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» 16/06/2011 2:08:02 PM Philo Perhaps you should read my post again. There is no reference to "Jesus' teachi.....
» 16/06/2011 6:27:17 AM Philo Your question doesnt make sense. What is your point?.....
» 15/06/2011 10:42:30 AM Sells I think what your daughters and students are trying to tell you is that, notwithsta.....
» 10/12/2010 5:46:28 PM AJ Two observations: Even if science might one day explain everything... thats not much .....
» 10/12/2010 10:27:45 AM P I totally agree with you that religions should not be exempt from taxes or from complia.....
» 9/12/2010 6:40:13 PM Priscillian If I understand Sells correctly he shares your distrust of belief in the supe.....
» 9/12/2010 5:50:09 PM AJ Do you believe that science is able to reveal all that there is to know about life?.....
» 6/05/2010 3:05:35 PM Athanasius Yes! Thanks to Sells articles, those of us who read them are now well aware of.....
» 1/05/2010 10:45:21 AM This article is symptomatic of Pete's triune neurosis. It begins with a denial of the esse.....
» 7/01/2010 7:36:02 AM David F "I will use the definition of faith that most people seem to have." So.....
» 6/01/2010 8:36:13 PM davidf Im not sure I understand your post at all. You still seem to be assuming that fait.....
» 5/01/2010 8:58:49 PM David F You said: "However, an atheist is not a nihilist. We generally accept that th.....
» 28/12/2009 11:35:19 PM Sells You clearly have a strong sense of the role of the Church in propagating the narrat.....
» 22/12/2009 6:25:46 PM Packman Sells knowledge of Biblical Criticism might be more extensive than is revealed by.....
» 15/12/2009 12:41:30 PM Sells said 'This is why modernity is the enemy of faith, not because it exposes faith as .....
» 1/11/2009 12:20:42 AM OUG In Gen 7 Noah is instructed to take "two of every kind" of animal "a m.....
» 28/10/2009 10:10:59 PM Sells You seem to have no comprehension of any view but your own. By all means discuss Tr.....
» 6/09/2009 12:21:32 AM Sells There is a view that says Barth’s rejection of the analogia entis followed from a fu.....
» 5/09/2009 10:43:15 AM Sells Father is an image used for God in the New Testament. As such it is metaphorical la.....
» 4/09/2009 11:33:23 PM Sells Why does this topic, more than any other, elicit such intemperate language from you?.....
» 4/09/2009 9:06:54 AM George Your point about the French, German and Slav languages shows that the problem of f.....
» 3/09/2009 8:05:43 PM Oliver You said '... Science and Religion both employ “faith” and “intuition” and owing t.....
» 2/09/2009 8:49:17 PM Jim Sounds like your 'theological' tastes would run more to something like the Greek pant.....
» 2/09/2009 12:56:52 PM George It was certainly not my intention to 'mock' the Gospels but rather to make a point.....
» 1/09/2009 8:52:49 AM Dan You have avoided dealing directly with my discussion of miracles. What makes an even.....
» 1/09/2009 7:41:24 AM Dan In my experience evangelical Christians appear to be predisposed to making extravagan.....
» 30/08/2009 8:28:20 PM Dan You might note that miracles are not discussed in the Bible in the context of the vio.....
» 25/08/2009 11:04:18 AM George What I am saying is that Christendom was not a necessary precondition. Classical G.....
» 24/08/2009 11:11:45 PM George My background is,of course,in the protestant tradition and its no news to suggest .....
» 24/08/2009 7:43:33 AM George Naturally Im playing devil's advocate here and I fully appreciate the difficulties.....
» 23/08/2009 10:19:20 AM Without doubt science has progressed most rapidly in the western world where Christianity .....
» 19/08/2009 9:13:31 AM Jayb, Bushbasher, Grim As you have pointed out so succintly, science has a simple, useful.....
» 6/07/2009 11:57:56 AM Shadow I would say that it is not possible to live without 'suspending rationality' on a .....
» 4/07/2009 4:55:24 PM Shadow I dont think Sells is advocating 'recklessness' or the abandonment of work place s.....
» 3/06/2009 10:21:40 AM Sells ended this article by admonishing us all to 'join a church' in order to 'make a diff.....
» 1/06/2009 6:49:21 PM Sells You've got me there! As entertainment, my realised eschatology certainly is pretty.....
» 1/06/2009 9:15:38 AM Boxgum I am sure you are right that Sells did not intend to say that anyone was less than.....
» 31/05/2009 10:38:22 AM Sells At the heart of every proselytising religion is the belief that it is right and eve.....
