A man was arrested in Portland’s South Park Blocks on May 15 after police allegedly found him carrying a hoard of weapons — including a pump-action shotgun concealed in a guitar case — near the intersection of Park Avenue and Jefferson Street at approximately 7 p.m.

The hoard  of weapons, plus shotgun.

It seems like the desired outcome of the work she's had done is for it to be good enough that people think it's natural, but she's irritated about it. Like she'd rather have men say, "Now that's a $10,000 jawline. Well done, but how high can you lift your eyebrows?" I'm just trying to understand, too.

OMG, sometimes when I laugh I hear my grandmother's laugh. Sometimes it's my father's.

I wake up and I look in the mirror and just laugh. So then there's some old guy looking back at me laughing.

Met a guy during that time who was convinced "Cinco de Mayo" meant "fifty nine cents."

I think it was to show us that death is no big deal. "You want to kill me, okay kill me. brb"

Not rhetorical. Gambit's red power converts all charged tiles to basic tiles. So do charged singularity tiles return to being singularities, or do they turn to basic tiles, and if so, what color?

Any idea what happens when a power that removes charged tiles happens? I might play with 5* Gambit and find out.

If you judge, you'll be judged back.

Old men who give sermons twist scripture to convince people that if they just judge righteously, they can judge everyone and Jesus will thank them. I've heard those sermons.

Getting sick of seeing this.

If anyone has been around Christians long enough, they know we don't even believe this. We say it so we can feel righteous about treating others in ways that we wouldn't like to be treated if we were them. It's obvious when you see how we treat the sins of our friends and families compared to how we treat the sins of people in groups we're taught to be against.

For 99% of Christians, what their pastors tell them the bible says in the sermons is all they know. One thing you'll never hear is a sermon on is how religious leaders are condemned by Christ more than anyone else, despite it being obvious to anyone what has read what Jesus said. Pastors and priests love to preach the law and turn a blind eye to the hypocrisy in their own church. They want power, the best seat, to be recognized by others, and authority over others A den of vipers, just as Jesus said.

But it wild to see a bunch of people read what Jesus said and then decide Jesus wanted old men in authority over us because they've been taught that Paul's words are equal to those of Jesus. It's crazy, but when 2,000 years go by, there's going to be some changes to suit the powerful.

Well, that's interesting. There are some people who say you get the Holy Spirit when you are baptized, and are very very insistent upon it. But in Acts 10:47 Gentiles receive the Holy Spirit, according to Peter, "just as we have," and they hadn't been baptized yet. Acts 19:2 makes it sound like you can't receive the Holy Spirit if you don't know about it. My belief is most Christians try to act definitive on something most know very little about. How do I know for absolute certain I received the Holy Spirit? I don't, other than people (and some scripture) support that I have. No big visions, no voice from heaven, just a little ritual everyone was happy I took part in. But I'm sure there will be people who tell differently and sound much more confident than I do. :)

I'm dating myself, but it reminds me of 2NU. Thanks for sharing, I can't seem to get enough of these. :)

My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh. The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. Ecclesiastes 12:12-13

/r/AskBibleScholars would likely know of some good resources.

I also understand that there are Christians who believe it is okay to be LGBTQ+ by God and I just simply want to know why they believe this or if there is any biblical evidence or evidence of any sort that can help me get a better understanding of why.

I think we have to believe it's okay to be LGBTQ+ or we're simply huge hypocrites. Jesus (not Paul, not Levicticus, but our actual Savior) said that with a single exception, those who get divorced and remarried are committing adultery. But our churches are filled with people who have been divorced and remarried. How can we possibly tell others about the sliver in their eye when we won't acknowledge the plank in ours? Too many of us are taught justifications through sermons when the words of Jesus don't say what our pastors and priests want them to say.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. - Jesus

I think we should be as compassionate to those outside our congregations as we are to those inside them. It's like treating them how we'd want to be treated by them.

It's just like any other bible, except that Jesus's words are printed in red ink.

Here's a great, easy study. If you just read the red letters in the four Gospels, each one is about 30 minutes. So over the course of a week, you reach the red letters in each of the Gospels. 7 nights, 4 Gospels, easy. Repeat that for 4 weeks, and when you're done you'll know what Jesus said better than 98% of people who attend church.

I need better resolve. lol I do get the 40 one, though.

lol I'm Christian. Maybe you're looking for a fundamentalist view? Or maybe I don't fit your limited definition of what a Christian believes. Either way, have a nice day.

You may not know this, but there's something called "purity culture" in Christendom that has conflated what God made into something vulgar. This is particularly true in the United States. It's what happens when "I'm lying to you because I'm afraid you won't do what I want you to do if you knew the truth" gets out of hand for generation after generation.

given that Adam and Eve were forced to cover up in shame after betraying god by intaking the knowledge of the tree,

They actually did that on their own. I think Adam and Eve are mostly just a creation story that tries to understand why we have a selfish nature, and our relationship to God.

So where is all the judgemental atitude coming from?

Sermons.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. - Jesus

I don't think there is anything magic about being baptized, but that doesn't mean it didn't mean a lot to me when I did it. The point isn't the ritual, but what it represents. But we do the ritual because it helps connect us to that. So if you want to, it sounds like a great idea. :)

I have several friends who are atheists and trans. I once heard that being trans is much worse than being homosexual/bisexual.

Always remember that Jesus condemned religious leaders more than anyone else. If we can welcome them, we can welcome everyone.

It was a meathead speech. There's a time and place to have a conversation about the benefits of SAHMs, but when you are addressing graduates in a ceremony, where people worked hard to achieved higher education degrees, you're essentially belittling what the female graduates have accomplished and told them to get back in the kitchen.

I find the English Standard Version and the New Living Translations to be the easiest to read and listen to. That's a good start. Also think about getting a "red letter" bible at some point. Those show the words Jesus is recorded to have said in red ink so they are easy to recognize. It's eye opening to see what Jesus said versus what people think He said.