re: A Muslim apostate reveals how the final words of Jesus changed everything.

That upset the hamas bros

if true.

oy vey.

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Excluding the first 2 that that are a bit amorphous, how would you rate the remaining 8. good/bad only not ranking I like the one about not bearing false witness

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Wow, that’s an interesting take and question.

Well, the last six have to do with essentially ‘loving’ your neighbors and family, so definitely good (no offense to the others of course). My apostate friends are first (born) generation Americans so the ‘baked-in’ part applies. They are excellent (if not devout) at the last six which put them a rather high percentile even among professing Christians. They sort of have the beatitudes hard-wired on their hearts.

I have joked with my wife that my ‘pious’ evangelical family members could learn quite a lot by observing them.

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But it has to be the right type of Christianity, right? Which coincidentally also happens to be the one that you follow.

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Foo would probably say no, that a Christian is a Christian that can be saved (or is saved). But he wouldn’t consider Catholic, Episcopalian, Orthodox, Tawahedo, Coptic, Jehovah’s Witnesses, or Mormons to be Christian.

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the Bible is always there for a reality check

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Do verses like this

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10He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness. 11The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.

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…that describe the biblical flat earth cosmology with the solid dome of the firmament sitting atop the earth on great pillars give you confidence that the Bible is consistent with our reality?

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In other words, Mohammad had zero witnesses write about his life while he was living

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We still might have to throw them thangs with his former religion though eventually.

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“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

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In those words lies my hope for eternal redemption. And a reminder that I must forgive as well, and stay close to Jesus.

And since early on in my spiritual journey I learned that prayer is a personal response to God's presence, I must listen. Luckily, I have Jesus waiting for me in the Eucharistic Adoration Chapel at my Catholic Church. While others await the return of Jesus at the end of time, I find consolation knowing that He never left us. I wish I could convince them to come visit Him, often.

To the doubters in the real presence, I remind us all, in Jesus, God (aka the Blessed Trinity) took on the form of man, and the night before He died Jesus took on the form of Living Bread. The Hebrews had their Arch of the Covenant (housing the Two Stone Tablets, Aaron's staff, and the Manna) the same Arch of the Covenant they set up in that tent in the middle of the Twelve Tribes arrayed around it. We Catholics have the Tabernacle housing Our Bread of Life (aka the New Covenant - Jesus). How cool is that? Yep, He never left us.

So I tell Him I love Him, and He tells me He loves me.