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#epistle — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #epistle, aggregated by home.social.

  1. How come the #Apostle #Paul can say "in Christ there is no male nor female... slave nor free" and then in the same #epistle, say "wives, submit to your husbands" and "slaves, obey your masters no matter what?" And how come most #Christians will follow one of these sets of statements and not the other? Do we all have #equality in God's sight or will we only be rewarded by #God for being complicit in our own #oppression? #christianity #bible #catholic

  2. Philip James de Loutherbourg's vignettes for the Macklin Bible. 1 Peter..Robert Bowyer (d.1834) expanded his copy of the Macklin Bible by inserting over 6200 different prints. The Bowyer Bible is now housed in Bolton Museum. For these prints see archive.org/details/bowyer-bib
    where Philip De Vere has created flip-books from Phillip Medhurst's photo-collection. #bible #MacklinBible #vignette #Loutherbourg #ChristianArt #BibleArt #SaintPeter #epistle

  3. I love when people use #Romans Chapter 1 to condemn #LGBT people and conveniently forget that Romans Chapter 2 is an extended treatise on #Jesus' "Judge not, lest ye shall be judged." #bible #apostle #paul #epistle #commentary