Theology
3 Blind Men And The Elephant
by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown There is an analogy to how differently we each understand or experience God in a classic story about three blind men and the elephant. As each of the three blind men are trying to understand exactly what the elephant is like, but experiencing different parts of the same thing. The […]
Landover Baptists
First: from a Jewish friend: Honestly, my jaw dropped! Meshuganeh goyim!!! http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ Are they for real or are puttin’ one on y’all? Rowland, you’re a Baptist, please explain? Les Brown ~~~ Then these responses: I went to the website and found, in small print at the bottom of their “Beliefs” page, that this website is […]
Questions For Fundamentalists
Questions to ask proselytizers From “Walk Away” … a place where former fundamentalists can read the stories of other people who have left fundamentalism behind. http://apocalypse.berkshire.net/~ifas/wa/proselytizers.html Extremists using biblical inerrancy dogmas have trained followers to inculcate and legislate their religion upon the rest of us. The practice of witholding relevant information until the victim has […]
Plimer On Noah And The Flood
Ian Plimer – ‘Telling Lies For God’ (Random House: Sydney,1994) ….. p.194 The generally accepted size of the ark is 155 metres long, 25 metres wide and 15 metres high and it was to contain three decks, a side-opening door and a one-cubit square window at the top. p. 104 It is fairly safe to […]
Original Sin
A Net friend wrote: Seems the dogma of original sin (like most of our theology) has a history. Very briefly and inadequately sumarised: The “original sin” as all are sinners from birth (or even from conception) and guilty, and need saving, is quite recent. And probably more to do with a defensive reaction of the […]
Jewish Beliefs
Sure, I believe in original sin and hell. Original sin is when a man listens to his wife. Hell is when he doesn’t These views are only my personal opinion btw, Judaism doesn’t believe in Original Sin. It does believe in hell. Les Brown (a Jew)
The Only Temptation
Matthew 4:1-11 We heard the sermon text earlier, from Matthew’s Gospel. Immediately after his baptism, “Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” The central word in this text is temptation. Fred Craddock, to whom I owe much in this sermon, says in almost any group you […]
Heaven And Hell
Heaven isn’t the place for the virtuous By: BRYAN PATTERSON Melbourne Herald-Sun September 2002 I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants — A. Whitney Brown EVERY good man wants to go to hell. Only bad men want to end up in heaven. The famed 19th […]
Tillich And Infidelity
Re Paul Tillich and infidelity, here’s the relevant bit from Eugene Peterson’s ‘The Wisdom of Each Other: A Conversation Between Spiritual Friends’ (Zondervan, 1998, pp.47-48) – a book worth reading. (I have multiple copies, if anyone’s interested): ‘I can appreciate the devastation you feel on discovering the false life of that pastor… you admired so […]
Gospel – Good News Or Jargon
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-196 (Leadership Issues) THE GOSPEL – GOOD NEWS OR JARGON? (From Christian Quotation of the Day) The defenders of the Jargon and phrases of the Church’s tradition hold that there must of necessity be a specialized vocabulary, just as there is in any other specialized form of human activity, whether it is […]
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