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>Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor; the Kingdom of heaven belongs to them!
What did Jesus mean by this?
Also, what does /lit/ think of The Sermon on the Mount?
>>7376728
>if you acknowledge that you're worth less than nothing, then God will reward you later!
There, that's it. Christianity is about the catharsis of embracing how much you suck, which is why it goes so well with AA.
>>7376728
Once you recognize you are a sinner, a scumbag, an average human being, and accept Christ's grace into your heart, the kingdom of God opens to you.
>>7376762
The only difference between those two posts is that one poster believes and the other doesn't. Christians really have no self awareness. Their key point is the same.
>>7376770
>Christians r so stupid rite?
>>7376781
Just wrong on one thing, but they e decided that thing is so important that questioning it is a huge attack on their intelligence. It's more a matter of values and perception than IQ type intelligence.
>>7376781
>Anyone who isn't religious is necessarily a fedora.
y u so mad christposters?
>>7376825
>Anyone who is religious is necessarily stupid
y u so ignorant fedora?
A more explained translation of that verse: “Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need,*+ since the Kingdom of the heavens belongs to them."
>>7376832
I will say that anyone who thinks CS Lewis, Timothy Keller, Ravi Zaccharias and Francis Schaeffer are good apologists must be pretty stupid. That's a pretty huge percentage of American Protestants.
>>7376839
I think Lewis is good entry tier.
>>7376857
>start with the sophists
>>7376839
Well there's your problem
Protestantism=/=Christianity
>>7376928
Arius get out
>>7376728
>Also, what does /lit/ think of The Sermon on the Mount?
Literally Anarcho-Communism.
why does every thread that is a question about religion or theology devolve into this shit fighting. he isn't even asking an offensive question he is trying to better understand a passage. why do you guys lose your fucking minds everytime someone askes a question about the bible or a religious text, half of you all turn into fucking crusaders and the other half feel the neccesity to enlighten us all about how god is a phony, just answer the question. anyhow to answer the actual fucking question it is simply saying to approach spirituality with humility so that one does not deify themselves but rather holds that they are serving a spiritual purpose. it is essentially reinforcing the value of humility which was venerated earlier in the bible
>>7377764
Because the New Atheism preaches a snarky antagonism instead of a serious critique of passage as a way of presenting old, conservative ideas as new and fine and progressive.
