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Sabbath Discussion

BeeEs3 wrote: >> Sean McHugh <> wrote: >> >>> Fine Graeme. You say that the statement is nonsense. Looks like we >>> have a credibility gap. Let’s look at it: >> >>> Jesus said that just as Jonah had been in the belly of the whale for >>> three days and three nights, the Son […]

There Is No God – A Response

>>Hmmmm….You could seriously accept that the world sits on an elephants >>back??????? Or that a Kookaburra swallowed the moon and then was tricked >>into laughing it back into the sky. Gee and I thought you were >>intelligent but then again some people still actually believe this >>stories and actually want Dreamtime stories taught in our […]

6 Paradigm Shifts In Christian History: What Were/Are They?

Rowland C. Croucher <> wrote: >Reading the other thread re Paradigm Shift/s revived a question: Hans >Kung somewhere writes that there were six major paradigm shifts in >Christian history. I presume one of them happened at the Protestant >Reformation. I have a hunch or two about some others… > >And today I believe we’re in […]

Millennium, Messiahs, And Mayhem

Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements Eds. Thomas Robbins and Susan J. Palmer, Routledge, New York, 1997. I recently had an idea for a film (don’t we all). It begins on the roof of a small Baptist church somewhere in the wheat-growing plains of Western New South Wales in Australia. A group of people […]

The Virgin Mary And Her Little Lambs

You’ve no doubt heard about the Virgin Mary’s ‘appearances’ at various, non-virtual sites all over the world. But did you know that she is also gracing Australia with her presence? Several hundred Australians have conglomerated around a woman called Debra Gilesky, who claims to be often visited by Mary and Jesus, in a small Queensland […]

Paradigm Shifts

Steve Hayes is replying to Steve Hayes, who wrote to All on 16 Feb 98 12:52:07: SH> From: “Rowland C. Croucher” <> SH> Subject: Major Christian Paradigm Shifts: what were they? SH> Date: 9 Feb 1998 22:51:33 -0500 SH> SH> Hans Kung somewhere writes that there were six major paradigm shifts SH> in Christian history. […]

Jws: A Pastoral Problem – Ideas?

Rowland C. Croucher wrote: > > Hello Rowland. My name is Jim and I'm a pastor. I have a friend whose > > mother is a Jehovah's Witness. She is heading for possible surgery > > within the next month and (being the “good” JW she is) has said, “NO > > BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS!!” > […]

Jesus And Paul

better to remain single as I am; but if you would burn in the flesh, you should marry”? What really did drive him? Did he cause a split in the early church (or even a schism); and was it ever healed? Was he convinced that The End was very near? Why didn’t Jesus give any […]

Original Sin

From: “Peter B. West” Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Original Sin (was Re: Warning: J.E. van den brink) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 00:49:48 +1000 Michael Smith wrote: > …. > Before discussing “Original Sin” it might be wise to define some terms. > > When Adam and Eve first sinned, in Eden, they introduced sin […]

Credo

————————-My Beliefs——————————- Credo I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator and Sustainer of heaven and earth, and of all that is, or ever was, or ever will be, whether visible or invisible. I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, the Redeemer, of one Being with the Father. Through […]