Blasphemy laws, which criminalize acts deemed disrespectful to religious beliefs, have been abolished in England, allowing for broader freedom of expression. However, concerns and discussions about blasphemy persist. The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman (2023), has emphasized that there are no ...
The Bible tells us that,later that night,Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot.After his arrest,Jesus was brought before the Jewish high priests who found him guilty of blasphemy because he called himself the Son of God.They handed him over to the Roman governor,Pontius Pilate.As was the cus...
In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled the vacuum of organised religion, with reasoned questioning of its mantras regarded as a form of blasphemy. — Nigel Lawson 4 One s...
Similarly, there are those in 1 Corinthians 11 whom Paul says have died because they took the Lord’s Supper in an unworthy manner. Blatant sin against God is a serious offense. It does not mean that we lose our salvation, but we might lose our physical life. To preserve our life, rep...
At the very beginning of the Garden of Eden, an influential angel from heaven, in front of all of the angels of heaven, accused God of being a liar, he accused God of blasphemy against himself. Now, in the interest of Justice, God could not very well represent himself in the trial ...
What kind of mental image does this give you? To me, it sounds pretty neat, but . . . somehow, not. Please don’t run screaming from the room screaming ‘blasphemy’ just yet – I’m not finished. Give me a few more lines. I recall sitting between a couple of sand dunes, surveyi...
All the parables of Matthew 13 must be read in light of this confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees. While they were accusing Him of doing the devil’s work, He responded by saying that it was not Him, but they, who were committing blasphemy and speaking evil from their hearts (...
What this does not consider is that this child’s death is within the foreseeable consequences that follows directly from your action of having a child with a known genetic defect. Therefore, while creating this child would create infinite value, then the act of knowingly letting them die (beca...
1) Life is precious, and the life is in the blood. When blood is shed, something precious is lost. You might not think blood is precious. We tend to consider blood to be just a "bodily fluid". It is, however, precious to God. ...
Blessed be the Lord our God! Today we consider 1 John 3.1-3, “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s child...