This Month in Prophecy – August 2023 – Part II

What is happening in the world? Madness afflicts the nations.
There is an alternative for us.

#church #churchleadership #faith #Israel #Jesus #jesuschrist #Messiah #salvation #thismonthinprophecy #currentaffairs

https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/video/this-month-in-prophecy-august-2023-part-ii/

#Artist : Egon Schiele
#Art : Young Man Kneeling (1908)
Private Collection #Switzerland

#painting #faith

"Voices for reform in one of the country’s most loyal and deferential #faith groups are getting louder...

“Even the church’s most ardent defenders know there is some credibility to their concerns,”...

“It’s such a sacrifice to pay 10 percent of your income; it’s so personal,” Dehlin said. “And when you find out the church doesn’t need your money and has been evading responsibility, that impacts people directly.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/09/09/he-was-mormon-royalty-now-his-lawsuit-against-church-is-rallying-cry/

#Religion #Corruption #Hypocrisy #Greed #USA #News

"The church cannot be said to have completed its career till the whole world shall appear transfigured with its divine spirit, and states, and sciences, and arts, with all their glory, shall fall down before the altar of the Most High in full, free worship.” – Philip Schaff #faith #bible #christian

Here's some of the most popular Bahá'í content for the 6th day of ‘Izzat, 180 B.E. For your reading enjoyment!

https://news.bahai.org/story/1691
Shrine of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Concrete structure of the Shrine is now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQlmfdNxAdg
In Conversation: Impact of Houses of Worship on community life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaI7MPtpzWU
Empowering Youth - A Chat with Shayan Saberi & Lachlan Akhtarkhavari

🏷️ #quotes #Blog #faith #askabahai #history
https://bahai.fyi/discover/

Are we there yet?

And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
Daniel 2.44

#Church #churchleadership #faith #Israel #Jesus #jesuschrist #KingdomOfGod #Messiah #salvation

https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/jesus-and-judaism/are-we-there-yet/

Before the world was: One angel discovers God’s secret laboratory.
#faith #bible #God #humor #comedy #drawing #illustration #cartoon

Here's some of the most popular Bahá'í content for the 5th day of ‘Izzat, 180 B.E. Check it out!

https://news.bahai.org/story/1691
Shrine of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Concrete structure of the Shrine is now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQlmfdNxAdg
In Conversation: Impact of Houses of Worship on community life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaI7MPtpzWU
Empowering Youth - A Chat with Shayan Saberi & Lachlan Akhtarkhavari

🏷️ #Blog #quotes #faith #askabahai #history
https://bahai.fyi/discover/

#RevEdTrevors

Standing against Christian Oppression

9 min video

the kind of men of the cloth that speak out against hate and those in Christianity who spread it.

Pastors like this rebuke christo-fascism. At the very least, it shines a light on the lies hate mongers' claims to moral superiority.

https://youtu.be/DnSmkPlmnzg

#faith #religion #Christianity

Relating a conversation had on Discord. The prompt from them was:

"How do you guys continue to believe even with the apparent contradictions in the Scriptures like 2 Samuel 8:4 vs. 1 Chronicles 18:4? Things like this are actually causing a lapse in my faith, as of late."

(Note: the two passages are identical in the KJV, except one of them says that there are seven hundred horsemen, and the other says there are seven thousand. In most translations, these two passages are not identical, and many of the translations just say 1700 horsemen.)

My response:

What, the difference between "seven thousand" and "seven hundred"? I actually listened to an interesting podcast on that the other day. https://nakedbiblepodcast.com/podcast/naked-bible-024-the-bibles-literary-context-the-military-historical-annal-genre/

Short version to save a listen: Chronicles is written as a Military-Historical Annal, and as such there are some liberties taken with numbers in some places. This was a common trope of the time for stories about kings, and would have been no different for stories about King David. The example Dr. Heiser uses takes a different sample and breaks it down as similar to other Ancient Near-Eastern texts.

If seven thousand vs seven hundred has you beat up, you must have real difficulties with the inconsistencies in the Synoptic Gospels.

In general, I find my faith doesn't lie in the specifics, but rather in the spaces between. Reading the Word and studying it -- seeing how other people answer these same tough questions you're asking? That's what really renews and affirms my faith. For example, I find a lot of the Jewish histories a little hard to take literally. Especially pre-David. The Bible can be the inspired Word of God and still be a bunch of words written by human beings in certain rhetorical and poetic styles designed to evoke a response in their audience.

