mark))).

>>14921572

It degenerated into fetish shit on the thirteenth page.

>>14921482

>>14921529

>which version to go for

If this site is to be believed: https://archive.fo/xxGAn

>King James Version

<All languages change over time. Hence, some translations, while good when they were originally introduced become difficult to use accurately simply because the common language has changed. The King James Version was a very good translation when it was first introducted in A.D. 1611. It has gone through several updates, the last of which dates back into the 1700's. Hence, the King James Version reflects the English used 300 years ago. While it remains a fairly good translation, still errors have been made using this translation simply because people do not realize that the definitions of words have changed.

>New King James Version

<This is good, solid translation that basically follows the King James but with modern English terms. If there is a fault, it is in its wide selection of word choices for translating words in the original language. A word in Greek might be translated five to ten different ways because readers of English find this to be more natural.

>New American Standard

<This is a good translation, though at times its phrasing is difficult to read due to its tendency to translate a word the same way every time it is used. It gives a better feel for what the original language presented, but many find its readability to be stilted. A severe problem is that retains the usage of Old English pronouns, such as "Thee" and "Thine," when God is talking or being addressed. The shifts between modern and older pronouns is disconcerting to most people and is not called for in a translation.

<The updated New American Standard Bible, also known as the New American Standard Bible 1995 edition, removed the old English pronouns. It also reads a bit smoother than the original NASB.

>American Standard Version

<The predecessor to the New American Standard, the American Standard Version is known for its precise translation. It was completed in 1901 so its English is slightly out-of-date. It shares the New American Standard's problem of switching between modern and older pronouns.

>English Standard Version

<This translation just recently came out in 2001. It appears to be a solid, literal translation of the orginal text. Many problems in past translations have been corrected; though it introduces a few problems of its own. For example, "man" and "woman" at the beginning of I Corinthians 11 is rendered as "husband" and "wife" though there is no support for this in the context of the passage. A good reviews of this translation can be found at: "The English Standard Version" and "English Standard Version."

>>14921616

do catholic and christians use the same bible?

>>14921651

NO!

The Catholic Bible is the Pope. It has nothing to do with what is actually in the text.

>>14921700

Maybe it's just because I already am familiar with those excerpts and their meaning, but it looks like in those specific instances the meaning is identical while the wording is different. I understand the point of those different translation approachs, but assuming the translators are concerned with accurate translation rather than subverting it- the results are quite similiar.

>>14921744

>The only thing /christian/ has going for it is size and even then things are so bad that you're better off looking for Christian discussion on other boards.

Come to the GG threads. We have a shemale leaf, a Gook who's lost all hope in saving his country from Feminism but wants his story told, some guy who wants to shag an Iranian girl, another Anon who may have committed incest, a grim reaper with a zombie as his waifu, a gun seller working for the FBI, one Anon who fapped to cwc after doing the nofap meme for two months, a beaner, two Spaniards, a Communist, one Anon from the Philippines, an Australian furry, I feel like I'm forgetting a few people and we have some pretty interesting religious and historical talks.

>>14921797

Look in Acts, that's a treasure trove when it comes to the New Testament. Paul going before Caesar probably qualifies.

>>14921805

Didn't Marche get butthurt about something and fuck off to Twitter for good?

>>14921820

He's still there, just doesn't much more secretive now.

>>14921797

Jesus cursing the fig tree was a metaphor, I'm doing my best to remember exactly what it was in reference to. I believe it was something about how the Jews weren't bearing the fruit of the Spirit because they were so wrapped up in sticking to the Law. So the fig tree stood for their ungodliness.

It does sound kinda funny out of context, the idea that Jesus would just go around cursing plants in between preaching and healing and whatnot. Another one is when he drove out the demons collectively known as Legion and forced them into a herd of swine, which then proceeded to jump off a cliff to their death. Good times.

>>14921805

>some guy who wants to shag an Iranian girl

He's also posting in the 4am threads about this.

