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All Scripture is God-breathed…

February 24th, 2008 · 11 Comments

One verse often quoted, 2 Timothy 3:16 (NIV):
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
This was also quoted during the “Foundations 1″ course from Shofar that I attended on 27 January 2008, resulting in an interesting (private) conversation at the end of the session. I was curious what [...]

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How to Read the Bible - Rerun

January 28th, 2008 · 8 Comments

My favourite Christian blogger is still Real Live Preacher. His input (general posts on his blog, as well as the odd email) helped me significantly on my journey last year. If you’d like to see some of the posts of his I really like, see RLP on Indoctrination and Some RLP Highlights. I’m not sure [...]

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What Would Jesus Do?

November 6th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Do you know what Jesus would not be doing? He would not be asking “What Would Jesus Do?” As soon as you ask yourself that question, you are already not doing what Jesus would do. I’m not saying that it is a bad thing or a good thing, I’m just pointing out something I find [...]

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The Problem with Diversity

October 27th, 2007 · 9 Comments

There is one serious problem, or danger rather, with communication media like the Internet. It is absolutely brilliant how it can bring such vastly diverse groups of people together, but there is something fundamentally dangerous about that two-edged sword.

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Ancient Religious Texts

March 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments

No matter what viewpoint you have on the collection of books known as “The Holy Bible”, it definitely had, and still has, an indisputable effect on western culture. It is then not at all surprising that in fictitious futuristic settings in some sci-fi novels, despite religion being banned, the Bible is still studied in schools, [...]

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