Okay /lit/, I've got a question fer yer. For the majority

It'll help you only if you turn off your brain while reading it. It can be comforting to believe in a guaranteed paradise, even if you have to turn off all your rational faculties to reach it.

>>9002466
I highly, HIGHLY recommend getting commentaries. I've studied both the Greek and Hebrew translations and most English translations are so trashy in some areas.

Along with translation, it will explain the nuances, the histories, and cultural significance of passages.

Anyways, good luck anon. Wishing you the best.

>>9002493

I think it helps a lot if you don't take religious texts like the Bible *literally* and take it with a grain of salt, or as something symbolic instead. Treat God as a universal concept as opposed to a floaty-man in the sky, you know?

>>9002580
Phew, so I'm not the only one here who doesn't really believe this stuff?

Every board I go on anymore are akin to fascist /pol/faggot trump memeing shitters.

>>9002466
KJV isn't the most accurate, but it's the most beautiful English in existence.

Start with the NT. If you can find faith, great, but faith comes from personal spiritual experience, not from books.

>>9002641
Had a really vivid dream a couple years ago, where I was lying in my bed, pulled towards the ceiling, once I lay with my belly against the ceiling, I was slammed hard down onto my bed, thrown onto the floor and then pulled toward a chasm that opened in the floor. Jesus was suspended from the knobs of my dresser drawer and he grinned at me as I went into the pit.

The crazy thing is, this is the only dream I can recall where I could FEEL what was happening, I could feel myself slide across the wooden floor, get thrown around, slammed on my bed.

I woke in a sweat and freaked the fuck out.

Although, I had smoked a ton of weed before I fell asleep but still...

I've been really uncertain since that dream.

I don't think Jesus likes me very much : /

I dunno what I believe anymore.

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>>9002466

>>9002466
Most organized religion is pretty much a giant meme.

Read Conversations With God instead.

>>9002675
>weed

Well there's your problem!

And Jesus loves you, no matter what. That's the nature of Jesus. God is love.

Ever heard of universalism?

>>9002684
Then why is hell a thing and why are we freely allowed to go there?

>>9002682
>Read Conversations With God instead


>>"a voice over his right shoulder say: "Do you really want an answer to all these questions or are you just venting?"

Why is it that when I've prayed, I never hear a voice or get any sort of response? Why is God so selective of who he chats with?

>>9002689
That's why I asked what you know about universalism. Purgatorial universalism, in particular, is the idea that hell is temporary. Sinners are sent to hell to clean them up for heaven. All will be reconciled to God, and every knee will bow and every tongue confess Christ. Hell will go empty.

But it still matters what we do, because what we do influences what we become. In heaven, everyone's glass will be full, but by preparing ourselves we can get to heaven with a bigger glass, with a greater capacity to enjoy God's presence.

Secular society doesn't give a good understanding of Christianity, it will tell you that Christianity is about judgment and heaven and hell and that's it; ideas like these are totally foreign to it. Christianity is more nuanced than they say. The Bible is more nuanced than they say.

>>9002700
You wanted to know more about god. I happened across this thread at 2 in the morning and decided to share a book with you that helped me develop my worldview.

Take it as you will.

>>9002708
It's 11:39 PM actually.

>>9002726
Fucking Californians.

>>9002746
West Coast Best Coast

>>9002746
Oregon, FAGGOT.