1. Are you looking for primary sources in the original languages? I'm not too familiar with the field but I'm just gonna say that as someone who does read contemporary Japanese fairly fluently (albeit as a non native speaker) I struggle heavily to read anything pre 20th century. With that said I also have never consciously made an effort to learn the older language, so I'm sure if you put your mind to it it's doable. It also depends on how they're written, there are several forms of archaic Japanese.

  2. Oh my goodness thank you so much! Yeah...that makes sense. I think I get too idealistic. I guess I expected learning an older language would be like Latin and Greek, but Japanese is completely different.

  3. I haven't read much other literature on the topic myself but have you read/seen Silence? It's a novel but a good exploration of the topic.

  4. Just fyi the second half of your post is a copy paste of the first.

  5. I have no involvement with them myself so I cant vouch for them, but I've seen a few people talk positively about this fully online church w a discord

  6. It's OK to be unsure - becoming a Christian is a big deal and there's definitely nothing wrong with taking it slow and thinking through things. It certainly seems like it might be a sign to me - I think God tends to gift people faith by calling on the heart rather than trying to reach people intellectually.

  7. Another analogy is like a beam of light. The beam and the spot it produces as an end result proceed from the source of the light, but it's not like the source temporally proceeds the beam or spot. The light and heat from the Sun 'comes from' the Sun itself, but it's not possible for the Sun to exist without emitting that light and heat.

  8. Gay girl is pretty much side B, “it’s okay to be gay as long as you don’t act on it”

  9. In fairness to Side B, it's actually more Side Y, which is people like Perry and Rosaria Butterfield who think even Side B people are in the wrong even for being celibate gays because they're making their sexuality part of their identity instead of Christ. They also believe it's good and desirable to change your sexuality, just that it's a gift of God rather than smth you can make happen.

  10. As of recently its no longer on substack but Modern Relics is a fun assortment of funny things going on in the Christian internet

  11. I'm keen for any improvement of public transport, but definitely much more excited for more bus routes than cheaper/free fares

  12. I think your issue here is you're too caught up on one specific model of the crucifixion, penal substitutionary atonement, which is the view that Jesus was sacrificed to appease the wrath of God.

  13. I think it's a very powerful story about trusting God even when it seems like God has turned away or even against you - which is honestly a pretty common experience in people struggling with doubt and suffering. It's not really a story about ethics or even blind obedience - the usual takeaway of 'if God tells you to do something you should obey even if it's immoral' is a very shallow one I think.

  14. I can kinda see what you mean, but I feel like land ownership is the last,thing anyone really associates w Lord nowadays. If you have an issue w any kind of hierarchical power titles being used for God yeah I can see the point but I'm not sure why Lord is any more landowner-y than Duke.

  15. In Australia- general society is pretty secular and religion doesn't come up much in conversation, which can lead to non Christians having some frankly baffling takes while also thinking they know it well bc it's nominally the biggest religion.

  16. I personally think the big thing about worshipping God is that it's for our benefit, not his. Obviously God likes to have a relationship with us, but he doesn't need it; but we benefit from worship because we were made to connect to God. It gives us meaning.

  17. I literally thought the first two were the same one until right now 😶

  18. They're numbered differently depending on whether you're Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish.

  19. I appreciate this so much!! However, I’m trying to find the truth, which very well might not be the answer that I want to hear, which would be more or less what I’d hear in those communities, although I will still make a post for more help! Thank you guys again, and god bless you:)

  20. That's very fair and reasonable. The one thing I would say is onsider the fact you've (presumably) grown up in an environment that has gone super heavy on 'being gay is sinful'. I dont think it would be wrong or ignoring the truth to also engage with places that take the exact opposite tack as well. 'Being gay might not be sinful' is probably going to be a tiny speck against the huge background radiation you've been immersed in your entire life telling you it's bad.

  21. Why would a child come out and say this, if you as a parent started teaching the child from the start the do's and don'ts in life. It is the pure neglect of the parents today.

  22. That's not how it works lol. The idea you can prevent your kids being trans by teaching them right is pure wishful thinking and bending reality to fit your preconceived ideas. Good Christian parents have children come out as trans all the time. It's like Job's friends insisting he had to have done something wrong to deserve this punishment because they couldn't face the fact the world was messier than they thought.

