#cant take it cant take ot ant take it ant take it cant take it cant take it cant take it cant take it

[passeriformess]

theseus left the rest of the gang i think and is off rotting somewhere due to her wither sickness

syl and ash also fell down the hole so theyre here now

a portal opened to fucking, hell i think??? and maple got briefly possessed and pushed battery and nerd inside, but its ok they got out alive

the egg claimed credit for maple's possession which angered ori enough to go after her but then scribbles brought him back

scribbles' vine arm fucking. EXPLODED??? and blew up ori along the way?? but without really killing him because you cant die in madness

scribbles' body reformed into a gleamon but????? part of his mind got stuck inside ori's newly rebuilt body?????? or is it his ghost thats possessing him idk???? so now ori has scribbles speaking to him inside his brain or some thing guys what the fuck happened i JUST woke up

-the thing that caused the fucky portal to show up was clem dying for Science™️. not theseus, not clementine. clem is now canon to ddsmp -ori Did successfully punch the egg, but she ran away, which is why he started chasing her

wren theseus and batts were stuck in The hole for like a few months bc they Wouldnt talk and then Everyone got fucking. Wasnt able to rp. so we Stayed in the hole.

also everyone made it out of madness and theres no more gleamons anymore

and all egg vines turned into normal vines

oh yeah wren died but its ok it turns out theyre immortal i think

oh yeah should update this

everyone except wren moved to the tea shop wren moved to dirttopia small argument over death within tea shop people about Should they get death they already got the egg vs Some people Actually dont wanna exist forever

batts visited wren, was nice but then led to argument about sui tw wren planning to Die and all fo the associated things no one else except theseus knows about the plans

battery moved to autrea with nerd n chicory nerd has a HOUSE cemetry currently being built bug has become oh so very >:( they have Issues

Wren death uhh lettuce saying theyre not important and need to leave (aka mcdie but theyre being vague as fuck) wren follows along confused or something eventually 'no' 'you dont matter' idk im basing this off my thoughts from last night wren sets the house on fire after saying they dont care about an audience i think which pisses lettuce off (uhh burning alive but. its probably easy to figure out, both burn to death

everyones been taking it as expected theseus is self destructive scribbles hasnt processed it that much bug is finding it hard to do a lot of tasks n is more angy maple is Fuck who knows 😌 favorite absentee tree chorus has Sat outside and has observed ants. he IS ants. Woahhhh

wren is alive woahhh respawn in elysium, went to autrea, sappy shit with the lizard :( (yes they r immortal ! specifically the "can keep respawning indefinitely" type) no one else knows this and is Still grieving

tea shop tension bug n theseus mostly keep arguing video is above mortal qualms scribbles Leaves a lot ori is loosing hope slowly and Also goes out a lot chorus is. Pokes him. this guys Soggy and consumed i actually got energy..

Thumbs up we r Almost there <- during madness aka the endless and infinite corrodor of dimensions and aus. we were in the void i think ? and then dropped ot the overgrowth and Popped back onto the overworld ithimk

map !

the gnether is gnome nether, right? the gnome invasion wasn't just a fever dream I had?

[lordiavoloremade]

im scared of losing my mom to illness im scsre fo losing my dad to illness i cnat take the fear i cany live like this i dont know how to im nto strong i dont have anyone but them and my cats i cnst lose them i cant do this i cant live i have to be the first to fie but i dont want to die im scared nothing will happen after but i have to see thje brothers ahiam ims o scared ans lonely and no one will ever love me irl and no one ever likes me and mo one really wnats to me my friend they just wnat me to funny but im selfish all i tlsk about is ymhselfni dont want to thinks bout it i dont want to thin about it i dont wnat to think about i dont wnat to think about it i dont want to think about it i dont want to think about it i dont want to think about it i dont eant tohtink anout it idont rwantto thonk about it i dont wnat tothink about it i dont want to think about it ofont want to think anout it if ont want to think about it i dontw ant to think about ot

[entoman-created-by-the-tallgreys]

Bad Block

Don’t use salt to fight the shadow's this will only piss them off 

I warn you, if you use salt your going to get possessed and there going to psychic tag your ass as you give off a ping it kinda in left 4 dead when the fat fucker barf’s on you 

only it last for year’s 

DON’T USE SALT . . . 

use 91% proof isopropyl alcohol

where I touched you ....

it will desoved the ... connected and wifi

Warning : LONG, Please keep reading 

this will aid you -

don’ t use water - 

go to water after the event if you go str8 to water after it touched you are attacked it  will ping you 

... in a  case of event’s take a shower a week or the few day’s after eh event 

NEVER USE WATER TO FIGHT A SHADOW 

the new moth’s count the shadow moth’s are brown moth’s 

the other moth’s to not act like them ??? 

it’s a certain kind of brown moth 

ever since 2012 the animals have changed  a lot 

bug have too 

there was even a Mothpocalypse after 2012 it was on 2013 

https://youtu.be/jMeon3TGn5c

call me crazy if you want but ... the animal's and bug are not the same any more 

also when a moth is near not a fly and not a grass hopper nor crick only a moth I and another can see a shadow person standing 

A swarm of moth are a swarm of shadow 1 shadow per moth 

it’s not just a bug any more ... befor 2012 a bug was just a bog .... 

