/lit/ - Literature

>>19293971
>I refuse to believe that this is the "official" christian-orthodox belief, is just too stupid.
Do you have an argument for why that position is stupid, besides your emotions?
>What is so special about it?
It is the meeting of metaphysics (meaning) and matter. It provides the most cutting edge Logos technology on the planet - the most safe path to worldly detachment and overcoming the ego (kenosis), the most complete path to union with the Godhead (theosis), and the most metaphysically coherent system of all. Beyond all this, the system gives one the ability to put you into direct communication with God Himself, by His grace, through the Holy Spirit - attested to by innumerable saints and fathers, the vast majority of whom were extremely articulate and intelligent (to rule out the "lol schizo" claims). Our scriptures contain huge amounts of explicitly fulfilled prophecies, which give supernatural assurance of the inspiration of the authors. It gives one the surest chance of having a positive outcome in the afterlife, across the set of all (major) system's claims - and, most importantly, rather than making God into our own image, we teach about God as He is, as He was made known to us through Jesus Christ.

When you analyze all religious claims, with their hypothetically infinite discourses on the nature of God, from Shankara to Muhammad to Siddhartha, it is the only logical choice to believe that Jesus Christ - the only man to claim to be God Himself, the only man to claim that He Himself is the only way to God, whose enemies even say He performed miracles, for whom we have multiple firsthand witnesses who say He prophesied His own death and resurrection, even under pain of torture and death not recanting this testimony - that this Jesus Christ is who He said He was.

And not only that, He was tortured, killed, and rose from the dead on the third day to set us free.

"Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our infirmities and carried our sorrows: and we have thought him as it were a leper, and as one struck by God and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be silent as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth."
- The Book of Isaiah, written ~700 years before Jesus Christ

Last night I had one of the most beautiful dreams I ever had. I fell in love with a girl from another world and we went on a journey deep within my dream world. We were two souls in full flight directly experiencing true wonder and beauty. I can't believe such beauty can exist, even if it's only in a half-remembered dream within a dream. Waking up crushed me

>>7878923
oh wow... birds

meanwhile in the West