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Apologetics

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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Scientology

Folks, please take CAREFUL note of some of these names, including the name of the ISP Earthlink …….!!!! , Robert Cipriano An affidavit was posted to a.r.s this week by Robert Cipriano, and filed in a libel lawsuit by attorney Graham Berry against Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon. Some highlights: "As of July 12th 1999, a […]

Evolution And Gradualism

Subject: Re: evolution dead ! Date: 17 Aug 1999 07:23:06 GMT From: Chris Ho-Stuart <> Organization: Queensland University of Technology, Australia Newsgroups: aus.religion,aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion In aus.religion.christian beyond.help <> wrote: > Tigger wrote: > > > >> An educated guess on extremely well-educated scientists' parts, > > >> which more closely matches the available evidence than any […]

Christian Responses to Martial Art and Meditation

Subject: Re: Christian Responses to Martial Art and Meditation Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 05:19:47 GMT From: Bradley <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian In article <>, Richard Kerr <> wrote: > Bradley wrote: > > > > LJAllen <> wrote in message > > news: … > [snip] > > > To me mediation as a act […]

Preamble To The Australian Constitution

The preamble to the Constitution is supposed to be a statement of our values as a nation. Yet so little debate has taken place about one of the key elements of the coming referendum – the articulation of our values as a nation. However, as any high school student should be able to spot, the […]

Space-Time

From: Chris Ho-Stuart <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion,nz.soc.religion Date: Friday, 12 March 1999 11:33 Subject: Re: Some hard questions for Able In aus.religion.christian Edward Ruvinski <> wrote: > Yes, you're right. I do assume that the universe has boundaries. > But I have an argument somewhat different from yours. ? > Whether a person accepts that “God […]

New Age Thinking

Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD–that you alone are the Most High over all the earth (Psalm 83:18 NIV). The New Age Movement is very attractive to the natural man who has become disillusioned with organized religion and Western rationalism. He desires spiritual reality but doesn’t want to give up materialism, […]

Belief In God

Subject: Re: Belief in God. (was People of Value & Forgiveness) Date: 15 Jun 1999 23:00:31 GMT From: Chris Ho-Stuart <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion Nigel Mitchell <> wrote: > > Hi, Chris, > > Thanks for this. As happens so often, you show yourself to be more > articulate and better informed than most of the […]

666 [Again!]

Since we’re all using Microsoft products, I thought I’d just let you know these facts…do you know that Bill Gates’ real name is William Henry Gates III? Nowadays, he is known as Bill Gates (III) where III means the order of third. So what’s so eerie about this name. Well, if you take all the […]

Psychology And The Demonic

NEIL ANDERSON DAILY DEVOTIONAL from Freedom in Christ Ministries April 11 The Reality Of The Spiritual World Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8). Here’s another common misconception about the spiritual world that must be dispelled: What the early church called demonic activity we now […]

Christian Evidences

Subject: Re: Evidence or not ? Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:45:58 +0800 From: “Nigel Mitchell” <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion G'day Sean. I wrote: >>>> …There are probably three options in this kind of study/ >>>> discussion: > >>>> 1. My opinion is right, so anything that seems to contradict my >>>> opinion is, by definition, […]