» 30/05/2009 2:00:30 PM Sells Your 'argument' implies that non-Christians are less than fully human. It appears .....
» 25/05/2009 10:06:17 AM Oliver I hope I made myself quite clear that body and 'soul' are not able to be separated.....
» 21/05/2009 6:07:44 PM Individualised! I wish you could edit your posts here. In some forums you can edit your ol.....
» 21/05/2009 6:04:30 PM UOG Thank you! I think you've just illustrated my last point and perhaps also my point ab.....
» 19/05/2009 8:06:27 PM Oliver According to Christian orthodoxy Jesus was fully human ie in every possible way th.....
» 14/05/2009 6:49:16 PM Ox2 This is not for you,for obvious reasons. The texts from John that O2 has so carefully.....
» 14/05/2009 5:53:47 AM Opinionated "Did your seminary teach you "do not judge others"… " Dis.....
» 13/05/2009 10:15:35 AM O2 Seems you are the ignorant one! Biblical inerrancy is not taught in the mainstream sem.....
» 9/05/2009 2:21:32 PM Opiniated “Your definition of "Personal spirituality" is simply wrong.” I didn.....
» 7/05/2009 10:30:07 PM Opinionatedx2 I may be cynical and I might even be wrong.... How about you? If 'personal.....
» 6/05/2009 3:26:12 PM Opinionated2 You said "Faith has much more to do with personal spirituality than the .....
» 6/05/2009 3:14:22 PM Sells No doubt the disciples 'experience' of the resurrection is best described as subjec.....
» 2/05/2009 3:51:32 PM under one god Im confused. Is this some sort of parody? What little sense I can make of y.....
» 14/04/2009 11:40:22 AM Sells "The Trinity is the single concept that functions as an interpretive framework .....
» 9/04/2009 5:49:37 PM Trav The trouble with the Church, and people like Sells, is that they believe they have a.....
» 8/04/2009 12:39:29 PM Sells I particularly like your thin/thick narrative metaphor. Christianity certainly prov.....
» 4/04/2009 11:04:41 PM JohnJ "I'm inclined to agree with you Waterboy, but I guess my view is that Liberalis.....
» 4/04/2009 11:08:33 AM JohnJ "Still no comment from any "Liberal Protestants"? Just the atheists a.....
» 14/03/2009 2:15:12 PM George Thanks for the Geometric analogy... unparalleled in this discussion... Im sure. Bu.....
» 12/03/2009 6:37:18 AM Daviy In this case Marshall is wrong. The point is that Jesus did NOT teach an 'interna.....
» 7/03/2009 7:02:36 PM Believin' Pete So you BELIEVE that Judges should be paid nothing and should be absolutely.....
» 5/03/2009 9:46:51 AM Oliver “Attic Greek” usually refers to the form of Greek used in Athens (Attica) in the c.....
» 3/03/2009 2:10:30 PM Daviy In case you hadn't noticed, I was referring to the Greek New Testament and not to a.....
» 3/03/2009 7:56:27 AM Daviy You’ve chosen your counter-examples very poorly indeed. Your first mistake was choo.....
» 2/03/2009 9:49:17 AM Believing Peter What is your point? Do you support "Separation of Church and State&q.....
» 1/03/2009 9:29:21 PM Daviy Any faith based on 'internal processes' without 'external' manifestations would be .....
» 27/02/2009 7:13:52 PM Im reluctant to admit it but there is a certain mount of evidence in the responses to this.....
» 26/02/2009 12:25:36 PM Daviy "Nothing is good or bad save that it is thought to be so. Music and words have.....
» 25/02/2009 4:56:18 PM Daviy If that's a problem to you then what are the implications for you that words and la.....
» 23/02/2009 8:16:15 PM Crabsy I like what you are saying. Symbol, narrative, music etc help us to move beyond th.....
» 23/02/2009 6:08:13 PM Sells Yes, I think you have made that point well and I stand corrected. My question was,.....
» 19/02/2009 8:56:11 PM If Sells believes that atheists are just knocking down straw men of their own creation the.....
» 16/02/2009 2:34:50 PM Oliver If you read my posts carefully and consider the philosophical references then you .....
» 16/02/2009 10:36:06 AM Bushbasher The tone of your last post was somewhat strident and not really in keeping wit.....
» 14/02/2009 6:05:33 PM Bushbasher Its not merely a question of vocabulary. God is the appropriate word for my pu.....
» 13/02/2009 5:36:02 PM Thank you Grim What you say is true. It wasnt my intention to reject initiative. Our firs.....
