Why being transgender is not a sin – Baptist News Global
WEBNov 9, 2018 · Transgender identity is about who a person is. It’s not about who they love or what actions they take that might be sinful in the sense that we all sin. It is about their fundamental being as humans created by God in God’s image – an image that God has declared to be good.
After 30 years, the NRSV gets an update: Here’s what that means
WEBMar 15, 2022 · In a nation where the 1611 King James Version of the Bible still holds tremendous sway, imagine the challenges of updating one of the modern English translations of the Good Book.. That’s why Friendship Press, the National Council of Churches and the Society for Biblical Literature assembled a team of dozens of scholars to undertake the first update of the New Revised Standard Version in 30 ...
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Crash-course in Bible history: How the Bible came to be
WEBFeb 14, 2023 · It is possible that Hebrew literature existed in some form well before 700 BCE, but we do not have those physical documents. The earliest copies of parts of the Hebrew Bible are from the Dead Sea Scrolls, a set of texts found in the Qumran caves and that include both biblical and non-biblical manuscripts.These can be dated between the third and first centuries BCE.
I asked people why they’re leaving Christianity, and here’s what I ...
WEBDec 13, 2022 · For some time now, Christianity has been on the decline. According to a September 2022 Pew study, people identifying as Christian have decreased from 90% of the U.S. population in 1972 to 64% in 2020.. But it’s not just researchers who are talking about this. As of Dec. 6, 2020, the hashtag “#exchristian” had 696.7 million cumulative views on TikTok and was assigned to more than 68,600 ...
Franklin Graham, toxic charity concerns send churches packing …
WEBNov 6, 2019 · “It’s a very tactile missions experience,” he said. But church members were hearing the troubling reports, he said. “Around the same time, the face of that organization was just becoming increasingly unkind in public, increasingly political and nasty and it wasn’t anything our church wanted to be involved with,” Jasper said.
10 things we’re learning about the LGBTQ debate in the church
WEBFeb 13, 2018 · Our congregation went through 18 months of intense study, prayer and dialogue about LGBTQ inclusion, and we have the scars to show for it. And we would have had scars regardless of which way the decision went. But we are better for choosing the good over the easy.
Why Beth Moore’s departure from the SBC really matters
WEBMar 10, 2021 · Jeff Straub, professor of historical theology and missions at Central Seminary in Plymouth, Minn., explained the background in a Feb. 28 article posted on the seminary’s website.. Describing a current call for a second “conservative resurgence” within the SBC, he called attention to the Conservative Baptist Network and Founders Ministries — two far-right groups within the right-wing ...
With all this talk of UFOs, what’s a Christian to think?
WEBJun 8, 2021 · In a recent “60 Minutes” episode, Navy pilots described first-hand, eyewitness, video and radar evidence of vehicles that “can do 600-700 G Forces, that can fly at 13,000 miles an hour, that can evade radar, and that can fly through air, and water, and possibly space. And (have) no obvious signs of propulsions, no wings, no control surfaces, and yet still can defy the natural effects of ...