>>22725 Catholicism didn't exist until 321 ad and it was always pagan and polytheistic. Stupid GTP

>>22727 gpt*

It's a spam bot, don't reply to it.

>>22731 Why does this board's jannies/mods/owner do anything about it? These bots are making the same posts, literally copy/pasting other anon's posts half the time. Is this just another controlled kiked website or something?

>>22740 >thinks Christians are bots. Feel free to show how much smarter you are than us bots.

>>22555 >A wealthy man who is generous is in better spiritual condition than a miserly poor man. If the wealthy man threw in everything he was as poor as the widow in Mark 12, you would be right. The Widow’s Offering Mark 12:41-44 41 And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much. 42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing. 43 And calling his disciples together, he saith to them: Amen I say to you, this poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast into the treasury. 44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want cast in all she had, even her whole living.

>>22568 The problem is you're force fitting your religion to your politics instead of your politics to your religion. You have made an idol and placed it over God. If you want to be a Christian communist then go ahead I won't stop you but it doesn't make your views correct. There's a reason why the majority of communists reject religion and specifically Christianity. You are right about this autistic idea of a hive mind that most people have. Humans are nuanced.

>>22628 /thread God bless you Anon.

>>22511 You should've kept reading on. >25. Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? >26. Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? >27. Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? >28. And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: >29. And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. >30. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? And in the next chapter (Matthew 7) >8. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. >9. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? >10. Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? >11. If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

I need to up my donations to the poor. Wish there was a church so I could donate to a seminary. Most of the seminaries teach heresy and blasphemy, tho. I was donating to seminaries... three different ones. One became an anathema. Two of them are heretical but I could tolerate that; pointless to give to the formation of priests that won't give the sacraments because of their heretical belief in a false gospel, tho. Not like I'm rich.

>>22560 Glad you liked it. :) (polite sage due to short post)

Merry Christmas

>>22512 This reminds me the italian idea of Santa Claus being the 4th magi wise man. Also I understand your point that undermines humanity, but we shouldn't forget that it means Christ is our gift to the world and he delivers us because his heart is bigger than a star even when he already gave so much to us. There is also the idea of Christkindl coming to good kids only, so it's not expecting them to be delivered on basis of being human. In that case it would be more christian having the 3 wise men spirits coming and delivering us gifts. I know iberics have that.

>>22610 In Latin America (or at least my country) we give out gifts in both Christmas and Epiphany (día de reyes) but use the magi to symbolise both. Doesn't make sense to have a fat white man in a snow sleigh when there's no snow or white people here.

>>22621 True. Santa Clause in the present form was a Coca-Cola salesman and has nothing to do with Christ, but is loosely based on Saint Nickolas.

>>22449 that is impossible, she is a woman no matter what

>>22487 whatever, you dont get it.

>>22488 >think he meant look at them how youd look at a male friend can i ask her to wrestle with me, to help me fix my car? to hang out in my house in late hours?

>>22531 You're missing the point

>>22535 I think you are. This Anon is correct >>22432, and you are suffering from a) ignorance about the female race in general, or b) you have already been consoomed by the brainworms of pandering simpery. Either way, your position (if you are in fact an XY) is what has gotten the West to the disasterous stage we're now at. Make no mistake, we've already fallen off the cliff. You and your ilk certainly played your part in this. Of course the bulk of the blame lies squarely at the feet of The Globohomo Big-Tech/Gov & their (((actions))). But that's no excuse for your own. Women today are children, plain & simple. Unfortunately, though the Monkeys with Machine Guns maymay is humorous, the deadly force wielded by these overgrown and sinfully self-centered miscreants is not. They have literally destroyed the lives of millions of men so far And Counting... >tl;dr Treat them like the children they are, and the world will be a much healthier, safer place for everyone -- them included. I understand you're already too far gone friend (short of Divine intervention) so this is basically for the rest of the anons here.

>>22493 God has given me so much and happiness i never could of even imagined as of late despite my sins, despite my wrongdoings, and my injustices toward Him. im truly grateful toward Him.

>>22496 Based and amen.

>>22493 Today I learned that liquid Frankincense oil added to a candle is a bad idea. For Christmas I ask God almighty for a church that follows the faith given to us. I'm worried that it is there but I cannot see it.

