Christian Books

[Anonymous No.18480403]

What are some good Christian books to help a young writer be more enlightened about the gospel?

[Anonymous No.18480445]

attack on christendom by Kierkegaard

[Anonymous No.18480448]

>>18480403
Thomas.

[Anonymous No.18480459]

>>18480403
I always feel bad for the chaps who were crucified along Jesus. Hopefully our guy sent them to Heaven or something

[Anonymous No.18480467]

>>18480448
the tank engine?

[Anonymous No.18480621]

>>18480459
That's the Good Thief and the Bad Thief

[Anonymous No.18480638]

Read the Church Fathers, become Orthodox.
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2001.htm

[Anonymous No.18480681]

>>18480467
Sayings gospel.

[Anonymous No.18480690]

>>18480403
How would lit refute the claim that it is not Jesus who died on the cross, but someone else that looked like him?
Think of it: God is merciful. Why would he punish his prophet?

What changed after the death of Jesus?

[Anonymous No.18480778]

>>18480690
>Why would he punish his prophet?
It was The One and only Son of God and God in the flesh.

[Anonymous No.18480837]

>>18480690
>>18480778
This.
Desu, if you're really asking such a rediculous question, then you don't even understand a lick of what Christianity is about

[Anonymous No.18480851]

>>18480690
literally who claims this?

[Anonymous No.18480855]

>>18480403
Unironically pic related.
No troll.

[Anonymous No.18480875]

>>18480778
Why would he punish his son/himself???

[Anonymous No.18480883]

>>18480403
Heretics by G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy by ditto
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity by ditto
The Protestant angle:
On the Jews and Their Lies by Martin Luther

[Anonymous No.18480888]

>>18480459
Jesus did allow them to enter heaven.

"Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." He replied to him, "Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise." Luke 23:42-43

[Anonymous No.18480890]

>>18480690
God sent Jesus to die for the sins of mankind because he is merciful.
>>18480851
There is a Quran verse that says this. The Quran literally says that God tricked Jesus's followers into thinking he died, but he actually is still alive in heaven and never died.

[Anonymous No.18480904]

>>18480890
Okay. I get that a perfect man can take all sins on him and die. I don't get how that changes the world in any way.

[Anonymous No.18480910]

>>18480883
This
Would add The Screwtape Letters and the first two books of the space trilogy by Lewis

[Anonymous No.18480913]

>>18480904
It doesn’t change the world, it redeems the humanity. The world still sucks

[Anonymous No.18480931]

>>18480690
He's not a prophet. It's literally God's Son and simultaneously God himself incarnate. God chose to experience mortality and death to achieve through the hardships resurrection and show us that this is exactly the way to achieve life eternal by his side. Christ's journey is the quintessential Christian example that leads to salvation. Not a prophet but God himself. Three aspects,Father Son and holy sprit, one unified undividable God.

[Anonymous No.18480964]

larp

[Anonymous No.18480978]

>>18480445
Good pick.

[Anonymous No.18480984]

>>18480638
Based and also Father Seraphim Rose!

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[Anonymous No.18480998]

>>18480403
Besides The Bible, The Golden Legend and Tale of a Pilgrim, both luminous and amazing as well.

[Anonymous No.18481003]

>>18480875
>he doesn't know that God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life
Why try to refute a religion that you don't even understand?

[Anonymous No.18481063]

>>18480931
What is Christ's journey?

[Anonymous No.18481103]

You lads know any Christian infused fiction like a Graham Greene or a something like a Father Brown story?

[Anonymous No.18481422]

>>18480991
>heresy
Why are you like this?

[Anonymous No.18481689]

>>18480991
This is dumb, Jesus was God himself. He was free from the temptations of Satan.

[Anonymous No.18481741]

>>18480403
Hegel's understanding of christianity is very persuasive to me, though it seems like christians don't want to consider that the kingdom of heaven isn't some magical afterlife. If you just want to be part of a community that isn't based in politics, then you shouldn't go looking for real spirituality - it'll just alienate you from your tribe.

[Anonymous No.18481821]

Christianity's Criminal History by Karlheinz Deschner

[Anonymous No.18482240]

>>18480403
J.C. Ryle's Expository Thoughts on the Gospels.

[Anonymous No.18482285]

>>18480690
>Think of it: God is merciful. Why would he punish his prophet?
No way, there's no possible way someone is dumb enough to actually write this. I'm done. No more /lit/ for today.

[Anonymous No.18483195]

>>18480910
Lewis writes very well. I was reading excerpts from God in the Dock earlier and the section on "what are we to make of Jesus Christ?" was really compelling, goes into the balance of how megalomaniacal what he says can seem, and the actual truth of it.

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>>18480403

[Anonymous No.18483773]

>>18482285
Which other prophets did he punish?

[Anonymous No.18484444]

Simone Weil

[Anonymous No.18484452]

>>18483773
No answer as expected.

[Anonymous No.18484545]

>>18483773
Jeremiah. He was known as the weeping prophet.

[Anonymous No.18484769]

>>18484545
By death?

[Anonymous No.18484774]

>>18484769
Which of the Prophets was a pedophile like Muhammad?

[Anonymous No.18484782]

>>18484774
Nice nonsequitor.

[Anonymous No.18484799]

>>18484782
There's no real point in continuing because you have deep and fundamental misunderstandings of Christianity.

1. Jesus wasn't "punished". He willingly took on the sins of the world and served as the perfect expiation for them. Jesus sacrificed himself for the world, this is very different from Jesus being punished for something he did personally. This is like saying if I push a person out of the way of an oncoming car I was "punished" by getting flattened myself.

2. Jesus is not just a mere prophet. He is the incarnation of the Logos and as such is fully man and fully God in the one person of Jesus Christ with human nature and divine nature perfectly united. What Jesus did as God for humanity is hardly relevant for what he did in his capacity as prophet.

[Anonymous No.18484808]

>>18484799
There is no reason to kill him if he did all of that.

[Anonymous No.18484812]

>>18481689
He was also man. capable of great evil in the world yet did not do it. Resisted all temptation

[Anonymous No.18484816]

>>18481422
God's not real grow up faggot