I used ot catch fly’s and moth’s just to let them crawl in me ... and watch them fly away 

just dicking around .... on a late after noon on 4 of july 

but as 2012 got closer the animal’s and bug got strange 

I ignored it for a wile ... 

and it kicked me in the ass 

it’s no longer a bug 

if you see a moth KILL IT AT ALL COST’S 

every time I have horrible nightmare's, there that dam bug resting on me 

horrible nightmare’s of hellish ... 

there a storm of moth’s in the room and all threw out the house 

every time I feel drained there a moth just hovering at my bed with a few 9 to 29 of the little fucker’s 

not butter fly’s and not ant’s the fucking moth 

kill it ... do not use fire you’ll get possessed 

use water and soap aka dawn 

kill it kill the mother fucker ... if you smash it with your hand spray it with the dawn and your hand where you got it’s powder on you ... 

even in a Storm if you check your coat all over ... a few moths’ will pop off you 

OUT OF THE BLUE 

and this taking a good few moment to check everything ... 

and the moths’ fly around in compete dark if you turn on a light you will see moth’s every where ??? but thay cant’ see in the dark ??? 

and there not attracted to light there repelled  by light ??? 

thay scatter in the room 

and you only find like 3 out of 300 ??? 

there just ??? gone 

if you walk by them in the hall you get dizzy and drained and you can feel a hand on your hand a cold one 

in less it is killed and then life force is returned and the connection is broken but not for long another will be deployed 0.1 second’s in mass 

also where there is a swarm of these moth’s there is a lingering gloom in the room and light is suppressed 

you also hear this moaning song 

this song of woe it song's Suttle but it sound’s like the wale of a man dying in agony and the cry’s of a woman 

or a person on fire ??? i’m not bullshit 

you can hear this endless soft screaming and a unintelligible crying 

kinda like the moan from suicide mouse 

the moth’s will hunt you even if your in the car for too long a moth will find you 

every where you rest for tooo long thay will just be there from now on 

w8ing for you 

this is NOT A CREEPY PASTA 

you something’s hear the crackle of fire ??? 

for no reason ??? 

it’s fucking alien . . . ??? 

and then the scream of that fucking man again ??? 

it sound’s when you get a change to hear it like a man burning for ever ??? 

I swear i’m not making shit up . . . 

or you can hear a crowd screaming in horror - ??? 

but from what ??? 

the only way to stop the sound’s is to kill the moth’s and you might see a light dark aura come off the dead moth or a ... mist 

or a blur 

any way 

just kill the fucking moth but the problem is there always another 

there endless . . . . 

[eksbdan-blog]

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What is the Word of God?: A Prophetic Think Tank

What is the Word of God? A very dangerous question.

“This is a very simple question, and one to which a Calvinist, it would seem, could give a very simple answer. And yet that simple answer would hardly be adequate for an occasion of this kind, since the query to which a reply is sought involves such questions as these: Is it a natural or a supernatural Word? Is it a communication of truth, addressed to the intellect, or a behest or command, addressed to the will? Is it a written or a spoken Word or both? Does it represent a verbal or a factual revelation, or one that is both verbal and factual? Is it a Word spoken in the past, and now a finished product, or is it rather a continuous speaking of God? Is it wholly or only in part identical with the divine revelation? Is the Bible the Word of God or is it not?”1

The novelist Thomas Pynchon said, “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” Not that the question “what is the word of God?” is the wrong question. I would say that this question to Christians, and the World, is probably the most critical possible. But it’s the wrong question because we don’t use it to get an honest answer. We use it to stand for a pious intention for which no answer warrants unless it leads us into another red herring ever further from the Messiah.

Of course, it’s mere rhetoric if you are asking it to a people who already claim to know its answer. Rhetorical queries are fine for the great and most consequential questions, but only if the answer you wish to receive reflects reality. If it’s not, they are careless and empty, haughty, platitudinous,  pretentious, and misleading of where we really are want to be in having real knowledge.

“Is it true that scientists said on Foxnews that in one week a two-kilometer asteroid is going to hit the earth and all life will dies.” “Yes, and our saviors, the spacemen, will land their rescue ships on Tuesday and will start to load passengers for the trip to Zeta Reticuli.”

That’s not really a serious question. Its meant to be funny by pretending to be serious, knowing that the answer you get can only be a funny retort or one of a serious but funny panic attack. What makes it the wrong question for a real searcher of truth and a real possessor of truth is that its meant to be a kind of ruse, prepared for an emotionally motivated disarming of the whole idea of spiritual threat by discharging it into something inert and harmless. “What is the Word of God” is asked today for no other purpose than misleading not for comedy, but feelings of piety. Asked so that a certain answer is forced, so that the implied threat about that Word, which is well known subconsciously, gives up a Holy turd instead of a Holy, but very uncomfortable truth.

That’s how it’s the wrong question. Not for the question itself but because of a wrong asker and receiver. What you need is the same question formulated so that the crucial, eternal, potentially deadly, and potentially saving answer cant be avoided and lost in manipulable conceptual generalities.

As Berkhof unintentionally demonstrates above, some questions, like what is a thing essentially, should not even be asked if the answer is too obvious.  It’s like asking, “what kind of car do you have?” You answer, of course, a particular kind of Chevrolet sedan.  But in Christianity, we don’t like the deepest exclusivist claims in our exclusivist faith. So, we then have to veer down into a rabbit hole and ask  in our purely rhetorical, dissociative faith, “is it made of metal or wood?” “Is it animal, vegetable, or mineral?” “Is it objective or only subjective?” We never do get to taking on directly “Chevrolet sedan” in our philosophy and theology.

Another way is that of the common pew sitter. “What kind of car do you have? The answer is “Car.” In such a manner do we ask “what is the Word of God”: something demanding a certain model, but we get either “the whole Bible” or “a document purported to be from a supernatural source developed over time by a certain culture in the ancient Middle East.”

We know and believe there are all kinds of claimants to “the Word of God” type of scripture in the world. Their unattested version is very attractive when the idea of supernatural proofs scare us, or we just can’t accept them in any case. But if you think you’re in a religion that is represented primarily by its whole instead of its miraculous part,  like in our Christian “culture war” idea of us against the World, you will be inclined to circle the wagons and want to defend the whole instead of allowing its leading edge to defend itself. To us, “go to the ant, thou sluggard” and “he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities” are both the Word of God, and so they are. But for what reason in our consciousnesses do we dare to think we are obligated to choose something else as this leading-edge of the Word of God when Christ and the apostles certainly, unequivocally, demonstratively, all day and all night, made it messianic prophecy?

