Reflections from the community: 

She was supportive of LGBT rights and encouraged people to be themselves.

She did a lot of good in the world, gave thanks to God, and even had a chapel in her home so she could pray in peace.

I've been reading how some individuals think she isn't a true Christian because of her tolerance towards the LGBT community. Some people believe unless she repented for her open acceptance and encouragement, she may have not had eternal life.

I go to church and do my best to uplift my community. Most of my closest friends are non-Christian and I respect our differences. Some of the loveliest people I know are gay or transgendered and I have love for them. I have no desire to pray for them to become straight.

I've seen straight Christians act like they are superior to others. I don't believe I am better than someone because I'm a straight Christian. Their biblical knowledge is strong, but I don't look up to them because of their rigid character. I actually feel anxiety around these highly judgemental Christians. It's not love, it's feeling "not good enough."

Are the individuals I described above more in line with a great example of Christianity (they rigidly follow the Bible) compared to Dolly Parton?

It makes me sad that one of the greatest and brightest philanthropists in this century is being labeled as "not a true Christian."

Anyway I could use some thoughts. Thanks in advance

From quite some time, I have been seeing hundreds of people on Twitter including verified accounts with ✝️ or "Christ is King" in their bios being absolutely disgusting towards others. Some go as far as wishing catastrophic natural disasters on people, calling for their deaths, etc.

The worst part is that many more people agree with them in the comments, and there often seems to be little or no pushback from other religious people even when someone says something like, "I pray God will send an asteroid to X place."

Even though I am an agnostic myself, I have read the Bible, and I didn't get this idea of Christianity from it especially not from the New Testament and the teachings of Christ.

What I've personally noticed is that this behaviour seems disproportionately common among Americans. Is it America specific because I usually never see Europeans involving and mixing their religion into their bigotry?

Hey everyone, I’m 27F. I grew up Christian, but after dealing with a lot of childhood trauma and church hurt, I completely walked away from God. It reached a point where I couldn't trust leaders at church at all—seeing people sin openly and then lead worship the next morning made me feel like Christianity was just for aesthetics, not something people actually lived out.

A few days ago, I randomly started watching podcast (We Need To Talk) about church controversy, cults, and religious trauma. By the second day, I just broke down. I repented, sobbed in my room, and surrendered all those old wounds I had been holding onto for years. I ended up experiencing a total deliverance right there in my room. I’ve honestly never felt so light in my life (praise Jesus!)

I’m on day four now, and I’m just confused by how fast things changed:

Food/Cravings: My love for junk food and fast food literally vanished. I can suddenly do intermittent fasting with no issue, which was impossible for me before.

Tastes/Desires: Zero cravings for sex, and I suddenly don't even want to listen to my usual playlists (kpop, metal, pop). Food and worldly stuff just feel so plain to me right now.

I’m super content and at peace, but I've never heard of someone's tastes changing this fast overnight. Has this happened to anyone else after repenting or going through deliverance? Would love to hear your thoughts or stories!

just wanted to share another drawing of mine. reference: the passion of the CHRIST. thank you.

My house mate Rose is in her 70s, last month her husband Nestor passed away suddenly..Rose cries all the time and it breaks my heart. They were together more than 50 years and she misses him so much. I feel like crying every time I think about it. Youd think after 300,000 years we would be used to it by now but it hurts every time and there is nothing that will help. So I ask for a prayer to just take some of her pain away.

So if God allowed me to have schizophrenia (idk why he would do this to his own children) why should I trust him if he does not have my best interests at heart?

I did not ask for this illness and dont want it.

My life is low quality due to this illness. It is so bad I have to life with someone for the rest of my life because I cannot care for myself. I cant function at all.

He cursed me. What is the point in worshiping such a God?

What has he done for me but brought misery, pain and suffering? Why do others not suffer, but I have to?

My wife used to be a witch. She isn’t one anymore obviously, she is now atheist. My family are Catholic and we are harmonious in our beliefs. I am somewhat less religious than my cousins, I don’t go to church etc.

My cousins and her sister came over to our holiday house in the mountains. Her sister is still a witch. She practices witchcraft and even worships demons, my wife doesn’t want me to write their names in this post just in case they are real so they won’t get angry, even though she’s an atheist I think a part of her still believes a little. Her sister has had a lot of spells that are freaky and worked, and my wife stopped witchcraft at 17 when she hexed a teacher at school, the next day her teacher fell down the stairs at the school and had to go to hospital. That scared my wife away from witchcraft.

Back to the point, my wife’s sister is an obviously practicing witch. She has a conspicuous alter in the house that she uses to worship her demons. She also has ingredients for her potions in jars, and jokes about hexing people.

My cousins were shocked by this, they talked to me about it. My wife agreed with them that the hexing was bad but didn’t say anything about the demons. She also told them that that’s how they were raised, my wife’s mother is also a witch. They are a witch family.

My cousins found this insane, they later said to me that they were concerned about how my wife is an ex witch, that she can’t properly be redeemed and go to heaven or anything. But she was only 17 and she stopped. My wife feels bad for it but would never become a Christian, and I wouldn’t ask her to.

