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They wouldn't know "gods plan" if it smacked them in the ass. They're literally worshipping the closest analogue to the Antichrist. These people are violently clueless.
"God's plan" is literally whatever is happening right now. Got in a car crash? God's plan. Narrowly missed a car crash? God's plan. Cat wakes you at 6am for breakfast? God's plan. This whole comment? God's plan.
His plan sucks because he made Pedos billionaires. Wait, god might he a pedo. It's his plan afterall. Always watching you like a creep. Dude fits pedo logic 100%. Worshiping pedos, sounds on track for religious nutts.
Mary was only around 14, too
Source?
Wikipedia lists her birth year as 18 BCE, whereas Jesus’ is between 6-4 BCE
Wikipedia is using the pseudepigraphal gospel attributed to James as a source. This had been identified by Origen as a forgery and it doesn't constitute Christian doctrine. Although it does influence Christian tradition a lot. It also cites Jewish custom, where girls are eligible to marry at age 13 (which actually contradicts the infancy gospel of James, which states she was 12)
It's not really reliable and definitely not Christian doctrine.
Do you think there’s a more accurate determination of a teenager’s exact age two thousand years ago?
To use it as ammo against Christianity is just silly. "Oh, the mother of Jesus might have been a young teenager instead of an older teenager because people married earlier back then, and a document known for being a forgery says she is"
I don’t need that for ammo against Christianity, lol, I went to catholic school, I’ve got plenty of material. I was using it to make a flip joke.
But do you have any source for her age? If that’s as unreliable as you say, you should probably put an edit through on Wikipedia.
I've tried before. Wikipedia is governed by reddit atheists tbh. I have tried adjusting certain things before by citing Qualified Christian Scholars (this was on the topic of Gospel Authorship) and I was told I am not allowed to cite "Christian Apologists". The problem with that is, any scholar regardless of qualification who makes an argument in favour of a Christian narrative is by definition an apologist, or at least making apologetic material.
What was the source from Christian apologists for her age, even if Wikipedia doesn’t take it?
From Marten Stol's Women in the Ancient Near East (de Gruyter, 2016):
We don't have any sources on Mary's age to Joseph, besides the Protoevangelium of James. And even then, that document says that she married a decaying widower because it was to preserve her virginity as he didn't have a sex drive, and was seen as a respectable man.
Lol, like that billion actually matters when they stand in judgement.
My thoughts exactly. It's a clickbait headline targeted at anyone who doesn't realize that a third of people believe literally everything is "god's plan."
God sucks at making plans for something that is omnipotent.
I'm reminded of the praying hands emoji people always post in response to an announcement of a vehicle crash on Facebook. If that shit worked, why don't they pray for God to keep the crash from happening at all?
I get it... I believe in God as being chaos and to trust "God" is having faith in the present.
But it's clear they aren't actually about that, otherwise 2020 would have rolled along smoothly and they would have had the same "gods plan" mindset during the 2020 social protests.
This is social and psychological manipulation on a large scale. 5th generation warfare. This is war.
Most humans are pawns used by devils and proud that we created this lifestyle of ignorance and arrogance. Regardless of politics and parties.
Stop buying things that aren't keeping you alive. Most people are funding and paying for this fucked up world to become less human and pretend they don't have blood on their hands.
people are proud to be half human and made by mass media. They don't want to know real reality because it's difficult.
Class war?
Obviously that was Joe Biden interfering in gods plan, so they were just doing the right thing in trying to undo it.
This. Trump literally fits the description of an "antichrist" (lowercase; one of a type) and many of the traits of the definite article (the specific Antichrist) described in the Bible.
But then they're not expecting to be the ones deceived by an antichrist.
Obligatory Ben Corey
I remember reading that in Trump's first term.
It's even more unsettling now.
Even if he's the antichrist, it's still God's plan by definition of the term "God" literally. The only question is if God exists or not. Or for me the question rather is if God's existence matters or not.
I'd suggest it depends on whether one assumes we have free will or not.
My understanding of the Bible is that humanity has free will and so there are lots of things that happen that technically aren't God's will or plan (e.g. John 3:16 is pretty well known as mentioning God not wanting anyone to perish but for everyone to have eternal life, but then there's also the Great White Throne Judgement in Revelation where there are definitely some who are cast into the Lake of Fire - the second death). There's a good argument to be made as well for the prophetic parts of the Bible not being "God's will" but simply the result of Him being outside time and space and hence knowing what the result of humanity's free will will be.
So no, I don't think the Antichrist is part of God's plan per se; rather, God knows there will be an Antichrist and that's given as a warning so people 1) aren't deceived by him and 2) know that God can handle him (in Revelation it ends badly for the Antichrist).
Makes sense somehow but then God isn't omnipotent and/or all loving so looks like a contradiction to me. Or maybe he just gave up on humanity?
I guess that depends on how you define those terms - being omnipotent wouldn't necessarily require the exercise of that power, whilst "all-loving" would depend on whether you consider allowing people free will and hence the ability to reject God to be loving or not.
Romans 9 would like a word:
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Ah yes, the issue of predestination vs. free will in the Bible. There are definitely some that believe in predestination, or a deterministic/pre-determined outcome. Personally I don't think this is an accurate reading.
Some of the answers to the same question posed here - https://christianity.stackexchange.com/a/77861 - I think cover it well. https://reknew.org/2015/08/paul-teaches-free-will-not-determinism-romans-9-part-3/ also touches on why this passage is not suggesting God predestines some for salvation and some for damnation. Again, I think this comes back to the argument that the God of the Bible knows what people's choices will be and acts accordingly.
In some ways, isn't the Antichrist God's plan?
So is punishment, and republicans have been using his name in vain.
Yeah you're right, there is an actual "god's plan," but this isn't it.
Give me a fucking break. Grow up and stop believing in fairy tales.