What clicked and made you have a different mindset? How long did it take to start changing and how long was the transformation? Did it last or is it an ongoing back and forth between your old self? I want to know your transformation and success.
Any kind of change, big or small. Anything from weight loss, world view, personality shift, major life change, single change like stopped smoking or drinking soda to starting exercising or going back to school. I want to hear how people’s life were a bit or a lot better through reading and your progress.
TIA 🙏
Probably an obvious first answer here, but scripture did that. Not a lot to explain there, most of us know how that works. It’s one thing to know about something, but to really get into it is another thing.
I agree. The Bible and the Koran have definitely impacted my life. For example, I pass where the Twin Towers used to stand about once a week, and my country used to give women control over their own bodies.
You say that as if everyone reads it the same way or reads it correctly or that by “scripture” I couldn’t have meant something other than what usually comes to mind.
Also corpal punishment another contribution the Bible has made to the world. Encouraging adults to beat children.
That was a part of Torah-based approach to family that the Bible’s revelations actually overwrote.
It should be noted the Torah itself was ahead of its own time because it was the norm to be able to kill children, which the Torah saw as barbaric. You could say they beat out the Greeks on this.
Spare the rod, spoil the child. Is endorsed by your boy Paul. You know the guy who supposedly wrote over half of the NT.
Except if the son was rebellious or if the child was of the enemy. Remind me what Jeremiah said again about rocks and children.
Paul is not “my boy”, if anyone is Jesus is. Jesus is the messenger and takes priority over Paul, who is seen as trying to dilute the message. This shouldn’t be unclear, we are talking about the main figure of the Bible versus a prosecutor of his people. Jesus asks us to spare the rod, even when the child is rebellious.
Another thing to note about the last point, it wasn’t just any form of rebellion that led to this (in any civilization that wants a steady population, this wouldn’t have been a practical teaching even if anyone wanted it to be law). It had more to do with honor. Meanwhile, the whole rocks and children verse is figurative.
Oh this argument again. Yeah without your boy Paul there is no Christianity. Perfect sacrifice, services on Sunday, the lifting of the Moses commandments, Baptism, the proto-Trinity, original sin, the basic organization of the church, the sliding position of women, over half of the NT, the doctrine of salvation, faith vs works debate. Guess who did all this? Without Paul there would be nothing. There was zero plan for the day after.
Also of course the Gospel writers borrowed from Paul, which I doubt you accept but truth doesnt depend on feelings. The Eucharist for example is highly likely to be either Paul inventing it or relating a story such that it would get popular.
Chapter and verse please.
Don’t care about apologetics. I care about what the law says.
Just a prank bro!
None of what you describe had any necessary relationship to him. It was already a perfect sacrifice. There were already services on Sunday because that’s when Jesus did his services. The Moses commandments were lifted by nobody, but Jesus himself provided commentary on how priority for them would play out. Baptism did not start with Paul or even Jesus, but Jesus popularized it when asking John the Baptist (whose name is literally The Baptist) to baptize him. The trinity was an interpretational teaching and optional (Eastern Orthodox people don’t even have it and never did). The position of women was always culturally influenced. Jesus made the eucharist a thing, he literally said “the bread is my body and the wine is my blood”. And Jesus first spoke about salvation and faith versus works (I can cite quite a few verses on this). You could say a thing or two about the organization of the church, but then again, there was Catholics versus Eastern Orthodox. As for the gospel writers, perhaps you forget how many there were.
And none of this is apologetics, so much as it’s putting words in the mouth of the tradition to apply an absolute approach to interpretation.
As for the sparing the rod…
“Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” ~ Mark 10:15
“Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” ~ Matthew 18:4
“Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” ~ Matthew 19:13-14