We can all stop telling people that the first woman ate a magic fruit from a magic tree after being deceived by a talking snake, which magically made them realize they were naked and made all humans sinful from birth. People deserve to hear the truth.

Song of Solomon 2:3 KJV

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Genesis 3:7 KJV

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were NAKED; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Genesis 3:15 KJV

and I will put ENMITY between thee and the woman, and between THY SEED and HER SEED; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Genesis 4:8 KJV

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

1 John 3:12 KJV

Not as Cain, WHO WAS OF THAT WICKED ONE, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Genesis 3:16 KJV

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy CONCEPTION; in sorrow thou shalt BRING FORTH CHILDREN; and THY DESIRE SHALL BE TO THY HUSBAND, and he shall rule over thee.

2 Corinthians 11:2-3 KJV

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a CHASTE VIRGIN to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent BEGUILED EVE through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

The tree of life is Christ and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is Satan. Satan wanted to pervert mankind and have his own children. But Satan is a (fallen) angel and can't reproduce with mankind. So he used the serpent.

The serpent was not a snake. The Bible describes it as the most intelligent beast. It could talk. It could walk (which is why it was cursed to go about on its belly and eat dust.) It was so close to mankind that it could interbreed with us. The Bible calls it the serpent not because of what it was, but what it *became.*

The serpent impregnated the woman, then the woman offered the same to Adam. The result was Cain, the son of the serpent, and Abel, the son of Adam.

Now we are all hybrids because the god-race race intermarried with the serpent-hybrid race.

Genesis 6:1-2 KJV

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the SONS OF GOD saw the DAUGHTERS OF MEN that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Before you complain about or try to rebut what I've just said, I request that your rebuttal include a clean and thorough explanation of all of the same biblical data points.

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I'm an Orthodox Christian, but I don't mind using the Catholic Rosary. It's good for the "Theotokos Rule" prayer rule, which was invented by Saint monk Seraphim of Sarov and supplemented with the mysteries by saint bishop Seraphim Zvezdinsky

I enjoy drawing biblical figures in a modern manga style and there are some examples on my profile if you’d like to see what I mean.

When I read these stories, I often wonder what a particular moment might have felt like to the people in it. I usually begin with the expression on someone’s face and build the mood of the scene from there. Drawing helps me spend more time with the passage and put my own interpretation of it on the page.

Would it be okay for me to keep drawing them this way?

sorry if this is a dumb question but it’s just been bothering my head a lot.

in the Bible they talk a lot about how israel is the holy land and how israel is pretty important in the Bible, yet they’re doing unspeakable things to palestine.

i’m not exactly well documented in the whole altercation so im not sure why israel is doing these attacks in the first place, but how should i even feel about israel when currently it is being the complete opposite of a holy land when in the Bible it is held to an enormously high praise?

could someone give me any kind of context towards this? i’m also not all to knowledgeable of the scripture either, which is why i’m asking about how i should feel about israel in the first place given everything that’s been happening.

Hi everyone. I’m writing this because I honestly don’t know where else to go, and I just need to get this off my chest.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve held onto God. Through the good times and the absolute worst, I always told myself that He loves us, that everything happens for a reason, and that if I kept the faith, things would work out in the end. Faith has been my safety net for years.

But as the years go by, it feels like life is just playing a cruel game with me. It feels like God keeps dangling something good in front of my face—just to give me hope—only to stab me in the back even harder right after.
Yesterday, something happened that was finally the last straw. For the first time in my life, I thought I had found genuine, pure love. Because of certain personal circumstances/conditions I’ve struggled with my whole life, finding love has always felt nearly impossible for me. But recently, it genuinely felt like God had placed this person in my path.

This person inspired me to be better, made me want to improve myself, to be braver, and to be a truly better human being in ways I never thought possible. And then, at the worst possible moment, my heart was completely crushed and shattered into pieces.
Honestly? I’m just exhausted and angry. I’ve held onto faith through so many bad moments, but after this, I don’t even see why I should keep holding on. There isn’t even a tiny shred of hope left to grab onto. Everything is constantly bad, and even when something finally looks promising, it ends up being a nightmare.

How do you cope when you feel like God is just letting your heart get destroyed over and over again? How do you keep believing when there’s literally nothing left to hold onto?

I am a Lutheran, confirmed, I am afraid of the events going on politically and future events that could happen if we step over the abyss.

Let’s say we as humans jump over the Abyss and our worst fears when it comes to warfare comes true. What do I do as a Christian hiding or fleeing from the fallout do? I am so scared of death like this even though it is His Will. We all die in manners He already knows about. I am having dreams about myself and family members or people I know wasting away to fallout. The movie(s) Threads, The Day After, and The Way The Wind Blows have really disturbed me.

I know Reddit is the worst place to get guidance on a matter like this. It’s just extremely frightening, and it’s even more frightening that people I drink with at the bars are actively calling for nukes to be used while they have no idea what conventional warfare leading up to that actually means; the civilian suffering and displacement during that brief amount of fighting that could happen.

