/lit/ - Literature

>>16667561
Χριστός εστιν βασιλεύς βασιλέων και Κυριος Κυριων.

>>16597602
Genuinely loved this book. I was detached for a few days following my completion. I remember walking to my dorm right after and ignoring everyone that tried to get my attention.
All I have left to read out of Dosto's big five is TBK, and I'm waiting on that since I might read it with some friends and they're still deciding on it. I'm currently going through some of the shorter works I have on my bookshelf (Lolita currently).

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>>16564333
>being a modern Catholic rather than maintaining the Scripturally sound portions of Catholicism and otherwise being independent of denomination as Christ intended
I shiggy diggy bros. As soon as the Church contradicts Scripture, or treats extrabiblical sources as Biblical, it has fallen into heresy. This applies to Protestards, Catholicucks, and Orthonerds. Don't put Man over God. The Church should be united under God, not divided under men.

>>16399491
I wish to be a knight of faith. I dream that I will complete the race, having given all that I could.

>>16297505
I used to own this bible when I was in elementary school. Currently doing undergraduate studies in preparation for seminary. I wish I was better. Some days I wonder if non-existence is preferable to existence, if only because then I wouldn't be sinful. I hate myself for being so unclean. For personal reading, I read the ESV, but I'm studying Koine Greek for more advanced study of Scripture.

>>15092496

Design/Sustaining/Maintaining/Order/Creation/My-Existence:

1. I didn't make myself, nature doesn't know how to make me [or anything] on its own, since it is mindless and intentionless, it obeys automatic laws, only God *knows* how to make me, make the world, make its laws and everything in it. So some "God"-intelligence-and-supreme power has to exist who transcends nature, the stars, the trees and the mountains and all their mindlessness; he creates and he sustains them, moment to moment, from the beginning, he writes their laws, and they obey....because they are just as impotent at self-creating as I am at creating or sustaining myself. This applies to every level of the world, from the smallest electrons to the largest galaxies. They are all mindless, impotent, unable to self-create, they don't know how to make anything, or sustain themselves. They all must obey higher laws set by the creator, by themselves they are nothing.... Anyway I'm rambling...Power and Intelligence of God is necessary.


Good/Evil, Beauty & Ugliness:
2. Good and evil exist, I cannot deny that somethings are evil, the torture of innocents, rape, genocide, nor can I deny the existence of the good, the beauty of the world, in some respects, etc.... without God there is no good or evil, beauty or ugliness.

Coherent view of God that is trustworthy:
3. I want to know who God is. Only Christ gives us the key, the coherent picture of the Father and the world. Every other presentation of God leaves him hidden and obscured, the Platonists don't know, the muslims dont know, the jews don't know, the hindus definitely dont know, etc.

>>15084053
>That said I pray to no one but my God.
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