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• Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were young men of Judah taken captive to Babylon and were Daniel's three friends. They refused to bow down to King Nebuchadnezzar's golden image, were thrown into a fiery furnace, and came out alive.

• The Fiery Furnace

  The fiery furnace episode, recorded in Daniel 3, is the account of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who refused to bow down to the golden image set up by King Nebuchadnezzar, were thrown into a burning furnace, and came out alive and unharmed.

• Daniel 3:17–18

  The confession of Daniel's three friends before the fiery furnace: God would deliver them, "but if not," they would still not bow to the king's image. A classic passage on faith that holds firm regardless of the outcome, it is often cited in connection with faith under persecution and the history of resistance to Shinto shrine worship.

• Daniel 3

  Daniel 3 tells how Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow down to the golden image set up by King Nebuchadnezzar, were cast into the burning fiery furnace, and came out unharmed.

• Shadrach

  Shadrach is a Judahite who appears in the Book of Daniel; his original name was Hananiah. One of Daniel's three friends, he and Meshach and Abednego refused to bow down to a golden image and were cast into a fiery furnace, from which they came out alive.

• Daniel 3:24–28

  This passage describes how the three men cast into King Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace walk out unharmed and how the king then praises their God. It is frequently cited in discussions of the identity of the "fourth" figure who appears in the fire and of faithfulness under persecution.

• Parish and Diocese (Gyogu)

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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.

• Abortion and the Church

  Abortion and the Church refers to the debate, both within and outside the church, over how abortion (induced termination of pregnancy) should be judged from the standpoint of faith. The central issues are whether priority should be given to the life of the unborn child or to the decision of the pregnant woman, and how the state should address the matter in law.

• Reunification and the Church

  Reunification and the Church refers to the debate over how the church should understand and pursue both the overcoming of the division of the Korean Peninsula and the proclamation of the gospel in North Korea. One position gives priority to peace and exchange, while the other gives priority to evangelism and religious freedom.

• Cain and Abel

  Cain and Abel are the two sons of Adam and Eve who appear in Genesis 4. Cain's killing of his younger brother Abel in a dispute over offerings is known as the first murder recorded in the Bible.