John 3:3
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God” -- John 3:3 ESV.
Scriptures
Philippians 2:9-11
"Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
The Gospel of Thomas
The Coptic-language text, the second of seven contained in what scholars have designated as Nag Hammadi Codex II, comprises 114 sayings attributed to Jesus. Almost two-thirds of these sayings resemble those found in the canonical gospels -- wikipedia.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (Lamsa translation)
Love is long-suffering and kind...
Pali Canon (tripitaka)
The standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. It is the most complete extant early Buddhist canon — wikipedia.
"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the world"
Priority request. Matthew 5:5.
"Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you...
… and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven" -- Matthew 5:11-12.
T/F: Bible was edited multiple times particularly to remove mention of reincarnation
By request.
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world...
"... He who loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him" -- 1 John 2:15.
Tibetan Book of the Dead
The book is calibrated at 575 in TvF, but there's some bizarre stuff in there, i.e. Chapter 8, "Natural Liberation through Recognition of the Visual Indications and Signs of Death." Should we take it seriously?
Dhammapada
Request: Collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures.
"For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and he disciplines the son with whom he is pleased"
Request: Hebrews 12:6 (Lamsa). I would like to understand this in context of consciousness calibration level.
2 Corinthians 3:17
"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" -- KJV. Other translations say "freedom" rather than "liberty."
Galatians 5:22-23
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law" -- KJV Bible.
the story of Sodom and Gomorrah
Abraham, the patriarch, pleaded with God to spare the cities if there were any righteous people within them, but God decided to destroy the cities after finding no more than ten righteous individuals, specifically Lot and his family, who were then rescued by angels -- Brave AI.