An Inconvenient Verse

Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. Deuteronomy 28:63 biblegateway.com/passage/?searc… #Scripture #BibleVerse #VerseoftheDay

@almightygod Then how do you explain this? twitter.com/DailyCanon/sta…

No one is eavesdropping on your thoughts.

"You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother." Hosea 4:5 biblegateway.com/passage/?searc… Image: Workshop of Sandro Botticelli. "The Virgin and Child with Saint John and an Angel" (c. 1490). Tempera on wood. nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/work…

Image: Pieter Bruegel the Elder. "The Triumph of Death" (1562 - 1563). Oil on panel. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain. museodelprado.es/en/the-collect…

...I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars; I will heap your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols. I will abhor you." Leviticus 26:14-16,30 biblegateway.com/passage/?searc…

@Dangerman_1973 @TheUnvirgin Good point. Perhaps the difference is worldly versus spiritual knowledge? Paul belittles worldly knowledge starting from 1 Corinthians 1:18, quoting Isaiah 29:14 “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

@DailyCanon @TheUnvirgin I thought knowledge (of good and evil) was the original sin?

@geostylegeo Reset your cultural bias to zero. If it helps, pretend you are an alien that just landed on earth. How would you figure out if any of these religions are true? There's no path to get there. The most reasonable position is to be unconvinced by all of them.

@hemantmehta Erratic crescendo to a Wikipedia reference.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this wildly antisemitic rant from Christian hate-preacher Jonathan Shelley.

"Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place." Mark 13:30 biblegateway.com/passage/?searc… Image: Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506). "Christ Carrying the Cross". Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mant…

Image: "David dances in front of the Ark". Retrieved from compassc.org/2018/05/27/me-…

"Then He struck the men of Beth Shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. He struck fifty thousand and seventy men of the people, and the people lamented because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter." 1 Samuel 6:19 biblegateway.com/passage/?searc…

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Food for thought…

Image: Hans Memling. Detail from "St John the Baptist and Veronica Diptych" (c. 1470). Oil on panel. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans…

According to Church tradition, Saint Veronica was moved with sympathy seeing Jesus carrying the cross and gave him her veil so that he could wipe his forehead. When Jesus returned the veil the image of his face was miraculously captured on it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Ver…