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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.

(In Defense Of) Fundamentalism

Subject: Fundamentalism Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 05:59:38 GMT From: (Graeme Hunt) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 05:10:15 GMT, (Troy Harris) wrote: >On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 08:26:12 +1000, “J.P.H.” < > wrote: > >>>What is cultic about these simple facts? >> >>The fact that they are ‘used’ to disredit the reliability of […]

What (Southern) Baptists Believe

Subject: Re: Baptist Difference? Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 18:59:24 -0500 From: "drdave" Organization: Airnews.net! at Internet America Newsgroups: alt.religion.christian.baptist Ah Rowland — Being from a saner part of the world you haven't had the privilege of encountering my own former sect — the Southern Baptists. They would disagree slightly with your babdis (as we […]

Authority And Infallibility

Subject: Re: Why do you believe the bible? Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:27:50 GMT From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Nigel: >>Hi, Joan. >> >>Firstly, I do not know your position, because you seem to only be able to >>express it in single sentences, some of which are very cryptic. Graeme: >Maybe she is […]

Christian Feminism

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR OF THE WORD ACCORDING TO EVE. In his new book, The Word According to Eve, Cullen Murphy explores the revolutionary implications of feminism’s encounter with religion "The Bible is famous for being the world’s most overstudied book," Cullen Murphy writes in the foreword to The Word According to Eve: Women […]

Infallibility

Subject: Re: Why do you believe the bible? Date: 25 Oct 1999 23:47:21 GMT From: (Ken Smith) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian I wonder if I can put the present differences of opinion in a nutshell, by asking a short question, which could get us far afield into a discussion of interpretation. (Nigel B. Mitchell) writes: >Do you […]

Jesus Was Human

Subject: Re: Was Jesus afraid? Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:53:04 -0500 From: "Scott" Organization: CENTURYinter.net Newsgroups: alt.christnet.theology Simon Woo wrote in message news:37ef2603.18338210… > Perhaps somebody can try to answer this question? Before Jesus was > crucified, he sounded afraid as he asked his God why He has forsaken > him. But Jesus knows […]

News: Armageddon

Almost half of Americans believe the world will end in a battle. Forty percent of all Americans and 45% of Christians believe there will be a final battle between Jesus Christ and the Anti-Christ at Armageddon, a Newsweek survey found. The poll of 755 adults shows that 71% of evangelical Protestants, 28% of nonevangelicals, and […]

Post-Modern Paradigm

The brilliant 20th. c. scholar and theologian Paul Tillich, in his book "Theology and Culture" (New York and Oxford, 1964), p. 129 writes: – The concept of a "Personal God" interfering with natural events, or being "an independent cause of natural events," makes God a natural object beside others, an object among others, a being […]

Hebrew Grammar

Subject: Re: Especially for Nigel (and Chris Ho-Stuart): Christ the creator Date: 4 Oct 1999 22:31:29 GMT From: (Ken Smith) Organization: University of Queensland Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian A minor comment about Hebrew grammar. (Graeme Hunt) writes: >On 30 Sep 1999 05:53:04 GMT, Chris Ho-Stuart > wrote: >>I am interested that you use "through" rather than "by" […]

Taking On The Fundamentalists

Subject: Re: A Fundamental Complacency? Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:15:10 +0100 From: "Tim Jones" Organization: GXSN Newsgroups: uk.religion.christian Richard Emblem wrote in message… >In article , xha10 (Dave Hyden) writes: > >>The well known astrophysicist Carl Sagan wrote:- >> >> But in parallel to the many scientists who seem reluctant to >> debate pseudo-science, […]