Archive for the '-Bible Issues' Category
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
In Plano, Texas you can get a discount on your oil change at Kwik Kar for reciting a Bible verse -John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. KJV The practice has become controversial and several [...]
Filed under: Bible, Christian living, Christian Witness, USA
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Monday, August 29th, 2011
There is a prevailing trend in mainline Protestantism to disregard the authority of the Bible and view it as merely a fabrication of people writing their own opinions while being somewhat inspired by some sort of outside cosmic source that one might refer to as divine. Therefore when folks like the Apostle Paul seem to [...]
Filed under: -Atheism, -Bible Issues, -Christology, Christianity, Europe, The Bible, Theology
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Iranian authorities recently seized and destroyed 6,500 copies of the Bible. It is the latest demonstration of an on-going campaign in Iran to capture and eradicate all Bibles in the country. They consider the book to be a subversive threat against Islam and the very existence of their nation. According to Dr Majid Abhari, adviser [...]
Filed under: -Freedom of Religion, -New Testament, Bible, Culture & Religion, Iran, Islam, Revival
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
(Bob Kerrey Bridge via Wikipedia) Omaha,NE: Omaha-area Christian ministers plan to reach out and apologize to the gay community by official proclamation on Wednesday. The Rev. Eric Elnes, minister at Countryside Community Church, said the proclamation was created because many mainline Christian leaders like himself: “were just fed up with the popular notion that [...]
Filed under: -Bible Issues, -Homosexual Lifestyle, -Marriage, American Church, Culture & Religion, Ordination of Gays, Prejudice
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Friday, June 10th, 2011
Islamabad, Pakistan: A radical Pakistani political party, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, on Friday called for a ban on the Bible in Pakistan. Maulana Abdur Raoof Farooqi, a leader in the party claimed that the Bible: “contains blasphemous passages that are a cause of humiliation for Muslims”. Farooqi said that his party wants the Chief Justice of [...]
Filed under: -Freedom of Religion, -Persecution, -Sharia Law, Bible, Islamist Radicals, Pakistan
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
(Getty Images via @daylife) May 21 came and went without any announcement by Harold Camping. We are still here but now he is claiming that the real date was October 21 all along and May21 was just the beginning of the end: “We’ve always said October 21 was the day. The only thing we [...]
Filed under: -Bible Issues, -End Times, -Eschatology
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Saturday, May 21st, 2011
(Getty Images via @daylife) Today while I was at my grandson’s little league game I over heard several parents talking about Camping’s unfortunate prediction of the end of days. They were laughing about it and were putting together plans for a ‘Rapture party’ tonight. Then this evening I turned on the TV just in [...]
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