» 13/02/2009 1:59:04 PM Bushbasher/Adam You both seem concerned, and rightly so, to preserve objectivity as a key.....
» 11/02/2009 9:34:33 PM Much of this debate appears to revolve around the notion that belief means giving intellec.....
» 8/01/2009 9:46:35 PM David Each of our senses 'distorts' information about the reality around us in one way or.....
» 7/01/2009 12:07:12 PM George The beauty of metaphorical language is that it allows for interpretation through m.....
» 6/01/2009 10:34:39 AM George I have the greatest respect for your thoughtful and generous approach to theology......
» 6/01/2009 10:19:40 AM Ive been away a few days and what a fascinating turn this conversation has taken! My tak.....
» 2/01/2009 9:12:31 AM George Reading your latest post I am struck by the fact that protestant doctrine is Jesus.....
» 1/01/2009 11:50:55 PM George The idea of opposing forces is clearly an analogy from physics and while it sugges.....
» 31/12/2008 5:25:42 PM Relda Im not entirely sure that Plato is relevant here unless Pauls meeting with Jesus wa.....
» 31/12/2008 9:22:50 AM Relda Whoever the'Circumcision Party'were it is evident from the internal evidence that .....
» 28/12/2008 11:11:38 PM Polycarp We find throughout Paul's writings repeated defensive statements that he is 'not.....
» 28/12/2008 10:44:00 PM Relda Thank you for an interesting post. Im not entirely sure what you mean by 'traditio.....
» 27/12/2008 10:07:03 PM George Im not very familiar with the Yin-Yang ‘model’. I think it pertains to the way opp.....
» 27/12/2008 11:36:17 AM Polycarp No, not mysticism at all! (Perhaps Sells is right about post-enlightenment mater.....
» 26/12/2008 9:08:47 PM Polycarp You said ".. to me the whole thing is rather meaningless unless there is .....
» 26/12/2008 7:58:19 AM Sells You said "This tradition of anchoring biblical texts in history does not sta.....
» 15/12/2008 10:57:15 AM Sells You said"We can certainly say that Unitarianism is wrong because it misses the.....
» 13/12/2008 7:32:40 PM Sells Unitarianism is closely associated with the movement towards freedom of opinion in .....
» 13/12/2008 6:38:04 PM Sells The tradition of the Church is very poorly understood these days. You need only obs.....
» 28/11/2008 8:58:01 AM Oliver In attempting to make sense of Jesus' death the early church already had the model.....
» 27/11/2008 1:07:35 PM Chandralekha Thank you for pertinent observations in relation to assessment in schools. H.....
» 19/11/2008 1:14:37 PM Oliver Im not sure what you mean by 'Christian after life'. If you imagine that we all ri.....
» 11/11/2008 10:01:12 AM Oliver I think what Sells is trying to say is that Christ offers hope that is universal a.....
» 11/11/2008 8:18:12 AM Oliver If I understand you correctly you are saying that an awareness of the history of t.....
» 9/11/2008 5:25:57 PM Oliver You are right that many Christians are unfamiliar with the history of the early Ch.....
» 8/11/2008 1:44:34 PM Oliver Given Jesus' obviously political activity He would have known that He was likely t.....
» 8/11/2008 11:42:46 AM Oliver You said "The catch with Thomas is, that it states that Jesus' spirit accende.....
» 3/11/2008 11:38:03 AM Sells I think you are confusing physical death with death as metaphor. What is this dich.....
» 3/11/2008 9:35:09 AM Sells Your article comes across as severely judgemental, ignoring the suffering of those .....
» 2/11/2008 6:46:47 AM kalweb Thank you! Sells confused and oversimplified article seems to have generated a hea.....
» 8/09/2008 5:05:21 PM We seem to have wandered far from the topic, which was something about the Catholic Church.....
» 7/09/2008 9:46:42 PM Dan You just dont seem to get it. My point is that it is impossible to construct any expe.....
» 6/09/2008 5:08:38 PM Dan It appears we are making some headway. We seem to have come to an agreement that 'cre.....
» 1/09/2008 8:45:53 PM Dan You appear to have missed the point. Creation is not a repeatable event as you have a.....
» 31/08/2008 12:43:37 PM Dan Even if we ignore the fact that the creation hypothesis has its origins in the Genesi.....
» 28/08/2008 11:22:45 AM Dan You previous post was rather curious. On the one hand you seem to be deriding sceptic.....
