• 0 Posts
  • 24 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 21st, 2023

help-circle






  • letsgo@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneJesus rule
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    21
    ·
    4 months ago

    No, what he’s saying is that since all actions start with a thought (for example, one does not just commit adultery; there’s a period of “I wouldn’t mind a bit of that”), it can be helpful to consider the thought as bad as the action for the purpose of weeding that behaviour out of our lives. Not that the thought is as bad as the action, because clearly it isn’t. Continuing with the example: when we find ourselves thinking like that, it is at that point we should catch ourselves and think about something else instead. Attempting to stop yourself just before you rip her knickers off is unlikely to be quite as successful.

    Similarly 29 and 30 are not suggestions of actual self-mutilation. Your eye cannot cause you to sin; it is exaggeration for the sake of making the point. You see something, you think about it, then you act on that thought. But if the act is sinful then we should attempt to stop the act at the earliest possible point.






  • Maybe ask them to explain Gen 1:27: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.”

    He’s just as much female as he is male, and vice versa. “He/Father” appeals to a patriarchal society, but Jesus had a good proportion of female followers, and it was some of them that discovered the empty tomb. God is neither male nor female, or both, depending how you look at it.







  • letsgo@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonetrains rule
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    10 months ago

    Trains go from nowhere near where I live, to nowhere near anywhere I want to go, then cost just as much as a car (Yes I did the sums).

    To use trains not only do I have to use my car I also have to pay for parking. May as well drive wherever I want to go.

    Of course traffic jams are real. That’s why wherever possible I either go on the motorbike or shop on Amazon instead.