Even if you’re dying from microplastics, skin cancer, or poor diet, you can still participate in the Kingdom of Heaven. Don’t let the internet fool you about what’s important.
Is the “wife of your youth” similar to dreaming? (Proverbs 5)
Her love is intoxicating but in a controlled way, unlike the love of the strange woman (bitter like wormwood).
The existence of “gods” is obvious. Ancient cities were defined by the god/s they worshipped. Look at cities now.
New York and Los Angeles
New York worships the god of finance
Los Angeles worships the god of the theater
Eros is the desire to penetrate the unknown. And once the unknown is made known, the desire dissipates. God alone is eternally worthy of eros, as he cannot be fully known.
The church is the ark in which the seed of faith is preserved despite the world. The goal is to “carry the fire,” not to save the world as it currently exists.
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor microplastics nor EMFs, nor election results nor war, nor AI nor bitcoin, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The ancients were right about the ring of fire around the earth. We call it ozone now.
Fire is the perceived effect of gas moving from an excited state to a low-energy state. Ozone is the high-energy state of oxygen induced by photons from the sun.
Nothing new.
@PageauMatthieu
@larrivee_mike
I just found out that “knowing” good and evil is the same word as “knowing” in a sexual sense (yada).
The word has a connotation of uncovering and becoming one with. This helps me understand the effect that eating the fruit has on Adam and Eve.
@ScythianBro
Cain built the first city in opposition to God. But God redeems this creation by founding the Heavenly City.
What man meant for evil God can use for good.
Even if the technology was instigated by evil spirits, God can redeem it ultimately.
Everybody is critiquing the game we’re playing but nobody is willing to make a new game because critiquing the game IS the game. It’s a cycle until someone decides to accept the rules and play again. This is the knight of faith
“If you want to become divinized, you have to forgive everyone”
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@richardrohlin
paraphrasing St. Gregory of Nyssa
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men”
- Elder Zosima, Brothers K
Dream: I was swimming in the ocean with my dog. He started whining. I felt a large shark swim underneath me. I looked around and I was now in a pool. I got myself and my dog out of the pool and observed the shark. It had killed the owner of the house/pool, but it was now trapped.
A paradigm shift requires someone who does not play by the same rules as everyone else. As long as we are all playing by the same unspoken and hidden rules, nothing is going to change.
What makes this example magic is that the product of the procedure is more than the sum of its parts. Technology, on the other hand, is just the refining and organization of matter.
I think
@PageauMatthieu
@jacobthefoolish
@__tikhon
@Angelosgoodside
In the same way that Jesus fulfilled the law, he also fulfilled the “strangeness” of the OT?
Christ marries good and bad together for his perfect end. A lot of times the incorporation of bad is strange so we ignore it.
Dreams have a strange role. They exist to show you what you cannot yet make sense of. You can take that positively or negatively. Bible has examples of both
Symbolism of Climbing:
Climbing rocks is closely related to the symbolism of climbing a mountain. It is ascension, transcendence of nature, walking the line between life and death.
I like climbing rocks so let me start a lil thread on the symbolism of climbing
@sympractical
Wisdom is not the ultimate good, though it’s close. Wise men can be tempted and fall to temptation. Wise men can be fools if they choose not to use what was given them.
There is a modern assumption that material comforts, safety, tools, etc. are good because they are good for the body. Physical hardship is good for the soul
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Cute video of the day: An American photographer filmed a wolf begging for food from a grizzly. The gray wolf saw the meat and in an instant turned into a playful puppy begging for a piece.
Those who have intense interest in the unfolding of prophecy will be involved in the execution of said prophecy, even to the point of their own damnation.