  23. Yeah because UNIT is the best possible place for him to be to keep saving people. He can disagree with and critique a system whilst still using it for good.

  24. That in itself is still a political message - that institutions are worth working with even when they're flawed, rather than something to be rejected or abolished. Not a radical leftist one, at the very least (not saying it's bad for that, just,that it does have political implications).

  25. My school was set to lose i think 3 or so teacher aides last year? One SLSO got let go, and then one left of his own accord and they split his contract between 2 of the other current staff, but if he hadn't we would've lost 3 people.

  26. The biggest one that comes to mind is the death of Nanamo, which was later changed to her just "sleeping." I don't care how much the writers try to say that she never actually died in the first place--she stopped breathing and died on camera.

  27. Thank you for mentioning the Nanamo thing. I think going back on that was some of the weakest writing in the entire game and I'm shocked nobody else mentioned it.

  28. Proceeding on the assumption that theres nothing wrong w all the stuff you mentioned bc that doesnt seem to be what youre asking about - the simple answer is we don't really know anything about the New Earth except its gonna be lit, God is gonna be there, death and tears will be done away with.

  29. Years ago there was a MMORTS based on the Bible I think. Was called Godstoria or smth. I never played it and honestly not sure if I'm just misremembering an April Fools joke or something xD but it rings a bell.

  30. I think to be fair issues like LGBTQ+ stuff are things that churches are often very vocally against, whereas a lot of churches will still maintain that economic justice itself is good is good, but true economic justice comes from the trickle down economy, pulling yourself up by bootstraps, private charity rather than redistribution of wealth, anything i dont like is socialism and socialism is kf the Devil blah blah blah. Which is BS ofc, but I think when LGBTQ+ issues are such an explicit flashpoint for wildly diverging opinions it makes sense people will focus on that. 'I was kicked out of my church for being gay' is more personally visceral than 'my pastor is a capitalist'.

  31. I think the key to an answer here is the fact that a lot (most? nearly all?) universalists don't necessarily think universalism = everyone goes to heaven immediately on death no fuss. Many of us still believe in some kind of purgatorial hell where people are purified of sin and sanctified; God's judgment is still very much a thing, it's just ultimately a working out of his love, not a limiter on it.

  32. So how do you reconcile how the OT claims (to my knowledge) that God not only condoned but commanded the slaughter of Canaanites? I think that's what I grapple with most. I know that God was laying down the laws and harsh judgements to exemplify Christ's mercy in the long run, but I really don't understand the Canaanite slaughter.

  33. I think that's a totally legitimate question! To be clear I wasn't trying to dismiss it as irrelevant or useless, just that I think it's not really a knock against universalism so much as God in general. I certainly agree it is important to develop your faith.

  34. Recognizing immoral acts in the Old Testament is not antisemitism. Saying that if you believe that the Old Testament reperesents God, then God is fundamentally capricious or evil is not antisemitism. It is just not making exceptions for the Bible when it supports or condones evil actions.

  35. I don't think anyone is going that far when they talk about the dangers of antisemitism in dividing the OT against the NT - there are Jews who will gladly trash God in the OT for genocide etc.

  36. I would counter, with regards to hell, that the NT has the clearest descriptions of universal salvation

  37. I agree with that for sure! Alongside what appear to be the clearest description of damnation in hell - and I say that as a universalist. I just don't think a simplistic binary between Testaments holds up super well.

  38. I really don't understand how he would go so far with this. If he wanted to say democratic socialism was OK, yes maybe is some space. But Communism ? I think is rude to countries in which Christianity was attempted to be destroyed by Communism

  39. I don't think Christians can throw stones here - people in America, Australia, Africa, India might say the same thing about Christianity. Might not implying Christianity, the religion of people who colonised and destroyed their native cultures traditions, and lands, can be a good thing be rude to Indigenous peoples wiped out by Christian colonisers? Or Jews for whom historically Christianity was a source of pogroms and forced conversion?

  40. The whole point of class under Marxist orthodoxy is to destroy class.

  41. Herbert McCabe wrote a good article on this exact thing - that class exists whether we like it or not and the question for Christians is what to do about it, and how socialism is an extension of Christian love:

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