Everyone eventually hits a wall where they say "You know, this is just a little TOO far," but there are a great body of people across history that have read those same words, asked those same questions, and figured out an answer. I pray you find your answer, my friend.

#Bible #Faith #Christian

Here's some of the most popular Bahá'í content for the 4th day of Asmá’, 180 B.E. Please enjoy, and have a wonderful day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQlmfdNxAdg
In Conversation: Impact of Houses of Worship on community life

https://news.bahai.org/story/1691
Shrine of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Concrete structure of the Shrine is now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaI7MPtpzWU
Empowering Youth - A Chat with Shayan Saberi & Lachlan Akhtarkhavari

🏷️ #quotes #mexicali #NuestraHistoriaEsUna #felizviernes #faith
https://bahai.fyi/discover/

Here's some of the most popular Bahá'í content for the 3rd day of Asmá’, 180 B.E. Please enjoy!

https://news.bahai.org/story/1691
Shrine of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Concrete structure of the Shrine is now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQlmfdNxAdg
In Conversation: Impact of Houses of Worship on community life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaI7MPtpzWU
Empowering Youth - A Chat with Shayan Saberi & Lachlan Akhtarkhavari

🏷️ #quotes #NuestraHistoriaEsUna #faith #mexicali #belief
https://bahai.fyi/discover/

The Day of the Lord

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 2 Peter 3.10-13

#church #churchleadership #faith #Israel #Jesus #jesuschrist #Messiah #salvation #TheDayofTheLord

https://lightforthelastdays.co.uk/articles/christians-issues/the-day-of-the-lord/

A quotation from Billings, Josh:

«
Human knowledge is very short, and don’t reach but a little ways, and even that little ways iz twilite; but faith lengthens out the road, and makes it light, so that we kan see tew read the letterings on the mile stuns.
[Human knowledge is very short, and doesn’t reach but a little way, and even that little way is twilight; but faith len…
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/billings-josh/1042/

#quote #quotes #quotation #faith #knowledge #mystery

New article by my pastor: Suffering no argument against God.

"The brilliant man in the video was asked whether he believed in God. He said the amount of suffering he sees in the world makes it hard for him to believe in a God who is good and loving.

This is a common argument among skeptics. Suffering is bad, so God must not be good. He’s either too weak to do anything about it or unconcerned with it."

https://www.qcsunonline.com/story/2023/09/06/opinion/suffering-no-argument-against-god/25095.html #faith #bible #christian

A new book on #US #religion, 'The Great Dechurching', has a survey of “dechurched #evangelicals”, of whom 68% said their #parents played a role in their decision to stop attending #church. The top 5 issues:
1. Emphasis on #CultureWar (14%)
2. Lack of #love, #joy, #gentleness,# kindness, and #generosity (14%)
3. Inability to #listen (14%)
4.Inability to engage with other #viewpoints (13%)
5. Attitudes or actions to #race (13%)
https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/great-dechurching-whos-leaving-why-are-they-going-and-what-will-it-take-to-bring-them-back-jim-davis?variant=40244991197262
@theologidons @theology #theology #faith

Here's some of the most popular Bahá'í content for the 2nd day of Asmá’, 180 B.E. For your reading enjoyment!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQlmfdNxAdg
In Conversation: Impact of Houses of Worship on community life

https://news.bahai.org/story/1691
Shrine of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: Concrete structure of the Shrine is now...

https://www.clearwaterbahais.org/blog/revelation-and-reason-an-exploration-of-the-harmonious-relationship-between-faith-and-logic-in-the-bahai-faith-2-2-2-2.html
Revelation and Reason: An Exploration of the Harmonious Relationship...

🏷️ #Blog #NuestraHistoriaEsUna #mexicali #felizmiercoles #faith
https://bahai.fyi/discover/

#Faith (pretending to know something you don't) isn't a good thing, so how could it be a virtue?

#atheism
Tooted by a #bot!
SN# 3608

From a #stream from earlier this week; a collection of Mini’s favorite writing implements as well as our new bullet #journal freshly covered in #aesthetic , #pride , #trans & #faith stickers (If you give something w/ a surface to Mini, it WILL get covered in stickers~💚)

#Pens
Cheap: Skillcraft U.S. Government Ballpoint
Sharpie S-Gel
Erasable: Frixion Clicker
Pricier:Zebra G-750 & F-701

Mechanical #Pencils
Cheap:Uni Kuru Toga
Pricier: Rotring 600

FANATICISM is closer to doubt than faith.

https://youtube.com/shorts/p6rGUeDevkw?si=_CNveqPU7Gmk9mU_

#fascism #faith #politics