I think the NT also presents a diversity of different & conflicting portraits of Jesus. Each Christian tradition responds by constructing its own personal Jesus as it sees fit & says God guided them along the way.

it's time to go outside

Ecclesiastes is one of the more surprising books in the Bible. "For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity." ~Ecclesiastes 3:19

Is it not the rich who oppress you? ~James 2:6

any of y'all plan on carving nature at its joints today?

my passions include long walks on the beach, playing the guitar, and awaking from my dogmatic slumber

grades submitted

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The increased interest in Stoicism...among scholars of the New Testament...is part of the more general turn away from Platonism. It is also part of a movement... looking at the New Testament from a ... perspective that puts...theological interest on hold. ~Troels Engberg-Pedersen

I've read the New Testament & definitely didn't get the sense that one of its central themes is that the wealthy are the blessed & favored by God or that following God raises one's chances of having riches. Maybe adding a "W" to TULIP for "woe to the rich" would help? TWULIP

There is ... no planning there; we speak of reasoned purpose in the world of things only to convey that the universe is of the character which ... would point to a wise purposing. Providence implies that things are as ... a competent foreplanning would produce them. ~Plotinus

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For fools always have a greater admiration and liking for any idea they see obscured in a mist of paradoxical language, and adopt as true what succeeds in prettily tickling their ears and is painted with a specious sound. ~Lucretius

"The laborer of the present day would not cease to suffer even if his toil were much lighter than that of the slave of ancient times, even if he gained an eight-hour working day and a wage of three dollars a day. 5/12

so is all the new shit above the sun?

false

discouraged :(