"He was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed" (Is. 53:5)
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Raised Evangelical (Penté) Christian
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Reformed Protestant (Calvinist, Supralapsarian, Reformed ecclesiology, amillennial)
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atheist, existentialist ( because of John Calvin himself reading The Institutes)
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Lutheran
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Orthodox (Ethiopian) Catechumen in my nearby parish ♰
@Y_didy_7
grew up a protestant (visited every single excellent protestant theology, from pentecostalism to calvinism to presbyterianism to lutheranism, reading their most excellent theologians) and even been an atheistic existentialist for 2 yrs - now becoming orthodox (getting catechized)
@byzantiumqueen
twitter is not the place to confess. in fact it's one of the places you better get yourself away from in your times of weakness and approach your father or your local church one way or the other.
yesterday we commemorated st. yared the melodist in our begena learning class. i love his story, him sitting under the tree the worm trying to climb up the tree and everything. one of my favourites :)
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@superxtianmario
I was an atheist for several months but the meaninglessness of it was so suffocating. Then took a step forward into Existentialism and read many of their know writings. They helped me think in a rather authentic way especially Dostoevsky and Sartre.
Remember us, Lord, in Thy kingdom; remember us, Lord, Master, in Thy kingdom; remember us, Lord, in Thy kingdom, as Thou didst remember the thief on the right hand when Thou was on the tree of the Holy Cross.
> wake up at 5:00 am
> go to liturgy.
> kinda ends at 8:00 am.
> get back to my dorm quietly humming the እግዚኦ
> the headache kicks in
> collapse!
(my Sunday mornings cycle)
Yes, let us from the bottom of our hearts wonder at this! If there is anything we in these times have forgotten, it is to wonder, and therefore also to believe and to hope and to love.
— Kierkegaard
this weekend's read will be *the consolation of philosophy* for the third time. both last reads i didn't finish: the first one, i was young, restless, and reformed; the second one, i was just busy and lost the mood. this time, i wanted it to be my follow-up read to bonaventure.
Courage means to let oneself be crucified as an individual for one's cause, courage means to confess the beliefs for which one stood and fell in one's dying breath. To hell with a culture that wants to deprive us of our courage and our men! — Ernst Jünger
so i finally gave it a try, drank coffe after like a month and went totally dissociated and thyrotoxic. tired but unable to sleep. well i had this video saved for later watch so me enjoying this rn meanwhile counting down to liturgy time, i don't think i need alarm ⏰ tonight, gn
Phallic man deceives himself by thinking that he dominates; the truth is that he is passive and is always susceptible to the subtler power of women and to the feminine principle.
— Julius Evola
He came from Adam according to the flesh, as a second beginning for those on earth, to transform human nature in himself into a newness of life in holiness and incorruptibility through the resurrection from the dead.
— St. Cyril of Alexandria
there’s this girl on telegram who randomly sends me messages on topics I have no idea where she gets the inspiration from, then disappears for a month or so. I actually really enjoy it