Here's the Kingdom #threadcast for Sunday October 27, 2024
Post your favorite #bible verses, scripture, quotes, news and thoughts about religion and faith below...
Here's the Kingdom #threadcast for Sunday October 27, 2024
Post your favorite #bible verses, scripture, quotes, news and thoughts about religion and faith below...
So @bradleyarrow asked if we believe in ghosts....I'll just share this:
1 Samuel 28....
Basically, a witch brought forth a 'ghost' of Samuel the Prophet. Which was an evil spirit and not the actual Samuel.
Do I believe in ghosts? No but I believe that evil and demons are everywhere in this world.
South Korean Christian Groups in Massive Protest Against Rights for Same-sex Couples
Hundreds of thousands of members of South Korea's Christian groups held a service in Seoul on Sunday to protest against a landmark court ruling that acknowledged the rights of partners in same-sex couples to receive state health insurance.
The supreme court in July upheld a high court ruling that a same-sex partner was eligible for spousal benefits from the National Health Insurance Service, a move hailed as a win for LGBTQ rights in a country that has lagged others in the region.
Sunday's massive service drew hundreds of thousands of Christians from across the country, disrupting traffic on several major roads in central Seoul.
As many as 230,000 people attended, the Yonhap news agency reported, citing police, The organizers, meanwhile, said as many as 1.1 million people took part. Calls to the Seoul metropolitan police agency were not answered.
Kim Jeong-hee, a spokesperson for the organizing committee, said the verdict was unconstitutional because same-sex marriage has not been legalized.
"I think that would only be the starting point for same-sex marriage legalization policy," Kim said. "We see this not simply as a Christian issue, but as a huge crisis that shakes our country's foundation."
The court had said that with no clauses in the national health insurance act that refer to same-sex union, denial of benefits to such people constitutes discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Some participants held signs saying "oppose the anti-discrimination law" and "protect our children from gender pollution, gender confusion and gender division destruction."
A coalition of hundreds of LGBTQ activists and Catholic and Anglican organizations issued a statement criticizing the joint service as an act that denies the values of inclusiveness, diversity and respect for human rights and an attempt to infringe on the minority's human rights in the name of the majority.
Doomsday prophecies from the #bible ....I'm going to post this little back and forth from one of the creators of this blockchain and one of it's prominent community members, and then give my take...
So...One of the reasons Christianity gets such a bad rap and the bible for that matter is failed prophecies of the end of the world.
The truth is, no one can time set and no one can tell you the end of the world will happen at this date because...
Matthew 24:36 (and other examples in the gospels) where it states, only God the Father knows the time.
For the love of everything that is good...Stop setting times. Our jobs as Christians is to be ready no matter when the time is, that's it. Not to look foolish on social media thinking we understand propehcy when it's obvious we don't.
Here's the biblical proof, no one that calls themselves a student of the bible, should ever 'set times and dates' for the end of the world.
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven but my Father only."
Matthew 24:36
Of course, I would highly suggest everyone reads Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21 a few times to see what Jesus says about the end of the world.
The devil doesn't care how much you sin, just as long as you do. And he's got plenty of ways to get our attention...
"Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices."
2 Corinthians 2:11