An interesting article:
In response to this modern, digitally amplified rat-race, a practice called a “digital Sabbath” has become trendy, promoted by both Christian and secular sources. The idea is to take an intentional weekly break from screens and the internet to recalibrate ourselves to the real world, to real people — and, for Christians, to our very real God.
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One of the chief complaints of the Protestants during the Reformation was that the Catholic Church essentially prevented common folks reading the Scriptures by forbidding to translate the Bible into vernacular from church Latin. That's what Martin Luther did, he translated the whole Bible into vernacular and the newly invented printing press did the rest.
Fast forward 500+ years, I'm going to tell you a true story. There is someone born and raised in a Christian (Protestant!) household and has been attending church their whole life (60+ years). And then this person switches churches and for the first time in their life hears the story of Jacob and his 4 wives (OK, 2 wives and 2 concubines, to be precise). How is it even possible? I realise it's OT, but still it's Genesis not some obscure story we are talking about here.
Another individual also has been a Christian their whole life. Born and bred in a very religious family. And yet, this person has never read the whole of New Testament, only fragments. How is it even possible??? You'll never get the full picture until you have read it in its entirety, the way it is written.
Is this what our ancestors were fighting for in the 16th century? If more Christians bothered to read their Bibles it would be much more difficult for snake oil preachers to deceive them with political agendas, whether from the Left or from the Right. Christianity is not about politics. It's about Jesus Christ. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s
special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called
you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Here is a good compilation.
