Theology
Who Are You Calling Liberal?
Despite the UCC’s resistance to use the word outright, ‘liberal’ often is used to describe us-even though a denomination-wide survey reveals that UCC members identify more readily as ‘conservative’ rather than ‘liberal.’ So how did this come to be? Are we really that liberal? By J. Bennett Guess October 2004 “As a denomination, the United […]
Universalism (yet again)
Rowland Croucher wrote: Here’s a topic I can’t remember our opening up here. G H Morling, the venerated principal of the NSW Baptist College, was apparently a convinced universalist. He would have been crucified for that in NSW if he didn’t have the patriarchal status he had. Another Baptist College principal (won’t say where) got […]
Universalism – another idea
From a friend: Perhaps another way of looking at this issue is to ask whether or not faith is a universal human condition. There is a school of thought, based on Luther, that suggests faith is universally present in each human person. It is even suggested that it has natural stages that can be correlated […]
Universalism (again)
Heard in New Zealand last week: ‘Pastor, are you a universalist?’ ‘No, but I wouldn’t be surprised if God is!’ More: http://jmm.org.au/articles/9157.htm http://jmm.org.au/articles/678.htm Shalom! Rowland Croucher http://jmm.org.au/ 13,000+ articles including 3000 clean jokes/stories!!!
Religion
A religion is defined as a system of attitudes, beliefs, and practices related to the supernatural, but what actually constitutes a religion is subject to much dispute in the field of theology and among ordinary people. … What do religions have in common? …. Two identifying features of most religions are that to some extent […]
Fundamentalism and the Grand Inquisitor
FUNDAMENTALISM (from Peter Cameron’s “Fundamentalism and Freedom” (Doubleday; Sydney: 1995.)pp 6-7 There is a story in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov about Christ coming back to earth during the time of the Spanish Inquisition. It’s called ‘The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor’, and in it Christ appears in Seville the day after a hundred heretics have […]
Life And How To Survive It
Robin Skinner & John Cleese “LIFE …and how to survive it” – (Methuen; London:1993) p. 270 – 271 John: So a religious idea will be interpreted by a person in a way that fits in best with their existing psychology? Robin: Yes, and it can therefore support them in functioning at the best level they’re […]
Things God Cannot Do
by Dave Miller, Ph.D. Both Christians and atheists generally have assumed that if the God depicted in the Bible exists, He can do anything-since He is represented as being all-powerful. However, this assumption is incorrect. The Bible does not claim that the omnipotence of God implies that He can do anything and everything. In reality, […]
Errors in the Bible – a sample
There are too many errors in the bible to fully list. This is a sample from http://www.answering-christianity.com/bible.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Can God be the author of confusion and contradiction? … ii) II Samuel 24 :1 says that God incited David to number Israel . I Chronicles 21:1 says that Satan incited David to number Israel. God and […]
What I Believed Ten Years Ago
Plus ca change! ~~~ Here’s an interesting bit of history: Google’s first archived article from me to a couple of Oz. religious Usenet groups. Message-ID: Fundamentalists vs. Liberals Part 2 Hi! My machine’s been at the computer-hospital, and I’ve come back to 18 responses to my post about Fundamentalists and Liberals… Interesting how cognitive dissonance […]
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