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Genesis 1

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Subject: Re: Evolution (was women in church) Date: 31 May 1999 21:57:45 GMT From: Chris Ho-Stuart <> Newsgroups: nz.soc.religion,aus.religion.christian Able <> wrote: > On 31 May 1999 07:30:02 GMT, Chris Ho-Stuart <> > wrote: > > I will get back to you on the neutral atmosphere latter Chris, I suggest we drop the atmosphere question. […]

Mosaic Authorship Of The Pentateuch?

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Subject: Re: Matthew/Josephus in Aramaic? Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 11:00:22 +1000 From: Gordon Coleman <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Chris, Chris Ho-Stuart wrote: > > Chris Ho-Stuart <> wrote: > > On point 3. Quite so again. Modern scholarship is not content to > > break the Torah into pieces to be analysed independently of each […]

Evangelicals And Doctrinal Agreement

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NEW YORK (AP, May 1999) – Leaders of Evangelical Protestantism, who rarely speak with one voice, have issued a joint statement of doctrine defining what unites the movement and what distinguishes it from other forms of Christianity. Among other things, the statement reaffirms the Evangelical belief that Jesus Christ “is the only way of salvation. […]

Synoptic Problem

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Subject: Re: Q Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:22:50 +1000 From: “Peter B. West” <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Nigel Mitchell wrote: > > I had promised to post on the subject of the Synoptic problem and the “Q” > hypothesis, but I have little time to spend on the newsgroup at the moment, and > also […]

Belief In God

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Subject: Belief in God Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:05:07 +0800 From: “Nigel Mitchell” <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion Hi, Chris. We apologise for this break in transmission, and now return you to normal programming. I wrote: >> If you ask me for a definition of “God”, I would answer in similar terms >> to Tillich and […]

Worried About Spong?

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Subject: Worried About Spong? Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:33:40 -0400 From: Delite <> Newsgroups: alt.religion.christian.episcopal,alt.christnet,aus.religion.christian Dear Folk, Over the last two – three years I’ve read a great deal of garbage in response to Bishop Spong’s criticism re fatal clinging to a literal readings of certain sections of the Bible. Examples of these sections […]

Spong – A Heretic?

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Subject: Re: Spong is a HERETIC Date: 27 Jun 1999 19:09:05 -0500 From: “Daniel Pflager” <> Newsgroups: alt.religion.christian.episcopal,alt.christnet,aus.religion.christian > excesses of the Roman Church. He did not change any central doctrine > of Christianity (trinity, Virgin Birth, Hell, atonement, heaven) That was HIS genius. > Spong is not impressed with the worldview of the Bible, […]

Authority And The Bible [A Liberal View]

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Subject: Re: Can someone explain to me… Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 8:48:00 +0800 From: “Nigel Mitchell” <> Newsgroups: aus.religion,aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion Andy: >>> And I say that's bollox. The foundation of your religion has homophobia as >>> a mandate. Do you understand that? The foundation, your bible, has >>> homophobia as a mandate – directly from […]

Belief In God [By A Liberal Christian]

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Subject: Re: Belief in God. (was People of Value & Forgiveness) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 9:15:06 +0800 From: “Nigel Mitchell” <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,nz.soc.religion Hi, Chris, Thanks for this. As happens so often, you show yourself to be more articulate and better informed than most of the Christians here (including me) in matters of faith. […]

Fundamentalism

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Subject: Re: Rowland Croucher's Integrity Date: 3 Jun 1999 11:17:40 GMT From: (Andrew Bromage) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian G'day all. Able wrote: >>> I for instance know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem..Nigel would >>> argue the toss about this. Does this make me a fundamentalist? On Thu, 03 Jun 1999 16:46:37 -1000, Rowland Croucher <> wrote: […]

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