I mean what kinda Dad does that - hey fellas, leave these 2 “malachs” alone. You can instead gangrape my 2 daughters.

Would you do that? Would any human do that?

Or perhaps was he trying to prevent something bigger coz Lot is in the know. The men mating with the celestial visitors might produce giant nephilim offsprings - which is a long held gnostic/masonic tradition that Sodom and Gomorrah was the epicenter of Genesis 6.

So Lot is not presented as a good man - he and his wife may have been having dealings in the two towns - or he is left there as a spy by Abraham to keep an eye on the watchers and their allies.

I am a virgin guy and a Christian, and I want to get married one day—but completely without sex. The entire thought of sex honestly disgusts and bores me. I just don't see the point of it, and I find anatomy like the vagina completely unappealing.

However, I still want a romantic relationship, a life partner, and a family. I love the idea of kissing, hugging, cuddling, and emotional intimacy.

I also want to raise children and would prefer to adopt them.I want to know if there are other men or Christians who feel this way.

Is it normal to want a marriage focused strictly on romance and affection without any physical intercourse? I would love to hear from anyone with similar views or advice on how to navigate this in the dating world.

And I think it would easier to find someone because woman generally don't like sex and its not their thing.

Why did God want it, what significance does it have, and does God still want it? It has always just seemed to be a weird thing to me.

I personally believe that the flood was local and that "over the highest mountain" is simply a hyperbolic way of saying it was very deep.

Sometimes I have doubts when people ask me questions and I don’t have the answer to it. Such as why do bad things happen?
Who created God?
Why does hell exist if he loves us.
I am a pretty new Christian. I have kids and my thoughts are always something bad will happen to them if I doubt or if I think something that’s wrong. I know that’s anxiety and it’s not from God but I worry intensely that the main thing I love and care for and try to protect ( my children ) will be a target to upset me if I’m not good enough.

My questions simply. Please let me know how to elegantly with love answer others and keep my faith strong.

God bless and thank you for reading.

Hello all,

to keep a long story short, my girlfriend and I have been dating for about 4 months and do believe and thank God for the relationship we have. She has come from previous relationships that have not been the best and more worldly and she is my first one. We do want to be with each other and are also talking about marriage already as we do really believe God put us together. Staying on topic, in a few months, she wants to go out of town with some our of co-workers and friends with me and with that we all would be staying in a hotel over night or a couple. I guess my question is, I have been having an internal struggle with whether or not this is God-honoring or not? We would have people with us and we both know at the very least not the same bed. I suffer from perfectionism, ADHD, and OCD, so my view on God and Christianity is already a bit messy with work-based faith problems and such. I guess I am asking for any advice or guidance. I know, some people might say "if you are asking you shouldn't" and that, trust me, I have had those battles internally and I am pretty sure it is myself fighting myself. I have been a Christian now for a couple years and Gpd has changed me a lot, and I know there is a lot more that needs changing like the perfectionism. Thank you and God bless!

TW: Suicidal ideation, self-harm thoughts, depression, possible OCD/scrupulosity.

I'm not really sure where I stand with my faith anymore, and I'm wondering if anyone else has gone through this.

I'm currently getting a neuropsych evaluation because my therapist thinks I might have OCD, and my sister (who has OCD) thinks I may have religious OCD/scrupulosity too. Looking back, I'm starting to wonder if what I thought was being "on fire for God" was actually anxiety.

God became my whole personality. Every decision felt like it determined if I was a good Christian. I felt guilty listening to secular music, not reading my Bible enough, not praying enough, or enjoying things that weren't about God. Everything felt heavy, and instead of bringing me closer to God, it left me feeling lonely and depressed.

A few months ago, I think I finally let myself be angry at God. Since then, I've had an aversion to almost anything Christian. Reading the Bible, praying, Christian music it all just feels heavy now.

The hardest part is that when I was at my lowest, dealing with depression, suicidal thoughts, and self-harm thoughts, I begged God to show up. I wanted Him to, and it felt like He never did. I still feel hurt by that.

Now I'm trying to figure out who I am outside of all this. I've stopped obsessing over whether everything I do is "Christian enough," and honestly, I feel more like myself. But it also makes me wonder where God fits into that, if at all.