>>14921990

Isn't he also the guy making those Shantae requests in the drawthreads?

>>14921990

Is it really the same nigger?

I thought that one specifically wanted an arab gf?

Either way he should end himself

>>14921990

I almost forgot about 4am. I should drop by again.

didn't she try to make a game wirth bimbos or something and it was terri

oh no, that was Wu

>>14920708

>>14920975

does this means we're living in a no man's sky

>>14921584

>>14921662

>>14921744

Wish there was a general religion board

>>14920984

The Orthodox Study Bible is really is fantastic. The only problem is that it uses the NKJV for the New Testament, but the notes usually make up for the translation errors.

>>14920711

>murder is a sin

>to be forgiven of a sin you must ask for forgiveness while alive.

>killing your self is murder, but now you are dead and cannot seek forgiveness

>suicide is an unpardonable sin.

>>14923852

Don't you have some kids to molest, (((Catholic)))?

>>14920529

This makes me wonder, is the popular "fire and brimstone" version of hell mentioned in the original hebrew and greek bibles?

>All these fucking Tumblr noses

>>14920211

>Alien comes down to judge humanity

<Alien has the same view of life as a pretentious human

I've tried to go over writing an entity that percieves things in a completely different way from humans due to being on a higher plane of being something we can't percieve because it's not something we can experience . It's one of the most if not THE most challenging things to write about in fiction. Even Lovecraft had a hard time doing it, because it's the equivalent of your brain trying to bash itself against a wall trying to make something new that we haven't experienced in our world before.

So when what is essentially a man that's "rly smart so u shld listen to him lmaoXDD" with an alien skin slapped over it, something in my brain snaps. It's using an appeal to authority on figure that the author didn't even try or care to write.

>>14924573

Interesting story. There are two words in the old Hebrew that are often translated as "hell" in modern vernacular. The first, Sheol, is referred to as the final resting place of the dead regardless of conduct in life. The second, Gehenna, refers to a literal valley where some of the kings of Judah sacrificed their children by fire, and was later deemed to be cursed. Gehenna was then used as a word to refer to the destination of the wicked when they died.

This is why you sometimes have the line in the Apostles' Creed saying that Jesus "descended into Hell," referring to the concept of Sheol. A better translation is "descended to the dead." In our studies of one of the New Testament letters, we went over some of the theories of what happened between the crucifixion and resurrection, one of those being that Jesus went to the dead and preached the gospel to those that had died before he came, to offer all of humanity the opportunity to be saved through him. It would make less sense for it to be literal Hell in this case.

The fire and brimstone stuff is generally interpreted from Revelation, but the key to understanding that book is to realize that it is not to be taken literally. It's full of symbolism that would mean a lot more to the early Christian church and its persecution by Rome, but can still be applied to the modern day. The best answer I can give with regards to heaven and hell and the afterlife and whatever is "we just don't know."

>>14924864

Well, in an attempt not to proselytize, I'll give the short version based on what I as a Lutheran believe. Our belief is simple: all one has to do to be saved is believe. Good works are nice to do and what we should do as a Christian, but nothing we can do allows us to earn a place in heaven. Only through God's grace are we saved.

Now, of course, this does raise the question of those who are generally good people but don't believe, what would happen to them in that scenario and such. I have a friend who is by far the nicest person I know, but he's basically atheist. Hell, there was a story a month or so ago where a kid asked the pope the same question. Unfortunately, again, the best I can do is "we just don't know." That sort of thing would be up to God and no one else. All we know is there is a guaranteed path through faith.

Again, really not trying to proselytize here because it's easy to feel like you are when you're just trying to discuss your faith.

>>14924864

reminder that when you die, you can no longer play vidya, browse imageboards or finish your backlog.

>>14928018

>white kid is somehow in prison while his parents were deported despite them having paperwork and entering the country legally

when does that happen, Dobson?

>>14928036

The EU, for questioning almighty Brussels on population replacement.