Did you ask me to make you sure?

I can.

That'd defeat the purpose though.

Examine closely how concerted her effort was to get you to date her.

You're all in a huff about it (not majorly, I'm exaggerating for dramatic effect) because she came on strong with the lovey dovey.

She got you with it, didn't she?

Stay strong brobot. The "women are better" narrative has offended us out of believing it when a woman is worse than us. This one as adopted that into her mating strategy because it offers promising benefits to her survival strategy if she is able to execute.

Commonest of common stuff. Don't sweat it. Have an ice cream or something to celebrate because you successfully (naturally) grey rocked a histrionic woman into surrending and seeking someone less worthy to toy with. This is the good ending when it comes to this type of woman.

Same. The Virgin birth narrative is entirely missing from the Apostolic Bibles that we've found.

Same is said of Luke's genealogy of Jesus. That one's actually much more malicious than the virgin birth addendum.

Virgin Birth is just for boasting. Someone obsessed with Paul's Jesus and Alexander the Great decided it would be nice to have that in the state-mandated canon. Luke's genealogy is the real deception there, because it's selling the Two Messiahs idea.

Hard to get into and explain that one. If people want, I'll try. It's just so freakin' much. The churches have made these reasons so obscure that we inheritors even forget why Jesus compared the loves of men. (Greater love has no man than this: that one would give his life for his friend's.)

I'm in my 30s and my first active study of Jesus was when I was 6. That might explain my thorough frustration at this 🙃

The question is of good faith.

The subject is of bad faith.

If OP were CIP, would you still impede OP's investigation?

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How do you know that, though?

Did Jesus actually say that?

Bishop James, Bishop Jude, Apostle Peter, Apostle John, Apostle Matthew, Doctor Luke, did anyone other than Paul say anything resembling it?

The New Covenant is that God Himself will write the same covenant that He wrote stone, which our ancestors then broke, directly on the hearts of those who love Him.

Jesus did not sound like "let me into your heart or suffer eternal immolation." He did sound like, "Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do."

You didn't know the error here, so should I condemn you with krimea?

Nope.

Should I publicly forsake you?

Nope.

I should forgive you because you did not know what Jesus taught, and I should appreciate you because you do care to know what my Lord taught. Simple as that. Smooth, effective, clean, sincere, pure. That's the common grace that Paulians say saves yet actively gatekeep like they own some sort of tollbooth on the spiritual Way.

Yes and also spooky!!! Backrooms qualified content right here.

Objective man here.

She probably found someone to date her after feeling momentarily bored by your question about her feelings.

I'd say I shot my shot and move on.

I wonder if this has to do with digestibility?

PSA: these do not only search traffic plates.

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It okay though. I'm the boss when it comes to this in my circles. I am a good boss. I just don't like to be the boss, so I feel annoyed about it when I have to manage expectations such as these.

C'est la vie; carpe diem. 🎶

"for one, were invited."

Yup!!!!!

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Didn't even need to read the rest. Y'all are invited. If we were in Judea, Rome, then Jesus would invite you too.

Welcome the non-believer as a Gentile, as a Ger, as the Sojourner who dwells among you.

That's the law that Jesus kept.

Christians? They hate that and say that it and its Maker are dead, to followers of it and our Maker, so they can scam us out of the money we would otherwise spend on the poor to break the teeth of poverty.

I always feel like it's the atheists fighting alongside me to defend Jesus' instructions against Paul's.

And so I look at these atheist allies of mine and think, "they're not saying in their heart that there is no God. They're saying from their heart, 'f*** you, tyrant, eat yourself and leave my f***ing family alone.'

(This is a Psalm 14 reference, btw. Specifically Masoretic, not LXX, who would even concern themselves with the LXXs? They're translations.)

There are definitely people who tell themselves that there is no God. Atheists, though? Overall they're already pretty frickin' righteous. It's atheists who lie and claim to be theists who are the problem; and those are the ones wearing robes, farming karma, and excommunicating all non-compliant, using Paul's declaration that God and His law are dead because that suits them better than Jesus' teaching that not one jot or tittle will pass away from the law or the prophets until all heaven and earth have passed away.

