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@Magnificent_8 Have you asked those asking you why not out loud, if they have an inner monologue? I wonder if there's overlap between praying out loud while alone and not having an inner monologue.

私は1人で祈る時、一貫して声に出さずに祈る形がいつのまにか身に付いていました。声に出して祈るのが一般的だと思いますが、私の祈りの姿勢は誤りなのかとふと思う事があります。「なぜ声に出さないの？」と言われると、自分でも理由がよく分からないのですが、思考→発語→祈りという形で声に出して祈るよりも、心の中で祈る形の方が、思考と祈りが直結しており、楽に感じているかもしれません。皆さんはこのテーマでの経験はありますか？

Dragonball Z actor Vic Mignogna on using anime to evangelize for Christ: “There are kids – tens of thousands of them – that my pastor will never reach. They will never darken the door of First Baptist Church or any church, but they like Ouran High School, or they like Fullmetal Alchemist, or they like Dragonball Z, and they will listen to me talk and share my faith and share God’s love for them because they like my work. ... my job in anime has opened so many doors for me to get to share my faith with tens of thousands of people who would never otherwise be open to it.” Is this a great way to reach the youth?

@sheilatebra Ughh, keep feminism out of Christianity please.

I pray that God takes you back to that original place, the beginning. Before the pain, before the problems, before life started hitting you in the places you didn’t even know you could feel. Back to that version of yourself that still believed, still dreamed, and even had a fire without fear. Because some of you didn’t lose your purpose, you just got buried under what you had to survive. But hear me, God is not finished with you.

The pseudepigraphal literature, including 1st Enoch (typically what we refer to as “the Book of Enoch” — there are 3 but the 1st on is the famous one), operated within a fundamentally different literary framework than modern historical narrative. 1st Enoch is a pseudepigraphal, apocalyptic collection of narratives and visions ascribed to Enoch. This was a genre that deliberately attributed writings to ancient figures to claim authority rather than to deceive readers about authorship. Understanding the genre’s intention requires recognizing its theological purpose. As a collection, 1 Enoch offers a glimpse of what was likely a common worldview during the later 2nd Temple period (1st Enoch almost certainly doesn’t predate this time), which identified the world as an evil and unjust place in which the Jewish people awaited the redemption of God in their eschatological world. The primary message was the soon-coming divine retribution of enemies and the judgment and eradication of evil that permeated the cosmos, with the author’s truth and authority relying on his heavenly journeys during which God gave him divine revelation of the coming redemption of the righteous. Rather than presenting factual history, pseudepigraphal works employed symbolic and visionary language to convey theological truths about divine judgment and redemption. Topics like angels, demons, the spiritual realm, and the coming Messiah are all being fleshed out by this type of work. 1st Enoch offers an embellished textual tradition of Gen.6, and the pseudepigraphal accounts parallel the Septuagintal tradition, reflecting the interpretative biases of the period. This interpretative expansion, albeit not literal reporting, was the genre’s defining characteristic. The New Testament’s engagement with 1 Enoch further illustrates this point: Jude draws from the pseudepigraphal book of 1 Enoch, with Jude 14-16 detailing a “prophecy” made by Enoch regarding judgment on sinners and the ungodly, drawing on 1 Enoch 9:1, Jude cites Enoch not as historical documentation but as authoritative theological witness to eschatological judgment. The pseudepigraphal genre was never intended as literal history; it was visionary theology dressed in ancient authority. The question remains, if we take Enoch seriously as actual history then why not the myriads of other pieces of ancient Jewish a Pseudopigrapha, a vast literary catalogue: the Apocalypse of Abraham, Apocalypse of Adam, Apocalypse of Daniel, Apocalypse of Elijah, Apocalypse of Zephaniah, and multiple versions of Baruch (2, 3, and 4 Baruch) and Ezra texts (including the Greek Apocalypse of Ezra, Questions of Ezra, Revelation of Ezra, and Vision of Ezra)? The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs represent a major collection, along with individual testaments attributed to Moses, Job, Solomon, Adam, and the Three Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob), why not toss them in as well? All the same genre and vein that Enoch finds itself in. The collection extends to works attributed to David (More Psalms of David), Jeremiah, Isaiah (including the Vision of Isaiah), Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Zechariah, and multiple works attributed to Solomon, including the Psalms of Solomon and Testament of Solomon. The Sibylline Oracles, Eldad and Modad, and the Book of Jubilees also claim ancient authorship. Some of these documents in their earliest iterations are as early as the 3rd century BC (through others the 4th or 5th centuries AD). Sure, read 1st Enoch. But don’t confuse it for something it isn’t.