Talk about a  dissociate disorder.

The question is not crucially whether the Word of God is spoken or written, or whether it is that which was spoken in the past or spoken now. They are misleading questions, especially the one about whether the Word of God is historical or contemporary. Such genera of questions about the Word of God will not give you the answer to what is the Word of God because this is asking for only for its exterior categorical qualities. What we want to do is construct a question that forces an answer that goes to its particular content, and that content in which the New Testament writers, particularly Jesus, took for granted as being at its heart.

Here is our question: “what of/in the Word of God is required to use as a collective symbol of the whole thing?”

We all do it. We all have a conceptual point of contact in our minds with the idea “Word of God,” so this question is appropriate on a lot of levels if we ask honestly and are willing to answer honestly. But let’s not excuse ourselves for the corrupt natural tendency of defer-deny-misdirect-reconceive when the results of our natural tendencies are supposed to be 180 degrees opposite from what we are supposed to love.  It’s about the single superior thought or impression we get when we ask or think about the Word of God and if it aligns with Christ as he revealed himself.

The far better question, again, is “what in the Bible, what scriptural stream of revelation, regardless of who is speaking, whether it is addressed to the will or the intellect, verbal of factual, is that which the New Testament writers took as what best represents the credentials of Jesus as the Messiah.” I beg you to remember that if Jesus is not Messiah, there may be some god out there, but he’s not Jehovah, and there is no indication that he cares about us or is not more inclined to come down and start plunking us with his cosmic pellet gun. If he’s not Messiah, then you’re still in your sins. If he’s not messiah, there is no Christianity, only another podunk world faith. This question for the Church is perfect because the “Messiah” is an exclusive propriety possession of the Bible. If you were to pick one name for “Bible,” that would be it.

Since it is Jesus who is the author and finisher of our faith (Heb 12:2), what about Jesus makes him the Christ to our faith is what should also first be treated as the Word of God in the capacity of an informational gatekeeper to our faith, without which knowledge and faith we miss in Jesus, the person. So, it’s not even about whether something in the Bible might not be the Word of God, but to what extent can we say what we first give attention to in the Word of God is Jesus.

Along this line, here are some questions to consider that will give us our answer.

1. What was the only possibility for the “phrase “Word of God”  being used as one-part-of-the-whole according to the NT writers by the historical timing of their writings?

This one is easy, and we all know it.

We use “Word of God” as the whole of the Bible, but it’s not used that way in the Bible.

To the extent that the New Testament is primarily about merely reporting on the operational success of messianic prophecy in fulfillment and through that the clarification of previously unsettled questions, this is the extent to which the Word of God is single stream, namely, messianic prophecy. In other words, the extent to which it can be said the New Testament is following these prior prophecies instead of creating out of whole cloth new ones for own truth narrative is the extent that we can say that “the Word of God” is a single stream. Quintessentially, the words of the prophets fulfilled by Christ.

For the NT writers, the corpus of the NT was not written yet and established canonically. For all the writers of the NT, when they spoke of the Word of God, they were speaking about the Old Testament. The New Testament does not much explicitly quote itself. When the NT writers and Jesus quoted, they quoted the Old Testament, and they overwhelmingly quoted Messianic Prophecy. They referred not to its own unattested authority, neither does Jesus (John 5:31-32, 37, 39) to His own, but to the ability of the Tenach to prove their reports are not self-serving and their faith as divinely inspired by the worlds of the prophets.

2. What of this Word of God is quoted, and does it align with our operational definition of the Word of God?2

Bring up my web page here. Look at what of the Old Testament was quoted, and for what purpose was it quoted.

254 separate NT verses citing 231 OT verses

190 Combined OT quotations in the NT, conflating repetitions

137 OT verses are marked clearly prophetic, 30 are used in a strong prophetic argument, making a total of 167 out of 231 OT verses strongly prophetic.

Bring up this web page here. This page is a collation of Jesus’s words in the Gospel of John, giving an example of the pattern also found in the other gospels. Here is a more meaningful interpretation of the true NT prophetic content (Note: “PW” in the document, as I used it, stands for Prophetic Word, an appellation I give as a more instructive alternative to “Bible” or “Scripture,” or even Word of God if it is used in a sense too general to make messianic prophecy its heart).

“In John, there are 879 verses. Jesus speaks in 423 verses. Jesus cites OT prophetic scripture 33 verses. He states or implies a fulfilled prophecy in 120 verses.  In other verses, he speaks eschatologically or speaks of prophecy yet to still set for fulfillment. This is 209 verses of the 423. The total is 362 of the 423.  The total is 85.5%. The missing collation is in the verses where he expounds on a prophetic theme, explains how it works to faith, speaks of its importance, or generally where it is the root topic of discussion. In this category, all can fall into. All are essentially about Christ, His Word, its fulfillment, its application to faith, and its future.  Speaking conservatively, these verses alone are at least 345. Most of these verses combine one category with another, making every verse in the service of the prophetic subject.

For example, in John 6:44, Jesus says: ‘No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.’ This combines the M category with the F category since it speaks of the future resurrection and also that no one will take part in it but those who believe the PW/Person of Christ.

The next verse, 45, we have: ‘It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man, therefore, that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.” Jesus cites OT prophecy and states that this faith in the word of the prophets is the way to Him, meaning that it is in the M-S category. To this could easily be added the F category as well, since he still speaks of future fulfillment by future believers.

John 3:14 combines all four categories:  It refers to Numbers 21:8 (S), cites it as prophetic and fulfilled by Christ (E), speaks of the supreme present and  future importance of the PW and faith requirement in the PW (M and F)”

Now, this is my own work following my perspective, but I ask you to use the same model and come up with your numbers.  Any way you do it, the Word of God, whether OT or NT, is the messianic, prophetic phenomena of God.

What is more than natural is that the Person of messianic prophecy would put it of first importance, found all his arguments on it, predicate all His theology on it, speak it almost exclusively and then die to fulfill it? That is because the Word of messianic prophecy is Christ.

