Apologetics
Vatican And The Jews
From: (Les Brown) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion,alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic,soc.culture.jewish Subject: Re: Vatican seeks forgiveness Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:17:15 GMT "Rowland C. Croucher" <> wrote in aus.religion: > >Vatican to seek forgiveness for past sins > > > By Philip Pullella > VATICAN CITY, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Vatican theologians have >finished the draft of a major document […]
Egypt: Persecutions Of Christian Minority
The Egyptian government is sponsoring a full-page advertisement carried in several international newspapers, denying that Christians in Egypt are persecuted for their faith. Proponents of the ad claim it is sponsored by an organization that represent the Christians of Egypt. (see International Herald Tribune, November 5, 1998) However, the Sunday Telegraph, a British newspaper, reports […]
Inerrancy – And Fallible Authors
From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Inerrancy – was Re: Denominations Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 14:17:05 GMT I am not quite sure how, but I think we have reached some form of agreement here. In <>, (Able) wrote: >1. The original autographs are no longer in existence, we could >therefore argue forever more […]
Welfare In Scripture
From: Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Welfare in Scripture Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 02:47:09 GMT wrote: >Coming back from the short-term missions time in Bombay, India where I worked >with street kids, beggar children and people in semi-permanent slums, and >seeing how welfare and minorities have come up in various threads over the >last few […]
Universalism: Will God Empty Hell?
The following is an excerpt from my book LIVE! (Meditations and prayers on 22 Big Questions! Available from John Mark Ministries, for $20 – plus a few dollars for postage. (Please contact me by email: simply click on the ‘Contact Us’ button top right on your screen for details) In several Bible colleges I have […]
Women: Beware!
Recently, on Inside Edition there was an article that is of special interest to all women. There are several new scams to abduct women. In one, a man comes up to a woman in a Mall or Shopping Center and asks if she likes Pizza. When she says she does, he offers her $100.00 to […]
Wanna Bet? A Christian View On Gambling
On Tuesday, Melbourne Cup Day, you’ll probably be asked to go into a ‘sweep’. If you feel, as most Christians do, that gambling is wrong in principle, what will you do? Is all gambling proscribed for a Christian? Should a church or Christian organization accept a gift won by gambling? # A frail old woman […]
Christmas Crackers
[Snip woodcut of santa in sleigh] Up prancer, up dancer, up blitzen and donner without Christmas Spirit the seasons a gonner Up interest, up credit, up stress and great pressure the cost of the gift is the unit of measure Our traditions are lost to the merchantmans greed with the crumbs from the table for […]
The Bible Code
From: Chris Ho-Stuart <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Is the Bible Code a legitimate Christian thing? Date: 29 Oct 1998 00:09:26 GMT SFW <> wrote: > If Dr. Rips' research was deeply flawed, and thus invalid, why was it > allowed to be published in ANY refereed scientific journal? I notice > Dr. Kass, the […]
Human Rights And Religious Liberty
by John Langlois This month we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration does not grant any rights to anyone. It merely declares what rightfully belongs to each and every member of the human race, irrespective of gender, nationality, colour, race or religion. Human rights are the precious possession […]
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