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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.

Atheism And Rationalism

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Fundamentalists/atheists have the same problem… Two students were sent into a field of daffodils and later reported on what they saw. One described the flowers _botanically_ (numbers, genus, family etc.), the other _poetically_ (‘I wandered lonely as a cloud…’) Who was ‘right’? And what is ‘truth’? Perhaps we can blame Francis Bacon for the theory […]

Homosexuality: Rowland Croucher’s Views

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

From: Rowland Croucher Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Rowland Croucher Rebuked For False Teaching Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 * Michael Kennedy wrote: ** Marcelo Cantos wrote: *** (Andrew Bromage) writes: ***The Bible is indeed silent on the topic of homosexuality, but it is pretty unequivocal on the topic of homosexual intercourse. (If you interpret it […]

Let’s Behave Christianly On The ‘Net !

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve been browsing/posting to this and other Christian newsgroups most days for a year now and would like to share some prayerful reflections… First, 1995 has witnessed a sea-change in the quantity of posts, and the attitudes of posters. The volume is increasing exponentially. And alt.atheism-type rudeness is becoming more prevalent on Christian groups. Many […]

Bible Inerrancy

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

The subject of ‘biblical inerrancy’ is still a hot topic on newsgroups and in conferences of evangelical Christians. Here’s an abridged version of my thoughts on the matter (from ‘Recent Trends Among Evangelicals’, published by John Mark Ministries, Price $10 Aust.+ postage) (Please contact me by email: simply click on the ‘Contact Us’ button top […]

Why Leading Philosophers Believe(3/3)

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

A cursory reading of the biographies of eleven leading contemporary philosophers in Kelly James Clark (ed.) *Philosophers Who Believe* (IVP, Illinois, 1993), tells a different story. I’ve posted this in three stages (this is the third), to make it easier to read/ digest/respond. Rowland Croucher In my view of the matter, I had no religious […]

Why Leading Philosophers Believe(1/3)

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Why Some Eminent Philosophers Believe in God [1] One of the common assumptions in theism-vs-atheism debates is that one probably passes from non-belief to belief (or vice versa) *rationally*. A cursory reading of the biographies of eleven leading contemporary philosophers in Kelly James Clark (ed.) *Philosophers Who Believe* (IVP, Illinois, 1993), tells a different story. […]

A Worse Human Tragedy Than Bosnia

By and others ⋅ January 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

The 20th Century’s Hidden Holocaust… A Worse Human Tragedy than Bosnia…? In some ways, yes – in today’s China. Perhaps 15 million female babies have ‘gone missing’ since China’s ‘one child policy’ was introduced in 1979. A group of American charity fund-raisers with concealed cameras has uncovered ‘silent slaughter’ on a massive scale – in […]

Where are the Tasmanian Aborigines?

By and others ⋅ May 23, 2002 ⋅ Post a comment

Cain said to his brother Abel, ‘Let us go out to the field.’ And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him. Then the Lord said to Cain, ‘Where is your brother Abel?’ He said, ‘I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?’ And the Lord […]

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