» 27/08/2008 11:23:09 AM Dan You wrote ".. Does this mean that Hebrew is incapable of describing a sequence .....
» 18/08/2008 12:29:40 PM Dan, Thank you for the respectful response to my post. This debate often (usually) gets h.....
» 18/08/2008 4:17:30 AM George You are right! Theology can help one to be a better Christian but it can also beco.....
» 17/08/2008 9:57:51 AM George Working with computers every day of my life I suppose I am a little ambivalent abo.....
» 16/08/2008 2:47:39 PM Dan The constraints imposed by OLO on length and number of posts precludes one from offer.....
» 16/08/2008 8:38:13 AM Dan You said I’m glad you noted that a written message like “HELP” would be meaningless t.....
» 15/08/2008 12:33:38 PM George As ever, your contribution to the thread is insightful and thought-provoking. My .....
» 15/08/2008 12:45:53 AM Relda It is not as simple as saying that evolution and creation are "compatible".....
» 12/08/2008 10:08:34 PM Dan you said ..what would you conclude if you saw the letters H E L P scratched into sand .....
» 12/08/2008 9:29:49 PM Dan My words were "imaginative" and "semi-mystical" but your ingenuou.....
» 10/08/2008 10:30:52 AM Dan I read one of the debates you referenced. You said that you had "..never seen a.....
» 5/08/2008 9:32:20 PM Dan YouSaid I think the evidence points towards an intelligent typist of those letters.Or.....
» 4/08/2008 12:07:06 PM I have to agree with much that Sells has to say in this piece. Art, of any sort, that is t.....
» 30/07/2008 9:35:21 PM Welcome back George It is difficult to convey to Creationists or Evolutionists that their.....
» 28/07/2008 9:45:53 PM If ever you needed evidence that the Church has got it wrong then this thread is it. The .....
» 28/07/2008 6:40:04 PM The Churches seem to have reached the point where they are proclaiming a gospel, the meani.....
» 19/07/2008 9:01:06 PM Oliver Given what I have written in previous posts this as a very odd question! Christen.....
» 17/07/2008 3:30:59 PM Sells I suppose I come from a tradition that overemphasised the individual aspects of wor.....
» 17/07/2008 10:01:06 AM Sells, you said "Church leaders are right when they point to the decay of society an.....
» 16/07/2008 10:26:42 AM The idea that we can use human reason to 'produce' ethical systems is deeply threatening t.....
» 8/07/2008 10:58:44 AM Sells I have just been reading Peter Jensen's article in SMH explaining the Lambeth boyco.....
» 5/05/2008 8:36:30 PM George If an ideal is a truth that is outside the universe of our experience then surely .....
» 4/05/2008 8:28:26 PM George Gadamer's hermeneutics emphasises situatedness and practicality over method and 'd.....
» 3/05/2008 12:56:12 AM George Differences in Biblical interpreation arise for many reasons and cannot really be .....
» 24/04/2008 2:46:34 PM "In 135,Hadrian destroyed everything that was left of original Palestine Judaism.Afte.....
» 24/04/2008 10:26:58 AM Relda, As you correctly observe, there is reason to believe that the early Christians and.....
» 12/04/2008 11:11:11 PM Sells Relativism is a problem to seekers of certainty but not necessarily to seekers of t.....
» 10/04/2008 10:33:51 PM George You are a gentleman and a scholar! Faith and toleration are evident in every word .....
» 9/04/2008 4:04:31 PM Sells As you might have guessed I am somewhat ambivalent wrt the ‘givens’ of theology. I .....
» 7/04/2008 9:29:52 PM Jon J Theology has informed the work of artists, musicians, writers, philosophers, educat.....
» 3/04/2008 12:57:24 PM Malcs, By all means lets get our facts right. I have no argument with that but Billie is .....
» 2/04/2008 3:55:56 PM Malcs The emotional response to religions and to religion in general is precisely the poi.....
» 2/04/2008 8:01:59 AM Billie, Thank you for reiterating your solipsistic ideology and educational misconception.....
» 31/03/2008 8:53:46 PM CJ Here is what our consitution says.. “116. The Commonwealth shall not make any law for.....
» 31/03/2008 9:12:56 AM Fractelle Analogue - process of reasoning from parallel cases (Oxford Dictionary). Neithe.....
» 30/03/2008 8:14:30 PM Fractelle You said... "I have no issues with the children of wealthy people attendin.....
» 29/03/2008 9:18:44 AM Fractelle, That really comes back to the argument about choice. If, as a matter of princi.....
» 29/03/2008 8:19:58 AM My humble apologies Billie! I assumed you would be able to interpret the information for.....
