Freedom to Sin: The Invisible Shackle

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Redditors are often terrible folk, yet, somehow, some manage to outdo this status to a degree difficult to describe with words by use of their sheer foolishness. As it is written in Simon Peter's Second Epistle (2 Peter 2:17-22):
>These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm. For them the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved. For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
God's word, as it forever will be, holds true. Sin has eternally attempted to chain the vulnerable with a false lie of freedom since the time of the first man, yet this material freedom in itself leads to a spiritual slavery, for it both sways us from God's will and yanks us to a path of defiance in relation to it. The force of the chain's pull will only get heavier unless one unshackles themself from it with the key of belief in Christ's sacrifice, lest that chain pull its victim down the cliff of absolute desolation and into punishing hellfire for rejecting God's amnesty to man's sin.
 
Go to an LGBTQ+ rally? You bet! Study science with no religious drawbacks or cognitive dissonance? You got it! Not feel guilty for not surrendering your whole being to a supernatural dude and be able to go on a true journey of self-actualization? Hell yeah!

Reading through that sub makes me want to convert to Christianity again.
 
I have to ask, what's stopping you from doing so at the moment?
I never felt like I sensed God's presence even after going to church, praying, and reading the Bible. The more I tried the more frustrated I got and I slowly felt disassociated from my faith. And I don't think nationalism and race theory is compatible with Christian values.
 
I never felt like I sensed God's presence even after going to church, praying, and reading the Bible. The more I tried the more frustrated I got and I slowly felt disassociated from my faith. And I don't think nationalism and race theory is compatible with Christian values.
I see. What do you think will become of your soul, then, after your death? Do you currently have a religious belief?
 
I never felt like I sensed God's presence even after going to church, praying, and reading the Bible. The more I tried the more frustrated I got and I slowly felt disassociated from my faith. And I don't think nationalism and race theory is compatible with Christian values.
I am not going to comment on race theory but I'm hundred percent sure nationalism is compatible with Christianity.
 
I am not going to comment on race theory but I'm hundred percent sure nationalism is compatible with Christianity.
Indeed! We are to care for what God has made, and one thing He created by His will are the nations of the world, through the generations that descended from Noah. So, if we're to care for what God made, we are to care for the nations of the world, caring for our people and our group. Now, I wonder what a good word for that is... ah, right! Nationalism.
No. I don't believe in anything spiritual nor have a religious belief.
Do you believe the universe had a creator?
 
It was literally an officially endorsed ideology during the Russian Empire. I don't think it gets more obvious than this. It's clearly something Eastern Orthodoxy approves of.
Yep, and even through the differences of denomination, as a Protestant, from my Bible, alongside the accompanying history of Christian Nationalism in plenty of past governments no matter their particular denomination or traditions, it's easy to find a clear reasoning for nationalism in scripture. All it takes is a look at the story of the Tower of Babel as one example of why everyone providing care for their own people's cultural identity is important.
 
I never felt like I sensed God's presence even after going to church, praying, and reading the Bible. The more I tried the more frustrated I got and I slowly felt disassociated from my faith. And I don't think nationalism and race theory is compatible with Christian values.
If you actually believe in nationalism and race theory I think you have more problems than you think.
 
Do you believe the universe had a creator?
I go back and forth a lot but I'm gonna say I lean towards yes.
It was literally an officially endorsed ideology during the Russian Empire. I don't think it gets more obvious than this. It's clearly something Eastern Orthodoxy approves of.
I'm currently reading through the New Testament and I feel there's some contradiction because I can't recall reading anywhere about Jesus endorsing any sort of nationalist pride.
If you actually believe in nationalism and race theory I think you have more problems than you think.
Even doe both the science and the Bible confirms every race is different.
 
I go back and forth a lot but I'm gonna say I lean towards yes.

I'm currently reading through the New Testament and I feel there's some contradiction because I can't recall reading anywhere about Jesus endorsing any sort of nationalist pride.

Even doe both the science and the Bible confirms every race is different.
Oh I thought you were talking about /pol/ level race theory
 
Oh I thought you were talking about /pol/ level race theory
Well actually I am.
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Would you believe that the creator of the universe would have some sort of idea in mind for justice, then (as in, punishment for a person's sins)?
I assume anything that causes unnecessary harm towards any and all life is sinful. (Dealing bodily damage that's not done in self-defence or causing suffering for personal gain).
 
I assume anything that causes unnecessary harm towards any and all life is sinful. (Dealing bodily damage that's not done in self-defence or causing suffering for personal gain).
I see, and do agree. Would those sins lead to some sort of punishment after the wrongdoer's death, then?
 
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I see, and do agree. Would those sins then lead to some sort of punishment after the wrongdoer's death, then?
I would hope so. Unless The Creator has some other idea in mind, like rehabilitation. That's assuming he's pro-justice in the human sense of the word.
 
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