That is what the NT writers called the Word of God. Unlike our view of the Word of God, it’s not pithy proverbs, philosophical principles, motifs and themes, stories, an instruction manual about how to pray, or even mainly about how to treat your fellow man or a dictionary of theological ideas. It’s not mainly about  “Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.” It’s not about us. It’s about Jesus, but not about the Jesus we want Him to be or even only about the person of Jesus. It’s about Jesus the Messiah, and if it’s about Jesus Messiah, it is about how the prophets foretold Him and how he fulfilled that Word of God.

Every verse in the New Testament, including “Jesus wept” (John 11:35), is recorded for some kind of teaching of that truth long before we apply it to our own lives. An example of the deprioritized interpretation is this one: “Jesus Christ tenderly and deeply sympathizes in human sorrow” (Family Bible Notes). I don’t mean that the Bible is not for us, that it’s not showing Jesus demonstrating a mandatory capacity for human emotion or care for us, I mean that “Jesus wept” is for the main purpose of recording Jesus’s fulfillment of Isa 53:3 and Jer 9:1; 13:17; 14:17. The spiritual power of fulfilling Isaiah 53:3 and the implications for our faith through it is far more important than “Jesus Christ tenderly and deeply sympathizes in human sorrow.” But this kind of thing is what we like to call the main meaning of the “Word of God.”

3. In the NT, what kind of texts are used, and from where are they taken for positing theological arguments?

The better question is, “what of the fundamental theological NT propositions don’t come from Old Testament prophetic texts?” The answer is none. We will use an example from the Book of Romans.

For example, there are about 41 direct OT quotations in Romans (Romans 3:10-18 quotes directly eight total OT texts). There are many doctrines, but a good way to divide it by “righteousness needed” (Sin), “1:18–3:20; righteousness provided” (Faith), “3:21–8:39; righteousness vindicated” (The Cross, Atonement), “9:1–11:36; righteousness practiced” (Sanctification), “12:1–15:13.”3 If not prophesied, then it’s not theology.

1:18-3:20 Righteousness needed (Sin)

Paul established the doctrine of sin and what cure is needed. Paul here seems to be making a statement about the sin problem without stating what this sin is. Perhaps he is speaking of sins of performance? But that is not what he is talking about as the most important kind of sin.

Overlooked is that Paul opens the letter with a scriptural predicate that is to remain to establish his doctrine of sin by contrast. In Romans 1:1-4, we read, “Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures). Concerning his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh. And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.” That is a wholly, unabashedly prophetic statement.

He even says that the gospel was prophesied, and is, therefore, a prophetic gospel. It defines the basis for the new righteousness through a prophetic knowledge that sin is against (knowing and believing is righteous, not knowing, and not believing is the opposite).

Starting in 1:18, being that holding this knowledge of the truth unrighteously is the real sin, the baseline example for this sin against revelational knowledge is a sin against natural revelation “professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” In man’s religious history, this led to a fundamental corruption of something so basic as the knowledge of the divinely established form of sex between men and women, effectively what we might call a kind of intellectual and biological inbreeding (as opposed to looking outside the human sphere for knowledge).

Paul continues not to talk about sin as ultimately against natural revelation, but by its example talking about the sin against Christ and his prophetic revelation.

In Vss. 29-31 Starts to talk more directly, using examples closer to home. He lays out a list of sins that flow from, as indicative symbols, of the great one. The problem is those deceived into thinking that they will not be judged by the Law when they are religious (circumcised). Not judged according to the law, but who judge those who are committing the same sins they are. But those who are not circumcised will be counted as righteous who keep the law these people are not following, which is true “the righteousness of the law” in v.26.

What is this? There is the false righteousness that comes from bodily movement around religion and natural affections and the true righteousness of the Law that is spiritual and faith in the prophetic revelation of Christ. Here is the whole of the thing Paul is talking about, that spiritual one, not any other primitive form.  Its opposite is, again, quintessential sin, not the basic sins that Paul mentioned against the basic knowledge of God. (In Romans 8:4 he says the righteousness of the Law is fulfilled in us who live not according to the flesh but to the Spirit)

He says that this righteousness is not carnal but spiritual: Romans 2:29: “But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.” The advantage between the gentile and Jew is that the Jew is superior in that “unto them were committed the oracles of God” (3:2). The Jew has a better foundation upon which to be properly instructed. That is, by fulfilled messianic prophecy. Now we know what this inner, essential, righteousness of the Law is.

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Paul answers some questions that obviously raised in his time about how this righteousness of God can be effective to salvation if some of the Jews did not believe. About how God’s grace can abound more to His glory the more sinful we are, suggesting that more sin is better to show God’s grace and why we who believe are still considered sinners. He says everyone is a sinner (3:9) without having the righteousness of the Law. The Law of works (v.27) only shows how sinful we are and how impossible it is by our effort to satisfy it (3:19-20).

Paul cites the Old Testament scripture between vss. 11 and 18 to define sin eight times. This is not an enumeration of only carnal sins, but spiritual ones (not righteous, of no understanding, none that “seeks God,” “out of the way,” “unprofitable,” “none that do good.”). Paul cites the OT that applies to the present time in a way that it could never apply to the past because Christ fulfilled the law and the prophets, therefore using Old Testament passages that we would not consider prophetic as prophetic texts. It suggests that we might be wrong in our consideration of what scripture is prophetic and what is not.

This spiritual righteousness of the Law “without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference” (emphasis mine). Justification by faith without the deeds of the Law is through “faith in his blood” (v.25), “to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus” (v26). What is clear is from where the knowledge of this sin and curative righteousness comes: Christ and the Old Testament scriptures that speak of the Messiah. Faith in Jesus is through His oracles and in their fulfillments; faith in His blood is not a faith in His actual blood, but the blood represents His prophesied, propitiatory death.