» 27/03/2008 11:48:29 AM Billie Read the chart more carefully! It shows that of the $10275 spent per child in inde.....
» 27/03/2008 10:35:03 AM Billie If you go to this website http://www.aeufederal.org.au/Debates/factsheet2.pdf (200.....
» 26/03/2008 8:06:09 AM CJ The issue is quality, not religion. Quality varies among religous schools and also var.....
» 25/03/2008 9:03:42 PM There are two issues here. One is about standards and one is about choice. The issue in r.....
» 25/03/2008 9:36:06 AM Sells I found this article disturbing and it has taken the quiet period of Easter vacatio.....
» 12/03/2008 6:45:42 PM MT That may be so, but Im not sure that ignorance on the subject of religions is a sign o.....
» 1/03/2008 9:04:13 AM George For the Hebrews the nature of their relationship with God was a covenant between G.....
» 29/02/2008 1:12:20 PM George Luke 23:43, along with 12:20, 16:19-31 and Acts 7:55, 14:22 are often quoted as ev.....
» 28/02/2008 7:58:13 AM Sorry, I was typing in a hurry. "The Kingdom of God describes a community in which E.....
» 28/02/2008 7:39:22 AM George I really must take issue with you here. While personal repentance and salvation ar.....
» 22/02/2008 10:03:07 AM George, Interesting analogy! There is something deeply satisfying in Teilhards integrativ.....
» 21/02/2008 1:43:51 PM Roch/George Here is the Catholic Church's official attitude to Teilhard: http://www.colum.....
» 20/02/2008 1:25:11 PM Roch Teillhard, as Sells points out, does not represent mainstream theology. His role in .....
» 14/02/2008 7:21:26 PM Martin you said You'll notice relda(sic) I said nothing about Sells salvation, only that i.....
» 9/02/2008 1:18:06 PM AJP One further point worth adding is that in order to attract the interest of scientists.....
» 29/01/2008 1:15:33 PM Sells I am liberal. I do stand for all those things you rail against in this forum and I .....
» 28/01/2008 3:43:25 PM The language of the Trinitarian formula is clearly metaphorical. So regarded, it is has it.....
» 27/01/2008 9:52:17 PM Sells You said I must take issue at your suggestion that the Trinity may be divided into .....
» 25/01/2008 3:29:21 PM Peri Personal is not the same thing as private. Personal means unique to a person as each.....
» 25/01/2008 12:02:45 PM Sells We seem to agree that Faith transcends rationality. Jesus was a story-teller and no.....
» 19/01/2008 12:03:50 PM Sells What a strange article! The Church is not a 'system of rationality' precisely bec.....
» 19/01/2008 8:36:49 AM AJ You said.. For the umpteen-millionth time: Creationists are the fundamentalists, not E.....
» 12/01/2008 8:10:31 AM Relda you said.. Creation 'Science' does not offer a valid scientific theory regarding our.....
» 11/01/2008 2:46:23 PM Relda I think you mean to say that 'Creation Science' is an antilogy. I dont really think.....
» 10/01/2008 11:56:57 PM Lets face it people: The Biblical story of creation is literature. Evolutionary theory is .....
» 9/01/2008 8:18:19 AM One difficulty with conversations like this is that we assume we are all speaking the same.....
» 8/12/2007 11:14:40 PM Sells While the Gospels reflect the particular culture(s) of the Ancient Near East, Rome .....
» 7/12/2007 11:42:38 PM Sells says "the freedom of the gospel which orders culture aright under the Lordship .....
» 11/11/2007 3:33:10 PM George I do not reserve my 'disrespect' just for the RC Church. I share it equally around.....
» 8/11/2007 9:31:51 AM George You are right! It was a cliche and a silly generalisation. At its best the RC Chu.....
» 7/11/2007 8:03:28 PM Sells If you are going to distinguish between liberalism and 'radical' orthodoxy then I d.....
» 7/11/2007 10:30:10 AM George Without doubt there is great diversity within the Roman Catholic Church and it is .....
» 5/11/2007 8:35:58 AM George, I have a little trouble with the notion that the Church was once 'undifferentiate.....
» 3/11/2007 5:25:29 PM George, Sells I have just been re-reading "The Wise Man from the West". Differe.....
» 26/10/2007 11:51:48 AM George Without doubt religions, cultures and even individuals have their own models. Your.....
» 19/10/2007 10:55:57 AM George Notwithstanding how the Trinitarian proposition was derived the evidence of 2000 y.....