@DeagleStephen @Grummz I like that brother!

@TheRealCrAzD @Grummz Agreed. Different environment, same body and brain. Rain falling on a city sidewalk does just the same thing as rain on an isolated mountaintop: descends down the path of least resistance.

What is wrong with these people. Whenever they see something good, they instead claim it's evil. The pattern is pretty clear. Anything with strong convictions and morals is "bad". Anything with family values *has* to be "evil thing." It's like a kneejerk response. Pure poison

@Grummz The pedos these days are very brazen

This one is actually a good move.

I Realized I Was Fighting Dr Disrespect in PUBG 👀

@ShitpostRock2 This looks like the FPS version of that break dancing Olympics chick.

I think people don't play it because of the medicore gameplay and terrible story

@Grummz So, weirdos can get arrested.

Why... Why is Claude Code rolling out ID verification?

@KatharinaLeAnn And listen to bangers like this: youtu.be/u5otQ0MIFdU

@TheRealCrAzD Absolute truth

Because we are called to know the times & the seasons, what are the basics that we as Christians should recognize during these last seasons? I’m listening.🙏

@VulgMaster123 @NicholasLight Clean your room please.

@TheRealCrAzD @NicholasLight Cartoons can still have meaning. Why do you think the Celestial Dragons are so despicable? Because Oda was drawing from the filth that exist at the top that use their power to oppress those under them. The fishmen are literally enslaved, and the systems are what enable this.

What do political views have to do with enjoying and experiencing an Anime? Because I can’t stand people on the left, my thoughts for a cartoon will be changed? Anime is my escape from reality, just like video games and music. Even if something is inspired by politics, it’s still a fictional universe. Who gives a damn if “Luffy would hate someone like you!” Breaking news yall… Luffy isn’t a real person. What the fuck is this modern day obsession with politics and letting these politically obsessed people ruin the hobbies we love?

@0xmarchesss @MAGA_elodie Found the gay

@MAGA_elodie People pay for tickets to see a fight, not a lecture. She’s not a hero, she’s a buzzkill who ruined the event for everyone

Nurse spots the danger, stops the fight, and gets booed by the crowd. She still smiled knowing she just prevented a tragedy!!

@VulgMaster123 @NicholasLight No, it's a cartoon. Go outside before you self forever sleep.

@NicholasLight One Piece is a critique on authoritarianism, systemic racism, and the lasting consequences of slavery. These are issues that plague our world today. Supporting the take down of these systems in one piece and then opposing the take down of such systems IRL is hypocritical.

They will call good evil and evil good. If you can convince someone men can be women and women can be men, then you have broken their minds and nothing is off the table. If you say love is love and don't address the evils being taken, then it all becomes good because love is love.

Help me understand this. Christianity calls us to love God, love others & protect the vulnerable, even at cost to ourselves. So how does a world get so blind that pedophilia, abusing the innocent, defending cruelty & even turning in your own families to be killed for their faith is called “good”? Scripture says it will happen (Isaiah 5:20, John 16:2) & though I understand it’s a spiritual blindness, I can’t wrap my mind around it. How?

@DrFrankTurek If you don't then you get places that let women be prechers.

Why is it important for Christians to call out false teachers?

@the_culturist_ I like it. I'd add a massive Cross up there if it was me, but that's okay too.

Be brutally honest. What is your opinion on this design?

@Grummz Easy W

I was right.

@thatdudejustin5 Found the gay

Get outta here with this sexist bullshit