We establish something quite different than our operational conception of this sin as a sin primarily of physical works and the reason why we would commit such sins, or for that matter what righteousness means, how we can have it and why we would follow it. In our way of thinking, sins are primarily of physical expression, and the reason we sin is that we don’t believe in “God” or “Jesus” or the “Bible” like we should. Or, it’s because we don’t know or understand the propositional “doctrines” and apply them. Perhaps because we don’t recognize that we are sinful. But if sin is spiritual, it is sin of spiritual activity. If it is so, it is a sin of not knowing, having no confidence in, relegating, misappropriating, obfuscating, or being primarily unmotivated by or denying the oracles of Christ. Any conception of righteousness coming through the performance of the law is the opposite.

3:21–8:39. Righteousness provided (Faith)

Romans 3:21: “But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.”

Paul uses 5 OT texts to establish Abraham as the prototypical man of faith, starting in 4:1. What was the basis of Abraham’s faith?

Romans 4:13: “For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.” This promise was prophetic that he would be the father of many nations (v.17 and 18).

Romans 4:21: “And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.” He was convinced of God’s faithfulness to fulfill the prophecy.

Not intended just for Abraham but for us, who also believe in God’s promises concerning Jesus, who is the one that Abraham believed would come to establish such faith: Romans 4:24-25: “But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.”

Romans 5:6: “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” “In due time” refers to the oracles.

All of Paul’s arguments use this understanding of prophetic faith as the basis of why it is superior to the law, why there is now no condemnation for those that are in the law of faith in Christ. Why it makes us dead to sin but alive to God, and how God can give us eternal life though we are sinners.

Again, all of our theology comes from the messianic stream of scripture.

9:1–11:36: Righteousness vindicated” (The Cross, Atonement)

“So this section is an attempt to explain God’s dealings with Jews as a vindication of righteousness. Paul does it by a clear exposition of the Scriptures. He will show that Israel’s rejection is related to the spiritual pride of the Jews (9,10), that Israel’s rejection is not complete because some are being saved (11), and that Israel’s rejection is not final because it will be reversed before the coming of the Lord (the end of chapter 11).”4

The problem with the above interpretation is there is no effort to define the scriptural basis of this “rejection” by the Jews. What did they reject, precisely, and what were they arguing was not true scripturally that these Christians believed? Well, their interpretation of the oracles of Messiah as applying to Jesus, of course. We can’t talk about “righteousness vindicated” without knowing what righteousness is and what it is not.

Romans 9:7-8: “Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”

Paul uses no less than 20 Old Testament scriptures in this section. Ishmael was from Abraham as well, but Isaac was a prophetic type of all righteous Israel. Not all the Jews are saved, but only those of the promise. Paul is using a prophecy of these righteous Jews to argue that all those in Christ are among them. Christ is not merely telling them, “don’t’ worry, I say on my own authority you’re saved” or “if you have confessed your sins and say you believe in me to save you, you will be saved.” Paul used an exclusively prophetic argument that righteousness is through belief in what the prophets said would come in Jesus of Nazareth. You have to know it to believe it, and the more you know it, the more you believe it.

12:1–15:13. Righteousness practiced” (Sanctification)

Now, this is a no brainer after the preceding. What sanctifies? Why?

Everything about how we should behave is because of the kind of scriptures above. We are not honest if we say it’s because of anything else. We are not honest if we say the Word of God has anything else in it to accomplish this.

4. What of the Word of God is to be used in NT evangelism?

Again, easy.

In John 1:15 and 5:33, John and Christ use the phrase that John the Baptist “bare witness” of Jesus, the Truth.

We don’t interpret this witnessing just as gushing about how much Jesus loves us, how logical Christianity is, how it is compatible with science, that we had a dream or that we speak in tongues, or simply that “I believe in Jesus.” That is not biblical witnessing. Biblical witnessing is quoting the words of the prophets and proclaiming and explaining how Jesus fulfilled them. Quite a different kind of evangelism we preach today.

John’s witnessing is like this in John 1:23: “He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.” Messianic prophecy from Isaiah 40:3-5. It’s not his biblically and supernaturally disconnected theological proposition. He did not say, “I am John, and I am…” he equated himself with an Old Testament oracle. This Jesus also did:

John 5:31-32: “If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true. There is another that beareth witness of me, and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.”

John 5:39: “Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”

John 5:46: “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.”

The Book of Acts is the best place to see 1st-century evangelism at work. Nineteen verses use Old Testament texts. There is not a glimmer of a case to be made out of a single evangelistic encounter where Paul used our bromidic form of evangelism.

5. What of the Word of God is used as the symbolic meaning of Jesus so that when we talk of one, we talk of the other and nothing else?

We need only to make one point to bring this home. By far, the most obvious and hardly even worth trying to defend.

John 1:1-5: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”

It is interesting how close this statement is to the opening of Hebrews:

Hebrews 1:1-8: “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him. And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.”

What does this tell us? In John, Jesus is the Word. What is this Word? Hebrews clarifies it. Jesus’s place is at the right hand of the Father, the Son of God, not as some angel, but because he fulfilled Psalms 2, Psalms 97:7 and Psalms 45:6-7. He adds in 1:13: “But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool?” That the fulfillment of Psalms 110. That book of John says explicitly that Jesus is the Word of God should close the question. Still, it’s closed even further, if that were possible, when Hebrews says the same thing by quoting the Word of God instead of just making the statement (which, by the way, John subsequently and consistently does throughout his gospel). If Jesus is the Word of God, he is the Word of the prophets quintessentially.

What is the Word of God? Why is it so important?

I beg you to please meditate on this question very, very carefully.

If you are a believer and are at least of the mind to think that apologetics is important, I ask you this. Is occultism, adultery, murder, and any other form of sin you can think of coming anywhere near the importance of one which would allow them to be falsely claimed as ultimate examples, and hide as the mother-of-all-apostasies? Can you think of one more qualified as this one for that title, which allows you to have a relationship with Christ, but only by a useless half?