» 16/10/2007 10:59:36 AM Keiran You said "Your'wider range of tools'seems to imply a philosophical idealism t.....
» 9/10/2007 12:33:40 PM Keiran Thanks for the reply. It seems you read any 'defense of faith' assuming it goes ha.....
» 8/10/2007 10:28:32 AM Keiran The linearity of narrative is not really the point. That is simply the skeleton up.....
» 7/10/2007 1:07:19 PM Sells, I agree with you totally that trying to create mathematical models of biological s.....
» 6/10/2007 9:14:33 PM Sells Iguess it depends what you expect maths todo foryou.Mathematics provides a language.....
» 5/10/2007 2:31:21 PM Oops.. I should proof read my posts more carefully that should be "Newton, Lebniz and.....
» 5/10/2007 2:28:27 PM Sells, You have managed to rattle my cage again. This time on the subject of biology and .....
» 3/10/2007 6:46:06 PM Desipis Perhaps you have not entirely grasped my point. The Church is made up of those wh.....
» 2/10/2007 7:20:40 PM Desipis For all its faults the Church has faithfully told the story of Jesus for 2000 yea.....
» 1/10/2007 7:09:24 PM Kenny, The senses provide us with raw data about the world around us. That data is incomp.....
» 15/09/2007 7:30:57 PM Robert You said "I was told that people outside of faith in christ were lost in some .....
» 4/09/2007 4:27:41 PM Peri What do you see as the difference between agnosticism and atheism?.....
» 2/09/2007 3:25:37 PM ybgirp Well said! Faith, as giving, or denying, intellectual assent to some odd unprovabl.....
» 1/09/2007 3:17:25 PM Ybgirp The Bible is literature, human in origin and records nearly a thousand years of hu.....
» 31/08/2007 1:05:59 PM There are only 2 sorts of people in the world. Evangelical Christians and 'others'. There .....
» 30/08/2007 1:13:52 PM Ybgirp, It is important to record and remember the good AND the evil. You might have noti.....
» 30/08/2007 12:15:34 PM Mick The Staines murders are still very close tous historically and our responses tothat .....
» 29/08/2007 8:48:53 AM Mick Graham Staines murderer has been sentenced by an Indian court to life imprisonment. .....
» 26/08/2007 12:15:26 AM Mick I agree we have very different dispositions. As far as the resurrection is concerne.....
» 24/08/2007 12:57:37 PM Mick A few things we learn from I Corinthians and chapters 13 and 15 in particular: 1. F.....
» 23/08/2007 8:06:29 PM George Reading through your old posts I noticed you made the claim that humans are the on.....
» 23/08/2007 11:15:30 AM Mick In John's Gospel the 'glory' of God refers very specifically to Jesus 'lifting up on.....
» 22/08/2007 5:44:04 PM Mick I think you have illustrated my point about biblical literlists quite well. Tell m.....
» 20/08/2007 8:39:28 PM Mick, Never own a green car. Ask any mechanic about green cars......
» 20/08/2007 8:37:17 PM George, The interaction between text and reader will determine the 'meaning' of any parti.....
» 19/08/2007 5:08:24 PM Mick,yousaid“What Christianity is about is bearing witness tothe life of Jesus of Nazareth.....
» 19/08/2007 7:39:46 AM Mick Well said. . . for a fundamentalist.Asyou say,science isabout evidence and interpret.....
» 18/08/2007 4:17:18 PM George, Its not the Catholics who are trying to sell creationism and intelligent design a.....
» 18/08/2007 12:21:09 AM Bugsy, The computer literate know too well that the Mac is technically superior to the ot.....
» 17/08/2007 3:03:26 PM George, Thanks for the very thoughtful repsonse. My feelings about the Church are quite a.....
» 15/08/2007 7:34:24 AM George, You said You cannot blame professional physicists for the fact that many people h.....
» 14/08/2007 8:52:35 AM Medieval Christianity has been in decline in the West, thankfully, for the last 200 years......
» 31/07/2007 9:42:30 PM Fencepost, Thank God for the heretics who are now successfully 'dividing' the church. Not.....
» 22/06/2007 11:09:45 PM The divine is to be found in the intricate interplay of sensibility and intellect. That is.....
» 20/06/2007 10:19:53 PM thinks4self 1. Maldistribution of educational assess and resources so we have to return t.....
» 14/06/2007 10:16:52 AM t4s Well... you've just managed to alienate nearly half of Australia's population. BUT w.....
» 13/06/2007 10:49:22 PM For anyone who is really interested in the truth! Read this media release from the Cathol.....
