The Secret of Christianity:The secret of Christianity is in 1 Peter 2:18-2518House slaves (oiketai), submit yourselves to your own masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.19For it is commendable if, because of conscience toward God, someone endures hardships when suffering unjustly.20For what advantage is there if someone endures beatings for doing wrong? But if you endure suffering for doing good, this is commendable in the sight of God.21To this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps
>>17942538In other words, just as Jesus, God, the Messiah, the Savior, suffered in silence, endured all the pain, respected Pilate's authority and hierarchy, and commanded his followers to do the same by paying their taxes, the slave and the servant must also suffer in silence and obey the social hierarchy given by God himself, for their reward and justice are in another life, not this one.In this life, the obligation of all exploited people is to work, obey, bow their heads, and pray.As Paul said, all authority was given by God, and every slave must obey their earthly masters.For Jesus, God himself, suffered in silence and did not challenge Rome.And so must all the poor, servants, and slaves.The Catholic Church always emphasizes how good suffering is, as it is pedagogical, and respect for authority and hierarchy.Well, suffering is not pedagogical. No one deserves to suffer. No one deserves to go through pain and humiliation to learn about life and become stronger.This dichotomy between suffering and love is at the heart of Christianity. For those who love make others suffer in order to teach them. Love would be suffering, and suffering would be love.And the praise of suffering is the foundation on which a religion was built that has a crucified god, humiliated, and bleeding in the flesh. For the suffering of the flesh would mean nothing to those who can gain heaven, true life.Canon Three of the Council of Gangra (376 AD)3. Whoever, under the pretext of false devotion, teaches a slave to despise his master, to abandon his service, and not serve him with diligence and all honor, let him be anathematized.See Apostolic Canon 82.
Bumping for trvthnuke, although I like to think that the earliest Christianity wasn't *quite* as overtly cucked as the Christianity that won out in the early heresy wars. Specifically I think the version of Paul's letters we have had some uncertain amount of text mixed into them to make them more cucked, like Romans 13:1-6 which is a level of bootlicking that seems difficult to believe even from Christians, since it says,"For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended."Meanwhile Jesus got crucified by the authorities supposedly despite being perfectly innocent, and Paul had been thrown in prison around seven times throughout his life before eventually being executed himself, presumably despite being at least relatively innocent in his own eyes and in the eyes of other Christians. So would Paul have really written that? Moreover verse 6 reads like an awkward artificial transition into the next verse about paying taxes, pretending like it's a justification for it, although to me verse 7 continues fairly naturally from the end of the last chapter and is complete in itself: taxes are paid because they are implicit in the broader command to give to everyone what you owe them, in line with Jesus' own justification in Mark 12:"Bring me a denarius and let me see it." And they brought one. Then he said to them, “Whose head is this and whose title?” They answered, “Caesar’s.” Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s."
>>17942538Yes
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>>17942933Youre rightOnly rich people can bem happy
>>17942541>for their reward and justice are in another life, not this one.This phrase here destroys the read-Jobfags. Job was rewarded for all the pain Yahweh caused him in his life, but now with Jesus it seems the good ol' trickster god doubles down and now people have to suffer like Job... with their reward awaiting for them after they... die? The indignity!
It's literally just telling the reader how to survive under oppression. That's it. 1 Peter was written during Roman persecution.
>>17943384>Just let yourself get mistreated and killed, that'll show'em!
>>17942538oiketaiWho owns the house?For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
>>17942538Is this why Dike (the Greek word for justice) is derogatory these days?
>>17943834Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify himBehold, the Son of Man.Jesus Ben Josephus Hellinism Mattathias and his mother there Parthenon.
>>17943465The logic is that the persecuted will get to live a life of happiness after his ~70 mortal years are up, while the wicked will face horrendous eternal suffering after his ~70 mortal years are up. There is absolutely no punishment that man could perform to another that could ever match God's punishment.
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>>17943973Logic? There's no logic there. The non christians can enjoy existence in a way that leaves no discussion, while the christian one supposedly receives a better life in a way that cannot be demonstrated in any way possible, that relies on hope, faith, and good vibes
>>17942538>DEUS VULT
>>17942803>denarius is Ceasar's because it bears Ceasar's image>Ceasar bears the image of God
>>17944099Every other religion has a concept of paradise. Atheists, despite being free of religious dogma that allows them to live their lives to the fullest, they have the highest rate of suicides. Seems stupid to attack christianity over a universal problem.
>>17944498>Every other religion has a concept of paradise.And I criticize them for it too.>Atheists, despite being free of religious dogma that allows them to live their lives to the fullest, they have the highest rate of suicides. They can do whatever they want with their lives. While kind of a waste to kill oneself, holding it to a life of misery just because we have the hope that a god will help us (like he did with Job) when, unlike Job, most of us are just fodder in the great view of things is much more pathetic in my opinion. You hold on because you trust in your own luck, strenght, brains, etc, not because some already uncaring god will help you out while you live, only when you die (what stops you from seeking death in non self inflicting ways, huh? do you then trick yahweh into letting you on heaven, like how the jews constantly do?)>Seems stupid to attack christianity over a universal problem.Read above
It's not a secret lol.
>>17944141CRUSTY KANG
