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Bible Bashers

Damn it’s annoying! It is so frustrating when people give you a bad name.
I was researching the previous topic and came across what seems to be a discussion blog. The title, the way to Christ is simple, caught my attention. It turned out to be an impersonal and uninvited summary of how to becoming a [...]

‘The Good Book’

It strikes me as curious, given the secular nature of our society, the extent to which biblical ideas and phrases permeate our lives.
In a lecture on Environmental Biotechnology last week one of the lecturers was talking about how strict environmental laws are, unless you’re the ones who make the laws. If you’re a regular joe [...]

Good Friday

I often feel quite apathetic about Easter. As Christians we tend to talk about Jesus’ death and resurrection a fair bit. If you manage to go a group bible study without mentioning it… well it would be rare, heck you might even be doing something wrong since we tend to look at things in an [...]

What to believe

Sometimes I feel in despair because I’m not sure what to believe. It seems that I get mixed messages from people I want to believe. From one party I hear that the Bible is plain and can be understood, from another I hear that Genesis would have been plain if I were a 1500BC Hebrew, [...]

Rest of the weekend

Sunday night was fairly weird. We walked in the door at church and I was welcomed by Scott asking me whether I’d received an email about doing the bible reading this week. The new roster was done last week but not sent to anybody. So that was a slightly annoying start to the evening, it’s [...]

 

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