/lit/ - Literature

>>12699461
nice book

You are very very much on the wrong board

>>12699461
terribly mean comment but what an unbelievably cute photo

Please don't make a meme out of something some people take seriously.

>>12699461
I know so many Christians that live just like the rest of the world that I often wonder if the metaphysical aspects of the faith have been completely lost. That being said, if Jesus was properly followed and understood, the world would definitely be a better place.

>>12699461
Comfy pic, thank you OP and God bless you.

>>12699461
god's dead bro

>>12699490
This book discusses how Christianity has become accomadated to worldly institutions and ideas, particularly something called America. It sees this as an opportunity for rediscovering a radical Christian life, a church that is "leaner and meaner" as some say.

>>12699461
k, show me proof that god and jebus exist and I'll convert to Christianity.

>>12699461
Will reading this make me a believer?

>>12699525
Maybe in the JBP sense.

>>12699533
Why not in the enlightened way?

>>12699461
Do I count?

>>12699539
I mean, reading it won't convince you that there's actually some supernatural being floating around and watching everything and controlling the universe unless you were already nine-tenths there to begin with.

tfw no mommy cat gf

>>12699461
>christposting 2019
anon your kind has moved on to petersonposting, you can now spout traditionalist philistine ethics without affecting a genuine creed

>>12699461
'DEAD ARE ALL THE GODS: NOW DO WE DESIRE THE OVERMAN TO LIVE.'

>>12699497
he is soon to be resurrected, on this earth. climate change is God's way of bringing us home
accept brother

If I exercise my mind, I come to the conclusion that there need not be a God.

>>12699461
>Christfags

>>12699461
Do we even deserve cats?

i hate existentialism and the modern way of thinking
how do i become a christian, unironically

>>12699497
One of the many amazing prophecies of Jesus Christ from the Old Testament is that of verse 1 from Psalm 22:

>"O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me?"

Many people have said, "Jesus said God has forsaken him on the cross, how could he be the Messiah?"
Jesus was invoking Psalm 22 on the cross. The Psalm was wrote around 1,000 years before Christ was born.

This is significant because a few verses later in the same Psalm it says this:

>"They have pierced my hands and feet."

Some renderings have it;

>"they have torn holes in my hands and my feet"

Strange. It would appear that Jesus Christ invoked a Psalm wrote 1,000 years before He was born that seemed to tell of His very unique death, crucifixion; which did not even exist at the time Psalm 22 was wrote.

Psalm 22 goes on to say:

>"They parted my garments amongst them; and upon my vesture they cast lots."

This is another strange coincidence. It is known that the Roman soldiers gambled, or "cast lots" on Christ's garments as He was being crucified. If Christ was utterly out of His depths and defeated; why does this Psalm--that was invoked as He was in unimaginable pain--foretell of exact circumstances of the very death He was experiencing? Circumstances that no one could have known?

Not only this, Psalm 22 ends by foretelling the great rise of Christendom, which was achieved based on the very death that Christ Himself was experiencing, that the Psalm undeniably addresses:

>"All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight."

Remember, at the time of Christ, only one tribe was expecting a Messiah. This Psalm called forth by Christ on the cross predicts His death to an exactitude, and it just happens to predict the unprecedented worldwide conversion based on this death.

How do atheists explain this away?

>>12701058
>very unique death
kek

>>12701050
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved

>>12701094
how do i do that

>>12701058
gee i dunno it's almost like the people who wrote the story in the bible maybe knew about the prophecy and changed the story to fit

>>12701096

Let one of its official representatives buttfuck you. That's the tradition.

>>12701058
>Strange. It would appear that Jesus Christ invoked a Psalm wrote 1,000 years before He was born
This is an argument against what you are saying. Jewish males like Jesus would have known the Psalms by heart and would have invoked them readily. There were many other self proclaimed 'Messiahs' before Jesus who did the same thing and likewise sought to emulate the earlier prophesies.
One can accept his divinity and at the same time see that muh prophesies is a bad argument designed to sell the story of the gospels to the coldhearted pharisees who would only accept with a sign.