/lit/ - Literature

>>15593496
You envision Jesus as some milquetoast weakling who just wants to get along with everyone. Jesus never compromises an inch on the Truth of God. Jesus demands perfection, and absolute loyalty to God, and a determination to avoid sin and embrace righteousness. Jesus hated evil and demanded that His followers flee from sin and embrace goodness and truth.

Everything about Jesus' mercy and His forgiveness is predicated on a desire to do better. He forgives tax collectors and prostitutes and sinners because they wish to cast their old lives off and embrace a new life. Jesus loves repentant sinners because to repent of one's sin is to hate one's sin and hope and demand to do better. Jesus calls sinners because sinners need God's mercy and love the most, but He absolutely does NOT tolerate sinners staying in their sin.

Jesus comes to us to pull us up from the mud and the muck of our sinful lives, our wickedness, and to call us to higher things. Jesus never backs down from or compromises about a single aspect of the moral teaching of God. Jesus never bends. Jesus calls souls to perfection. What Jesus does do is recognize that seeking after justice and righteousness is hard and difficult, and we cannot do it without God's help. So He grants us the help of the Holy Spirit, and the prayers and the intercessions of the saints.

But we must never compromise on Truth. That's not what Jesus wants. Jesus wants to help us achieve the Truth of the Gospels in all its high, grand beauty. He wants to assist us along and give us reassurance that we are on the right track. But He never wishes to compromise the Truth itself. He calls us to be saints. He calls us to be "perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect." This is a thing we can only do with God's help, and if we are meek and humble enough to ask for that help. But there is never a compromise about the moral standard, the standard of holiness, that Christ asks for us.

Why haven't you given some thought to getting a degree in Great Books/Great Texts/Literature, /lit/? It would allow you to read the great books you love so much in a formal, academic setting, and you'd have a degree by the time you were done.

At the very least, it would be worth going to a school which offered such a program, so you could take at least some of their classes.

Jesus loves you, OP.

>>14518411
the music of erich zann?
He had some other very small ones that was cosmic horror. They're usually found in his complete fiction books.

Writers of /lit/, how much affection do you feel for your characters? Do you care for them? Do you love them? Do you wish your characters well?