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Diversity vs Orthodoxy
The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture’s Fascination With Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity, by Andreas J. Köstenberger and Michael J. Kruger booknews.com explains: “New Testament scholars Köstenberger (Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) and Kruger (Reformed Theological Seminary, North Carolina) challenge the pluralist and postmodernist purveyors of religious diversity who claim that orthodoxy was […]
Sweet baby Jesus, no crying he makes. Really?
I love people like Richard Rohr who are so warm and Christlike, and who just say it as it is. I am tired of the way Christians have gone along with the sanitised ‘sweet baby Jesus, no crying he makes’ version of Christmas that we have been fed. The reality is far from that. Let […]
If we are Christians, why are we sad at death?
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com If Jesus is coming back to renew all things and we will be reunited with loved ones who have died, why are we sad when they die? Shouldn’t we be glad that we will see them again? Such an attitude reflects a denial of the reality of life as it […]
THREE WAYS TO READ THE BIBLE
The three books reviewed here are excellent examples of how one branch of the Christian church reads its sacred book – the Bible – and may be ignorant of  other ways of approaching the Scriptures. The Evangelical/Holiness method is practised during one’s daily ‘Quiet Time’ (in what Catholics have traditionally termed the ‘oratory’) where one […]
Translation Problems in the KJV New Testament
Copyrighted 2000 by Theodore H. Mann Contents: Introduction Basic difficulties The development of the Textus Receptus Which Version of the KJV? Printing errors which have never been corrected Differences between the 1611 version and the modern KJV Passages in the KJV having no Greek manuscript support A few passages not appearing in any of the […]
King James Bible
Like me, probably most of you who are over-40/50 were brought up with the KJV A brilliant translation, which had a powerful effect on the culture of British and English-speaking people A couple of things surprise me sometimes: 1. Many conservative folks are stuck there, rather than benefiting from some of the excellent modern translations. […]
CAN WE HOPE FOR JUSTICE IN A WORLD WITHOUT GOD?
By Neil Ormerod ABC RELIGION AND ETHICS | 17 NOV 2010 JUSTICE REQUIRES THAT ACCOUNTS BE SETTLED AT THE END OF THE DAY. BUT IT MUST NOT SIMPLY BE A MATTER OF PUNITIVE JUSTICE, BUT ALSO OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE. Let me begin on a positive note. While I have all sorts of problems with many […]
F F BRUCE: The Real Jesus
I’ve been devouring the easy-to-read books by this man (he wrote more than 40) for over 50 years. I’ve heard him speak only once (to a remarkably small meeting in Melbourne, sometime, I think, in the 1980s). He’s a far better writer than speaker. A quick check of the John Mark Ministries website and my […]
The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus
What’s this strange story in Luke 16 really about? In a brilliant article on The Rich Man and Lazarus by Australian theologian Thorvald Lorenzen (Expository Times 1975 – http://ext.sagepub.com/content/87/2/39.full.pdf or go to a theological library for a free view) asks: ‘What was the rich man’s sin? Not that he was rich! Not that he had […]
Young adults abandon the church
The Leavers: Young Doubters Exit the Church More than in previous generations, 20- and 30- somethings are abandoning the faith. Why? Drew Dyck | posted 11/19/2010 10:13AM Some striking mile markers appear on the road through young adulthood: leaving for college, getting the first job and apartment, starting a career, getting marriedâ€â€and, for many people […]
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