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Deligious Liberty Blasphemy in a forthcoming movie, May 5, 2021.

Introduction.

One of the things that is fueling our current cultural turmoil is our failure to agree on what constitutes blasphemy.

We've gotten to the point where everyone is reacting to everything else, as though they were hearing blasphemous things being said, and they tear their robes and everything.

But if you ask for a definition of blasphemy, that is, well, almost blasphemous also.

This ties in, obviously, with the theocratic case for freedom of speech that I've been wanting to make.

All these things tie together, Diana of the Ephesians.

In the Providence of God, the Apostle Paul's work in Ephesus concluded with a big riot.

This was because he had been laboring so effectively in that city that it had put a dent in the manufacturing of idols.

And so the merchants responded with fomenting some joint community action.

But when Demetrius spoke to the silversmiths, he actually represented Paul's views fairly accurately.

Moreover, you see in here that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul have persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods which are made with hands.

Acts 1926. That is actually what Paul taught and believed.

A few chapters earlier, when Paul and Barnabas headed off the attempt to worship them as though they were Zeus and Hermes, their way of describing idols was that they were, quote, unquote, vanities.

The word they used denoted things that were useless, empty, fruitless, quote.

And saying, sirs, why do ye these things?

We also are men of like passions with you and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities under the living God which made heaven and earth in the sea and all things that are therein.

Acts 1415. Now, if you set your filters at their finest setting, this point could be considered, quote, unquote, blasphemy.

It is blasphemy and principle to say that some deity is no deity at all, but simply a block of wood.

But at the same time, there's a type of blasphemy that we are not to engage in, even if we are dealing with devils or false gods.

Here's an example of that, quote.

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