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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.

The words of Jesus

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 16, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

“Rowland Croucher” wrote: For the untutored (you lucky people): can we trust what the NT says about Jesus, and what Jesus said (about anything)? Mark responded: A good question. Yes, we can trust … but should we trust? or Yes we are ABLE to trust but it may not be the best for us to […]

Does God love the Devil?

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 15, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

“Rowland Croucher” wrote in message . Seriously, does God love the devil? To which someone asked: And your opinion on your own question would be? My response: A good teacher teaches *how* to think rather than *what* to think… However, since you’ve been very good here are three clues: 1. When asked to complete the […]

God’s Justice

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 15, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Preaching to the Rich and the Poor Oscar Romero Three short years transformed Archbishop Oscar Romero from a conservative defender of the status quo into one of the church’s most outspoken voices on behalf of the oppressed. But he always spoke to all the people of El Salvador, people supportive of the guerrillas as well […]

Are There Any Fundamentals in Christianity?

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 14, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

“Are There Any Fundamentals in Christianity?” From Peter Cameron’s “Fundamentalism and Freedom” (Doubleday, Sydney: 1995) pp 36 -42 ********************************************* The word ‘Fundamentals’ in this context – in the sense of certain doctrines or elements which are foundational to Christianity, and in the absence of which it would Cease to exist or at least no longer […]

The Word of God? (Spong)

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 14, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

The Word of God? “This is the word of the Lord” That is the liturgical phrase used in Christian churches to mark the end of a reading from the Bible. It is a strange, even a misleading, phrase. Yet Sunday after Sunday it is repeated, reinforcing in the psyches of worshipers a rather outdated attitude […]

Fundamentalism demonic?

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 8, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

from Peter Cameron’s “Fundamentalism and Freedom” (Doubleday, Sydney: 1995) p. 81 I have suggested that Fundamentalism is demonic. …Tillich (one of the theological triumvirate of the twentieth century) makes the same allegation on the first page of his magnum opus … Fundamentalists “confuse eternal truth with a temporal expression of the truth. … the theological […]

Obsolete KJV terms

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 6, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

http://users.clarkston.com/rcorson/Obsoletekjvterms.htm

Rowland Croucher on Pharisees

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 6, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

http://aibi.gospelcom.net/aibi/pharisee.htm

What’s wrong with fundamentalism?

By Rowland Croucher and others ⋅ June 5, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Mark Tindall has been offering a bunch of articles to these groups critiquing fundamentalism. Mark has declared his personal interest in all this: fundamentalists have, he feels, disempowered him as a God-follower and he’s angry about that. I’ve had the opposite experience with fundamentalists. I grew up with them. The first 21 years of my […]

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