Bible Fandom - Zoomers rediscover western canon

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Kayfabe said:
Church Fathers writing and gossiping about the Marcionites, Gnostics, Docetists, and Montanists was the 4th century equivalent of KiwiFarms.
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Didn't that gossip result in getting tagged as heretics and sometimes purges of all sorts?
I think we at KF have a lot of work to do, but I'm somewhat optimistic. I would proudly stand should to shoulder with you guys in RL doing some unspeakable horrors to various groups of undesirables.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
If you actually want to get into the Bible, stick to the Apocrypha and New Testament. Apocrypha has very interesting historical stories as well as theological life lessons like Bel and the Dragon. New Testament kindov goes without saying. For the stories of the LORD I would stick to reading Matthew (Levi) and John (The one whom Jesus loved), the two men who actually walked with The Christ before he was taken up. After reading the "main arc", you move onto Acts to learn about the early history of the Sect of the Nazarenes...

You learn more about Peter, John, Steven the Martyr (cool dude), and of course Saul of Tarsus. Saul (also known as Paul) and his epistles are very important reads for your understanding, and bring a much needed perspective, that of a repentant soldier who was once an enforcer for the Jewish High Priesthood. A man who dragged men, women, and children out of their homes and imprisoned them, or sent them back in chains to Jerusalem to be killed for worshipping Jesus. I feel like this man's story in particular is very significant. Other epistles were written by John and Peter, and are a beneficial read to get a better understanding of who they were as men.

Everything is wrapped up with the book of Revelation, beloved John's Sunday-tripping fever dream about the end of days. A gripping and interesting read if nothing else, and it gives some historical understanding of what persecuted Christians thought about Nero. It even calls some modern shit outright, like beast mark currencies being used to control and enslave people. John also names the Synagogue of Satan twice in warnings to the churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia (fitting for Americans). The book ends with rage and hope for a "New and Heavenly Jerusalem", indicative of a long-lived man in exile lamenting the (often brutal) deaths of his friends, and the loss of his homeland.
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What is your opinion on the Old Testament, and who is Yahweh?
 
I've always held that the bible has a lot of entertainment value if you don't take it too seriously.

That time the kids said "go on baldhead" and the dude summoned a bunch of bears to maul the children for making fun of his baldness was pretty funny.
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Also the time Onan thought he was going to be clever by pulling out instead of impregnating his dead brother's wife, and God smited him for it. (Fun fact that's why "Onanism" is sometimes used as a synonym for masturbation)

The old testament is especially off the handle. Good stuff.

Nikes_JustDoIt said:
Me seeing some of the images and thinking the farms will have fun with it.
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The people who use this site are niggers who can't control themselves when it comes to certain topics. It's like trying to talk about gender on Tumblr, it's not going to happen, and if it starts to happen the usual suspects will find it and put a stop to it.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
If you actually want to get into the Bible, stick to the Apocrypha and New Testament. Apocrypha has very interesting historical stories as well as theological life lessons like Bel and the Dragon. New Testament kindov goes without saying. For the stories of the LORD I would stick to reading Matthew (Levi) and John (The one whom Jesus loved), the two men who actually walked with The Christ before he was taken up. After reading the "main arc", you move onto Acts to learn about the early history of the Sect of the Nazarenes...

You learn more about Peter, John, Steven the Martyr (cool dude), and of course Saul of Tarsus. Saul (also known as Paul) and his epistles are very important reads for your understanding, and bring a much needed perspective, that of a repentant soldier who was once an enforcer for the Jewish High Priesthood. A man who dragged men, women, and children out of their homes and imprisoned them, or sent them back in chains to Jerusalem to be killed for worshipping Jesus. I feel like this man's story in particular is very significant. Other epistles were written by John and Peter, and are a beneficial read to get a better understanding of who they were as men.