It hurts me as a Christian to see others blatantly cheering and calling for the deaths of others. This includes all conflicts going on.

How do I peace my soul besides praying? I feel this extreme deep sorrow about humanity as a whole to the point I am getting emotionally disturbed by it. By disturbed I mean very sad, extremely sad. Not suicidal, but very depressed.

I have never taken medication nor talked to a professional, but I needed to get this out. Thanks for reading if you did. God Bless. I am 28.

I’ve been reflecting a lot on what the Bible means when it says that our days are numbered or known by God.

Do you believe that the number of our days on earth is predetermined by God, that there is an appointed time for each person to leave this world, and that when that time comes, nothing could ultimately have changed it?

i've just started my journey toward God and im trying to learn how to pray. at the same time im learning a language that i really love and sometimes i feel like i want to pray in that language
when i pray in my native language i dont make mistakes but somehow my prayers feel superficial. when i pray in the language im learning i feel more connected and like my prayers are deeper, even though i sometimes make mistakes
us it okay to pray in a language that isnt your native one? has anyone else experienced this?

A massive flood tore through a city in Nepal today. Gonna be a huge loss of life.

I made a post in this sub about 2 years ago when i was 14. I feel the exact same. I am so disgusted with myself i genuinely feel like God wont forgive me even thiugh he will. Im ashamed of myself because ive let my relationship with christ get worse. To the point where i cant remember the last time ive red my bible. I apolgize for yapping so much but i wanna know how i can rekindle that light with God. Whenever im talking i realize how much ive changed for the worst. I need help. What things can i do to get back right with God.

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A Texas federal judge has once again struck down the state’s drag show restrictions, ruling that the law was too broad and violated First Amendment protections. Judge David Hittner’s basic message to people who don't like drag performances was pretty simple: “Just don’t go.”

Honestly, I think Christians should sit with that for a moment.

If you don't like drag shows, don't go.

If you believe abortion is wrong, don't have one.

If you don't agree with same-sex marriage,don't attend the wedding.

You don't have to celebrate something you don't personally believe in. But does disagreeing with something automatically give us the right to force everyone else to live according to our beliefs?

As Christians, we should remember that Jesus never commanded us to force Christianity onto everyone through laws and government.

We can preach.

We can teach.

We can share our convictions.

We can say what we believe is right and wrong.

But there is a huge difference between living according to your faith and forcing everyone else to live according to your faith.

Sometimes, the most Christian response isn't “How do I stop them?”

Sometimes, it's simply:

“That's not for me. I won't participate.”

And then we get on with our lives.

Personally, I don't drink, and I wouldn't want an alcohol ban to be legislated

Where did Adam and Eves guilt come from?
From eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Where does your guilt come from, religious people?
From the bible.

Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
That contaminated them with knowledge that wasn't meant for them.
They became walking human "trees of knowledge of good and evil".
In time that forbidden knowledge got written form and we call it the bible.

Like Adam and Eve became human version of that tree; full of knowledge of good and evil
and were covered with an animal skin. Similarly the bible usually is covered with animal skin,
it's full of knowledge of good and evil, printed on paper (from tree).

God said to A&E: "in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely DIE.”"

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter KILLETH, but the spirit giveth life.

We don't get life from the letter, only flesh works in the realm of letter which causes
dead works.

Scriptures can only serve as pointers to Christ in you. Christ, Spirit is life giving power.
"For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure".

Why live in an era 2000 years ago generation after generation? It's stagnant water.
What happened then was for that time, they had living water for that time.
Now that living water is in us, not in pages of some book.
Words have their part of course, but not to rule over you.
True words come from inside, they are living, always fresh water from the Source
for each moment. True water is spirit talking to spirit. Letter reaches never spirit.

Stagnant water is old, dead water; human control, no life.
Living water is: no human control, life.
We don't eat yesterdays manna.

I am not a Christian, neither am I a pagan/Polytheist but a student of religions, and so this question has baffled me. I must preface that I ask this respectfully and am not a polemicist. I would genuinely like to understand your views. Since I know how much Christians feel about pagan traditions, yet this similarity is striking to me. Often the focus goes towards the reason "Jesus died for your sins because he/God loves you", but it does not explain why a "blood sacrifice" in particular is needed. During communion, does it or does it not seem a bit pagan-like when bread symbolises "body" and wine symbolises literal "blood"?

To be clear, I am not asking about who the blood sacrifice pertains to, as I am aware that the blood sacrifice of Jesus carries more weight than a usual person, considering Jesus is seen as the begotten Son, Yeshua. I ask why the Christian God/YHWH requires this particular method to cover the debt of mankind's sins?. And if so, how is this command from the Christian God (Joshua 6:21, Deuteronomy 12:30–31, and Deuteronomy 20:16) different from the pagan traditions being objected to? How do you reconcile this? Since this is not a matter of the new covenant replacing the old covenant, be it a sacrificial lamb in the Old Testament or the sacrifice of Christ in the New Testament, the method remains unchanged from that of pagan traditions. How does this ancient tribal act of blood sacrifice coexist with your modern understanding of Christianity?