» 12/06/2007 9:12:10 PM Thinks4self, As long you keep making wild assumptions like: 'All people who send their .....
» 9/06/2007 5:59:27 PM Thinks4self, ABout one third of Australians send their children to private schools and yo.....
» 7/06/2007 9:47:35 PM thinks4self You conveniently neglect to mention government funding of state schools throu.....
» 3/06/2007 9:04:18 PM Rhian, You said Second, water is hedged around with lots of regulations. In WA some SW ir.....
» 3/06/2007 8:31:13 PM There is something very strange in the minds of those who administer corporal punishment. .....
» 1/06/2007 2:38:04 PM Oliver, Even the 'old school tie' doesnt count for much any more. The only obvious advant.....
» 1/06/2007 12:35:57 PM thinks4self (but not very well) There is one good reason why parents are prepared to put .....
» 30/05/2007 10:50:39 PM Jolanda, I have had kids in various education systems for nearly 20 years now and over ti.....
» 28/05/2007 11:35:53 PM Ant, you said “I know your [sic] right in relation to spelling being seen as a sign of .....
» 28/05/2007 10:42:00 PM Ant,it seems we're pretty much in agreement apart from one small quirk of language. You .....
» 27/05/2007 8:50:43 PM Ant,I don’t accept your thesis that spelling isan innate ability that some have andsome do.....
» 27/05/2007 5:11:18 PM Ant, There are two problems with the 'spelling doesnt matter as long as you are understoo.....
» 26/05/2007 8:27:17 PM Technology has far more to offer education than Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and nifty Graph.....
» 16/05/2007 1:59:29 AM Members of the early church were deeply committed to the belief that the second coming was.....
» 15/05/2007 8:13:14 PM For a sexual ethic to be Christian it must be Biblically based. This naturally leads to so.....
» 14/05/2007 8:31:39 PM Yabby, Yes, at least prostitution is honest 'work'......
» 14/05/2007 7:38:50 PM Getting back on topic......... The major problem with all contributions to this thread is .....
» 11/05/2007 9:08:05 AM Sells Your article suggested that it is insufficient to reduce ethical considerations to .....
» 8/05/2007 7:34:51 PM Sells, How terribly 'scientific' of you to attempt to isolate just one dimension of so co.....
» 7/05/2007 9:10:14 PM This article by Sells is an ill-conceived (pardon the pun) load of conservative theologica.....
» 26/04/2007 2:56:43 PM West, You have a hangup about the church because itis less than perfect. Check your histo.....
» 25/04/2007 3:31:20 PM Oliver, I love your posts. In them I sense a determined effort to discredit the christia.....
» 25/04/2007 10:06:47 AM West, The Church certainly has much to answer for. Ironically, even while the church was .....
» 19/04/2007 6:40:15 PM Oliver, You have not formed a cogent argument linking your 'facts 1-5' as evidence to you.....
» 19/04/2007 2:24:54 PM Sells, What have you to say to those who, for whatever reason, remain unmarried or childl.....
» 19/04/2007 10:36:56 AM Oliver, Fermicus Maternus, in the 4th Century, described a group of Pagan religions being.....
» 18/04/2007 8:41:10 AM Oliver, Exactly what point are you trying to make about Christianity? Once you make that .....
» 17/04/2007 7:26:34 PM Sells, Scienctists, as you must surely be aware, are finding that ordinary language falls.....
» 17/04/2007 3:51:02 PM West, I dont understand your obsession with knowledge being 'factual'. Actually Im not ev.....
» 17/04/2007 10:45:29 AM I see no harm in letting the psychologists loose on the liturgy. It is like looking at a b.....
» 17/04/2007 9:20:20 AM Netab, The Holy Guide metaphor for the role of the Divine in Christian Liturgy is quite m.....
» 16/04/2007 5:10:52 PM Oliver, You place excessive weight on the influence of gnosticism and the mystery religio.....
» 16/04/2007 10:38:45 AM Arianism is aliveandwell inthe mainstream church because very few people really understand.....
» 8/04/2007 5:01:46 PM Sells, I found 'Truth of God' and 'Hidden Reality' type theology attenuated,closed and de.....
» 7/04/2007 9:01:18 AM Yabby, RigPig, You are absolutely right in your observation that the church in ignorance .....
» 7/04/2007 7:31:52 AM Peri Im not confusing means and ends atall. The child certainly gives us hope for the fut.....
» 5/04/2007 6:12:27 PM Peri I suppose, being an outsider, you care little about liturgy or the word proclaimed t.....