“But all sin is sin?” Yes, surely, but some represent, indicate another, far more profound and damning one of which there is no forgiveness. Because it’s a sin against the Holy Spirit, that that Spirit is sort of a non-threatening abstract, do you think that it’s rare and you are not a part of it until you know what it is, and before its too late?

If you use the phrase “the Word of God,” be careful that what is demonstrably and unequivocally and emblematically Christ is the same as what you know, or maybe he will say “I never knew you.”

Salvation is not only a matter of Christ knowing you, but you knowing him.

Christ and the Norming of Transcendence: Passing by Nehushtan

Prophesying, Preaching, and the Prophetic: Passing by Nehushtan

Matthew 5 and the Adultery of the Heart: Passing by Nehushtan

http://www.bible-researcher.com/berkhof1.html ↩

http://www.bible-researcher.com/nicole.html ↩

http://www.gotquestions.org/Book-of-Romans.html ↩

https://bible.org/seriespage/vindication-or-god%E2%80%99s-righteousness-his-relationship-israel-romans-91-1021 ↩

[musicalpatd]

College Love

Ship: Lin x Reader

Words: 1,038

Warnings: None, other than the fact that this might be terrible.

“Are you sure you’ve got everything? Clothes, shampoo, conditioner, body wash…” Your dad asked.

“Yes, dad. I’ve got everything I need. I’ll be fine.” You answered.

“We know, we just cant believe that in a few minutes, our baby will be gone.” Your mom sniffed.

“I’m not a baby anymore, I’m old enough to take care of myself, mom. Plus, I’ll come and visit you, ok? You guys will be fine.” You said.

“Alright honey. It’s just gonna be so quiet when you leave.” Your dad said.

“You guys have each other to keep you company, and I’m gonna be back for Christmas and stuff.” You explained.

It was time.

You got into your car, and put the keys in the ignition.

“Bye y'all! See you soon!” You yelled from your car.

“Bye!” Called your parents, with tears in their eyes.

You drove off to your college campus, with a bittersweet feeling in your heart.

You got to campus, and made your way to the dorms.

You found and moved in to your college dorm, excited about all the new possibilities that awaited you. You unpacked everything you had, and waited to meet your new roommate.

You were decorating the space you would get to call your room for the next few years, and suddenly you heard the door open and close.

You went to see who it was, and were taken by surprise.

The man had black hair, brown eyes, and a smile that put the sun to shame. You knew instantly that the two of you would get alon nicely.

“Hi! I’m Lin! Nice to meet you!” He said, shaking your hand.

You decided to go the more formal route. “Y/N. Pleasure to make your acquaintance.”

“Well, look who studied their vocabulary!” Lin joked.

“My intellect is a matter of utmost importance to me,” You said, making ot obvious that you were using your smarts to playfully show off, “But I’m not one of those snobby prep kids or anything. I was just messing with you.” You laughed.

“Hm… a girl with a sense of humor… I like it! We’re gonna be friends, Y/N, I can tell.” He laughed.

A few months had passed, and it turns out that Lin had been right. You two had become inseparable. You always studied together, went to the same parties, and you were right by his side when In The Heights became a huge success. Anyone who saw just one of you was worried about where the other was. It had also become a joke that you two were the OTP of the friend group.

What no one knew was that you actually did like Lin. And he returned the feelings.

Lin liked you so much, and he wanted to ask you to be his date to the Tonys. He knew he couldn’t come up with a plan on his own: he needed someone who could help him and tell him what to do.

Lin went over to his friend’s dorm, and knocked, hoping he was there.

“Daveed? You there?” He asked.

Daveed opened the door and hugged Lin, then let him inside.

Lin began to explain the situation, and Daveed’s eyes grew very wide. “Lin? This is great and all, but Ant owes me a twenty now.”

“Why does he-” Lin started.

“We made a bet on weather or not you would confess your love for Y/N to her or one of us. Ant betted that it would take you at least five months.” Daveed explained.

“Anyways, here’s what you do. Don’t do anything too extravagant, she’ll catch on right away. What you want to do is take her by surprise. Just pick a day and be super nice to her, then bam! Out of nowhere, you ask her. She’ll be in such a good mood she’ll have to say yes!” He said.

“Hmm… that seems like a good idea! Thanks Daveed!” Lin smiled.

“Anytime.” He responded.

About a week had passed, and it was time for Lin to execute Daveed’s plan.

It seemed like Lin was doing everything in his power to make you feel special. He had even made you a breakfast in bed, complete with all your favorite foods. You felt like something was up, and you couldn’t quite put your finger on what it was. You decided that the best way to figure out was to outright ask him.

“Lin?” You asked.

“Yes?” He answered.

“Is everything ok?”

“Yeah, why?” He responded.

“I don’t know, you’ve just been acting… weird today. You’ve been super nice. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I just feel like something’s up.” You explained.

“Oh, well… I just wanted to ask you something, and I’m kinda nervous. You know the Tony’s are coming up, right?” Lin asked.

“Yeah, and In The Heights is nominated for awards.” You answered.

“Exactly, and because it’s nominated, that means I have to attend the Tony’s, wich means I need….. a…… date.” He explained.

You caught on, and were super excited to go with him.

“Yes Lin, I’ll go with you!” You cheered.

Later that week, you began to think. What Lin had just asked you to be a platonic date? Did he like you the way you liked him? What if it was a date-date and you embarrassed yourself in front of him?

You went to visit Pippa, because she was good at these kinds of things. You told her what was on your mind, and she assured you that Lin definitely wanted you to go with him as his date-date, not a platonic one.

You thanked her, and went home to make some food.

The day of the Tony’s arrived, and you were super nervous. You talked to Lin, because you knew that he would help you feel better.

“Hey, Y/N. I think I know what will help.” He said nervously.

“What?”

“Maybe…. you could go to the Tony’s…. as my girlfriend?” He asked quietly.

You kissed him, and nothing else in the world mattered.