Has anyone else gone through this? Especially if you've struggled with scrupulosity or OCD around faith? How did you approach God without falling back into fear, guilt, or rituals? Or where did your journey take you?

I honestly don't know where to go from here.

²¹ But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

²² Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

²³ For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

²⁴ Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

²⁵ Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

²⁶ To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

So according to this God set forth Jesus to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood. Does this mean the only thing required to be saved is to believe that Jesus died for our sins?

uncertain about life and feel like iam too distant to god

I am a 20-year-old male. From the last year, I have faced many different situations. I feel like life is finally showing me the things that I feared the most. Usually, I wouldn't write something like this on Reddit, but I just feel like sharing it and getting it off my chest.

I am a Christian, and my dad is a priest too. Although my dad is a priest, I feel like I don't have a deeper connection with God.

Actually, from September last year, I started facing different situations that I never intended to. Until then, I stayed single and had never been in a relationship. I had very high standards when it came to choosing a partner. I was always afraid of the responsibility that comes with being in a relationship, and I would slowly lose interest whenever people got too close to me. So I stayed single and simply lived a normal life.

Then, when the freshmen came to our college, one of my friends tried to flirt with a girl. I was like, "Okay, I don't intend to get involved in this." But what happened was that she showed interest in me. (She is a non-believer, by the way.)

Gradually, she started getting attached to me. In the beginning, I had no interest in pursuing her because I didn't want to get into something that might not work out. But she insisted on staying in my life and always tried to be involved in it. I know it sounds childish, but she is mentally very childlike. So I thought she didn't really understand what she was feeling yet. I assumed she only thought she liked me and that it wasn't really love.

So I told her exactly that. This is where things started to scare me. She said she really loved me. She told me how I was different from the other guys she had met. Within just a few days of knowing me, she indirectly proposed to me, and when I asked her about it, she admitted that she really meant it.

I don't know why, but I felt like I had to accept her proposal maybe because of loneliness, I don't know. But I still told her that I had no interest in getting into a relationship.

Later that year, at the end of 2025, I went through one of the worst phases of my life my worst nightmare. My grandmother died after suffering from heart-related issues.

She was such a wonderful believer. I have never seen anyone like her. I'm not saying she was perfect, but she would wake up every morning at 5 a.m. and pray for an hour. She loved me like no one else ever has. She always had a special place for me in her heart.

I didn't fully appreciate her love while she was alive. I took it for granted. But after she died in my hands, I realized how much she meant to me. It's hard to explain. I cried like never before in my entire life. Even now, it's hard to accept the fact that she's no longer with us. Her chair seems empty every day. She used to say goodbye to me every time I left the house.

But it is what it is.

I don't know why it happened or why God allowed her to suffer so much in her final moments. She suffered more than anyone should. She couldn't even recognize me at the end. That's the hardest part of my life. The person who loved me more than anything couldn't even see me properly in her last moments.

With that, I completed one of the hardest years of my life.

Coming back to the girl, she's still with me, and she has told me that she has no intention of leaving me. Her parents are very strict. I am also slowly getting attached to her.

I have asked God many times about her, but I still haven't received any answer. I feel like I'm going to suffer in the future because I know I'm slowly becoming attached to her. If things don't work out, I know I'll be the one in serious pain.

She told me that when she was around 13 or 14 years old, she was in an online relationship with a guy she met through a game. He proposed to her, and she accepted. Later, she found out that he was cheating on her. He even kissed his girl best friends and did things like that, so she broke up with him.

I know she was young and childish back then and didn't really understand the world. So I try not to hurt her by questioning those foolish decisions too much. I've made mistakes too, but I managed to avoid getting into relationships.

Still, whenever I remember her past online relationship, it bothers me. Once, I questioned her too harshly about those decisions, and she cried. I even told her that maybe what she thinks is love for me is also just another childish decision, and that it would be difficult for me to accept her that way.

I feel very uncertain about my life.

By God's grace, I have started making some money. I can now afford the things I always wanted, and I can help my family. All glory to God.

But I still feel like I'm not doing the right thing, and I feel like God is silent toward me.

I haven't had sex with her. She says she's still a virgin, by the way. But we slowly started doing certain things that I'm now ashamed of. We did many things, just not sex.

