ThyWordIsTruth

I’m sorry, but I see little point in even staying on this site any longer. My ask-box will remain open, so if anyone asks a question, I’ll be notified by email, and I’ll still answer it. But besides that, I really don’t plan to visit this site anymore in the near future. If anyone still wants to contact me, you can find me through DeviantArt.

http://thywordistruth.deviantart.com/

If you read my previous announcement, I created a Patreon, and it can be found here:

https://www.patreon.com/thywordistruth

Some perks you get for supporting me are:

- See WIP’s, sketches, and writings exclusive to Patreon. These won’t be posted anywhere else.

- See completed drawings a full three days before I make them public. Novel chapters will also be posted here a full day before being made public.

- When I offer requests, you will get first dibs before anyone else on DeviantArt. I also may periodically doodle something free for you as a ‘thank you.’

- You will get “sneak peeks” into any projects or ideas I have planned. For example, I plan to reveal things about my next story on Patreon after completing the 29th chapter of the current story. That same information will be released in a journal on DeviantArt after the 52nd chapter.

I also will elaborate on why I created a Patreon in the first place. I was denied financial aid at my school this semester even though I’m earning minimum wage at my job. On top of that, I have two bills I’m paying that come out to over $230 a month. Business is lucrative during the school year since it’s a tutoring job, but summer winds up being a real pain since students don’t want to come at that time. Also, I’ve accrued a debt of over $40,000 because of past financial aid loans, which wouldn’t be a problem if I had been able to secure a career by now (which I thought I would...). Please don’t think that I’m writing this to elicit pity; I’m willing to work hard for the extra money so I can move on with my life and land a career someday. Pledges on Patreon can be as low as $1 per month, and you get ALL the above perks.

This is my gallery if you want to see the kind of work I do ---> http://thywordistruth.deviantart.com/gallery/

You can also see some here ---> https://www.weasyl.com/~mysterybelieverkjb

It’s not the best, and is by no means “professional,” but I am will to work even harder to improve. Thank you.

Attention: I’ve decided I’m going to stop posting art onto tumblr as of today. If you are interested in seeing more, you can visit my DeviantArt page here:

http://thywordistruth.deviantart.com/

I also have an account on Weasyl, though I only post certain pieces there:

https://www.weasyl.com/~mysterybelieverkjb

Lastly, I’ve recently created a Patreon due to undesirable financial circumstances, and you can find it here:

https://www.patreon.com/thywordistruth

Any support there will be truly appreciated. (I won’t explain the details here, but you can message me if you want to ask what’s happening.)

I’m also thinking about ceasing to post my story here as well, and will likely only share photos I take. My ask box will remain open for questions, and I still plan to create posts on biblical topics, but I don’t see the point of posting artwork here anymore, along with my story.

I originally didn't plan to write this, but I recently heard something on a sitcom that I feel really needs to be addressed. One character asked how Jonah could've lived in the fish's belly for three days without dying, but if we actually look at the scripture, we see that he did die in there. The idea that he somehow lived in there that whole time is a myth.

Jonah 2:1-2 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

Jonah 2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

"Hell" there in verse 2 is not a metaphor for the fish's insides; he already says he's inside the fish in verse 1, and then adds in verse 2 that he was in hell. Another way we know he was literally in hell is by reading the words of the Lord Jesus in Matthew 12:40 --->

"For as Jonas (Jonah) was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth."

Read in context, we see that Jonah was a "type" of Jesus; one way is that both had died and were three days and three nights dead before resurrecting. If Jonah hadn't died inside the fish, then the typology wouldn't make much sense, and would also fail to show that God was able to resurrect him (and isn't the greater miracle the ability to bring someone back to life rather than simply sustaining them for three days in an inhospitable environment?)

The Bible is true and trustworthy; it just needs to be read much more carefully.

