Apologetics
Methodists and homosexuality
Maybe the Methodists need to change their focus By DAVID WATERS Scripps Howard News Service 04/28/2004 Episcopalians, take heart. The Methodists are coming to pick up your cross and bear your burden, at least for the moment. The white-hot spotlight of the Gay Christian Debate will shift this week from the Anglicans to their Protestant […]
Homosexuality: more…
From a NT scholar / friend: I had deliberately started with the pastoral question at the retreat when asked to address the topic of ‘homosexuality’ (and with the analogies to the way we have reinterpreted the slavery and divorce texts, and also Sabbath and food laws and Paul’s ‘liberal’ position in Rom 14) rather than […]
Definitions
“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote in message news:… A net friend wrote …… ############################################# Mark’s quotation contained a paragraph that jumped off the screen for me. Here it is: We live of course in an age of definitions. There are so many rival messages and so much competition for media space and time that we […]
‘Sporting Shooters’ – a response
Note from Rowland. The ‘Sporting Shooters’ article provides a lot of feedback – usually like the following… Shalom! Rowland Croucher ~~~ So now Im a vandal?? Sir, I have just read your article “Oxymoron of the month (in Australia): sporting shooters” A scholar of the bible you may be, but you are also sadly misinformed […]
Dad … what’s a terrorist?
Dad … what’s a terrorist? [from the The Age, Melbourne Australia] By David Campbell April 23, 2004 Surely even a child can understand the difference between good and evil. Dad … what’s a terrorist? Well, according to the Oxford dictionary a terrorist is “a person who uses violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political […]
Creationism
“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote http://home.austarnet.com.au/stear/ I have spoken to Ken Ham (ex-science teacher). I was there at a Creation Science seminar in Sydney (with the Head Geologist on the Sydney Harbour Tunnel, Les McQueen) when Prof Ian Plimer was roughly man-handled by creationist thugs for asking too many difficult questions. He was sitting in […]
Moral issues must be fielded before cricketers go to Zimbabwe
April 23, 2004 Australian cricket needs to take a stand on Zimbabwe by refusing to tour, writes Stephen Coleman. Stuart MacGill’s decision to make himself unavailable, on moral grounds, for next month’s cricket tour of Zimbabwe has opened up in Australia a debate that has long been simmering in England. England is due to tour […]
18 Questions and Answers – Check your bible knowledge
Note: I don’t normally post these sorts of articles on this website, but in the interests of healthy debate, and to prepare Christians for the sorts of questions they’re likely to be asked, I’m reproducing it here to encourage you all to think! Rowland. (See the Statement for Faith for our position on the Bible.) […]
Don’t Drink The Kool-Aid
Don’t Drink The Kool-Aid The Origin Of The Saying In November of 1978, the world was shocked by the suicide deaths of 913 members of the People’s Temple cult. Jim Jones, the leader of the group, convinced his followers to move to Jonestown, Guyana, a remote community that Jones carved out of the South American […]
Characteristics of a Religious Addictive System
“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote in message news:… from http://www.nimbus.org/Academics/ReligiousAddiction.html Characteristics of a Religious “Addictive” System Thanks to Dr. Thomas Edgington for 90% of this. a.. God is seen as impersonal and vindictive: members tend to have a “grace- deficit” theology. a.. (Their religion and experience are based totally on fear, not on relief.) b.. […]
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