Date sent: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:20:21 -0700 From: Laurie Lalko <> To: Subject: Healing On the subject of why some are not healed, I think there are some more pertinent points we should consider. First, God is not like some great ATM machine in the sky: pray and get good things. If we are […]
From: Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Toronto blessing Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 05:16:22 GMT In article <3670c7f6.210>, wrote: > Can anyone tell me if the Toronto blessing is still active? > Ed, Like all so-called “moves of God”, it has died out to some extent, and left remnants, pockets of adherents, around the place. These […]
THE ORTHODOX APPROACH TO TRUTH When, by God’s mercy, I found the Orthodox Faith, I had no desire to give Protestantism and its “methods” of Bible study a second look. Unfortunately, I have found that Protestant methods and assumptions have managed to infect even some circles within the Orthodox Church. The reason for this is, […]
Steve Cooper talks to Rod Benson Steve Cooper leaves Queensland this month (December 1997) for the cool tranquillity of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales. Rod Benson caught up with him as he prepared to depart after six years in the provincial city of Ipswich (in Queensland, Australia). RB: Steve, you moved from New […]
Thomas F. Fischer, M.Div., M.S.A. Number 263 Perhaps the greatest renewal in the Church since first century was the Reformation. As a movement it changed the Church in ways that virtually no previous phenomenon had. Certainly the Reformation was a unique action used by God for His purposes of furthering the Gospel. What things characterized […]
From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Verbal Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:34:07 GMT In , (Ken Smith) wrote: >It would be more accurate, IMHO, to say that these people distort the >obvious meaning, application and sense of various passages to try to >get over what is, essentially, […]
From: (Ken Smith) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Credo (revised) Date: 27 Aug 1998 22:20:56 GMT Following multiple requests from AJ for a statement of what I believe, here it is. Those of you who read it several months ago when I first posted it won’t notice much difference. Following a suggestion from Rowland I have put […]
From: (Ken Smith) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: The New Birth. Date: 11 Nov 1998 01:55:31 GMT (Nigel B. Mitchell) writes: >In <36480941.1140>, > (St.Athanasius) wrote: >>Dear Able, g'day and welcome aboard, I feel the numbers against me in >>this one are going to increase. I have stuck my head out and maybe >>someone will chop […]
From: Chris Ho-Stuart <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Equidistant Letter Sequences in Genesis Date: 4 Nov 1998 01:21:05 GMT In this essay, I will attempt to explain what Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg found in their now famous statistical science paper.[1] I will try to explain why their work is taken more seriously than that of other […]
From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: The Apocrypha Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:44:46 GMT One of the reasons that some Christians like to exclude the Apocrypha from their Bibles is that the apocryphal books give the lie to the popular Christian notion that Judaism in the time of Jesus had become a spiritually […]