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Everyone will be given a tattoo or mark on either his forehead or forehand, only if he swears allegiance to the Dictator as being God. Symbolically, this mark will be 666.
-- Hal Lindsey, The Late Great Planet Earth, 1970
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News: A Month of Doubting...starting now
Posted on Wednesday, January 11 @ 12:37:08 PST by John |
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There is a struggle within Christianity (and within Preterism) today; a struggle between the old and the new; the modern and the post-modern; the establishment and the emergent. For hundreds of years, we have been told that it is "unchristian" to doubt...faith and God, to have questions. Many have even lost their lives because they doubted and questioned. Christianity today has squeezed out doubts and questions, and often those with doubts are pushed out and rejected, and their faith is questioned. But the truly scary thing is not questions, but the fact that there are people who do not have any. So if you have doubts, questions about God, faith, the Bible, the church, for the next month you can share them with others...
Planet Preterist, starting today will sponsor a month of doubts, where we can share with each other doubts and questions we have. You can do it completely anonymously or you can include your name if you wish. However you do it, feel free to ask the hard questions of yourself, God and the rest of us. And you can do it as many times as you want.
Click here to doubt something or learn about the doubts of other Christians.
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Re: A Month of Doubting...starting now (Score: 1)
 by jaredcoleman (jaredcoleman@gmail.com) on Wednesday, January 11 @ 13:46:07 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Great job on this Virgil... it is a wonderful idea! It will help me to have more ideas to write about too. |
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- by Virgil on Wednesday, January 11 @ 14:07:34 PST
Re: A Month of Doubting...starting now (Score: 1)
 by MiddleKnowledge on Wednesday, January 11 @ 15:13:01 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | Virgil,
That is an interesting way of approaching the subject. But there is another side, too.
What if you had "A Month of Believing..." where people could post the things they believe.
While doubting can be challenging, believing can be uplifting. I think the robust Christian life needs both. Just a thought.
Tim Martin
www.truthinliving.org |
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Re: A Month of Doubting...starting now (Score: 1)
by MichaelB on Thursday, January 12 @ 08:38:51 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Did anyone bother to check the scriptures regarding doubt before coming up with this idea...I doubt it =) |
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Re: A Month of Doubting...starting now (Score: 1)
by BigD on Saturday, January 14 @ 22:16:57 PST
(User Info | Send a Message) | We are all supposed to be Bereans, check the scriptures, and ask questions until we understand. And that's how we all got to this point...
When I was a kid at North Phoenix Baptist Church, and we read some scripture from Revelation, and the BS teacher regaled us with a tales of menacing tanks, and roaring fighter jets, nuclear weapons and international intrigue - I never really bought it or could reconcile it with the scripture that it was supposed to relate to. If the scripture talked about horses, sticks and clubs, arrows and fire, I never could equate horses to tanks and fire to nuclear holocaust. And the older I got the harder it was. Glad it didn't cause me to leave the faith, and I'm grateful to JL for giving me a good reading list.
Same with new earth creationism. My undergraduate degree is in chemical engineering. I have a good understanding of carbon dating, fusion tracking, K-Ar dating, etc. I love the Grand Canyon and can't stand there on the south rim and fathom that it is relatively new. Thanks to Stoner's "A New Look at an Old Earth," Ross' "Creation and Time," Numbers "The Creationsists" and a few other books and websites, I have no trouble in reconciling science with the Bible.
Today is it fine to doubt what we hear and see, especially from the current crop of seminarians. I don't like C. Peter Wagner's church-growth-at-all-costs paradigm and its current manifestation in Warrenism. Happy-face Christianity, with paraphrased Bibles, short prayers, no prayer requests, lots of plants, fill-in-the-blank orders of worship, the auditorium at a cool temperature, professional musicians, clean restrooms, etc. (all described in Warren's Purpose Driven Church) is all a lot of phoney bologna, plastic bananna, good time rock and roll pap. They'll toss you out for "doubting" but do it anyway!
BigD |
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