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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.

Pentecostals

From: (Andrew Bromage) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: PENTECOST is a fake! Date: 18 Sep 1998 07:50:58 GMT G'day all. John Leister writes: >In my opinion the majority of the Pentecostal thing with the likes of >Benny Hinn and his ilk is a fake based largely on emotional >manipulation and greed. Sure God is still there […]

Luther And Inerrancy

From: (AJ) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Verbal Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 09:50:24 GMT On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:21:22 -1000, "Rowland C. Croucher" <> wrote: > >OK. Let's start with Luther. Evidence? A net search for Luther+inerrancy came up with the following. ================================================================================ Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 16:10:29 […]

The 39 Articles And The Creeds

From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Nigel: 39 Articles. Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 07:18:52 GMT On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:44:11 +1000, "Darren R Middleton" <> wrote: >… When I >was ordained as an Elder and again as a Minister I had to give my assent to >the WCF as an exhibition […]

Interpreting Genesis

From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Genesis 9:6 and Capital Punishment Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:47:57 GMT Hi, Darren, I suspect we are close to the gulf that separates the 'liberal' and 'conservative' world views and understanding of scripture here. You snipped most of the material in my post which I regard […]

New Testament Apocrypha

From: (Ken Smith) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: New Testament Apocrypha Date: 21 Aug 1998 06:52:26 GMT The general discussion about whether or not the Apocrypha are to be regarded as Scripture seems to have subsided. In one post I mnetioned that the Codex Sinaiticus contained some additional writings. I have just been to the UQ library […]

Faith And The Bible

Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:09:53 -1000 From: “Rowland C. Croucher” <> Subject: Faith and the Bible DavidH wrote: > > Hello all. > > I liked this post, it was well put. Which post? > > If anyone else agreed with it, I would like to ask the following questions: > > Given that […]

Discrepancies In The Bible

From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Verbal Plenary Inspiration of the Scriptures Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:13:18 GMT On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 17:12:12 +1000, David Grasby wrote: >As promised, here is the follow-up on Jesus' time of death. I found it >extremely amusing how no-one was willing to touch the subject […]

Was Jesus A Liberal?

One of the things that becoming a Dad has done is help focus my mind on questions like what sort of community do I want her to grow up in? Because the kind of community she grows up in will be a factor in shaping the kind of person she becomes. What sort of values […]

Infallible?

From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Graeme's 6 points – was The Apocrypha Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 01:44:28 GMT >On Sun, 09 Aug 1998 23:38:10 GMT, (Nigel B. >Mitchell) wrote: > > >>>Are they God breathed ? >>Yes, again. >> >>>without error? >>No > On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 00:54:27 GMT, (AJ) […]

Our Sins And Our Worth

From: “DavidH” <> Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion Subject: Re: NEWS: Sex and the Archbishop Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 16:23:56 +1000 Rowland C. Croucher wrote in message <>… >DavidH wrote: > ><> > >Pardon the intrusion, but just to make one point: > >> After all, the lives of each one of us are an abomination to […]