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The Pursuing Father [Part 1]
What we need to know about this often misunderstood Middle Eastern parable. Kenneth E. Bailey I was stunned! It was 1958 in Jerusalem. A British scholar and churchman, Dr. Kenneth Cragg, was lecturing on the Muslim-Christian debates of the Middle Ages. He had just pointed out that the Muslim scholars of the period loved to […]
The Pursuing Father [Part 2]
But what of his father? The father knows his son will fail. He waits day after day, staring down the crowded village street to the road in the distance along which his son disappeared with arrogance and high hopes. The father realizes full well how his son will be welcomed in the village when he […]
Isaiah 7:14 – Calvin’s Interpretation
Subject: Re: Isaiah 7:14 Date: 21 Jun 1999 07:27:03 GMT From: Chris Ho-Stuart <> Newsgroups: alt.bible,alt.bible.prophecy,aus.religion,aus.religion.christian [alt.christnet groups trimmed] In aus.religion.christian Able <> wrote: > For anyone seeking an indepth study of Isaiah 7, > > http://ccel.wheaton.edu/calvin/comment2/is1-20.htm > > It clearly demonstrates from the Hebrew how the simplistic ideas > expressed here by both Jew […]
The God Breathed Book
"For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after […]
Tongues – Pro And Con
From: “Nigel Mitchell” <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Tongues – until Chris leaves again Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:51:36 +0800 I wrote: >>Chris, >>Why do you persist in misrepresenting the Bible? Christian Graus wrote in message <>… >I have been ignoring the fact that you continue to do so based on past >exchanges, but I […]
Hit Over The Head With A Spirit Level
– Nathan Nettleton Amos 7:7-17 and Luke 10:25-37 (A visual illusion is displayed in which two identical lines appear to be different lengths). If you’ve seen this before, please don’t yell out the answer, but for the rest of you, which of the two short horizontal lines on the screen is the shorter? But when […]
Kjv Onlyism
Subject: Re: Kjv gods word & KJV ONLYISM Date: 23 Jan 1999 04:29:13 GMT From: (Andrew Bromage) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian G'day all. wrote: >> “It is also well known among students of textual criticism >> that a large majority of this huge mass of manuscripts- >> somewhere between 80-90% – contain a Greek text which in […]
The Song Of Solomon And The Erotic
Subject: Re: God Likes Erotic Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 05:23:02 GMT From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian I wrote: >>The two people who speak with such sensuality about their physical and >>emotional love in the Song are not married. They have to sneak off into the >>vineyards or smuggle each other into their rooms […]
Mary Magdalene: Author Of The Fourth Gospel?
Subject: Re: Mary Magdalene: Author of the Fourth Gospel? Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 01:09:59 GMT From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian This idea has been around for a very long time. It is possible, but unlikely, that Mary Magdalene was the author of the last gospel. The fact is, no-one can be entirely certain […]
Who Wrote What In The New Testament?
Subject: Re: Mary Magdalene: Author of the Fourth Gospel? Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:30:31 GMT From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 07:58:21 GMT, (Graeme) wrote: >I'm not getting into a discussion on authorship as I am quite >satisfied with the long-held view that Matthew wrote Matthew, Mark >wrote Mark […]
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