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officialyourdailyinspiration · 1 year

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The womb of a mother has become one of the greatest war zones in our world. Today, Burk Parsons reminds Christians of our duty to protect the unborn and the defenseless, particularly in a culture where human life is not recognized as sacred.

#Renewing Your Mind #The Sanctity of Life #Burk Parsons #November 2 #2022 #Christian ethics #moral relativism #sanctity of life #renewingyourmind.org

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deconstructing-christian-girl · 2 years

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"The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is ... how the coming generation is to live. It is only this question, with its responsibility toward history, that fruitful solutions can come, even if for the time being they are very humiliating. In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility. The rising generation will always instinctively discern which of these we make the basis of our actions, for it is their own future that is at stake."

Deitrich Bonhoeffer, Letters & Papers from Prison, p. 7

In other words, the needs of real people must take a higher place than our ideologies, "abstract principles." How many have been killed or suffered at the hands of someone who couldn't see past their own abstract ideologies? I'd suggest most of them. This seems to be the root problem. When you fit a person into a box in your ideology, like women in an inferior position to men, you dehumanize them by turning them into a cog in your big machine. You're not interested in who they are in themselves. They have to be kept down in their place "for their own good." Much blood has been shed by those in grip of an abstract ideology.

#bonhoeffer #deconstructing #dietrich bonhoeffer #exvangelical #christian deconstruction #christianity #christian ethics

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biblebloodhound · 2 years

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Isaiah 24:1-13 – Dehumanization Pollutes the Earth

Because every person on planet earth is created in the image and likeness of God, each individual human being is a person of worth and deserves respect and kindness.

The Lord is going to turn the earth into a desolate wasteland.He will mar the face of the earth and scatter the people living on it.The same will happen to people and priests,male slaves and masters,female slaves and masters,buyers and sellers,lenders and borrowers,debtors and creditors.The earth will be completely laid waste and strippedbecause the Lord has spoken. The earth dries up and…

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#christian ethics #christian life #dehumanization #disaster #disrespect #god&039;s judgment #god&039;s law #god&039;s love #hate #image of god #isaiah 24 #love #prophet isaiah #respect #spiritual life

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tmarshconnors · 1 month

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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.

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1whoconquers · 1 month

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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…

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#Biblical teachings #Christian ethics #Community support #Divorce #Family stability #God&039;s love #Marriage #Personal growth #Sacred covenant #Social impact

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theexodvs · 4 months

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To say that a virgin man "deserves" a virgin woman as a wife, even after he breaks the seventh commandment in ways other than premarital intercourse, is to treat women as carnival prizes.

This emphasis on women's sexual sin ahead of men's is part of a larger hamartiological autism that needs to be discarded by evangelicals.

#Seventh commandment #Thou shall not commit adultery #Christian ethics #dehumanization #Hamartiology

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christianethics · 4 months

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CHURCH MEMBERS' ETHICS

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#CHRISTIAN ETHICS #MEMBERS' ETHICS #MINISTERIAL ETHICS #CHARACTER

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doctrinallessons · 4 months

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CHURCH MEMBERS' ETHICS

#CHRISTIAN ETHICS #ETHICS #CHURCH MEMBERS #MINISTRY #PASTORAL ETHICS

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irishgop · 5 months

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Jesus was neither white & nor a matinee idol. The Bible forbid imaging God. Giving Jesus an image, distances people from their Savior: for which Jesus criticized the scholars of the Law in his time. Paul tells us to imitate him, as he imitates Christ. That is how Jesus is shown.

#christian ethics #christian living #jesus chirst

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thinkingonscripture · 6 months

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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…

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deconstructing-christian-girl · 2 years

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The Emptying God, Part 1:

Masao Abe is one of the leading Zen Buddhists in America, the student of the first Zen Buddhist to bring Buddhism to the US, D. T. Suzuki. Abe, who has long been a part of the interfaith movement, studied Christian theology and has developed some insightful and important things about the nature of God, the kenosis (self-emptying) of Jesus in the Incarnation (Philippians 2) and the Buddhist view of Sunyata.

In his book The Emptying God: A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation (1990), he argues that the kenotic passage in Philippians 2 should be "our starting point for exploring Christianity" (p. 9).

"Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being made in the likeness of man; and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross" (Phil. 2.5-8).

Abe considers this to be "one of the most impressive and touching passages in the Bible (9).

He feels this way for two reasons he immediately explains: "First, although Christ existed in the form of God--that is, was of the same divine nature as God--he refused to dwell in the glory which belonged to God: instead he abdicated his divine rank and assumed the form of a servant. Thus, while in the form of God, he emptied himself. ... This is a complete abnegation of Christ as the Son of God.