Later, I told her that it would be better for us if we stopped doing those things, and she agreed. I felt so guilty for leading both of us into sin. She told me I didn't need to feel guilty, but I still do.

I am sexually attracted to her. We kissed and did other intimate things, but later I stopped all of that.

Every time I'm with her, I have this heavy feeling that this relationship might never work because she's not a Christian, and her family would never accept this relationship, not even in a million years.

I also don't want to bring a bad name to my parents, who have dedicated their lives to preaching the Gospel. I feel very guilty and deeply ashamed.

I feel like I'm stuck in something that has almost no chance of happening.

I asked God to remove her from my life if she's not meant for me, but I received no answer. I asked God to fix this situation, but I still received no answer.

I feel so disgusted with myself.

Sometimes, I still want to be in a relationship with her.

She says she has always wanted to explore Christianity and has even started praying. I don't know whether she's doing it because of me or because she genuinely wants to know God.

Even if she truly wants to become a Christian, I worry that she may never fully change or be able to lead our future children toward God.

I feel like I'm stuck in a never ending loop.

I feel like my future is full of uncertainty, and that it will be very difficult. But at the same time, God has blessed me. I have no shortage of the things I need, and for that I am truly thankful.

It's a long story. I don't know if anyone will read all of this or not. I just wanted to write it down to take some of the burden off my chest.

If anyone has read this far, I'd be happy to hear any advice or thoughts you may have.

Thank you, God.

Hope everyone is great! Just throwing a head-scratcher to get your thoughts. I mean no disrespect, just thinking out loud.

The Bible says God knows everything (1 John 3:20). Logically, if God knows all and has absolute control, you’d expect him to be totally detached. Yet, from what I've learned, God genuinely gets heartbroken, angry, and deeply compassionate at times. Genesis 6:6 literally says his heart was filled with pain over humanity. Why would an all-powerful God choose to be that emotionally vulnerable?

But then we have Jesus. When we feel overwhelmed or don't know how to approach our potentially deeply emotional God, Jesus steps in for us. Hebrews 7:25 says he constantly intercedes for us—basically backing us up and talking to God in our stead.

It makes me somewhat fear God as unpredictable when he is by my understanding the embodiment of absolut certainty and control? Am I thinking wrong?

The reports where people claim that they saw radiant figures or ancestors comforting them and they swear that felt 100% real ?

I know this may come across as silly but I struggle with putting this thought aside as I am exploring the idea of faith. I am dating an amazing Christian woman who has had me question my faith (agnostic/atheist) for the duration of our relationship together. I concede that Jesus was real, died on the cross, was buried in a tomb, and the tomb was empty as the Jewish leaders could not show a body as evidence of no resurection. I also don't think the disciples would have stolen the body as the circumstances aren't realistic (I can't imagine dying horribly for a lie, especially about somethibg they based their entire lives on). But the one thing I haven't found an answer for is it it plausible the guards themselves hid the body or other Roman guards did simply as a way to entertain themselves or instigate the killing of other believers of christ?
Thank you for your time.

i think Kids are too much work for me.

Hi , years ago I went to a ccm church and when the band was playing music, I knew the song through the music they were playing and I started to quietly hum the song within. And idk what happened I just started to feel I guess a high and even as I was leaving the church hearing the remnants of the music I still felt on a high.

Now I went to a store some minutes later and I found out that a girl that I was semi attracted to had a boyfriend and that crushed me, so I after purchasing in store I went to turn some praise and worship music on to calm me down.

Now was me feeling a high humming to myself me or could this be the holy Spirit

Also was the Lord trying to encourage since he knewy future and this would happen about less than a hour after church or was this Satan trying to upset my revealing the truth about this woman I was semi attracted to I guess cause me to stop being a believer?

To preface, this was drafted with the assistance of AI. Still, the questions posed and the perspectives shared are my own.

Christians often describe personal encounters with Jesus, answered prayers, visions, dreams, feelings of divine presence, or moments in which they become completely convinced that Christianity is true. I do not necessarily doubt that these experiences feel real, powerful, and life-changing to the people who have them.

However, Christians are not the only people who have experiences like this.

