Reading the Old Testament the Emmaus Way - Brad Jersak

[@rayleneberryman7673]

Wow this is confirming what I have been thinking. I haven’t starting reading the book yet but I look forward it. Thank you so much

[@margaretinsydney3856]

Thank you. This is truly Good News!

[@daveoseas]

Thank you

[@jasonbell9975]

05:08 Beautiful!

[@ArtOfOld]

It is heartbreaking the western church has, despite their good intentions, done more harm than good. A relationship based on fear of eternal torture is not love and it's not the abba I know. The scriptures point more to how lost we truly are and how the father son and holy spirit submit to us and our choices, we are invites to co create and participate in creation. If we truly know abbas heart and we love others as ourselves we see that we have the power to create and we see that most prayers can be answered by face to face relationships and loving others ad ourselves.

[@benc6537]

See the Son, see the Father.

[@kennethfurr7397]

Does anybody have any thoughts about this story from Mark 5?? It bothers me quite a bit and I have never heard any good consistent thoughts about it. I mean, this is incredibly violent and not very "wolf will live with the lamb" like. I have really been struggling with it a lot. It seems to me true compassion and love would spread across all of creation, every single little part of it, even to these nonhumans. The bit I am wrestling with: 11 A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. 12 The demons begged Jesus, “Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them.” 13 He gave them permission, and the impure spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number (!!!), rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned. Honestly, this doesn't sound compassionate or just at all to me. What did the pigs do? It is not like all those pigs were rocks. They were living sentient beings with an ability to feel pain and suffer and Jesus knew this. I mean, does God not care about nonhuman animals? If not, is this really compassionate, especially since these beings were created to have the ability to feel pain? I doubt anybody would call me compassionate if they witnessed me personally drowning thousands of pigs (or puppies, can you imagine!). It would be seen as cruel, as it should be! If the good news does not include ALL of creation, if it is just good news for humans, I don't know that it can actually be called good news, not in the fullest sense, not in a holistic sort of way. I am well aware of this idea that all of creation is being restored, but then there are things like this. It doesn't fit with "Thy Kingdom come". Thoughts?

[@artbyrobot1]

That’s ridiculous to say God’s just judgments in the Old Testament were the thief. Yes he can use the thief as his instrument Can send judgments that doesn’t mean the authors were an error. How can you say the authors of the New Testament were writing stuff? Was flat out wrong under the inspirational Holy Spirit that’s illogical

[@deeveevideos]

Yahweh is Zeus and not Jesus's father nor Jesus