Everything is wrapped up with the book of Revelation, beloved John's Sunday-tripping fever dream about the end of days. A gripping and interesting read if nothing else, and it gives some historical understanding of what persecuted Christians thought about Nero. It even calls some modern shit outright, like beast mark currencies being used to control and enslave people. John also names the Synagogue of Satan twice in warnings to the churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia (fitting for Americans). The book ends with rage and hope for a "New and Heavenly Jerusalem", indicative of a long-lived man in exile lamenting the (often brutal) deaths of his friends, and the loss of his homeland.
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The Apocrypha (depending on your definition) is mostly nonsense. The non-canonical books are non-canonical for a reason. If anything, the canonization process erred on the side of inclusion. Some of them are still worth reading (Maccabees, Hermas), but anything like the "alternative" Gospels are barely even interesting historically, much less theologically. They're WAY too late, bizarre, and generally heterodox, and none of them are written by the supposed authors.
 
AgendaPoster said:
But Mormons like Welpie also think Jesus is not God, and they don't get nearly as much shit from Westerners because of it.
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Islam is the religion of dogs
Ultrapenguin said:
That time the kids said "go on baldhead" and the dude summoned a bunch of bears to maul the children for making fun of his baldness was pretty funny.
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I remember going over that in Sunday school when I was younger- don't fuck with Elisha or the prophets was the lesson of the day
 
WelperHelper99 said:
Muhammad is a god in Islam, change my mind
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You really need to read more, from the source, not the counter-Jihad spergery. And keep to mainstream Sunnism, which is like 80% of Islam, not some weirdo cult.
Do not exaggerate in praising me as Christians praised the son of Mariyam, for I am only a slave. So, call me the slave of Allah and His Messenger
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O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord." Indeed, he who associates others with Allah – Allah has forbidden him Paradise, and his refuge is the Fire
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Whoever bears witness that there is no god but Allah, alone with no partner, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger, that ‘Isa is the slave and Messenger of Allah
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You have to understand that worshipping Muhammad is not a small sin/issue, it would be essentially committing shirk, and there is literally no forgiveness for associating anyone to God.
 
AgendaPoster said:
You really need to read more, from the source, not the counter-Jihad spergery. And keep to mainstream Sunnism, which is like 80% of Islam, not some weirdo cult.
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Habibi, they kill you for a stick figure of the guy. He is a God to them. That treatment is how you show devotion and worship. They worship a idol.
 
WelperHelper99 said:
Habibi, they kill you for a stick figure of the guy
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Welpie, Welpie
Making an image of Muhammad is an idol, you blondie. This is the source of that interdiction.
Obviously, when Westerners do it, they do it to shit on Muhammad, so it's all natural Muslims get angry at that. It's kinda cucked and retarded that Christians accept pissing on statues of Jesus as art.
 
AgendaPoster said:
Welpie, Welpie
Making an image of Muhammad is an idol, you blondie. This is the source of that interdiction.
Obviously, when Westerners do it, they do it to shit on Muhammad, so it's all natural Muslims get angry at that. It's kinda cucked and retarded that Christians accept pissing on statues of Jesus as art.
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We aren't the ones they need to worry about at the end of days.
 
What is your opinion on the Old Testament, and who is Yahweh?
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The Old Testament is interesting in that it sets up the New Testament in multiple places and ways and gives a fairly accurate history of the Hebrews over ~2000 years

The covenant of Christ with the entirety of mankind derives from the covenant God made with the Hebrews. Now they were an unruly fractious lot who disobeyed plenty and got punished for it, but their sins are not really the driver of the major events of the Old Testament before the Exodus. It is the iniquities of those God had not made a covenant with that brought the flood, and the nuking of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the swallowing of Pharaoh's army in the Red Sea, and the decimation of Canaanites (multiple times lol, and not by the Hebrews) etc. Although it is the Hebrews being bratty children for the millionth time that causes God to tell Isiah that He is going to make a new covenant in the future that all men will be able to join through the coming of a servant (Jesus), a covenant with the one true and honest God won't just be the Hebrews' exclusive club anymore

There's lots of interesting stuff in the Old Testament

Yahweh is just another Hebrew name for God, of which there were a bunch. Without going down into the rabbit hole of whether any of them are the true name of God and whether it was or was not proscribed for any human to speak, write, or even know the true name of God
 
It sounds quite alright with me if some people, nonbelievers in Christianity, want to study and appreciate the Bible as a work of mythology/literature. Super autistic to call themselves a "fandom," but this kind of thing (and the misguided enthusiasm about "Biblically accurate angels") are more likely to do good in their lives than just being shouted at for not enjoying thing properly.
 
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