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• Nadab and Abihu

  [People]

  Nadab and Abihu were the eldest and second sons of Aaron. Appointed as priests, they offered incense with "strange fire," which the LORD had not commanded, and were killed by fire that came out from before the LORD.

• Elisheba

  [People]

  Elisheba was the wife of Aaron, mentioned in Exodus 6:23. The daughter of Amminadab of the tribe of Judah and the sister of Nahshon, she bore four sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

• Aaron

  [People]

  Aaron is a member of the tribe of Levi who appears in the Old Testament books of Exodus through Deuteronomy. He was the elder brother of Moses and the first high priest of Israel, and his descendants carried on Israel's priesthood.

• 1 Chronicles 24

  [Bible]

  1 Chronicles 24 records how David divided the priests descended from Aaron by lot into twenty-four courses (divisions that served in rotation) and also assigned the remaining Levite families by lot.

• Nahshon

  [People]

  Nahshon was the leader of the tribe of Judah during the wilderness period after the Exodus. The son of Amminadab and the brother-in-law of Aaron, he appears in the genealogies of David and of Jesus Christ.

• Division of Abijah

  [Bible]

  The division of Abijah was the eighth of the twenty-four priestly divisions established in the time of David for rotating temple service. In the Gospel of Luke, Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, is introduced as a priest belonging to this division.

• Priestly Divisions

  [Bible]

  The priestly divisions were a system, described in 1 Chronicles 24, in which David divided the priests descended from Aaron into twenty-four groups that took turns performing the temple duties. The system reappears in the Gospel of Luke as the "course of Abia" (the division of Abijah), to which Zacharias belonged.

• Ithamar

  [People]

  Ithamar was the fourth son of Aaron and served as a priest with his brother Eleazar during the wilderness period. When the tabernacle was transported, he supervised the work of the Gershonites and the Merarites.

• Eleazar

  [People]

  Eleazar was the third son of Aaron and the biblical figure who succeeded his father as Israel's second high priest. Together with Joshua, he oversaw the distribution of the land of Canaan.

• Parish and Diocese (Gyogu)

  [Organization & Polity]

  A gyogu (敎區) is a unit into which church members are divided, by region or by group, for pastoral care and church governance. In Korean Protestantism it usually refers to a pastoral district within a single congregation, while in Anglicanism it refers to a regional church unit under the jurisdiction of a bishop.

• Predestination and Free Will

  [Controversies]

  A debate over whether salvation depends on God's election or on the human response. Calvinism, followed by Presbyterians, and the Arminian-Wesleyan tradition, followed by Methodists, the Holiness Church, and Full Gospel churches, explain the question differently.

• Cessationism and Continuationism

  [Controversies]

  A debate over whether gifts of the Holy Spirit such as tongues, prophecy, and divine healing have continued beyond the apostolic age. Some conservative Presbyterians hold that these gifts have ceased, while Pentecostal churches, such as the Full Gospel churches, hold that they continue today.

• The Sabbath and the Lord's Day

  [Controversies]

  A discussion of whether Christians should observe the seventh-day (Saturday) Sabbath or the first-day (Sunday) Lord's Day, and whether the Lord's Day should be kept in the manner of the Old Testament Sabbath.

• Alcohol and Tobacco

  [Controversies]

  The question of whether Christians may drink alcohol or smoke tobacco. Since the early days of missionary work in Korea, Korean Protestantism has treated abstinence from alcohol and tobacco as a mark of the Christian life, but views differ on whether the Bible actually forbids them.

• Creation and Evolution

  [Controversies]

  A debate over how to understand the creation account in Genesis alongside the explanations of modern science. The principal positions are young-earth creationism, old-earth creationism, and theistic evolution (evolutionary creation).

• Homosexuality and the Church

  [Controversies]

  The question of how the church should respond to homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ church members and clergy. Most Korean denominations hold the traditional position that homosexuality is sin, and the issue is closely intertwined with the debate over enacting an anti-discrimination law.

• Divorce and Remarriage

  [Controversies]

  The question of whether Scripture permits divorce and remarriage, and if so, under what circumstances. The question also bears on whether ministers should officiate at the remarriage of church members and whether divorced ministers may serve.

• The March First Movement and Christianity

  [History]

  The March First Movement and Christianity examines the role Protestantism played in the March First Movement of 1919. Protestants accounted for 16 of the 33 National Representatives, and churches and Christian schools served as bases from which the independence demonstrations spread across the country.

• Law and Gospel

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Law and Gospel is a topic in Protestant theology concerning how to distinguish and relate God's commandments, which require obedience from human beings (the Law), and the message of salvation freely given through Jesus Christ (the Gospel).

• Heaven and Hell

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Heaven is the place where God reigns and where the saved live forever, and hell is the place where those who have turned away from God receive punishment after the Last Judgment. Together they are a central theme of Christian eschatology.