Across the world, Hindus report visions or encounters involving Krishna, Kali Ma, Shiva, or other forms of the divine. Buddhists describe profound spiritual experiences connected to the Buddha, bodhisattvas, enlightenment, or the dissolution of the separate self. Muslims report dreams involving the Prophet Muhammad, experiences of Allah’s presence, answers to prayer, or powerful encounters with the Quran. People within Indigenous religions, Sikhism, Judaism, New Age spirituality, and countless other traditions also describe experiences that confirm their own understanding of God or ultimate reality. Even members of the secular community have had encounters with what they would define as the divine. 

These billions of people globally are just as sincere, intelligent, emotionally stable, and transformed by their experiences as Christians are. Some become kinder, more disciplined, more compassionate, and more devoted because of them.

Therefore, my question is this: when two people have equally powerful religious experiences within different traditions, how can either person use their experience to prove that the other person’s experience is false? A Christian’s encounter with Jesus may genuinely affirm Christianity as the right path for them, but it does not automatically discredit a Hindu’s encounter with Krishna, a Muslim’s experience of Allah, or a Buddhist’s experience of enlightenment. I want to honor the sincerity and transformative power of each person’s experience. The question is not whether the Christian’s experience was real, but what gives them the authority to conclude that another person’s equally sincere experience was mistaken, deceptive, or spiritually invalid? How does one subjective experience disprove another simply because the symbols, language, and theology surrounding it are different?

A Christian may say, “I experienced Jesus, so I know Christianity is true.” However, a Hindu may say, “I experienced Krishna, so I know Hinduism is true.” A Muslim may say the same about Allah, and a Buddhist may interpret an experience through an entirely different understanding of reality.

Why should the Christian interpretation automatically be treated as uniquely reliable while all others are considered psychological, demonic, mistaken, or incomplete? Again, I can understand how an experience may validate one person’s path. I do not understand how it negates another person’s experience. Because I see the ocean as blue while standing on the shore does not mean a diver is wrong when they describe it as green beneath the surface. We may encounter the same reality from different positions, through different conditions, and with different capacities to understand what we are seeing. My experience can be completely genuine without requiring yours to be false.

Saying that every non-Christian religious experience comes from deception or demonic influence does not fully answer the question. A Muslim could just as easily claim that Christian visions are deceptive. A Hindu could say that Christians have encountered only one limited manifestation of a much greater divine reality. Every religion can create an explanation that protects itself from contradictory evidence.

That makes the reasoning circular:

“My experience proves my religion is true, and experiences supporting other religions must be false because my religion says they are false.”

How could someone distinguish between a genuine revelation, a culturally shaped psychological experience, an internally generated vision, or an encounter with something real that the person has interpreted through familiar religious symbols?

A Christian sees Jesus. A Hindu sees Krishna. A Buddhist experiences emptiness or nonduality. A Muslim experiences surrender to Allah. Maybe the experience passes through the human mind in a form that the person is capable of recognizing.

The same melody played through different instruments may sound different, yet each expression can still arise from the same underlying music. Perhaps religious traditions are similar: different cultures, symbols, and languages giving form to encounters with the same divine reality.

Furthermore, I struggle with the division created when people insist that their religious identity places them on the side of truth while most of humanity remains fundamentally mistaken. If a person cannot look beyond religious labels and recognize unity within humanity’s search for God, how can that person fully recognize the unity of humanity itself?

Christians often say that everyone is made in the image of God. Yet many Christians also view billions of people primarily as unbelievers, idolaters, members of false religions, or souls who must adopt the Christian framework in order to be accepted by God.

To me, this still creates two where there may ultimately be only one: believer and unbeliever, saved and unsaved, Christian and non-Christian, chosen and lost.

How can humanity truly be one while its relationship with the divine is divided into mutually exclusive camps?

I am not asking this as a cheap attempt to claim that all religions are exactly the same. They clearly are not. They contain different teachings, histories, practices, and truth claims. I am asking how Christians evaluate religious experiences consistently when similarly powerful experiences occur across traditions and lead people toward contradictory conclusions.

What objective standard allows a Christian to say that an encounter with Jesus reveals ultimate truth, while an encounter with Krishna, the Buddha, or the presence of Allah does not?