“Does that answer your question?” You laughed.

You got to the building, and before you went in, Lin made one comment.

“Look out, cause we’re gonna bring the house down as the newest power couple.”

You two laughed and went inside, ready to have an awesome night.

[just-a-mod]

now i wanna rant about some one else

some fucked up shit is in here so be warned

i still fucking hate Jayden

HE TECHENECALLY DOESNT EXIST ANY MORE AND I 

STILL

HATE HIM

Because non existance is too fucking good for him!! its noT fAIR

BECAUSE I WANTED TO KILL HIM

its that EXACT reason why its BETTER this way, because me?? haha

hah

no

cannot indulge in such violent and basic hateful needs. logically i know that. logically i know even if i had gotten the chancE TO BURN HIM INTO NOTHING, MAKE HIM SUFFER ATOM BY ATOM AS I TURNED HIM INTO NOTHIGN

that wouldn’t be good for me, it wouldn’t be good to feel that satisfaction or level of hate that’d drive m to that place. I know that

I know that

buT I STILL CANT HELP TEH SMILE ON MY FACE AS I JUST

ITD BE SOHARD

NOT TO KILL HIM QUICKLY??? because i just, I WANNT TO MAKE IT LAST

BUT ITS LIKE IVE NEVERBEEN VERY GOOD AT SELF RESTRAINT HAHAHAH

i wanna start small, mkay. so small he doesn’t notice it at first. just follow him, watch him, learn what he does right? and i’d do it well, but not wel lenough. i wanth im to know he’s being watched. DOESNT KNOW BY WHO, OR WHAT, but he knows. 

he starts carrying around a knife, or a gun. he  looks over his shoulder, he doesnt like going out a lone. i want him to feel that fear, that paranoia. i want him to lock his windows and doors with dead bolts

 iw ant him to sleep with a weapon, have trouible sleeping, one eye open, his back to the wall. 

i want to take away his sense of safety. i want ot break into his house while he sleeps, fuCk up little things, and leave.  he would begin to wodner if this curtains were open or shut when he went to sleep. did he leave the honey on the counter or put it away?? little things that’d tick away at his brain

and then? i’d make it moRE OBVIOUS. is he going crazy??? is this some stalker??? some monster????

he’d stop sleeping, he wouldn’t leave his house, he’d watch EVERYTHIGN, and i’d be watching him. be watching him try to cling to some safety

and then when he FINALLY passes out, i’ll bREAK EVERYTHING. I’LL RUIN HIS ENTIRE HOME AND whether he wakes up while the process is happening or not is just fine.. becase he’ll know, he’ll know he isn’t safe, that no number of locks or doors or walls could keep him from this hunter that stalks him

he’d try to run or fight back, it doesn’t matter. one just ends the game sooner. if he runs, then it just continues UNTIL he fights back. i won’t let him rest, i wont let him feel safe. i’ll fucking track him down any where he goes until he turns around like a frenzied cornered animal and tries to fight back

and then i’ll fucking bash his head against a wall, i’ll knock him out and take him some where remote. i’ll laeve him there, in fucking agony and isolation. i’d wait till he was fully recovered from sleep and lack of food and such before i dug in

it has to be the first level of torture first. just very basic, non lethal stuff. i’ll let him know, while he’s screaming, that he brought this on himself. the day he hrut the two people the most important to me.i’ll tell him exactly every evil thing that brought him to this place, this pre hell. i’ll tell him how i watched him, how i stalked and played with him, and ask him if thats how it felt when he did it?? ask him if he felt that thrill and i’l ldrive a fucking nail through his fucking eye ball 

nothign to kill him, no no. gotta keep him alive because it’s not enough yet. after the soft shit, then we get into the hEAVY things. and i know..ahaha...

thanks to an ex, i know some sick shit. i’ll make him hurt beyond what his brain could even comprehend. I’ll make him suffer, but not enough to break his mind. if his mind breaks, that isn’t any fun. gotta let him recover, gotta let him think he can fight back, that he can suvive this hahaha

that he can

get freee

hahAHhahahaha

and i’d let him try, a few times any way. i’d let him try to run only to drag him back and make him hurt worse. i’ll breed that same level of hate in his heart for me that i have for him. i’ll stoke the fucking fires of pure hatred and watch it consume him just like it consumed me

and once he was at that point, hahhaha, 

kIlLING HIM Just ISNT ENOUGH

SOi”D LEAVE HIM IN AGONY FOR EVER, UNABLE TOG ET REVENGE, UNABLE TO ESCAPE THE PErSON HE HATES THE MOST

HELL WOULD BE KINDER THAN ME, DEATH WOULD BE A RELEASE HE DOESNT FUCKING DESERVE

and so i’d live out the rest of our fucking days making him miserable and a mess of a man until one of us fucking died and you fucking bet its gonna be him first

and tbh its all well and good to plan but you know at some point im gonna just fucking kill him hahaha

and its just, its never enough. that’s not even the worst thing i ever had planned for him. the worst is giving him to Burt. my most favorite idea is giving him to Burt

Burt would be real good in helping me fil that need of revenge. couldn’t instill hate but it’d still be nice to see Jayden fucking feel the same kind of fucking pain he’s inflicted ahha

that same kind of fucking fear and pain and helplessness 

and i’d just watch, because Burt could keep him alive. Burt couild drag it out and make it a fucking nightmare. but he’d also break Jayden, and after that i’d be bored and unsatisfied. once they break, they aren’t the same person any more and oyu might as well let them go or kill them, which the latter would be more likely

and the sickest part is, i’d want to show the two he hurt what i’ve done to him, in either scenario. just hold his battered body out like a cat who killed a mouse and smile and be like ‘are you happy?? i hurt him!!’

they’d be fucking horrorfied and i knwo that but i’d still hope they’d be proud haha in some sick way

like ‘i hurt the man who hurt you, im good right?? i did good??’

no Alyss, you fucking stooped to his level and became a monster 

‘i did good?’

