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Apologetics

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Micro/Macro Evolution

From: Chris Ho-Stuart <> Newsgroups: nz.soc.religion,aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: The old age of earth argument (was Women teaching in Church) Date: 29 Apr 1999 22:42:58 GMT Allistar Melville <> wrote: > Macro evolution and micro evolution are constructs of creationists. > The only difference between macro evolution and micro evolution is the > amount of time […]

Creationism

Subject: Re: Creationism (was Re: “With All That You Acquire, Acquire Understanding”) Date: 13 Jan 2000 22:18:12 GMT From: Chris Ho-Stuart Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Darren R Middleton wrote: > Sean McHugh wrote in message … > > G'day, > Just a quick remark Sean. > > I was skimming your post when I came across your […]

Religious Freedom Site Inte

Feb. 2000 The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has a new Internet site (see link #3 below) for people in the U.S. government’s efforts to end religious persecution abroad and promote international religious freedom. It features an archive of commission press releases; frequently asked questions; the State Department’s first country-by-country Report on International […]

Virgin Birth

From: Chris Ho-Stuart <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Is the immaculate conception considered fact? Date: 10 May 1999 03:18:09 GMT Organization: Queensland University of Technology, Australia Claude Brown <> wrote: > Disclaimer: I'm an athiest who has a healthy interest in religion in > general, but Christianity in particular. I'm interested because of the > […]

Creationism

Subject: Re: Creationism (was Re: “With All That You Acquire, Acquire Understanding”) Date: 14 Jan 2000 06:39:47 GMT From: Chris Ho-Stuart Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Darren R Middleton wrote: > Chris Ho-Stuart wrote in message … [snip] >>You should base your trust on a considered examination of the >>actual arguments themselves; and you would be very well […]

Christians & Alcohol

From: Nigel B. Mitchell Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 1:58 PM Subject: Re: Christians & Alcohol > On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 12:56:21 GMT, (Michael > Kennedy) wrote: > > >One must recognise that the Hebrew and Greek words (yayin and oinos) > >which are uniformly translated in the Bible as “wine”, can […]

Historicity

From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: nz.soc.religion,aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Evidence or not ? Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 10:46:02 GMT In <01be9c5a$c577b920>, “Robert Howard” <> wrote: >I might differ from Tigger on this but I have no difficulty accepting Jesus >as an historical character, probably a charismatic person with good ideas >who started a new religious […]

Evolution

Subject: Re: Creationism (was Re: “With All That You Acquire, Acquire Understanding”) Date: 21 Jan 2000 07:31:59 GMT From: Chris Ho-Stuart Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian I have snipped the initial section on misuse of research. Darren is quite right; I did jump the gun and misread his post on this point. I have already retracted my hasty […]

Christians & Alcohol [2]

From: Nigel B. Mitchell <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2000 10:59 AM Subject: Re: Christians & Alcohol > On Sat, 05 Aug 2000 14:25:26 GMT, (Michael > Kennedy) wrote: > > >Now about your reply, you haven’t actually quoted any reason for there > >not being a dual meaning of the word wine, […]

Jeusalem

JERUSALEM DAY A Letter to the World from a reporter in Jerusalem, June 1967 by Eliezer Ben Yisrael, also known as Eliezer Whartman, the Westinghouse Radio correspondent in Israel in 1967 – the first foreign correspondent to report Israel’s capture of the Temple Mount during the 1967 war, when he was stationed on the roof […]