Come behold the wondrous mystery Slain by death, the God of life But no grave could e'er restrain Him Praise the Lord; He is alive What a foretaste of deliverance How unwavering our hope Christ in power resurrected As we will be when He comes!
Anonymous asked:
I'm asking this as someone who is not Christian; what is the Christian opinion on changing ones name, unrelated to being trans? Is it good? Bad? I understand honouring ones parents is important in Christianity so is it disrespectful to them? What if your parents are abusive and/or you are named after someone who is terrible to you or others? What if you change your name to something more religious when you convert, as is often the case in Judaism or Islam? This is a question asked in good faith and genuine curiosity.
I actually had a conversation with my mother about this exact topic recently, so your ask is timely!
If you’re changing your name simply because you prefer something else even though your parents are decent people, I would say that’s dishonorable to your parents.
If your parents were absolutely abusive or neglectful people who made your childhood hell (and no, spanking you or letting you drink from the hose does not count), I can understand why someone who is trying to heal from that would want to change their name, and I think that’s fair.
If your parents gave you an objectively horrible name with no thought for your future (like Beelzebub or Hitler), then I think you’re entitled to make that change.
When it comes to changing one’s name after conversion, I’m not sure, because we are not called to honor our parents only if they are Christians. If your given name has a pagan connotation, I understand why you’d want to change it. But I’m also certain there are plenty of Irish Catholics walking around with names like Deirdre and Fionn. If I were in that position (which I confess is very difficult to imagine), I might legally change my name to a Christian one but still go by the old one around family.
But if your original name doesn’t have a pagan connotation, I personally think you should keep it. It glorifies God when all the different peoples of the earth worship Him.
(It’s also ok to change your name if your dad misspells it on the birth certificate like my grandfather did. 😆)
Also worth a mention: if you’re a survivor of violence at the hands of a stalker / someone with a restraining order against them, or any other similar dangerous situation, it’s of course ok to change your name.
I don't really understand how changing my name would be dishonorable to my parents, honestly. Yes, it's something they gave me and I treasure it and it'll always be part of my history, but it's also MY name. I can change it if I want? I don't see how this ties into the Biblical command to honor parents at all.
My name is how people refer to and think of me. It's the most basic form of self-expression. I think a lot of people change their name as part of an identity shift, even within the same gender - to sort of differentiate Old Me from the New Me - like in the conversion example. I don't think my parents have a say in that honestly, any more than they have a say over my faith just because that's how they raised me. I have to make my faith my own, I don't see why the same couldn't apply to names as well - even if it's just because I think it sounds cooler.
Your name is a form of identity, yes, but it is not a form of self-expression. We don’t get to choose our identity ultimately, because identity necessitates a relation to, and involvement in, society. It is a cooperation with society. When you choose a different name from the one your parents gave you (which is the job and privilege of parents to do, and not you), you’re saying, “My parents screwed up on this actually and I know better than them. I refuse to be content with this choice they made about my identity. I reject the authority they inherently possess on this matter.”
I'm kinda disgusted with humanity right now. Everytime a there is a publicized death of rich white people, swaths of yall turn into vapid demons. Celebrating the deaths of 5 people just because they were billionaires is shitty and you should repent. Go touch grass and find joy in your life instead of gleefully posting about the downfall of someone just because they have money you'll never touch in your life. Stop acting like you're entitled to other peoples shit and have some humanity for 5 people that just died for gods sake.
Luke 13:1–5 (EHV)
At that time there were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2He answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered these things? 3I tell you, no. But unless you repent, you will all perish too. 4Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse sinners than all the people living in Jerusalem? 5I tell you, no. But unless you repent, you will all perish too.”
Matthew 24:12
And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.
2 Timothy 3:1-3
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self . . . arrogant, abusive . . . heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
Your bible literally says all rich people automatically go to hell no matter what and it's the only intelligent, morally decent thing its barbaric authors ever came up with. Get hit by a car and join them :)
anti-intellectualism actually refers to when I'm scrolling through tumblr tired and I skip all the posts longer than a paragraph
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#- HK#my word i cannot imagine anybody is having a worse week than mrs. midwest rn#her husband was extensively injured in a car crash so she’s taking care of him#her grandfather passed away so she had to go to the funeral#and then a great dane attacked her on her bike#and she had to go to the hospital#mobile#x#not to mention all of that on the tail of being publicly slandered to millions of people by Shiny Happy People
got frickin copyright struck on redbubble by Tokyo MX for my SNK art
today, I have learned one very important thing:
when it comes to cleaning your house top to bottom, physical fitness helps. a lot.