» 5/04/2007 5:45:41 PM Peri Three is a lot of marks to give for presumably getting his name right. Frankly... Im.....
» 5/04/2007 5:01:51 PM All that Sells is saying here is simple Christian orthodoxy. Imagine taking a poem.. wri.....
» 26/03/2007 7:56:01 AM Tao, You mistake rejection of your ideology for personal rejection. If the language is co.....
» 25/03/2007 9:16:59 PM Tao, Marx adopted from Hegel the somewhat romantic notion of Man as Homo Faber, Man the M.....
» 24/03/2007 3:53:32 PM Of course not Rob. Forums are where we go to practice defending our opinions......
» 24/03/2007 10:54:15 AM Rob, Forgiveness,in Christian theology, isthe outcome of God's judgement which is describ.....
» 23/03/2007 2:53:40 PM BOAZ, Unfortunately Christians arent perfect. "They are just forgiven." So, if .....
» 16/03/2007 8:19:16 AM Stew, The story of Ananias and Sapphira would be pretty pointless if they just died of na.....
» 15/03/2007 8:11:32 PM Great post Rhian! That is as good a summary of the issue as we're going to get......
» 15/03/2007 4:52:48 PM SoS Having degrees in both Theology and Pure Mathematics I've a fair idea of the differen.....
» 15/03/2007 8:25:00 AM SoS You said "I thought we were discussing the science and who we should believe reg.....
» 14/03/2007 10:20:34 PM BOAZ/Stew Read Acts 5:1-11 Ananias and Sapphira might have a problem with your assertion.....
» 14/03/2007 3:28:09 PM Philo, Kevin Rudd is Roman Catholic but currently practices his faith within the Anglican .....
» 13/03/2007 3:42:38 PM Peter You said "Fortunately this movement is going the way of all fads but it is cap.....
» 13/03/2007 3:12:23 PM BOAZ, The Qumran community also seems to have practised some of these 'socialist' and per.....
» 13/03/2007 10:28:30 AM Peter, You said "The liberalism of Protestant Churches, so like the Latitude men of .....
» 13/03/2007 10:18:41 AM Peter, What do you have to say about the contributions of Greece, Judaism and Islam to sc.....
» 13/03/2007 8:06:46 AM Boaz, If you read my post carefully you will see that I was adjusting Country Gals post b.....
» 13/03/2007 2:58:25 AM SoS I guess what the models do tell us is that global warming is a plausible scenario giv.....
» 12/03/2007 9:20:15 PM BOAZ Luke 18 22ff (Jesus speaking directly to a man, described as a ruler) "One thin.....
» 12/03/2007 1:58:37 PM So now we need a word for things that orbit stars, are big enough to have collapsed into a.....
» 12/03/2007 12:06:42 PM SoS, You said 1. Mark derides the models uncertainty: “temperature forecasts range from 1.....
» 12/03/2007 11:31:22 AM Country Gal, Taking Jesus' words literally you are absolutely right and I havent seen any.....
» 12/03/2007 11:09:24 AM The Jerusalem christians did try to live by this rule and did communalise their assets and.....
» 12/03/2007 8:03:05 AM Howler You said "Abbott's article only reaffirms that the Howazrd government knows i.....
» 11/03/2007 7:03:28 PM Im not getting my knickers in a knot over global warming..... Why? Firstly... I am old en.....
» 11/03/2007 6:23:36 PM SoS, To push your fire alarm analogy a little further.... Yes you might evacuate the hous.....
» 9/03/2007 12:44:01 PM Markob, I must disagree with you! Pomo is simply an ill-formed repudiation of all forms of.....
» 9/03/2007 11:46:25 AM This article exposes Tony Abbot as an ignorant hypocrite. I voted Conservative at the last.....
» 5/03/2007 2:16:39 PM tassied The atmosphere is a) warming, b) cooling or c)static Eliminate c) as highly impr.....
» 5/03/2007 12:44:41 PM Liam, From http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/meeting/URW/product/URW_Report_v2.pdf "Two broa.....
» 3/03/2007 5:18:56 PM Why dont people read the article more carefully before they post their inane responses. Th.....
» 22/02/2007 7:29:01 PM What has happened to the rate of accidental deaths from guns over the last thirty years. D.....
» 22/02/2007 6:49:47 PM I see Malcolm Turnbull has put his foot in it. What is this silly light bulb politics. He .....
» 22/02/2007 6:30:11 PM Yes, Yes, Yes... Unify the law, education, traffic, health, water, everything.... It's s.....
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