/lit/ - Literature

I really like the work of Gary Habermas, who has written extensively on the historicity of the Resurrection.
Oh, and NT Wright, I love his work too.

>Yes.

>>15063820
https://ntwrightpage.com/2016/04/05/doubts-about-doubt-honest-to-god-forty-years-on/

This is a good layman's introduction to Christian apologetics and theology.

>>15063793
I've been reading the KJV lately and I am interested in the grammar in it. Are there any books on the grammar used?

None, since I don’t worship jews

>>15064017
I'm not sure. Though I think it would be interesting to compare the KJV grammar with the grammar of other similar English writings of that time.
If you have access to scholarly journals, I'm sure there'd be something written about KJV grammar.

>>15064017
Kind of related. Here are the 14 directives given to the KJV translators.
>1. The ordinary Bible, read in the church, commonly called the Bishop’s Bible, to be followed, and as little altered as the original will permit.
>2. The names of the prophets and the holy writers, with the other names in the text, to be retained, as near as may be, according as they are vulgarly used.
>3. The old ecclesiastical words to be kept; as the word church, not to be translated congregation, &c.
>4. When any word hath divers significations, that to be kept which has been most commonly used by the most eminent fathers, being agreeable to the propriety of the place, and the analogy of the faith.
>5. The division of the chapters to be altered, either not at all, or as little as may be, if necessity so require.
>6. No marginal notes at all to be affixed, but only for the explanation of the Hebrew or Greek words, which cannot, without some circumlocution, so briefly and fitly be expressed in the text.
>7. Such quotations of places to be marginally set down, as shall serve for the fit references of one scripture to another.
>8. Every particular man of each company to take the same chapter of chapters; and having translated or amended them severally by himself, where he thinks good, all to meet together, to confer what they have done, and agree for their part what shall stand.
>9. As any one company hath dispatched any one book in this manner, they shall send it to the rest to be considered of seriously and judiciously: for his Majesty is very careful in this point.
>10. If any company, upon the review of the book so sent, shall doubt or differ upon any places, and therewithal to send their reasons; to which if they consent not, the difference to be compounded at the general meeting, which is to be the chief persons of each company, at the end of the work.
>11. When any place of special obscurity is doubted of, letters to be directly by authority to send to any learned in the land for his judgment in such a place.
>12. Letters to be sent from every bishop to the rest of the clergy, admonishing them of this translation in hand, and to move and charge as many as being skillful in the tongues, have taken pains in that kind, to send their particular observations to the company, either at Westminster, Cambridge, or Oxford, according as it was directed before the king’s letter to the archbishop.
>13. The directors in each company to be deans of Westminster and Chester, and the king’s professors in Hebrew and Greek in the two universities.
>14. These translations to be used when they agree better with the text than the Bishop’s Bible, viz. Tyndale’s, Coverdale’s, Matthew’s, Whitchurch's, Geneva.”

>>15064025
Neither do Christians.
>>>/pol/

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>>15064425
Came here to post this! Based Bunyan.

>>15064403
Church fathers are always a wonder to read. Excellent book by Maximus, too.

>>15063793
Anything by this guy.

>>15064074
>Jesus
>not jewish
Get a load of this retard.

https://www.preteristarchive.com/Books/1543_luther_jews.html

>>15065980
le ebin /pol/ infopic btfo'ing all christcucks and their 100+ generations of ancestors including your own.

>>15065980
The German SS concluded that Jesus was not jewish and that it was just a dirty lie. It's funny that exactly the same lie that the SS had to deal with makes a comeback now. Jews today are not the ones of old, they exist purely in opposition of Jesus and God.

>>15063793
Already refuted by Mackie, next topic

>>15066001
Coping Nazi christcuck to the rescue

>>15065953
This is in my stack of TBR

Also, AW Tozer

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>>15063793
Kierkegaard
Dostoevsky
NOBODY ELSE

>>15066001
By the logic of contemporary multiculturalists christ was roman. Which is always a laugh

>>15066982
>christian japan
ugh.... what could have been....

>>15067134
Got what they deserved, the slave trading pedophiles.

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>>15065986
I love this little guy

>>15066001
cope

Recommend me some works on early Roman christianity, especially the issue of Christ's mortality as explored by the Council of Nicaea.
Also looking for any good introduction into Orthodox thought.

>>15067975
2nding this

>>15063793
what are the best fiction books which support/involve Christian morals?

>>15068857
Mormon holy texts

>>15068857
John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress

Chateaubriand's "The Genius of Christianity"

>The Trinity, the first of the Christian mysteries, opens immense fields for philosophical study, whether to understand the attributes of divinity, or to find the relics left behind by Eastern thought.