#- HK#i am training myself to clean other people’s houses but#i am very short and i also can’t stand up quickly from a squatting position without the room spinning so#i gotta figure out how to fix that#it’s a good thing no one took me up on my invitation for s’mores tonight because I’m not gonna be done with the bathroom before sundown#mobile#x
Anonymous asked:
A friend of mine is coming over with family for reasons. She's not married to her long-time boyfriend, and I know the commonly accepted way to deal with that is to have them sleep in different rooms while they're under your/my/one's roof, but also she's been with her boyfriend for fifteen years and they have a twelve year old child so it feels like they're married de facto if not de jure.
Thoughts please?
My guy, I am but a young adult and have not the life experience relevant to these kinds of things, so I would recommend asking your pastor about this rather than a stranger on the internet.
That said, I personally would’ve gotten out ahead of this and said, “I love you and I understand we have different beliefs about this, but until you and your man are married, you will sleep in separate rooms under my roof. And if you’re not amenable to that, we can just stick to day visits.”
She may be amenable to it, I don’t know y’all’s situation. But I think if you haven’t addressed her boyfriend situation with her before, such that she would already know your position on room-sharing, you aren’t as close friends as you think you are.
Anonymous asked:
I'm asking this as someone who is not Christian; what is the Christian opinion on changing ones name, unrelated to being trans? Is it good? Bad? I understand honouring ones parents is important in Christianity so is it disrespectful to them? What if your parents are abusive and/or you are named after someone who is terrible to you or others? What if you change your name to something more religious when you convert, as is often the case in Judaism or Islam? This is a question asked in good faith and genuine curiosity.
I actually had a conversation with my mother about this exact topic recently, so your ask is timely!
If you’re changing your name simply because you prefer something else even though your parents are decent people, I would say that’s dishonorable to your parents.
If your parents were absolutely abusive or neglectful people who made your childhood hell (and no, spanking you or letting you drink from the hose does not count), I can understand why someone who is trying to heal from that would want to change their name, and I think that’s fair.
If your parents gave you an objectively horrible name with no thought for your future (like Beelzebub or Hitler), then I think you’re entitled to make that change.
When it comes to changing one’s name after conversion, I’m not sure, because we are not called to honor our parents only if they are Christians. If your given name has a pagan connotation, I understand why you’d want to change it. But I’m also certain there are plenty of Irish Catholics walking around with names like Deirdre and Fionn. If I were in that position (which I confess is very difficult to imagine), I might legally change my name to a Christian one but still go by the old one around family.
But if your original name doesn’t have a pagan connotation, I personally think you should keep it. It glorifies God when all the different peoples of the earth worship Him.
(It’s also ok to change your name if your dad misspells it on the birth certificate like my grandfather did. 😆)
Also worth a mention: if you’re a survivor of violence at the hands of a stalker / someone with a restraining order against them, or any other similar dangerous situation, it’s of course ok to change your name.
Anonymous asked:
I'm asking this as someone who is not Christian; what is the Christian opinion on changing ones name, unrelated to being trans? Is it good? Bad? I understand honouring ones parents is important in Christianity so is it disrespectful to them? What if your parents are abusive and/or you are named after someone who is terrible to you or others? What if you change your name to something more religious when you convert, as is often the case in Judaism or Islam? This is a question asked in good faith and genuine curiosity.
I actually had a conversation with my mother about this exact topic recently, so your ask is timely!
If you’re changing your name simply because you prefer something else even though your parents are decent people, I would say that’s dishonorable to your parents.
If your parents were absolutely abusive or neglectful people who made your childhood hell (and no, spanking you or letting you drink from the hose does not count), I can understand why someone who is trying to heal from that would want to change their name, and I think that’s fair.
If your parents gave you an objectively horrible name with no thought for your future (like Beelzebub or Hitler), then I think you’re entitled to make that change.
When it comes to changing one’s name after conversion, I’m not sure, because we are not called to honor our parents only if they are Christians. If your given name has a pagan connotation, I understand why you’d want to change it. But I’m also certain there are plenty of Irish Catholics walking around with names like Deirdre and Fionn. If I were in that position (which I confess is very difficult to imagine), I might legally change my name to a Christian one but still go by the old one around family.
But if your original name doesn’t have a pagan connotation, I personally think you should keep it. It glorifies God when all the different peoples of the earth worship Him.
(It’s also ok to change your name if your dad misspells it on the birth certificate like my grandfather did. 😆)
Happy first deathday, Roe V. Wade! Rest in pieces!
^ all the babies who lived this year
a win for women’s sports looks like Will Thomas being stripped of his All-American title, being struck from the record, being forced to give Riley Gaines her trophy back, every woman he pushed off the podium being put back up there even if in name only, and his being banned from professional sports for women AND men for life due to egregious unsportsmanlike conduct
just because I left a trash bag out of the garbage can ONE TIME doesn’t mean I consented to my house becoming the hot new date spot for grackles
it occurs to me that all these kids we assume have hippy-dippy parents because their name is Leaf, might actually be called Leif,
Anonymous asked:
Hi, me again. Bruno's gift is precognition. Actually, he has involuntary visions, but he can also have them of his own will.
