#biblical ethics

[biblebloodhound]

A Time of Woe (Isaiah 5:15-24)

Actions and inactions both have consequences. Acting selfishly through wanton accumulation is an equal inaction against the community.

The Prophet Isaiah, by Raphael, 1512 So people will be brought low    and everyone humbled,    the eyes of the arrogant humbled.But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice,    and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts.Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;    lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich. Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of…

[thinkingonscripture]

The Spirit’s Convicting Ministry to the World

In the NT, God the Holy Spirit took on a new ministry after Jesus returned to heaven (John 16:7-15; cf., Acts 1:6-8; 2:1-4; 15:7-9). Part of His ministry is to believers, and part is to unbelievers. Concerning the Spirit’s ministry to believers, Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will…

[themoabmercury]

Vatican synod ends with divide over women deacons and LGBTQ+

Sorry, bishops, but "tradition" is no excuse when the answers are so easy.

"Deacon" is a job like any other. The central question is not whether we women should do it, but whether our experience, expertise, and God-given gifts enable us to do it.

As with all job applicants, these questions must be answered on a case-by-case basis. This will be just as true when the time comes to consider women in the priesthood.

Being LGBTQIA is not an act of will; it is an act of God that can be clearly seen in one's genetic map. Science satisfies Romans 1:20.

Even Paul said that priests should only be celibate if they could. There is literally no biblical prohibition of married priests.

None of this is revolutionary, liberal, perverted, or destructive. There is nothing in the Bible to prohibit any of this so-called colonialism, but everything in the Bible to command it.

The question for bishops who use human constructs to maintain the oppression and exclusion of so many of God's people is this: Do you follow Christ, or do you follow the Church?

It's not the same thing.

[kellyis4jc]

An Introduction to Biblical Ethics: Walking In The Way of Wisdom!!!

We need to have biblical ethics in our lives. "An Introduction to Biblical Ethics: Walking In The Way of Wisdom" shows us what we must do as we develop godly attitudes and behaviors. Biblical ethics encourages us to live a godly lifestyle for God.

As we study the Bible, we need to learn biblical ethics. By learning biblical ethics, we can live the godly lifestyle that God wants us to live. “An Introduction to Biblical Ethics: Walking In The Way of Wisdom” shows what we need to do in our lives. It shows us the attitudes and the behaviors we need to develop. Biblical ethics cannot be taken out of our Christian lifestyles. We need to let…

[areadersquoteslibrary]

'"Good and evil are the prejudices of God" — said the snake.'

- Friedrich Nietzsche,

'The Gay Science'

[zebratoys]

וְהִגַּדְתָּ לְבִנְךָ  (שמות יג, ח)

[azurecanary]

Purity obsessed Christians calling casual sex morally grey is WILD to me

Like sure, you can argue that it's a sin (i don't believe it is), but i really want to know how it's morally grey to you

[markmcole]

How to React When Wronged: Insights from an Ancient Proverb

In life, we all face moments when we are wronged. Whether it’s a harsh word from a colleague, an unjust decision at work, or a betrayal by a friend, the immediate instinct might be to seek revenge or retaliate. However, an ancient piece of wisdom offers a different perspective on how to respond in such situations: “Don’t say, ‘I will get even for this wrong.’ Wait for the Lord to handle the…

[biblebloodhound]

The Issue of Holy War (Deuteronomy 7:1-11)

No individual, group of people, or even an entire nation, can keep itself on a right, just, and good path if they are continually around others who harm people either verbally and/or physically.

Joshua’s military campaign against the five Amorite kings, by Gilliam van der Gouwen, 1728 When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you…

[tmarshconnors]

Does it scare you to think about what Satan is trying to do to your kids?

What are you doing to make sure he doesn’t? Are you teaching your children about God?

Are you setting an example for them showing them what faithfulness looks like? Do you take them to church and Bible class?

Do you talk to them about the lies and immorality that the devil has made normal?

Do you keep them from playing video games and watching shows that slip in things that will take them off course? Do you pray for them and over them?

Don’t think for one second that you can let up or slack off. Evil doesn’t.