I’ll probably offend a lot of the textual critics, as well as ruin an untold number of sermons with this, but agape love is the exact same as phileo love.

http://av1611.com/kjbp/faq/nuggets.html

We can rely on the Bible in English; we don’t need Greek scholars to tell us what it “should” say.

Why the King James Bible is the word of God in English:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMxsH9QPD7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KINOx03RTcQ

A documentary about the Bible’s history, and how and why we can hold one in our hands today:

Yes, just as there would be about any system, religion, or belief. One, however, that I should point out, is that people often mistake Catholicism for Bible-believing Christianity, which it isn’t. Here are some examples:

- Tradition is exalted to the level of Scripture.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__PL.HTM

Under Point 82, it says that the church can’t derive all the truth from scripture alone, which in itself is a contradiction of scripture, and blasphemy against God’s word.

2 Timothy 3:15-17 —>

“And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.”

—

There is not one jot in that passage about “sacred tradition.” There are good traditions that the scripture teaches (2 Thessalonians 2:15), but they don’t come from the Catholic Church. On top of that, that verse in 2 Thessalonians says nothing about traditions that reveal extra truth that scripture doesn’t teach. More unscriptural traditions that the Catholic Church teaches include the office of Pope, as well as monks, nuns, cardinals, praying the rosary, exalting Mary, revering the saints, and other things that don’t appear in the Bible. If Paul were referring to these traditions in his epistle, then shouldn’t we find them in scripture?

- Neither the Apostles’ Creed, nor the Nicene Creed, mention Paul, even though it is through Paul’s writings alone we find the doctrine of the church, the body of Christ.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P13.HTM

Salvation, as every Christian (should) know, comes by believing on Jesus’ death and bloodshed for our sins, His burial, and resurrection for our justification. However, neither creed states that our forgiveness of sins comes through His work on the cross. They talk about what happened to Jesus, and they mention forgiveness of sins, but they do not link the two. The Apostle Paul reveals this gospel to us in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4. Without Paul, there is no Christianity, and neglecting his God-inspired writings leaves us in the dark, without hope, and without salvation. The Apostle Paul is supposed to be our doctrinal pattern, not “Pope Peter.”

1 Timothy 1:15-16 —>

This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.”

Paul was given the revelation of the mystery, and the gospel by which we are established in Christ (Romans 16:25), but both creeds neglect and omit this crucial detail. So by their own creeds, they deny the only gospel that can save them.

- They cite Mary as the “Mother of the Church,” even though the Bible teaches that only Christ is its head.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P2C.HTM

Throughout Paul’s writings, not one word is spoken about Mary being the mother of the church. Even in the four gospel accounts, Mary is never given that title to the believing Jews that comprised of the “little flock.” (Luke 12:32) Mary was the mother of Jesus, but only in the flesh. There is no possible way she could be the mother of anything spiritual because she was not some special “spiritual being” that shares some of God’s glory. The only place Paul ever mentions her is in Galatians 4:4, and it’s not even by name, nor does he mention anything about her being a co-redeemer with Christ, or “the mother of the church.” Such language is blasphemous. Only Christ is our head, redeemer, and mediator (Colossians 1:18, Ephesians 1:7, and 1 Timothy 2:5). Granting such titles to anyone else beside Him is idolatry. 

There are many more examples that can be given, but these three points should be enough to prove that the Catholic Church is not a Christian Church. They may use the Bible, but they either fail to rightly divide it (2 Timothy 2:15), or just scrap it when it contradicts “sacred tradition.” I cited only this misconception because it’s very aggravating when Christians and Catholics are doctrinally grouped together in popular culture and academia, even though we are so far apart not just in doctrine, but in practice as well.

Here’s a video showing that the Catholic Church doesn’t really hold the Bible as its sole authority:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIMvS7zJgeg

13 Reasons to Reject the Mass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFSUbaumyic&t=415s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGFBOgZ4bc&t=78s

True Salvation:

My reaction to this idiotic question and answer: