/lit/ - Literature

>>13911263
>Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Selah. For your devotional pleasure, here's the old classic:
>The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
>He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
>He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
>Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
>Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
>Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

>>13436532
>a god who could make good children as easily as bad
Fascinating how his very first premise is completely wrong.

>>13317568
I actually went to church twice on Sunday, I'll have you know

>>12973190
Based initiate. Good luck on your studies, if you liked Matthew you're in for a treat with John as well.

>>12601744
Of course. Mark of the beast any day, now.

>>12525239
Read it cover to cover. It's the word of God, after all.

>>12000249
To prefigure the Resurrection and show that the Son of God has power over death. Note also that his parable of Lazarus and Dives has Dives asking for the dead Lazarus to be sent back to the world of the living and Abraham responding that this would do no good to convince anyone--so it is here, an actual Lazarus revives, but this does not convince the Jews of Christ's divinity.
>>12000296
The heartbeat and breathing are kind of a giveaway, but nice attempt at explaining away the event
>>12000364
based

>>11627267
Neither. They are either revealed or stand unknown.

>>11564021
Fun fact: all the """problems""" of modernity can be solved by proper participation in your local Christian community.

>>11017796
>What are your guys’ views on sex and sexuality?
Biblical.

>>9002956
Yes. See Matt. 16:13, "Jesus... asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?"

>>9003030
"You are gods." -Jesus (John 10:34).

>>9003164
Man is created in the image of God (Gen. 1:26-27). So God is in the image of man, also.

>>9003837
A lot. Even in Jeremiah's time the Hebrew scriptures were being tampered with. See Jer. 8:8, "the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood." Paul's epistles also allude to other letters he wrote that are lost to time. The Bible is in no sense complete. Ignore any fundamentalists who would tell you it is.

>>9001563
Exactly correct tbqph.