>>15065980
>start preaching to the jewish community exclusively
>recruit your followers from the jewish community exclusively
>traver the judean countryside exclusively
>teaches about legal and scriptural issues which concern the jewish community exclusively
>choose the jewish capital as the place to stage the climax of your ministry
>get offended with how the jews are running their jewish temple
>beef with jewish orthodox and religious elite about how they are managing the jewish religion
You see, anon, all of this can be explained with this simple quote, from Matthew 9:12-13: “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice. For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

>>15067204
t. filthy Sōhei

>>15069056
This. Jesus preached to the Jews, and picked up the occasional Gentile straggler along the way. Preaching to the Gentiles more broadly he left to his Apostles, granting them the Tongues of Fire that they may speak and be understood by the disparate masses.

>>15065980
Ayo hold up. Jesus did accepted the samaritans even though they were in conflict with the jews of back then. And his interactions with them shows nothing but acceptance. Read his healing of the lepers, the Parable of the Good Samaritan and the conversation with the Samaritan woman.
Jesus as a master and someone with great knowledge of the scriptures knew the samaritans were also descendants of Jacob.

>>15069074
If you take his few encounters with gentiles, like the Centurion in Capernaum, he seems to show more fondness of gentiles than of hebrews.
>"And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

>>15069119
The gospels aren't consistent on Jesus preaching to gentiles. In Matthew he makes it clear the Jews are his priority and he only helps a gentile as a special favour.

>Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

What do y'all think of the marionists?

>>15069119
The Gospels consist of a good number of scenes where Jesus is presented in parallel to Gentile religious figures as a way of breaching the gap between Hellenic polytheism and monotheism. Jesus converting water into wine, for example, is a classic trait of Bacchus/Dionysus.

>>15069137
In context with the previous passage, i always thought that Christ was bluffing there, to test her faith. When the woman shows that she has complete confidence on him, he doesn't even has to go to her house the daughter has been healed.
Nevertheless, the difference within the gospels speak volumes about their veracity too, so i wouldn't disregard your interpretation.

>>15069152
>In context with the previous passage, i always thought that Christ was bluffing there, to test her faith.
I share the same opinion, and I feel that what Jesus says to the gentile woman after she proves her faith is proof of that.

True christianity is nondual teaching everything else is COPE

''The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.'' Meister Eckhart

Welcome to awakening frens

>>15067134
>tfw we never got to experience Christian Samurais who would of used their immense discipline to serve Christ

Any good Christian literature discussion Eastern Philosophy?

been wanting to read the bible but with bookstores closed ive been looking online, unfortunately i dont really know what im looking for

what do yall think of this one

https://www.amazon.com/Reference-Personal-Leather-Indexed-Comfort/dp/0785215549/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

i have no idea if its in old english or modernized, personally id prefer an old english one

>>15069729
Get a King James Version

Try to get one without pictures but that is fairly large

Also everyone stop pretending Jesus wasn't a racist he told the apostles so many times not to help anyone that was not Jewish

>>15069604
There's quite a lot of writings comparing Christianity to Daoism, probably Buddhism too. IIRC a famous book is Christ the Eternal Tao. I don't know how theologically sound it is though.

>>15069729
Looks great!
And yeah, the KJV is in old English, so expect a lot of thee and thou and thy and ye and verb-eths. Its pretty easy to understand once you adjust to it though.

>>15065986
Luther was literally crazy.

>>15069755
It's*

I decided to give Weil's "Gravity and Grace" a go.

>>15063793
I miss the Christian board so much. I hope the Christians use this board instead.

For me it's Dostoyvesky and Kierkegaard.

>>15063793
I love how the artist of Christ-chan draws those bags under her eyes. Makes her look like a brainwashed fanatic with repressed cognitive dissonance.

>>15066001
The Nazi's thought Christians were stupid, and simply tried to appeal to them by misconstruing Christianity like a white nationalist Jordan Petersonism

>>15070541
She has bags under her eyes because she cries for unbelievers like you.

O tell me no more
Of this world's vain store;
The time for such trifles with me now is o'er.
A country I've found
Where true joys abound;
To dwell I'm determined on that happy ground.

No mortal will know
What Christ will bestow;
What joy, strength, and comfort do after him go.
Lo, onward I move,
To see Christ above,
None guesses how wondrous my journey will prove.

Great spoils I shall win
From death, hell and sin;
'Midst outward afflictions, shall feel Christ within.
And still (which is best)
I in his dear breast
(As at the beginning) find pardon and rest.

When I am to die,
Receive me, I'll cry,
For Jesus has loved me, I cannot tell why.
But this I do find,
We two are so joined,
He'll not live in glory and leave me behind.

This blessing is mine
Through favor divine,
And, O my dear Jesus, the praise shall be thine;
In heaven we'll meet
In harmony sweet,
And, glory to Jesus! we'll then be complete.

>>15063793
Been reading The Sickness Unto Death for the first time. I don't really read philosophy, but I'm loving it. I feel like Kierkegaard makes so many brilliant points about how people view life, Christianity,sin, etc versus how they should be viewed. The biggest takeaway for me is that few people treat these things with the seriousness and thought they deserve

>>15063793
Reminder, that the majority of the West is still Christian and that Christianity is whats wrong with society and its ills.