Apologetics
What Is Our Responsibility in the Face of Violence?
(~) The Mark of Cain What Is Our Responsibility in the Face of Violence? Abraham Joshua Heschel A classic exploration of war and violence from a Jewish perspective, this essay was first printed in February 1944 in Liberal Judaism, and contains references that clearly identify its original context, World War II. The passage of six […]
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis?
Ken Smith wrote: [snip] [Don wrote:] We have yet to see how you interpret Genesis and how this interpretation meshes with the rest of the Bible and provides a basis for the Gospel and an effective theodicy. Come on, Ken, put your cards on the table, mate, and stop beating around the bush (to mix […]
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis?
Ken Smith wrote: And, as Rowland suggested, it’s about time that we got on to how Answers in Genesis manages to relate their reading of Genesis to the scientific culture in which we live. Don: I am not prepared to do that until you actually engage the real biblical issues that I raised in my […]
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis?
Ken Smith wrote: A small contribution to just what evangelical scholars believe the Bible teaches about creation and the flood. People might be interested in a related story about commentaries on Genesis. About six years ago, after I had started working in Chaplaincy Services at the University of Queensland, another group of first-year students complained […]
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis?
Ken Smith wrote: This is the first of what I expect will be a number of postings simply providing quotations from various scientists, and, occasionally, from a religious non-scientist who mentions scientific matters. They will cover the nature of science and the procedures used by scientists, philosophical ideas, comments about religion, and, in short, anything […]
Creation and evolution
Chris wrote: just one comment here. In common with many non-scientists you have a basic misunderstanding of science. You can NEVER prove a scientific theory, only disprove it. Of course genetics does not prove evolution, but it could disprove it, although so far it has not done so despite many thousands of scientists trying to […]
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis? (Ken Smith again)
This posting is in response to parts of two posts by Don. In his first post on this thread, on 2 May 2005, about inerrancy, Section 10 is headed Don: 10. The Reformers understood it as history. Ken: The first paragraph of this refers to Calvin and the second to Luther. I may respond to […]
How Are We Meant to Understand Genesis? (Ken Smith again)
“Don” writes: Ken Smith wrote: This is the second part of my third major posting in response to Don’s initial post. I may well make further major postings about cosmology, depending on the responses to this one. I only mentioned cosmology in passing in my post of May 2, but since you have in interest […]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest [38]
Religion & Ethics Australia Digest A weekly public affairs review from the Centre for Christian Ethics, Morling College No. 038, 20-26 May 2005 ² edited by Rod Benson News & opinion Aboriginal & indigenous affairs John Howard is set to recast his approach to Aboriginal reconciliation, embracing the importance of symbolism to indigenous Australians. Aust […]
The Real Religion of America
The real religion of America has always been America itself; our religion has largely been civil religion for the sake of social order more than for any soul transformation… Our parents gave us what they had been given… the self-serving American dream of material advancement and an overreliance on religious institutions to do our spiritual […]
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