Apologetics
Elevation Beyond Criticism : A Response
Another netfriend wrote: The whole point about fundamentalism, which distinguishes it from evangelicalism, is the closed mind that it attaches to. The essential psychology of the fundamentalist is an essential insecurity, which requires finding certainties, and something in which one can believe absolutely. Forget the contradications and inconsistencies in the scriptures, they must be believed […]
Witchcraft
[Remember not all the views on this website are mine! Rowland]. eni-summary list Ecumenical News International News Highlights 22 January 2003 English priest believes knowledge of witchcraft can be useful London (ENI). For Richard Thomas, a priest on the Anglican bishop of Oxford’s staff, witchcraft is not to be feared or hated but to be […]
Elevation Beyond Criticism
From a netfriend: One of the mainstays of truth, and a characteristic of the modern age, is the ability to question and criticise. Only those things that can be sustained in the face of a critical evaluation really have any claim to their integrity and our allegiance. Critical evaluation is the tool that has liberated […]
Divided Jerusalem
On Wednesday 22/1/2003 Summer Series 4: Divided Jerusalem – A Conversation with Bernard Wasserstein Summary: Bernard Wasserstein is Professor of History at the University of Glasgow. He’s also the author of one of the most important books on the Middle East to be published in recent years. “Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City” […]
Death Penalty In The Bible
(From a netfriend, in response to a discussion about homosexuality and the death penalty): “God” called for death for a large number of things…. So please give us your adress, as I am sure you deserve death post-haste: Disobedience to Parents Exo 21:17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be […]
Bible College Shuns 666 Phone Number
Bible college shuns 666 phone number By ROGER ALFORD The Associated Press VANCLEVE, Ky. — A small Appalachian Bible college is fighting to change its telephone number because the 666 prefix is disturbing to Christians who recognize it as the biblical mark of the beast. “People say, ‘You’re a Bible college and you have 666 […]
Creation And Evolution
From: “Chris Ho-Stuart” Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: faith (was creationism) Another wrote: > > If, as I have been told that a massive asteroid wiped out the > > dinosaurs > > 1. surely that would have wiped out all or most of other animals and > > plants Chris responded: > It did wipe […]
Saducees
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-127 THE SADDUCEES From ‘Sunrise Sunset’ (HarperCollins/Harper San Francisco), Rowland Croucher’s book of daily meditations. Feel free to use or adapt it. The Sadducees [were] annoyed because [Peter and John] were proclaiming that in Jesus there is the resurrection of the dead. Acts 4:1,2. Twice in the early chapters of Acts (4:1, […]
Is Harry Potter Harmless?
(From a netfriend): “Jesus died because He was weak and stupid”; This is a quote from 6 year old Jessica Lehman of Easley, SC, – after reading the HARRY POTTER BOOKS! The following is an email sent for the American Family Association, which is VERY disturbing, to say the least. Please forward to all email […]
Uniting Church’s Systemic Problems
problems WESLEY MISSION Sydney Gay ordination decision is symptom of Uniting Church’s systemic problems For immediate release: 18 July, 2003. The conflict at the National Assembly in Melbourne is not just a fight over homosexual church leaders, bad as that may be, the Superintendent of Wesley Mission Sydney the Rev Dr Gordon Moyes said today. […]
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