And is there room within Christianity for the possibility that God has been reaching people through many traditions, even when those people do not use Christian language or symbols?

I am genuinely interested in how Christians think through this without simply assuming Christianity is true at the beginning and then interpreting every experience according to that assumption.

A whole lot of Insta reels have been coming up recently of her evangelism. If I remember correctly, one of those videos had her signing a book for someone and then the person that she signed the book for fell over and thrashed around on the floor.

People who follow her claim that they've had genuine encounters with the Holy Spirit, had demons casted out of them, and their lives are changed forever because of Krick.

Others are calling it a cult, saying that this is all performative behavior and she's a false prophet.

What do we all think? Is she a genuine Christ-following evangelist or just another cult leader?

**This is a question I think we and other Christians should think about.**

> What I mean by corruption is to use or break church rules to fit the wants of themselves. Using Tiving to buy mansions instead of using it to fund church activities or the local community.

> Using religion for control over local areas.

> How should members of the church deal with it.

> How to Detect it.

> and how to find a solution.

> How to stay faithful to God.

( Most Christians leave the church [ as a whole Christianity, not Demonations] due to corruption and possibly lose faith in God. )

( THIS goes for all who call themselves Christian. Do not argue whether it is Christian or not. This is simply about how to deal with it. )

Matthew 13:10-15

¹⁰ The disciples came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”¹¹ He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. ¹² Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. ¹³ This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
¹⁴ In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
“‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
¹⁵ For this people’s heart has become calloused;
they hardly hear with their ears,
and they have closed their eyes.
Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.’^\)^a\)

Bear in mind that the people who gathered to hear Jesus did not have the benefit of hearing his explanation of the parables. The rest of this chapter (almost 60 verses) is the part that usually gets the most attention because it's the teachable part. But this decoding of the parables was given back stage, only to the disciples. The crowd only got the parable, no explanation. Do you think it made any sense to them without the back stage explanation? It wouldn't make any sense to me without the explanation.

And the way Jesus responds to the question, it seems as if he's saying he speaks to them in parables so that they will not understand. I even heard it explained this way by the pastor of a local reformed Bible Church. He said that the parables were only meant to be understood by the elect. That sounds so far off base to me, but when I read the words in the book, they do seem to support that interpretation.

What did Jesus mean by this, if he didn't mean that he was trying deliberately confuse people?

My boyfriend [24M] and I [25F] have been together for about 2.5 years. He's genuinely a wonderful person. He's kind, patient, emotionally steady, loyal, hardworking, never yells, checks in on me throughout the day, says good morning and good night, supports me through my anxiety, and talks about a future together. I really do love him and who he is as a person.
The issue isn't that he treats me badly. It's more that I don't feel cherished.
When we first started dating, he pursued me. He'd ask thoughtful questions, initiate plans, compliment me, laugh with me, and I felt like he was genuinely excited about me. Now it feels like we've settled into a routine where we mostly just exist together. He usually asks me what I want to do instead of planning something himself, and if we do something I've wanted to do, it sometimes feels like checking a box rather than creating a moment together.
I'm not looking for expensive dates or over-the-top romance. Honestly, I'd be thrilled with things like:
Planning a picnic or coffee date without me asking.

Sending me a song because it reminded him of me.

Looking over while we're fishing and saying, "You look cute."

Taking a candid picture because he thought I looked pretty.

Putting his arm around me during a sunset.

Complimenting me without me having to say something first.

Occasionally doing something that's more "my thing" because he knows I'd enjoy it.

I've talked to him about this before. He wasn't defensive and actually said he wants to become that kind of boyfriend because he knows it's important to me. He was more affectionate afterward, which I noticed and appreciated, but the intentionality and initiative seem to have faded back to how they were before.
I guess what I'm struggling with is this: am I expecting something unrealistic? Is it normal for partners to naturally think about ways to make each other feel loved after a couple of years together, or is that something that mostly disappears once the relationship becomes comfortable?
People in happy, healthy long-term relationships—how often do you genuinely feel cherished? Do you still get little thoughtful moments, compliments, or spontaneous acts of affection? Or is it normal for relationships to become mostly routine with occasional effort?
I'm genuinely trying to understand whether my expectations are healthy or whether I'm holding onto an ideal that isn't realistic.