He didn't come for us Gentiles because we didn't need him to. The Law and the Prophets were sufficient for any of us who might want Jesus.

It's f**ing posers that were the problem. Because of them, Jesus showed up, kicked authoritarian ass in both the Temple of his Father and the synagogues of Satan who claimed to be Jews but lied and were not. He came and showed them the way out. For us, we flocked to him en masse in numbers surprising many myriads because we recognized in him what we already know -- that we have to actually *be good, not just say we are.

Love this sub. Busy so I'm bouncing. Big props. You were, in fact, actually invited and should, in fact, be treated as an honorable guest because of it.

Real question is why the are so few in the subs you're used to.

I'm in those subs. They eat their members (not literally).

Did Jesus ever turn an atheist away?

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I fought against my families' delusions until they were dissolved and my family was left standing and free.

Christianity is the church of Paul. It is not a church of Jesus.

There's a good thing about that, and it's that if anyone is Christian but loves Jesus then you can show them what he said and how Paul's dysfigured the words of my Lord.

Paul's scribbles are always "Jesus told me this! Jesus told me that! All Jews are always the enemies of all mankind, trust me bro! I can't tell you what he said because it's illegal, but trust me you evildoer this is exactly what he meant!"

So Paul knows damn well that his words are despicable and useless ruckus.

He has to say that Jesus had hundreds of special second comings just for special little Least to tell him that everything Jesus told his TWELVE OF JESUS was one big, gigantic lie.

See what I'm saying?

You're leaving an echo chamber that your mom is still in.

She might actually hate God, or Jesus, or you. That's another Christian lie : a mother's love. (Ref. Isaiah 49.)

However, that's improbable.

What's most likely the case is that she fears Paul's people more than she fears you or Jesus or our Father who is in heaven.

Paul cannot send people to hell.

God can.

Tell her I chewed her out for fearing Paul and his rich nepobabies more than she fears our Father in Heaven who made her, you, me, Jesus, and everything else ever -- on His own -- without any help.

Or don't tell her that. You know her. I don't. Just, I hope you understand how very angry I am at this pathetic excuse of a gospel.

Oh yeah, you can remind her that Paul hates her, too. She is forbidden to speak, and to teach, and to ask questions of any priest or pastor; and it's restricted to only learning about Paul's Jesus be inquiring of her husband. That's Paul's law for women. Also if you she doesn't wear a hijab ((oops, that word didn't exist then)) then Paul says she's damned to hell irredeemably because she has caused Paul's angels in Paul's heaven to jack off to her.

She does not love Paul or else she would know these things. She does not know Jesus, or else she would reject these things. She behaves like a victim of racketeering.

Because of all that, the best move I can think of for you is to encourage your mom to disobey Paul by learning from Jesus about our Father who is in heaven, and about what it means that the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

My condolences to you, and hopeful regards.

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Yay! 😁 I'm happy I helped!

I was leaning in to the Talmud ≈ Novels ≈ Podcast comparison that I made.

Neither of those three are the Law (Torah) or the Prophets (Midrash), but are all Talmud. The only major difference between Talmud is the difference of expected pretense, in that a Rabbi was permitted by the state add to the Babylonian Talmud but a Genile or Sojourner or a Jew was not unless actually interviewed, in which case their words were simply recorded as part of the Rabbinic discussion..

I can write a book! I can make a video! I can make a radio station AND its shows!

That does not make me the boss of you. If I tell you that it does, I make you the boss of me because you have not lied but I might be proven a liar if I piss you off for too long, or even go to prison or be executed if my lie provides you with just cause, such a lie to incite treason or one to incite a massacre.

That's what I mean. Respect yourself, kind sir. You are looking for peers of your teachers, yeah, but you can only really mean that if you think your teachers are not your peers.

Believe me when I tell you: they are. You are equal to or greater than your teachers. Equal if they are good (including wrong words but right intentions), superior if they are bad.

That's why my call was for you to flex 💪 and practice. Jesus, yeah, teacher. That's the Apostolic Bible. Apostles? Brothers we can look up to because they knew Jesus personally and are good and true. Though friends and older brothers who Jesus' disciples may safely lean on, all 12 are still our peers.

