Theology
The value of knowledge
From a friend: ….. Let’s avoid getting tied up in cute little knots as if words are the cause and the solution to every challenge we face. While we wrestle with our words, we can be too easily distracted from ministry opportunites that could lead to people coming into wholeness in Jesus. If this happens […]
The doctrine of God
Classical theism, the reigning doctrine of God in Christendom, affirms that God is void of body, parts, passions, even compassion, wholly simple, wholly immutable, independent, immaterial, the supreme cause and never the effect. What creatures have, God does not. I challenge this doctrine, on four grounds. First, I find it unbiblical. Now, in so saying, […]
THOUGHTS TO PONDER
(From a netfriend): “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” – Albert Einstein “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei “A casual stroll through the lunatic asylums shows that […]
Cults
Eight Distinctives Of An Aberrational Christian or Bible-based Group from http://www.neirr.org/s7-aber2.html … it is more accurately the gravitation towards high-control, authoritarian leadership structures that actually make a group “aberrant”. In describing this tendency towards spiritual totalitarianism, one could accurately depict the methodology in terms of it’s visible manifestation, as does Steve Hassan in his BITE […]
Peter Cameron’s Fundamentalism and Freedom
From a netfriend: From Peter Cameron’s “Fundamentalism and Freedom” (Doubleday; Sydney: 1995) p. 10 ff ############################################################# They will be fearful in the face of any challenge to their security and brutal in their reaction; they will seek to bolster their security by persuading others of its validity.; and those others will be persuaded because of […]
Frederick Buechner – Love Feast
Frederick Buechner “Love Feast” ( Chato & Windus; London:1975) p. 6 He said, “It’s like Christopher Columbus, Antonio. To discover the New World you have top scrap the Old.” p 60 The kingdom of God is a love feast where nobody’s a stranger. pp. 154 -155 I caught him by surprise. A Preacher talking about […]
Christian vs. Cultish thinking
From a netfriend: KEY: (CHRISTIAN) Content Which Is Biblical – (CULT) Content Which Is Authoritarian (CHRISTIAN) Teaches/matures – (CULT) Indoctrinates / clones ############################### 1. Leaders open to questions and discuss them – Unquestioning obedience / Leaders do not discuss questions 2. Truth is the bottom line – Love and loyalty are the bottom line 3. […]
Visions
‘There is no record in the Bible of a vision that is simply to be enjoyed for its own sake. Word of God is the characteristic phrase, not vision of God for this very reason. For a Word is active: it is to be heard and obeyed. So it was with the young Isaiah’s vision […]
Cloning the Son of God?
Several years ago, several news agencies reported the efforts of a group to clone Jesus Christ. The goal of this group was best stated in their own words: “The Second Coming Project is a not-for-profit organization devoted to bringing about the Second Coming of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, as prophesied in the Bible, in time […]
Let Us Christians Unite In Our Strengths!
God is complete light – ‘in Him there is no darkness at all’. God is pure light, so I like to think of God rather like a magnificent prism, a diamond, or a crystal. As you display a prism to the light, literally thousands of colors radiate from it, depending on how it turns and […]
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