12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 "It is written," he said to them,

"'My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it 'a den of robbers.

The most well known depiction is The Last Supper (Leonardo) however I've seen some argue about the accuracy of the painting I’ve looked for some which are painted to be more historically accurate

And

Which do you like better the Last supper as portrayed in popular culture or the more historically accurate paintings?

I keep seeing and reading things like the Bible, and keep seeing people get saved by baptism.

To be saved by the Holy Spirit, but are they any were baptized and still gay?

I’m a little scared of it, tbh.

Thank you in advance.

My whole life i’ve been an absolute atheist, with some pagan beliefs along the way for a bit as well.

My grandma is a jehovah’s witness and overall i’ve found a lot of issues with christianity as a whole.

I never thought id ever even consider asking this, but how can i start educating myself on christianity? it feels like out of no where i started having dreams about god, having the desire to pray, and just a sudden interest about it in general.

i just feel kind of stuck, the idea of heaven and hell troubles me, the idea of sin, etc. is it possible to view these things as strictly symbolical?

I am so so uneducated on christianity and the bible, I don’t even know how to start reading the bible or where to get the “right” one.

sorry if any of this sounds totally ignorant! i’ve been trying to do research on my own, but I'd love to hear some of your thoughts on this.

Thank you!

Stupid question, I know. But is killing a sin when God does it? In the OT. What about anger? Like what he said in the sermon in the mount. But he got mad and made a whip and ran the money changers out of the temple.

You can tell when I’m actively praying and reading my Bible cause I end up coming on here with all my questions. Again I’m so sorry. I just don’t have anyone irl to ask.

If you’re an LGBT+ Christian and have ever struggled with Paul’s letters, read "What Paul Really Said About Women" by John Temple Bristow.

I just finished this book, and seriously—it changed how I see Paul completely. For so long, I thought Paul was just... kind of sexist and rigid. But this book digs into the actual Greek, the cultural context, and how so much of what we think Paul said has been twisted by centuries of bad translation and patriarchal assumptions.

What’s wild is that Bristow isn’t some progressive activist—he’s a pretty traditional scholar—but he still ends up showing how Paul was way more inclusive than people give him credit for. Like, Paul literally worked alongside female apostles, deacons, and leaders in the early church. The book talks about Junia (a female apostle!), Phoebe (a deacon), and Priscilla (who probably taught theology to men, including Apollos).

For those of us who’ve had the Bible used against us—especially around gender or queerness—this bo

I consider myself to be a straight ally, and I feel very passionate about it.

I attend a church that is Open and Affirming (Methodist). I volunteer for a cancer charity on days when I am not working, and the supervisor is openly gay and married to his husband.

He is one of the nicest people I have ever met, and the thought that I have family members, friends/mutual acquaintances who would tell him that "following Jesus" would require him to separate from his husband makes me extremely angry.

I feel anger not just toward conservative Christians I know but also toward conservative Christians more generally.

For example, simply knowing that someone attends a conservative church makes me automatically distrust them and doubt their good intentions.

When I say "conservative", I do not mean the obviously bigoted, sign-waving, "God hates you", Westboro' Baptist-style fundies.

I am talking about the "nice" ones.

The ones who will smile at you, serve you coffee, and maybe even have y