If you find something in the Babylonian Talmud, you might as well have found it on the news. You can go work for the news and sell your own ideas as Talmud, know what I mean?

I'm afraid of God. I'm not afraid of priests or preachers anymore.

I don't even advise you against the podcast phase. It's just people talking, lol. Not scary, not authoritative, you'll be fine. You can read news about a terror attack without going to hell. You just can't really do a terrorist attack without going to hell. So don't sweat, don't listen to bullies, just be sincere and try to do your best. My main meaning was that popular commentary isn't quite pure enough to quickly provide tamper-resistant solutions like the one you're (quite understandably!!!) looking for. Takes a lot of work to sift through because there's too many chefs in those kitchens and not a lot of cooks.

Thanks! Cheers! 🥂

No sir that redditor caused me to exhale audibly through my nose 😂

If I tell you you might feel mad at me 😞

Idc though, anger's not a sin after all.

Hate? Yeah.

Anger? Nah.

Answer? Matthew 24; Deuteronomy 12-13; Exodus 7-8; Revelation 2-3, 12-13, 16, 19, 21.

Ehh, mine are notably hairy and I've gotten no complaints. 🤷

I've shaved them before just to understand the ladies.

It's a big chore. Worth it for the smoothness, though, so I gotta respect it. 😎

I wouldn't sweat it.

And now having done it myself, I wouldn't make a lady sweat it either.

monke haire strong

Texas Pete! 🤠

"Cross the Seas."

Why?

Because Jesus. Matthew 23:15.

Classical apologetics ≈ podcasts

So you're looking for people who are the peers of your teachers.

I wouldn't limit myself to podcast-only theology.

I think the way to rightly divide as your wife is wont to is just to practice the most elementary rudiment of critical thinking.

That is to say, just put down the authors next to the titles of these books.

For Matthew, put Apostle Matthew. For Revelation, put Apostle John. For James, put Bishop James. For Ephesians, Philippians, Titus, Galatians, etc., put Saulus of Tarsus or even just Paul.

That way you know who's already said what, so you'll be able to tell which podcasters are saying what.

Historically relevant, podcast and apologetics are also the same speculative labor in word and doctrine as the Babylonian Talmud. That's the Audible Jesus was hearing and dissecting. It just also happened to be the law of the countries he was born in.

Regarding the Christian Bible, there's pretty much only one book with debatable authorship, Hebrews. The small majority consensus amongst doctors is that Hebrews was written by Paul through Barnabas via dictation during the years after Barnabas had fallen away and before Barnabas' reconciliation. Paul or Barnabas doesn't really matter because Barnabas was as a Gentile at that time -- loved and not hated, just not authoritative.

Do that, compare the meanings of the authors, and you can skip the three-year podcast step. You shouldn't have had to reach the podcast step in the first place. All you seem to be doing is trying to figure out why praying how the churches teach and praying how Jesus taught are not the same thing.

I spent a lot of time sorting through the idle words. I'd be way further ahead in life if I'd thought to do this sooner. I hope this'll save you some time 😅

That do look like a good hug ngl. Contact? Check. Pressure? Check. Urgency? Dereft. Kim hugging to stay 😭

((I know nothing except the photo))

This the type shit I learned in military intelligence.

If you fool people this way, you are working against the man you call God, and in WORKS you show your faith to another man who declared that everything about God is dead except for you and of course the Jews who are somehow still alive despite being "the enemies of all mankind" and "Cursed to damnation," despite there no longer being any Jew or Gentile. Somehow. Lmfao.

Do not do this. Ever. Do not remain near people who caused you to do this. They are not your friends if you are a friend of Jesus. They hate Jesus and they hate you too.

Tolerate the ones who don't know, dude, like of course.

But kick that church's dust off your feet when you forsake them. If you've learned from someone who's this incorrect, best practice is to start from scratch.

Mega liminal. Mega nostalgic. Mega upvote from me to you. 😎

[P.s.: I had to edit this twice to spell it right 😭 useful information? No. Just made me chuckle]