>>22496 same brother, in sadness,pain, grief,anger,joy, happyness, he is always there >>22501 amen

>>22493 1 day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75hEhaKpzm0

>>21803 OG Buddhism isn't satanic, quite the opposite, it was a Hindu heresy driven by corruption of the priestly class, not too dissimilar to Reformation that would come a few millenia later. The Western Buddhism (JewBu, as Joyce calls it) is, however, a perversion.

>>22340 Do Buddhists even consider him (presumably Gautama Buddha) a god in the first place?

>>22438 If (you) honor any god besides God you are an idolater

>>22340 Same can be said about catholics and the giant T-posing Jesus statues. Figures should be used as a visual reminder, not as idols i do agree

>>22438 They don't classify him as one, but they do pray to him. That may not be enough for you, in which case consider that they view him above the gods. Of course, they believe they too can reach that level through enlightenment. At least that's my understanding of it. Seems like Buddhism isn't criticized that much by Christians or anyone else for that matter.

>>21663 >Faith Apart from Works is dead >By their fruits you shall know them. James 2:10-12 Exodus 20:8-11

>>21836 ??

You should look towards the old testament for guidance more often. Remember Jesus had to be perfect in the old testament laws since he is the messiah. In this case it's obvious that God in his absolute glory would give us knowledge on how to conduct ourselves in these situation. As such I'll leave with you ecclesiastes 3 as a respectable answer to your question. Ecclesiastes 3:1- "1To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; 4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; 5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; 6A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; 7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 8A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace." It's not a sin to hate otherwise this piece of godly wisdom wouldn't have been bestowed upon us. What is the truth though is that it really depends on the situation is. For example we shouldn't love someone like freddie mercury who straight up said he'd rather go to hell than heaven. Also we aren't to help those who deny that Jesus is the messiah as in 2 John 1:9-11 "9Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. 10If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: 11For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds." Expresses that by doing so we as Christians would be liable to equivalent punishment for helping these Anti-Christs.

"You shall have love for the stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt." (Deuteronomy 10:19)

>>17899 Love doesn't equal to tolerating everything. Sometimes love entails confrontation which is necessary in places like in India where there still are human offerings in pagan rituals.

>>22436 to my knowledge David Koresh never had relations with other members wives. Be careful with information regarding them, theres lots of misinformation put out by the feds to generate disdain for the Davidians.

>>22435 Yes, I agree. I was taking the post out of context and thought the "point" was something it wasn't. My bad.

>>22423 When you can create a universe, and make stars, and make planets, and then make birds... ... you can then ask. Until then, you don't understand. None of us understand all the details, not even Lucifer, the greatest of angles who's desire for the power of creation lead to his downfall.

>>22437 Koresh. yes, wanted to be left alone, was different so people thought him strange, and traded in firearms to support his cult. Perfect target for the BATF, who needed something spectacular for congress to continue funding. The BATF went in shooting, the Davidians defended themselves, and the FBI came in with a tank and killed them all. No survivors. Then they destroyed all the evidence of their crimes. Clintons AG said it was "for the children". A bald faced lie, and given that she killed all the Children I'm surprised the American people believed it. If they hid their sin of murdering children with the lie that they were saving the children, then there is nothing they wouldn't lie about, including his wives.

>>22443 i think they did it because they were afraid of armed, self sufficient, Christians who rejected the world not because of funding. If it was for funding then why shoot first? Ideally theyd do things as peaceful as possible. idk, could have been an accidental discharge. I agree with you nonetheless.

Hell in the bible is not called hell for a reason. Jesus uses words like Gehenna (a physical location of a garbage dump that was always on fire because of the amount of garbage being poured into it) or Hades/Tartarus (concepts people at the time would have understood as a hole in the ground). Our concept of hell came along because of Dante's Divine trilogy which was a work of fiction based loosely in Christian theology discussing his way through "hell" on his journey to be united with his waifu. The generally accepted "theory" among Christians who don't believe in hell for the above reasons is that the fiery inferno either refers to the literal garbage dump where the bodies of criminals and sinners were dumped, or to god's greatness burning sinners into nonexistence when the kingdom of heaven comes to earth, since you are not "spiritually" dead but have merely experienced a physical death until the day of judgement. The "torment" such souls feel is because they see god and heaven (the singularity), but are unable to be part of it because of their refusal to accept god and Christ due to their sins in physical life. If you come at it from this angle then of course there is potential salvation for those in hell, but the issue is that one who refused to embrace god in life and sinned as a result of it has an impure soul that will not allow them to become part of the singularity since the sins of life act as metaphorical shackles in death to one's mortal coil. To keep up with the metaphor, everyone sins and the difference is whether those shackles are thin threads or loose ropes that can be let go of with enough strength/acceptance (vices, ties to the material, minor sins, agnosticism, etc.), or if those shackles are iron chains welded to the ground (major sins like suicide, murder, atheism, etc.). One shouldn't fear the concept of hell since people aren't "suffering torture at the hands of devils and demons" but rather they should fear hell because they should want eternal life for everyone and for nobody to cease to exist after judgement day. Those who sin deeply simply wish to cease to exist after they leave their mortal coil and "temporarily suffer" upon learning what they have lost in doing so. The way my priest explained it to me growing up was not in fire and brimstone, but in a mountain of sand. >Imagine you are given the impossible task of transferring a mountain of sand from point A to point B one grain at a time >You are always climbing to the top of the first pile to grab a grain of sand and placing the new grain at the top of the new sand pile you are making. >The task never becomes more laborious than it does, but this continues for seemingly forever >When you are finally finished with moving each and every grain of sand, you are instructed to now put every piece of sand one by one back in its original place >Some days you laugh, some days you cry, some days you feel like you cannot take it any more but you must continue as you never tire completely >Even if you complete this task, you must repeat the original task again, back and forth waiting until the day of judgement when you are finally able to rest >This, is hell

>>21949 what do you think happens to souls who never heard of the Gospel? Do you believe in the harrowing of hell?

Why ask these questions? God gives us free will, but knows everything including how we shall choose. If a person doesn't hear the Gospel, then they chose something other than heaven. Why make up beliefs beyond what is in the Bible and taught by the Church?

>>21950 >what do you think happens to souls who never heard of the Gospel? extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The interpretation is quite clear. Not everyone who is a visibly within the church is saved, but not everyone who is invisible to the church is not a member. For salvation, one must have Christ. Whether they have Christ either on the tongue through baptism and the good word or through the "invisible church" that is only known to god is a matter of their judgement when the time comes, which is (part of) why we Orthodox pray for the dead in the first place. The concept of "limbo" is just a Catholic method of visualizing this for those who don't understand the concept of Christ within even without the good word. >Harrowing of hell I don't believe you can be a good Christian without believing in it. It's important to remember that the "harrowing" was a way the heavily militarized Byzantine culture brought the concept to the Pagans to make it seem as if it were an epic fight against the demons when in reality it was closer to Jesus giving the residents of Sheoul knowledge of their salvation allowing those who truly believed in god and by extension Christ the means to leave Abraham's Bossom and ascend. Sheoul itself the Old Testament conception of the afterlife was split into something resembling the "believers" who were in an eternal sleep with their father Abraham and the "nonbelievers" who were simple abandoned in the darkness (hence "in torment"). To be a believer you had to be born of the faith in the OT, so it was possible to be a "believer" but still end abandoned in the darkness, hence why Christ had to lead the spirits from "hell" (Sheoul). This is really one of those things where the Germans and French royally messed up the translation as it traveled Northward since all those different words for "hell" actually meant something in their original Greek, later Latin.

Catholics believe that the good souls who had died before Christ went somewhere until the Sacrifice of Christ was complete, and that Christ descended into hell to fetch them to heaven. Pope said it from the Chair, so that's the faith. And if there were good souls, and Christ descended into a higher level of hell (hell being a supernatural place that is not heaven) to fetch the just souls to heaven, then why not purgatory for those with unpunished sins?

don't be racist, friend

Jebus doesn't say I can't be racist he just says I should accept people. You can recognize the gay niggers from outer space as gay niggers from outer space while still making an effort to offer them tea while making sure they don't rob you while you're in the kitchen.

The association with Jesus and Christianity with imageboard culture by way of this "Christ-Chan" character is, at the very best, in poor taste. Do you guys not understand this? This just leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

>>22171 Ok gay boomer

There are several images in this thread that are very clearly hateful, lustful, or otherwise against Christian doctrine. Lynxchan doesn't allow me to delete individual images either, only entire posts. The obsession surrounded with keeping this thread up also indicates idolotry to an extent. If you were to throw a tantrum over this thread being deleted, then you might be caring about JPEGs a bit too much. Therefore, this thread will be locked and deleted at the end of this week. Save what you want, then it's gone.