NO

‘i did good :D ?’

because my brain just couldn’t comprehend being told i did something wrong having done whta ever depraived and horrible thing i could do, especially if it was Burt related hahaha

i just, i cannot fathom them being proud , but i dont want to think of them being disappointed, because that thought hurts in an amazing way

and its why im glad he doesn’t exist technecally any more, because i dont have to worry about becoming htat much of a monster

[yumenosakiacademy]

angry fucking rant bc my throat hurts from having to yell n b angry w/o screaming bc the lowered pitch or w/e i dont give a fuck im angry n sad fuck off

i hate when i get told that “life will get bettetr things arent alaways doom and gloom like u say” or w/e spiel like IT WILL! AND I KNO MYSELF BETTER THAN ANYONE! YES! IM PATHETIC! IM A STUPID FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT NIHILIST WHO WILL DIE W/O EVER BEING HAPPY! ILL LIVE MY DAYS MISERABLE BUT THATS MY *POINT*! IM SAYING THE FUTURE IS BLEAK FOR ME BC I MYSELF THINK IT! I CANT WORD THINGS I CANT ARGUE FOR MYSELF BUT MY LIFE WILL BE SHIT BC *IM* SHIT! *LIFE* IS SHIT! my dad likes to say that he wasnt miserable when he was in his 20s-30s like i claim ppl r but i mean ppl like ME! ppl who dont want to fucking live! ppl who see the world as the hard shithole it is! ppl who cant stand interacting with people! ppl who cant stand every waking insufferable minute of being bored n feeling worthless n feeling stress or feeling sad feeling worthless feeling awful wanna die wanna die wanna die but he isnt like that! he got to hang out w friends n party! hav a blast! laug it up! i cant stand doing work i cant stand doing ANYTHING. i dont wanna work i dont wanna do anything i dont wanna have to pay taxes or have responsibilities or come home to my stupid lonely house where i’ll sit knowing ill die one day and all of my work will amount to just a stupid paycheck from which almost all of it will go toward food or rent/utilities. dad says get roommates but i cant stand ppl i cant stand anything i dont KNOW all i know is be angry be sad kill self my entire life ive just thought “ill die when things get rough” i cant simply unbury myself ot of that patch! once ur dug n dead in that indset ur stuck forever! bc the peaceful thought of “i dont need to work if im dead i dont need to stress if im dead i dont need to worry abt my bills or my manager yelling at me or memaking a mistake if im dead” AND I DONT WANNA MAKE MISTAKES! I DONT WANNA GET FIRED! I DONT WANNA BE LIKE MOM I DONT WANNA BE A STUPID WRECK i dont wanna i dont wanna i cant take the thought of the future because everything in it feels like a bleak and scary hell for the me who never grew up! physically im 19 but mentally im nothing. i dont hav responsibilities. i never felt responsibile. bc i never wanted to be. bc i dont ever want to be. when im pressured i blank. i freeze. i cant do things. i cry. i stop. i cnant do things. in the future itll be just like that too. ic ant please anyone! i cant please MYSELF! and no matter how much my friend says ill get friends n hobies i know thats not true! friends are scary. people are a means to an end. hobbies come and go and i see them all as a chore with minimal reward or a waste. all i can do is face the factthat im shit and always will be and imm scared.im terrified and im scared and i never thoightnid tget this far i thought idve been dea by now why am is tioll here? talking abt things like getting a job when i shpuld be in some stupdi utnr iro osmeitng i dont know tis whent from being sad to me jsut breakgn down i dont knwo

[famishedangel]

i feel like when you're a kid when you just get too big for your mom to just pick you up anymore but you still want to be picked up I feel like I'm reaching out and being met with nothing I can't explain this I dknt know where this came from k jst veel so.....begging like I'm left behind and I'm tripping over myself trying to apologize and catch up and no matter what everyone keeps distancing themselves fom me and getting further and further without taking a single step and I'm still running and tripping but I'm not moving I'm on a conveyor belt moving backwards faster than I cam move and theres jothing I can do to stop everyone from getti bg further away because I am bad with words and I dont know how to talk to epppe without sounding like I'm begging for attention and validation. rvause all I know how yo do is ask others for validation and ask them to yell me il a. good letson and o cant gepp it I dont k k qhat yo do with myself anymore I never knew Kim the dkrzt ave ots just so so difficult to learn how to be on mr own and its not like I want to be alone anyways k jst want helm I want to me loved but I dont know how to love in return and I know you ant reap the rewards of being lived and loving in return without succumbing to the terrifying ordeal of being known and I want everyone to m ow everything about me but it's dangerous and I want no one to know a di gla thing about me but I want to love everyone and be loved by everyone anyways I am terrified that everyone hates me and they di ally found their cha ce to leave

[pebbles-scatter]

im so scared i just. ots tje end of the school which means!!!!!! anxiety!!!! todya was the last day of school so after we got are awards for stuff we could be checked out and!!!! i feel so sick bc. its summer and like!!!! i hate it i hate it so much its. i hate summer!!!!!! i hate the sun and afternoons and smell and everything about it makes me think about things i want to forget about!!! i hate summer bc that means i might have 2 go w my parents!!!!! i love them but i cant. i cant go back. i cant i ca nt i cant. it just causes to many memories that i want to stop!!!!!! i can be aroudn them but the thought of living w one of them again is so scary i cant!!!!!!!!!!! fuckign do it!!!!!!! i ahte summer i  ha te it i just want to go back to school  i want. i want to restart i want school to still be around!!!! i want to be around people and in a situation were moving wouldnt be a good thing!!! i cant i c ant i just cant im so scared its like the eveyr summer but its worse now bc its possible.  my dad lives like 2 hours away and mom n her bf are trying to move up here!!!!!!!!!!!! i know its been close b4 but part of it is literally a reality and its. its so stupid!!!! i just want to take back everything i said abt wanting 2 get out of school!!!!!!