Apologetics
Peer Pressure On Our Youth Today
February 2004 (Posted on various newsgroups): Bergen school bans ‘sex-code’ bracelets The colorful plastic bracelets are popular with youngsters in the Bergen area, and to the eye are nothing more than the latest fad. Now a principal will ban the trinkets after learning that students use them to color code demands for sex, newspaper Bergensavisen […]
Science
Summarised from Paul Davies’ ‘The Mind of God: Science and the search for ultimate meaning’ (Penguin; London: 1992) ****************************** The popular view of science is: …………….. Scientific knowledge is proven knowledge. Scientific theories are derived in some rigorous way from the facts of experience acquired by observation and experiment. Science is based on what we […]
The Bible’s hard statements
The following …..should be added to your Memory Verses ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MEMORY VERSES FOR TREW KRISTYUNS 1 Samuel 21:21 – God promises to “bring evil upon thee” and to “cut off” all those “that pisseth against the wall.” 2 Kings 9:8 – God says that the “whole house of Ahab shall perish,” and that he “will […]
Conspiracies and the church
One of my first posts on to a Usenet newsgroup (aus.religion, alt.conspiracy), 12/1/1995. (BTW there are now 34,000 Christian denominations. Feb. 2004). ~~~ My job is to ask questions about the church (churches actually pay me – a little – to do this!). One category of questions has to do with conspiracy theories. Briefly, the […]
Belief in God
One of my first posts to a Usenet newsgroup (23/12/1994): A few bits and pieces from a God-believer. First, let me say I appreciate the honesty/integrity of you all in this newsgroup. I’ve been reading it with interest for some time. (I felt the same way about those who sat down during Handel’s Messiah’s ‘Hallelujah […]
Institutions, recovery, and God
Another early newsgroup post (December 1994): Re institutions (religious or otherwise): Remember sociologist Robert Merton’s axiom – ‘All institutions are inherently degenerative’. If institutions weren’t populated by humans (in religious terms ‘fallen’ humans) you wouldn’t have a problem. If you begin with this understanding, you won’t get so angry with them (ie. institutions or humans!) […]
The Sectarian Mindset
‘Faith, hope, love, and the greatest of these is…’ ‘Baptism!’ – both adult (some ‘restorationist’ groups), and paedobaptism – in post-Augustinian medieval Catholicism ‘Tongues!’ – some extreme Pentecostal groups ‘Doctrine!’ – eg. some hyper-Calvinists’ insistence on ‘double predestination’ ‘Sabbath!’ – some conservative sabbatarians in the SDA’s and other groups… (You can add some more…) ….. […]
New Age
A couple of Netfriends wrote: **What is this New Age? Since most of the things in it are from ancient ways..how can it be New Age? The TEV bible has Jesus using the term new age. Is Jesus a new ager????? Most Christians talking about new age philosophies (note the plural) have no clue …including […]
Homosexuality: An Interview with Jesus
An old version of this article was posted to various Usenet newsgroups during the latter months of 1995, and created quite a stir! Note: (January 2012): I’ve done a quick update where my thinking/studying has changed in the last 15 years, following conversations with hundreds of LGBTI friends. Some of you might like to suggest […]
Recent Trends Among Evangelicals [1]
(Part One) (Adapted from chapter one of Recent Trends Among Evangelicals by Rowland C.Croucher), 1986/1995. What is an evangelical? There are now, says one evangelical seminary professor on the US west coast, sixteen kinds of ‘evangelicals’! If, as the truism puts it, the only constant thing is change, that dictum is certainly true of evangelicals […]
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