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Recently, a large number of “statements” and discussions on the doctrine of Scripture written both from the “conservative” and from the “liberal” view have appeared. It is not the purpose of this pamphlet to deal with these. Its purpose is rather to deal with some quite striking differences between representative “evangelical” and Reformed...

Apologetic_Warrior

I want to take a look into a few different passages here to show how the apostle Peter continued to grow and press on as a believer in Christ rather than being discouraged and quit.

So many times in our Christian lives we go to a camp, experience a revival, or a experience revelation with God. We look at specific sins and say the we are going to give them up. Eventually, after time we fall right back into the things that we had swore we would no take part in. After committing these...

SaulofTarsus

Not a light show, or a fashion parade,
Nor an ad for the latest washing powder;
Not a psychic encounter with ghosts from the past –
But a sign that our world, with its foolish folk,
Its mountains of garbage and rivers of blood
Can take on the colour of God.

meliagaunt

A response to Brian McLaren's comment that conservative Christians often find themselves on the wrong side of truth.

The billy-goats gruff had to move,
And oh! how they feared that troll.
But when you're on the wrong side of that wooden bridge,
Get a move on: you could lose it all.

Galileo gazed into the sky,
And oh! how some churchmen raged.
But those who thought the Sun was whizzing round the Earth
Are a footnote in history's...

meliagaunt

'Mind and brain are the results of neurons - and nothing else.' (Times Leader, 9.5.94)

'Awareness is merely a feature of the complexity of an algorithm.' (view cited, though not agreed with, by Roger Penrose in 'The Emperor's New Mind')


They say the human mind is nothing more
than logic, just a neuron-fired machine.
Is that what sparks my soul, makes spirits soar?

When Billie sang the blues, with soul so raw
synapses firing...

meliagaunt