Theology
Baptists and Freedom
One poster wrote: In a way it seems quite ironic that we would have Baptists defending the placing of a flag on the coffin in a Christian funeral. Another responded: No more ironic, perhaps, than Baptists defending the rights of atheists not to believe. The first replied: I’m not sure if that was meant to […]
Top Ten Truths That Shape My Teaching
Late night comedian, David Lettermen, has made a living off the popularity of Top Ten lists. I offer the following “Top Ten Experiential Truths That Shape My Teaching” in order to highlight a few things I find essential to faithfully following Christ. (By the way, the doctrinal content I find essential is summarized in the […]
Hell
“God does not condemn us to Hell; God wishes all humans to be saved. He will love us to all eternity, but there will exist the possibility that we do not accept the love and do not respond to it. And the refusal to accept love, the refusal to respond to it, that precisely is […]
God and Evil
From a netfriend: It seems to me that if evil is the absence of God then our understanding of Jesus as the incarnation of God might be undermined. As I understand it, evil is part of our experience of existence. The potential for evil is inherent in every aspect of our existence. Every good thing, […]
John Dominic Crossan and the Historical Jesus
[Note from Rowland. This is posted for information/study. These ideas are much more radical than mine. As with many articles on this website, we are encouraging one another to explore the faith more maturely, to come to reasoned conclusions. Watch for some forthcoming articles from my reading on the Christology of Jesus]. Jesus’ resurrection is […]
Tragedies provide chance to respond in faith
Commentary: Tragedies provide chance to respond in faith Feb. 22, 2005 A UMNS Commentary By the Rev. William O. “Bud” Reeves* The images from Southeast Asia are horrific: entire towns washed away, shorelines laid bare, mountains of dead bodies. Can our minds even conceive a disaster taking 150,000 lives? Only four months ago we were […]
God and Jesus
A netfriend asked: For a start, could you please tell me why I _need_ God? I responded: One reason: ‘cos God says you need him (cf analogies of medical expertise and physical symptoms etc.). Mark’s response: If God is the Ground of all being and “in Him we live and move and have our being” […]
Catholics and Fundamentalism
Fundamentalists by PETER KREEFT …. Even though many fundamentalists think the Catholic Church is under the control of Satan and all or most Catholics are headed for hell, not all think that – and we shouldn’t think the same of them. …. Sometimes you even find fundamentalists claiming divine inspiration for the King James version! […]
The Sandemanians
One poster wrote: The name of Michael Faraday is known to scientists and students everywhere. He was a British physical scientist whose discoveries contributed much to our knowledge of electricity. … When Faraday was dying someone asked him, “Mr. Faraday, what are your presumptions, your hypotheses now?” “I do not entrust my head to presumptions […]
Freedom
from Franky Schaeffer “Sham Pearls For Real Swine” ( Wolgemuth & Hyatt; Brentwood:1990) [Francis Schaeffer’s son] Sir Winston Churchill coined the phrase “sham pearls for real swine” in refernce to the Britiush public school (private prep school to Americans) he attended. He said of the teaching there that it was a place “where sham pearls […]
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