[1whoconquers]

Are there other reasons why many Christian denominations discourage/condemn divorce besides what the Bible says?

While the primary reasons many Christian denominations discourage or condemn divorce stem from biblical teachings, there are also additional reasons rooted in theological, moral, and practical considerations: Sacredness of Marriage: Many Christian denominations view marriage as a sacred covenant ordained by God, and divorce is seen as a violation of that covenant. They emphasize the importance…

[triple--a--threat]

i am so bad at playing games

[nuvizionworldharvestministri]

The religious organization in Wilmington, Delaware, is tasked with the continual struggle to make ancient teachings relevant to modern society. This includes The Ten Commandments, biblical laws that guide our moral lives. But how are these commandments interpreted and employed in the 21st century?

[craigtowens]

Links & Quotes

Some links and quotes that caught my eye this week.

Are you looking for a Christmas gift for your pastor? Check out my book Shepherd Leadership. I have lots of new content every week, which you can check out on my YouTube channel. “We rise no higher when we pull others down, yet when we stoop to serve, we conquer.” —Dick Brogden, in Proverbs: Amplified and Applied  “Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice…

[thinkingonscripture]

Jesus’ Ascension and Session

After Jesus’ resurrection, he appeared to many on several occasions. His final appearance was to His apostles. Luke wrote, “And He led them out as far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them. While He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven” (Luke 24:50-51). And in Acts we’re told, “He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him…

[probablyasocialecologist]

In this book you focus on the idea of gender as a global ‘phantasm’ – this charged, overdetermined, anxiety- and fear-inducing cluster of fantasies that is being weaponised by the right. How did you go about starting to investigate that? Judith Butler: When I was burned in effigy in Brazil in 2017, I could see people screaming about gender, and they understood ‘gender’ to mean ‘paedophilia.’ And then I heard people in France describing gender as a Jewish intellectual movement imported from the US. This book started because I had to figure out what gender had become. I was naïve. I was stupid. I had no idea that it had become this flash point for right-wing movements throughout the world. So I started doing the work to reconstruct why I was being called a paedophile, and why that woman in the airport wanted to kill me with the trolley. I’m not offering a new theory of gender here; I’m tracking this phantasm’s formation and circulation and how it’s linked to emerging authoritarianism, how it stokes fear to expand state powers. Luckily, I was able to contact a lot of people who translated Gender Trouble in different parts of the world, who were often gender activists and scholars in their own right. They told me about what’s happening in Serbia, what’s happening in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Russia. So I became a student of gender again. I’ve been out of the field for a while. I stay relatively literate, of course, but I’ve written on war, on ethics, on violence, on nonviolence, on the pandemic… I’m not in gender studies all the time. I had to do a lot of reading.  There’s a lot of focus in the book on how the anti-gender movement has moved across the world in the past few decades, and how it’s inextricable from Catholic doctrine. It was clarifying for me; domestic anti-trans movements in the UK mostly self-identify as secular.  Judith Butler: In the UK, and even in the US, people don’t realise that this anti-gender ideology movement has been going on for some time in the Americas, in central Europe, to a certain degree in Africa, and that it’s arrived in the US by different routes, but it’s arrived without announcing its history. It became clear to me that a lot of the trans-exclusionary feminists didn’t realise where their discourse was coming from. Some of them do; some people who call themselves feminists are aligned with right-wing positions, and it’s confusing, but there it is. There’s an uncomfortable history of fascist feminism in movements like British suffragism, for instance. Judith Butler: Yes, and of racism. But when Putin made clear that he agreed with JK Rowling, she was probably surprised, and she rightly said, ‘no, I don’t want your alliance’, but it was an occasion for her to think about who she’s allying herself with, unwittingly or not. The anti-gender movement was first and foremost a defence of Biblical scripture, and of the idea that God created man and woman, and that the human form exists only in this duality and that without it, the human is destroyed – God’s creation is destroyed. So that morphed, as the Vatican’s doctrine moved into Latin America, into the idea that people who advocate ‘gender’ are forces of destruction who seek to destroy man, woman, the human, civilisation and culture.