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A A @anya12adwi (10292) • India 22 Nov 24

I recently came across a YT short which stated at how number of churches are shutting down in the west as people are turning areligious! I googled and found that yes, they are turning into restaurants or breweries! Recently, I...

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Spiritual, Religious, Neither. Which One Are You?

Elizabeth @hellobunny (33) • United States 17 Jun 24

When it comes to the subject of religion, I can honestly say that I am more spiritual - in the sense that I always thank the universe for things. Sure, I could say I thank God, and sometimes I do say that, but to me, I feel we...

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Israel Keyes

celticeagle @celticeagle (189857) • Boise, Idaho 27 Mar 22

You see the term "cold-blooded" quite often when reading(or watching docs)about serial killers but, this guy takes the cake. Keyes was born in January of 1978 in Utah. He lived with ten siblings and parents in a one-room cabin...

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Short Story: The Bishop's letter

emptychair @innertalks (23740) • Australia 23 Jun 21

The old Bishop, Father Fredlick Rovsky, was already retired as a priest, and he was now living in an old people's home for retired priests. He wrote a letter to his brother, a self-proclaimed atheist. Here is his...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Parable Of The Lost Coin

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 4 Oct 19

A minor parable of no interest to three of the Gospel authors at all but included by Luke (15:8–10). Jesus tells of a Greek woman who has ten coins, ten drachma in all. Somehow she loses one of the coins in her own house and...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels The Parable Of The Unforgiving Servant.

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 10 Jul 19

A parable found exclusively in Matthew 18: 21-35. The Apostle Peter asks Jesus how often he should go on forgiving his brother when his brother keeps on re-offending against him. Peter suggests the figure of seven times. Jesus...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospel Parables Of Jesus The Lost Sheep

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 4 Jun 19

Luke 15:3-7 and Matthew 18:12–14 touch on this simple parable in which Jesus talks of a shepherd tending a flock of 100 sheep. Counting them, he finds that one is missing and leaving the others he goes searching for it. Finding...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospel Parables Counting The Cost

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 5 Apr 19

Luke 14: 25-33 has the only version of this troubling, perhaps even vile parable. Jesus was finding that the provision of food and drink at his sermons and the promise of miracles, was drawing hangers on and spectators who were...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospel Parable Of Drawing In The Net.

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 26 Feb 19

Matthew 13:47–52 (no references in the other canonical Gospels). Jesus starts another parable with ‘The Kingdom Of Heaven is like….’, and this time he compares it to a good haul of fish caught in trawling dragnets. He describes...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels The Parable Of The Pearl

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 18 Feb 19

A short parable Matthew kept to himself, presenting it at 13:45-46, and not mentioned at all by Mark, Luke and Ringo (I mean John). Jesus compares someone who recognizes the Kingdom Of Heaven to a merchant who is an expert in...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels Parables Of The Mustard Seed And Leaven

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 7 Feb 19

The three synoptic Gospels deal with the very short parable of the Mustard Seed, with two of them (not Mark) adding the additional short example of the Leaven Dough right after it. In Mark 4:30–32, Matthew 13:31–32, Luke...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels The Parable Of The Barren Fig Tree

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 31 Jan 19

While Mark & Matthew record the claim that Jesus destroyed a fig tree for failing to have any figs on it when he desired some, Luke’s Gospel provides a parable told by Jesus in which a seemingly barren fig tree receives a stay of...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels Parable Of The Tares

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 23 Jan 19

Also known as the Parable Of The Weeds, this story is only presented by Matthew (13:24-30). Jesus tells of a farmer sowing seeds in his fields. He naturally sows only good wheat seeds in the hope of a good crop. Alas, some...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels The Parable Of The Sower

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 13 Jan 19

Once again, Matthew, Mark and Luke don’t invite John to the party and keep a parable between the three of them. Jesus tells a story to the multitude but only offers an explanation of it to the Apostles when most of the audience...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels Parable Of The Strong Man

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 21 Dec 18

A short near cryptic parable that is barely a sentence in length. Three Gospels include it, Matthew 12:29 Mark 3:27 and Luke 11:21-22. The lines are similar in each version though Luke gives it slightly more attention. The...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels Parable Of Old Wine In New Bottles.

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 13 Dec 18

Three of the Gospels address this parable, and for once the three versions don’t contradict one another. Though Matthew (9:14-17) and (Mark 2:18-22) touch on it Luke (5:33-39) goes into more detail than the other two. Jesus has...

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An Atheistic Bible Study The Gospels The Parable Of The Wise And Foolish Builders

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 5 Dec 18

Two Gospels deal with this parable and while Matthew 7:24-13:50 incorporates it into The Sermon On The Mount, Luke 6:46-11:36 doesn't give it any context. Both do deal with the same basic advice. A wise builder raises a house...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospel – The Parable Of The Rich Fool

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 19 Nov 18

Luke 12:13-21 Another parable Luke kept to himself. While addressing the multitude, or a multitude (it can’t be the same one every time), Jesus is interrupted by a man who demands that Jesus helps him to persuade his brother to...

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An Atheistic Bible Study Of The Gospels The Parables The Friend At Night

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 13 Nov 18

Also known as the Importunate Neighbour parable, this is another parable exclusive to Luke’s Gospel. He shares more than the other Gospel authors. Luke 11:5-8 If you go to a friend’s house at midnight to beg him for three loaves...

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An Atheistic Bible study Of The Gospel Parables The Good Samaritan

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 2 Nov 18

The best known, and undoubtedly the most influential parable of Jesus, even in the secular world, surprisingly only covered in one of the four Gospels, that of Luke (10:25-29). Jesus meets a lawyer who asks him for the right way...

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