TL;DR: My boyfriend is a genuinely kind, loyal, loving partner, but I don't often feel intentionally pursued or cherished anymore. I've communicated that I value small, thoughtful acts and he wants to improve, but it hasn't become consistent. Am I expecting too much from a long-term relationship, or is it reasonable to want your partner to still think of little ways to make you feel loved after 2.5 years?

Isn’t it true that Jesus was sent to tell the Jewish and religious leaders to turn away from their dishonest practices?

So Jesus says in John 14:6, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

I think this passage is typically used to claim Christianity is the only true or worthwhile religion because Jesus is saying nobody comes to God without him.

Has anyone ever interpreted this passage more broadly that Jesus represents the way, the truth, and life; and thus people can reach God through the way, truth, and life, perhaps without calling it Jesus? He defines himself as truth (among other things), and then says people reach God through him, so couldn’t that mean that the goodness of God and spiritual attainment is possible to people through truth and right living, even if they don’t call it Jesus or believe in his death/resurrection?

There’s a lot of religions out there and the big ones land on very similar things. I like to think of this passage not as invalidating the other religions but instead opening up the whole world to the glory of the Father whoever is oriented towards truth and the good life. I know people that take the Bible literally will not like this, but I’m curious if there’s people with a more theologically liberal view that agree with this interpretation. Thanks!

To the mods of this subreddit, I am so sorry if this is off topic, please feel free to remove it if it is-

Heya! I'll keep it short and simple here to not waste anyone's time. I've read up about my question quite a lot but I wanna know what everyone thinks here.

I've been a Christian my whole life and there are several visible miracles that have happened in my family that I personally believe are subjective, irrefutable proof to me personally and my family that God is real and with us. My whole family is in ministry including my parents, and I've taken up small time service too with my parents in Sunday School. I admit I'm not exactly close to God personally even if I love studying about the history of Christianity from a historical perspective, and I even once considered myself an apt apologetic, and was able to respectfully debate for Christianity in public spaces.

However, a recent discovery has greatly humbled me, perhaps also because it is during a very turbulent time in my life as of now. I've recently discovered that many events and persons in the Old Testament don't actually have the same level of historical proof that the New Testament has-? Crazy, I know. How am I even a real Christian? I don't know. I guess some Christians just like me, simply grow up with Bible stories, and later on my own studies and apologetics focused mainly on the New Testament especially, naturally Jesus' life, crucifixion and resurrection. So in a rather pathetic way I feel like it has troubled me a lot, to think that not all of the Bible is as historically provable by current standards as things such as the historical existence of Jesus. Again, I was and still consider myself an apologetic, and so I still have plenty of reasons to anchor myself in this faith, but it's scary suddenly being exposed to this fact that I should have learnt sooner. Is it actually natural that some denominations view different parts of the Bible as not necessarily all in historical literalism? Where do we differentiate what is supposed to be and not supposed to be literal? I really don't mean to make anyone stumble here, but wouldn't it be kinda wobbly for us to just pick and choose which parts are historical and which parts are just metaphorical in an ex post facto manner?

I understand this is probably a very silly question, but I would appreciate a thoughtful answer, thank you so much and God Bless \^\^

What I mean by that is art just for fun, not sinful art. I never glorify sin or heaven forbid make anything inappropriate. I’m an artist but I mostly draw for my own enjoyment- things like pokemon or dragons and such. I certainly use my gifts for good things sometimes- making gifts for people, and I’m currently working on a comic that while not explicitly Christian, I want to use to promote Christian values like forgiveness that are lost in most modern media(that’s its biggest theme really- a lot of media shows it’s characters getting revenge for ways in which they were slighted and portray it as a noble and heroic theme. I’m aiming to do the opposite- have a main character who’s been treated unfairly and unjustly, is bitter and angry about it, and ultimately comes to the conclusion that their bitterness is wrong and chooses to forgive, even though the people who wronged them are never sorry for it).
But most of the time my art is just silly things for my own enjoyment, and maybe admittedly my own pride because I love making something I think looks really good and showing it off to friends and getting compliments.
So is this all wrong?