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3/22/08 4:52 PM |
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There are a number of issues here if we decipher the hysterical rhetoric of WND.First, the legitimate issue that we all need to be very concerned about and beware of is the arbitrary and relatively unaccountable powers wielded by low and middle ranking bureaucrats in every nation. Secondly, this is not the WND headlined case of “The Canadian government has ordered a Christian ministry” to “shut down”. The detailed report actually shows that the ministry concerned "wrote on Feb. 7 and voluntarily revoked our [license] ourselves," I understand the views of Mrs MacGregor not to see her donors’ charity money eaten up by lawyers’ fees. However there are many alternative courses of action: 1) Voluntarily forego the Canadian tax rebates and government oversight. 2) Appeal through the tax authority's internal appeals procedures. 3) Raise the matter in Parliament through a sympathetic Member of Parliament. 4) Appeal for a Christian lawyer to take the case on gratis to make a legal challenge 5) Appeal for the many many thousands of Canadian Christians to help finance a legal team. It seems strange to see a Christian ministry surrender rights and freedoms (for which our forbears were martyred) for some govt tax dollars? Yes Mike, they should stand on guard for Canada! |
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3/18/08 5:50 PM |
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Jim Lincoln wrote: I rather enjoyed the last paragraph of the WND article, As I think I have mentioned before I see entertainment value in the way WND approach reporting in all their stories. |
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3/17/08 3:23 PM |
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FYI on the "Some myths explored" page on their website" Q: Will your architects be drawing up options for mosques to accommodate 40,000 or 70,000 people? A: The stories citing 70,000 or 40,000 have been wildly exaggerated. The mosque will be able to accommodate 12,000, although the regular weekly attendance is expected to be probably about half that figure. We currently attract about 3500 to our gatherings every Thursday and about 2000 on Friday. In Dewsbury, we currently attract just over 1000 every week. " http://www.abbeymillsmosque.com/AMILLS/cache_PID_48.html#architects Looks as though they are having to progress cautiously for the time being .... |
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3/17/08 2:05 PM |
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3/6/08 5:31 PM |
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RobertWilliams wrote: The issue concerning his attendance at an ecumenical service reinforces the judgement that many people make concerning those who are deemed guilty by reason of association. Can we say for certain that he has fallen from his former convictions? I don't think anyone can. Unfortunately, Dr. Paisley is paying the price for what he himself has sown. One issue is that of genuine Biblical Separation - not guilt by association.Another issue is, as you say, that Ian Paisley founded those institutions and was a leader or teacher in them. I see no reason why those whom Paisley taught should be criticised for consistently applying the very biblical principles he taught them to apply. If Ian Paisley is right now, he was wrong for the last 50 years - and owes apologies to all those he criticised in those years for ecumenical guilt by association. Personally, I think he is wrong now, but then I have spent most of the last 23 years of my life respecting what Ian Paisley taught and lived by for most of those years. When leaders ask their people to do moral gymnastics I think there is a real issue there. Pragmatism can be sin. I think you inadvertantly answered your own question. He reaped from when he sowed well. |
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3/3/08 8:32 PM |
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Neil wrote: Woodrow Wilson, who established the first American fascist regime during WW1 which jailed over 170,000 people, also claimed to be a Christian. Can you expand upon the facts and reasoning you are employing there please Neil. |
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2/22/08 5:03 PM |
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Jim Lincoln wrote: Great Britain would be much better off with independent Christian churches proclaiming the Gospel. So did independent churches in America appear ex-nihilo then? |
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2/20/08 11:05 AM |
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Pastor Tom Newton wrote: Is there not equal blame for all? Consider two sets of verses that describe our day: #1- "A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?"(Jeremiah 5:30-31). #2- "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:2-4). It is when preachers fail to preach and live up to the Word that perilous times come upon the church. It is when the sheep fail to obey the word of God and forsake the fold in self will, that perilous times come. A call to repentance for the pulpit and the pew! I agree. |
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2/19/08 3:57 PM |
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Pastor Tom Newton wrote: What happened in the book of Judges is happening now - "In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes"(Judges 17:6). The true spirit of Laodiceanism - the laity rules. When reformed pastors do whatever is right in their own eyes why should we expect more of the wider sampled laity? |
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