"Second, this abnegation of Christ indicates the self-sacrificial love of Christ for humankind .... Through the incarnation (kenosis), death, and resurrection of the Son of God, Christ, God reveals Godself in terms of unconditional love beyond discriminatory justice." This is the "unfathomable depth of God's love" (10).

Next Abe turns to the tired question of how much Jesus emptied himself. Was this total or partial, and if partial, which parts? "Such a theological debate misses the point," because "Christ's kenosis and his abnegation must be understood not as partial, but as complete and thoroughgoing." (10) He explains: "in Paul's understanding the Son of God abandoned his divine substance and took on human substance to the extreme point of becoming a s servant crucified on the cross. Accordingly, Christ's kenosis signifies a transformation not only in the appearance but in substance, and implies a radical and total self-abnegation of the Son of God." (10)

Abe likewise argues that this kenotic act is fundamental to Christ's, the Logos', character and person. Christ's kenosis means "that Christ as the Son of God is essentially and fundamentally self-emptying or self-negating ... It is not that the Son of God became a person through the process of his self-emptying but that fundamentally he is true person and true God at one and the same time in his dynamic work and activity of self-emptying." (10)

In this regard, Abe is not far off from theologian Hans urs Von Balthazar, who can accurately be described as the "theologian of kenosis."

Next time I will look at the implications of this kenotic self-emptying character has on the doctrine of the Incarnation.

Part Two

#Masao Abe #The Emptying God #kenosis #deconstructing #christian deconstruction #exvangelical #christian #christian ethics #christianity #deconstruction

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biblebloodhound · 2 months

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Saved for a Reason (Ephesians 2:1-10)

Humanity is spiritually hard-wired to do good in this world.

At one time you were like a dead person because of the things you did wrong and your offenses against God. You used to live like people of this world. You followed the rule of a destructive spiritual power. This is the spirit of disobedience to God’s will that is now at work in persons whose lives are characterized by disobedience. At one time you were like those persons. All of you used to do…

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zillen95 · 11 months

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I know god will come through for me

This post will be brief and concise. There are specific areas in my life where I possess a strong aspiration for achievement. There exists a profound yearning within me to witness the growth of those particular aspects. Why am I not witnessing any progress? According to God, the timing is not right. I must be patient for the appropriate moment. He possesses knowledge of when that moment shall…

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thehmn · 21 days

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I’m not knowledgeable enough about the differences between American Protestantism and Nordic Protestantism to say anything deep or groundbreaking about it but hearing the way Americans talk about Protestantism makes it sound like an entirely different religion.

To be clear I’m not religious. The only thing that passed for a religious upbringing was my Religions class in high school. Like most Danes I don’t have any strong feelings about Christianity. It’s just there, Christmas is nice and we get days off from work around Easter.

But just the sentence “Protestant work ethic” as a way to explain why Americans are so overworked sounds kinda humorous to a simple Dane like me. Protestantism is the state religion in Denmark (Evangelical Lutheran to be precise) and we have the highest number of Protestants per capita in the world and yet Americans who move over here often comment on how lazy we are. We leave work early, we have an ungodly number of paid days off (most of them religious), all parents get paid maternity leave and we will break our bosses’ arms if they try to make us work paid overtime too many days in a row. I’m not saying that to brag, it’s just to illustrate what the “Protestant work ethic” looks like in the most Protestant country in the world.

This is super interesting and I need to dig deeper into why Protestantism turned out so differently in our countries.

#religion #christianity #protestant #protestant work ethic

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surroundedbytheworld · 2 years

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The problem with Christian community was that we had ethics, we had rules and laws and principles to judge each other against. There was love in Christian community, but it was conditional live. Sure, we called it unconditional, but it wasn't. There were bad people in the world and good people in the world. We were raised to believe this. If people were bad, we treated them as though they were either evil or charity: If they were bad and rich, they were evil. If they were bad and poor, they were charity. Christianity was always right; we were always looking down on everybody else. And I hated this. I hated it with passion. Everything in my soul told me it was wrong. It felt, to me, as wrong as a sin. I wanted to love everybody. I wanted everything to be cool. I realize this sounds like tolerance, and to many in the church the word 'tolerance' is profanity, but that is precisely what I wanted. I wanted tolerance. I wanted everybody to leave everybody else alone, regardless of their religious beliefs, regardless of their political affiliation. I wanted people to like each other. Hatred seemed, to me, the product of ignorance. I was tired of biblical ethic being used as a tool with which to judge people rather than heal them. I was tired of Christian leaders using biblical principles to protect their power, to draw a line in the sand separating the good army from the bad one. The truth is I had met the enemy in the woods and discovered they were not the enemy. I wondered whether any human being could be an enemy of God.

Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz. Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality (2003), p. 215 – 216

#quote #english #donald miller #blue like jazz #Christianity #tolerance #christian ethics #us or them #religion

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