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The early church was raised in this teaching: "What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up" (1 Cor 14:26 NIV). The...

Does the Bible teach a doctrine of chance in Ecclesiastes 9:11? This verse reads: “I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen...

Christian friends, I had this article published today in On Line Opinion, "Why I am not a theologically liberal person." I expect a lot of resistance from theological liberals and agnostics/atheists. Please join the battle with me in apologetics for Jesus. You will need to create your own pen...

I receive the regular emailer from William Lane Craig's Reasonable Faith. He answered a recent question: "The Fate of Those Who Reject Christ." In it, he deals with the issue of what happens to those who have never heard of Christ, a topic that has come up over and over on this forum. Part of...

It's time for the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis championships. Up to now, the leading Grand Slam singles female champion is Margaret Smith (Court), being the winner of 24 Grand Slam events. She is now pastor/preacher of a large Pentecostal Church (Victory Life Centre), Perth WA. She is...

I receive regular emailers from leading evangelical apologist, Dr William Lane Craig of Reasonable Faith. I have just read his article, "Is Biblical Inerrancy Defensible?" He supports the teaching that * the truthfulness of the original text is unaffected by our access to it; in any case we do...

We are not allowed to make posts on this forum regarding politics because it is 'of man'? Are we permitted to make posts regarding government or is that also 'of man'? Oz

Today On Line Opinion, an Australian secular e-journal, published another of my articles, Buddhist, Rohingya and Christian lives matter. Some of you as Christians may wonder why I've included Buddhist and Rohingya Muslims along with Christians. It's for balanced journalism. Several minority...

One of the world's leading Christian defenders of the faith, Ravi Zacharias, was ushered into the presence of the Lord on 19 May 2020. He lived with pain and suffering for most of his life. Here is a short clip of explanation for why the all-powerful, all-loving God has allowed evil, pain and...

Indian born and leading defender of the Christian faith, Ravi Zacharias, died at his home in Atlanta on Tues, 19 May. He stated 2 months ago that he had cancer - sarcoma, an aggressive form of cancer. He was 74. His articulate apologetics will be sorely missed but he has raised up teams of...

A couple years ago when I was preparing a curriculum for use in high school religious education about this topic, I wrote Norman Geisler Ministries for some suggestions. I was referred to Geisler's summary of the truth of Christianity, 'Reasoning from ground zero', in Wikipedia. Geisler...

Leading defender of the Christian faith around the world has shared this about his personal situation: Ravi Zacharias Reveals He Has Malignant Tumor: 'We Are Trusting the Lord' Please pray for Ravi, his wife Margie and their children. Oz

To my brothers and sisters in Christ, I live in a secular, godless society where people deny the existence of God. Too often they can't get to the basics and ask: You talk so much about God and his evidence in creation, but who made God? If you were talking to a secular person in your...

I'm leading a Bible study on 1 Peter in which we encountered these verses: 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19 After being made alive, he went and made proclamation...

Why are there so many new threads started by Answers in Genesis (AIG)? Is the ministry of AIG a new sponsor of CFnet? Oz

Talk about controversy! I have heard them in churches and small groups, ‘I bind you, Satan, in the name of Jesus'. These preachers use verses like Matt 16:19 to support their views. In context, do binding and loosing have anything to do with Satan and his demons? ‘To “bind” … in rabbinical...

In Matt 16:19 we have the ‘figure of a building with keys to open from the outside’. However, Rev 1:18 and 3:7 state that the Living One who was dead and is now alive holds the ‘keys of death and Hades’ and the ‘keys of the kingdom of heaven’. Jesus hands the keys of the kingdom over to Peter...

Have you stopped to think of the meaning of God's omnipresence? 1 Kings 8:27 (NIV) states: 'But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!' (also 2 Chron 6:18). How does this fit with our worldviews? 7...

This has been the problem that has troubled theologians and preachers down through the centuries. Welcome to the omnisapient being. A sapient being is one who is a 'genius, intelligent, wise' (Macmillan Dictionary 2019. s.v. sapient). The One who is omnipotent is all-powerful. Therefore, the...

In another thread, wondering (also include JLB) stated: I'll deal with these issues only one at a time: 1. If we go back to the beginning of time "if we want to go back far enough, we find that there is no real answer to evil" because in the Garden there was "the tree of good and evil...