"Encanto" is set in Colombia in the 1950s, so I stopped and analyzed that probably (very probably) they would be religious. Catholics, to be exact.
I was so anxious because if you watch, you can see some gosprl themes in the movie, like sacrifice, family, love, and so on. Their (the Madrigals) "magic" is called Milagro (Miracle in English). But I was thinking, if I write that the family thinks that the Miracle comes from God, it wouldn't make sense that Bruno has this gift of knowing the future.
This is very confusing for me, sorry for bothering you with these things.
Honestly, if the miracle comes from God, then the point is moot. You have to ask yourself WHY witchcraft is a sin. It’s because it’s seeking power & knowledge from someone or something apart from God—power that God has not given you permission to use, knowledge He has not granted to you. Yet He gave the Apostles the power to speak languages they did not learn, and to heal people without medicine. Was it wrong for them to practice what the world might call necromancy on Dorcas? Was it wrong for the prophets to foretell Israel’s exile? No, because it was God who did all of it through them.
Your story, like any fantasy story with Christianity in it, is asking the question, “What if?”
“What if we lived in a world where God granted miracles not just to the Apostles but to everyone?” “What if we lived in a world where God had also created fauns and dwarves and mermaids?” “What if we lived in a world where God made plants with properties that make you fall in love?”
The thing you want to avoid is putting new words into God’s mouth or ascribing any intentions to Him that are not also constant in the real world. I think it’s really dodgy (and sadly common) for people to write God as if He were an actor on their stage, and not an actual Person they are merely describing. If a writer wants a god they can play around with, they ought to just invent one Brandon-Sanderson-style, not use the real One.
Anonymous asked:
Hi, hi. Sorry to bother you. But I really wanted an another Christian opinion on this.
So I really want to write this Encanto fanfic. But I am deeply anxious about sinning while writing Bruno and his gift. As a Christian, I want to insert more (more than there already is) Christian stuff into this story, but I've been really anxious about it:
I know he could be a prophet, but the Bible also says that seeing the future is a sin and falls under witchcraft, I dunno, I have been very worried about this, if you can help me I would be very grateful. Sorry for anything.
This depends on a variety of factors, but the first thing you need to do is stop being anxious. Ask yourself if what you're feeling is really anxiety or if it's conviction. If it's anxiety, what are you anxious about? That God will be angry at you or punish you for sinning? Jesus already took the wrath and penalty for you. If it's conviction, that's something else. It's possible to be convicted about something you aren't sure about. For example, I gradually began to feel convicted that illustrations of Jesus might be breaking the 2nd Commandment, but I'm not sure whether that's theologically correct. Until I am sure, I avoid drawing pictures of Jesus, not out of anxiety, but out of cautious conviction not to violate my conscience.
With regard to the actual content of your writing, it depends on the degree of Christianity in it. If you're only using Christian themes/allegories and not putting Christianity explicitly into it, I reckon it's probably fine. But if Christianity explicitly exists in it, then it may be a good idea to be consistent with stuff like prophecy. However, if I remember correctly, Bruno's visions appear to him against his will, right? So it's not like he is trying to do it, which is where the sin lies.
For example, I've got Christian themes in all of my writing. One of my stories features prophecy prominently. But Christianity does not explicitly exist in that world. To the contrary, a variety of pagan Norse gods and entities do. I call this the Tolkien approach. Yet in a different story, a proxy for Christianity does explicitly exist, and in that world, prophecy/soothsaying is regarded as one of the top 3 magical sins. I call this the Lewis approach.
If I had been writing Encanto for Disney, I would not have thought twice about giving Bruno the gift of prophecy. But if I had been writing Encanto for, say, Angel Studios, and they wanted to explicitly include Christianity, I'd have been like, "How does this work out theologically tho?" Because once you're granting visions that can only come from either God or demons, you then have to put yourself in the position of God as a writer, which is usually a pretty bad idea, or in the position of demons, which is probably not the story you're trying to write (though C.S. Lewis would approve).
A decent solution I'd offer in such a situation would be to say, "Actually, the source of the visions is a unicorn from the future." Or, "Actually, the visions are coming from a magical fungus and they have a 50% accuracy rate." It's ok to find creative workarounds; that's the beauty of speculative fiction.
#- HK#out of all my projects#the only story in which Christianity as we know it and see it exists is my sci-fi story#so there is no magic#only crimes against humanity#writing#Christianity#actually I totally lied. my Prague story has Christianity in it but it does not have prophecy in it#and the premise of that story is essentially 'What if the medieval alchemists were right about science?'#so it's asking a lot of suspension of disbelief at the outset (or is it)#i'm not a mystic i promise
since when was Ivan & Alyosha a worship band????
SO many good tropes in Roman Holiday already
they’re both so stupid and i love that for them
i’m not a princess and neither am i a reporter, but yeah. that’s exactly what a european holiday feels like. and that’s exactly how it feels when it ends